Weirdest defect win in a while. Ritual dagger oneshot a lot of hallways, draw and energy spam carried boss fights. Focus and orbslot potion killed time eater. Was lacking damage, but lucked out and found bronze scales in the act 4 shop :)

Incense Burner triggered on the heart's buff turn that dirty scoundrel.

So this was a wildly easy run but I couldn't exactly figure out why. Every hit was doing ridiculously more damage than I expected. I think it has something to do with the combination of bag of marbles + vajra + voodoo doll making every attack just crazy? Is that right or am I missing something? Notably if I didn't kill everything on turn 1 it wasn't as crazy on turn 2.

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Pretty proud of this run, been wanting to get Who Needs Relics for a bit and I was lucky enough to also get Ooh Donut! at the same time. I know it's probably not insane but I am fairly new to the game so I was hyped!

Man, Fiend Fire+ with the stick and the dust that gives 3dmg is insane. With Double Tap I did some ridiculous turn one kills even on elites. 11 champion and beyond perfect led me to (until now) top 3. Loved it!

also:

currently in my first real searing blow run. any general tipps?

i took 3 headbutts so far

I just finished my last achievement(Minimalist). I saw the achievement pop up and quit out to view the Steam achievements page, and realized that Eternal One had not triggered. I'm wondering if it's due to quitting out?

i'm partial towards astrolabe -> 3 strikes bc my damage is flechettes, but that leaves me (potentially) with little pen nib advancement options. i can also bypass choker with burst correct? anyway what do you think?

Yesterday i made a post in this sub basically looking for sympathy and or advice on beating A20 with silent. Id been trying on and off for weeks and it was really bothering me. I think the most sound advice i got was that a lot of it was my mental, i was tilting too hard off rng. And i will be honest i was making strange decisions in act 3 because i just didnt see myself winning so i just kept digging... And honestly im surprised i won with such a weird deck. It was all based on finding the bomb, so using acro and retaining acro mixed with concentrate allowed me to find the bomb, whilst simultaneously just managing to pump out enough defense. Panache was chipping away at health bars on longer turns and the sneaky strikes too. The moment i realised i had just 2 turns to survive and then the bomb would kill, was very satisfying.

The bosses were donu deca and bird. I think if i got time eater i possibly would have been screwed. I dont see it as a deck that couldve won the heart, maybe with better means of blocking, or with tacticians or something, but hey thats a challenge for another day.

i got the screenshot as it was going away

Just managed A20H on the silent for the first time. Used a smoke bomb to escape the Sword (after killing Shield), and had Nightmare on After Image to ignore beat of death.

Managed iron clad a little while back.

Next to do it on Defect!

The whole run was so fun!

Started out with a random rare that ended up being a floor 0 feed. Hell yea.

Got pyramid from the guardian to make it easier to get my feeds off. Got apparitions fairly early in act 2 and bought a dolly's mirror to get one more. I used every campfire from then on upgrading the apparitions because upgraded apparitions with pyramid is obviously pretty good.

I took a coffee dripper at the end of act 2 because I was fairly confident at this point. The heart wasn't even a challenge. Ended up with over 100 hp, pyramid, and 4 apparition+'s.

Useful niche making a good card even better

I want to pick runic but I'm scared I'll clog up my hand since I have choker, and with hammer I already have molten egg but I want to upgrade my other double tap. What do you guys think?

Clay defect! im really proud of how it turned out

Well technically you can keep stacking Vigor by using Wreath of Flame indefinitely but still.

Also today I learned that weaken and probably vulnerable can be stacked on enemy indefinitely but strength debuff is capped at -999 just like strength dex and energy at 999.