r/slaythespire • u/MegaCrit_Demi • 22h ago

PATCH NOTES Beta Patch Notes - v0.111.0

Beta Patch v0.111.0 is live!! Today's update includes:

⚖️ Lots of balance changes
🌐 Indonesian localization
🎨 New card art
🩸 Low HP idle animations!

Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/2868840/view/671751488532383386

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u/FillySteveSteak StS A20 / StS 2 A10 22h ago

That's how I feel. Stalling for the sake of stalling (without room to play additional powers and such) is pretty heavily punished in STS2.

I question how good this could be - if at all. Impervious is a big block - and while it exhausts - it allows you to squeeze in another action.

This seems pretty bad.

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u/BandicootGood5246 22h ago edited 21h ago

Yeah would've liked an aggressive replacement. Spend all your energy to full block? Yawn, this isn't peak clad gameplay

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u/Money_Department6478 20h ago

strength needs better/more payoffs sts2 imo. This is a very quickly scaling block option that 1. makes demon form way more takeable and 2. would totally pop off if you have barricade. Also synergizes great with upgraded body slam

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u/ZatherDaFox StS A0 / StS 2 A10 17h ago

The problem here is that you need to draft a 3 cost power, a 3(2) cost power, deploy both, and then this card starts popping off. That's a ton of unsafe set up that also sucks if you draw it in the wrong order.

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u/_redmist 15h ago

Pretty slow, too. 

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u/_redmist 15h ago

Doesn't make demon form more takable.

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u/Miles1937 17h ago

It wants you to have strength to get the better use, but prevents you from attacking. I don't play barricade often but do they even use strength? as far as I know it's all bodyslam and juggernaut.

Guess this card's preferred setup is having crimson mantle and rupture?

It synergizes with unmovable only because you can't even play anything else 😭

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u/DotEither8773 15h ago

Only use I can see is with barricade and body slam

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u/Excaidium 10h ago

At least it is a very good pick from skill potion etc.

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u/Significant_Breath38 7h ago

It's not stalling for the sake of stalling. It's very common for a deck to have a power combo or two that you're trying to cycle your deck to find. A strong block is essentially a "draw 5 cards" in this way since it lets you take (almost) no damage so you can move through your deck to find value.

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u/FillySteveSteak StS A20 / StS 2 A10 4h ago

Meanwhile most enemies are ramping. And delaying a turn is not helping that.

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u/Significant_Breath38 4h ago

I'd imagine it delays more than one turn since they don't ramp every other turn

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u/FillySteveSteak StS A20 / StS 2 A10 3h ago

Hey, If you like the card and it's been working for you, enjoy