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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I feel I’ve gone from decent to pretty good just recently, so here’s what I’ve changed recently:

    First, and most importantly – think before you act. This was my biggest issue. Just slowing down and not rushing things has made me a far better player in just a few days. I didn’t feel like I was really rushing anything either, but consciously thinking about which cards I choose (and how they interact with my deck and relics), and also which cards I play, has made a huge difference.

    Second, keep all your relics in mind. For example, if you have a Kunai or Shuriken that gives dexterity/strength for every 3 attacks played in a turn, try to play three (or six, or nine) attacks per turn whereever possible. On the Silent, having a few Blade Dance makes a huge difference with these.
    Build around your relics and their interactions with the cards and they will go from being a small bonus to being run-defining.

    Third, look at good players playing and learn from them. Baalorlord is not both perhaps the best player in the world (by the measure of most A20 wins in a row, at 21 wins in a row, all including act 4), but also a great teacher and all around nice guy.
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Baalorlord
    Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/baalorlord

    I really attribute most if not all of my recent success to imitating what he does – the other two points are ones I learnt from him.
    There are other good streamers of course; I also watched a fair bit of jorbs streaming when I was getting started with the game, which probably helped me a ton with the earlier ascensions, and don’t want to undersell him – he’s also had the world record, probably multiple times.

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jorbs
    Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jorbs

    Last week I had about 15 losses in a row on A20, with no wins, ever.
    Since (and including) my first A20 win last week, I’ve had 6 A20 wins in 13 runs! Three Watcher wins (two in a row!), two Ironclad, one Defect. The most recent Watcher win was also against the heart, which was also the first time I’ve even tried beating Act 4 above A1.

    Full disclosure: the stats above exclude all Silent run attempts as I’m still awful with her. Haven’t beaten A18 yet and I’m usually not even close either; frankly I’m not sure how I even got to A18 as I seriously doubt I’d be that much better at 16 or 17.

    (This comment is a bit of a test – I can see the threads on lemmy.world but not any comments, so we’ll see what happens. My subscribe has also been pending for a while now.)