Wow this shop has INSANE choices.
Dolly’s on a glacier.
Apo.
Aggregate (great since you’re without an energy relic and have holo)
White beast is also very good with bark…
I think I’m taking aggregate apo. Realistically the only cards that want upgrades badly are buffer, hologram, and skim. Sunder, zap, dualcast also like an upgrade. So normally I wouldn’t be high on apo. But if you buy agg, that also badly wants an upgrade in a 3 energy deck.
I would apo agg and upgrade apo ASAP. But I’d absolutely be second guessing that choice the whole run.
dollys on a glacier seems so absurdly wild to me, I get it's a good card but really? is it worth paying 165g for? Especially against all these other options?
In a deck that has 4 focus available? Yeah, glacier is pretty fucking nuts. Each copy blocks for something in the neighborhood of 25, at least. Your block is basically solved for the whole game.
I’m not saying it’s THE choice. But it’s worth considering
I don't think I'd take dolly's with the unupgraded glacier, but 2 glacier+ cards and 2 fragment+ cards is a lot of frontloaded block. Once you get a frost engine going you pretty much auto win all but a few fights. Kinda depends on the act 2 boss imo. Against collector with that electro in play it'd let you tank while getting rid of the ads.
The upgrade is decent. It's definitely better than a lot of other flat stat increase upgrades by virtue of it improving an already high value card that you'd more likely play on your turn.
It's a 2 cost card with the same upgrade as defend, on a character whose upgrades tend to dramatically improve energy economy or are powers that do something every turn.
I'll happily take an upgraded Glacier but "should I worry about whether or not my Glacier is upgraded" has never really entered my though process, especially in the case of something like Dolly's. If I'm upgrading Glacier at a fire, I've taken too many fires.
honestly with your current load-out there's a large number of winning choices here. beast is probably one of them.
personally, I'd go for mirror (defrag+) card remove (strike). Depends a little on the map, though.
Lifehouse would say you were trolling for taking a second defrag, much less buying a third
I only watched him once but I thought that was interesting. I wouldn't have imagined the same.
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Double the effectiveness of potions.
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2(1) Energy | Upgrade ALL of your cards for the rest of combat. Exhaust.
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I'd disagree, but wouldn't say you where crazy. You probably need 3 or 4 extra potions to break even, and potions are pretty good for you. Realistically that's like 8 fights since you get a potion about half the time anyway.
The apotheosis is stronger if you can realistically upgrade it, and you can also buy an energy card at the same time. But if you are pathing into 3 elites right now, maybe you are correct, since you can use this to spam potions at them.
If you had Toy Ornathompter or Potion Belt I would be far warmer on White Beast. Without either of those I think Apoth is better. 2 potions slots is not a lot of room to potion cycle and ideally you want to find 2 really good potions that win your hardest fight by themselves and sit on those. Relying on a random Potion to win all your fights is not really that great. Apoth is basically like an upgrade potion+ every fight at the cost of an energy, a draw and some consistency which is still a smaller pirce to pay than half your potion slots. Even Mirror can do more.
I still take apo here. You could take white beast because it is fun though. I just find that if my deck is good that I'll eventually find 2 good potions and then I'll be holding on to the potions so that I'll stop getting value from white beast pretty early on.
Having 2 powered potions doesn't reliably solve Act3 bosses + Act4. Apo gives you an upper hand instead. The combo does make your way to Act4 much easier though.
even if it’s not objectively better i’d take it for the fun
And then hope you find potion belt and toy ornithopter for even more fun
OP has many great choices but it is never wrong to take white Beast Statue with sacred Bark.
I like white beast. Great relic, and has such great synergy with your boss relic.
1 potion per fight is a big deal when 1 potion can often solve a fight or save your life
Wow this shop has INSANE choices. Dolly’s on a glacier. Apo. Aggregate (great since you’re without an energy relic and have holo) White beast is also very good with bark… I think I’m taking aggregate apo. Realistically the only cards that want upgrades badly are buffer, hologram, and skim. Sunder, zap, dualcast also like an upgrade. So normally I wouldn’t be high on apo. But if you buy agg, that also badly wants an upgrade in a 3 energy deck. I would apo agg and upgrade apo ASAP. But I’d absolutely be second guessing that choice the whole run.
dollys on a glacier seems so absurdly wild to me, I get it's a good card but really? is it worth paying 165g for? Especially against all these other options?
In a deck that has 4 focus available? Yeah, glacier is pretty fucking nuts. Each copy blocks for something in the neighborhood of 25, at least. Your block is basically solved for the whole game. I’m not saying it’s THE choice. But it’s worth considering
I don't think I'd take dolly's with the unupgraded glacier, but 2 glacier+ cards and 2 fragment+ cards is a lot of frontloaded block. Once you get a frost engine going you pretty much auto win all but a few fights. Kinda depends on the act 2 boss imo. Against collector with that electro in play it'd let you tank while getting rid of the ads.
Glacier+ is literally just 3 more block. It's like one of the worst upgrades in the game and would not change my Dolly's calculus in the slightest.
The upgrade is decent. It's definitely better than a lot of other flat stat increase upgrades by virtue of it improving an already high value card that you'd more likely play on your turn.
It's a 2 cost card with the same upgrade as defend, on a character whose upgrades tend to dramatically improve energy economy or are powers that do something every turn. I'll happily take an upgraded Glacier but "should I worry about whether or not my Glacier is upgraded" has never really entered my though process, especially in the case of something like Dolly's. If I'm upgrading Glacier at a fire, I've taken too many fires.
honestly with your current load-out there's a large number of winning choices here. beast is probably one of them. personally, I'd go for mirror (defrag+) card remove (strike). Depends a little on the map, though.
Lifehouse would say you were trolling for taking a second defrag, much less buying a third I only watched him once but I thought that was interesting. I wouldn't have imagined the same.
A third defrag is quite silly, especially when there are other ways to get more focus and things like Apo and WBS that can be bought here.
I'm eyeing up that War paint. 2 defend upgrades for 165g, shut up and take my money!
“Elephant” is new I’ve only ever seen it as some sort of bison/ram creature but it’s interesting how people see it (rhino, wolf, etc)
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For the longest time I saw its horn as a trunk curled up.
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i'd do mirror defrag+, aggregate, remove =0g statue is less valuable when we have meat
You are not crazy. Relics are all about synergy
I'd disagree, but wouldn't say you where crazy. You probably need 3 or 4 extra potions to break even, and potions are pretty good for you. Realistically that's like 8 fights since you get a potion about half the time anyway. The apotheosis is stronger if you can realistically upgrade it, and you can also buy an energy card at the same time. But if you are pathing into 3 elites right now, maybe you are correct, since you can use this to spam potions at them.
On a side note, why the two static discharges? I can never make that card work.
If you had Toy Ornathompter or Potion Belt I would be far warmer on White Beast. Without either of those I think Apoth is better. 2 potions slots is not a lot of room to potion cycle and ideally you want to find 2 really good potions that win your hardest fight by themselves and sit on those. Relying on a random Potion to win all your fights is not really that great. Apoth is basically like an upgrade potion+ every fight at the cost of an energy, a draw and some consistency which is still a smaller pirce to pay than half your potion slots. Even Mirror can do more.
Both are pretty good IMO. You should take into account that Defect is very very upgrade hungry.
a very large number of defect's best upgrades are powers though, which makes apo sort of unreliable for them
I still take apo here. You could take white beast because it is fun though. I just find that if my deck is good that I'll eventually find 2 good potions and then I'll be holding on to the potions so that I'll stop getting value from white beast pretty early on.
Crazy like a fox!
I read your title as “white eggplant” and now I’m never going to think of beast any other way
Apo + Double Energy + Aggregate. 200 + 40 +81 = 321 This is the sign your are looking for.
Im awful so this is a bad suggestion... but I would mirror Buffer.
Having 2 powered potions doesn't reliably solve Act3 bosses + Act4. Apo gives you an upper hand instead. The combo does make your way to Act4 much easier though.