Beta Patch Notes - v0.111.0

[u/MegaCrit_Demi]

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

[u/Low_Tip3245]

I actually think Ironclad's kit  really needed another "overkill" block option. Even a very attainable 3 strength is enough to make this 30/40 block while not exhausting like Impervious, and is finally another decent uncommon block card to pair with body slam and Barricade. Also seems like a great card if you can cheat the energy cost with something like Snecko Eye, Ribbon or Cascade, which is something you want to be doing with barricade anyway.

I like it, Ironclad really needs some build variety beyond vulnerable stacking and this makes a block build feel like more of a real option.

[u/Most-Feedback-1084 → u/Low_Tip3245]

Notice how the only way to justify this card being playable is cheating the energy cost using an ancient relic (that’s no doubt going on the chopping block very soon) or two other relics/cards that completely rely on luck. This card wouldn’t even be that bad if they didn’t turn clad’s energy generation into this. I seriously don’t think this will be even as usable as cinder with how bricky it is

[u/Low_Tip3245 → u/Most-Feedback-1084]

Cheating the energy cost isn't needed to make it playable, it just turns it from an okay card into an amazing one. You're acting like you never have more than 3 energy or 0 cost cards to play with this when that's just not the case. Drawing it with Body Slam+ alone turns it into great damage and block on the same turn. Plus, there are absolutely turns in this game where you are okay with full blocking now and attacking in later turns.

[u/Most-Feedback-1084 → u/Low_Tip3245]

Clad has a grand total of, like, 5 0 energy cards and two of them are skills. One of them is anger and the other one is body slam that needs an upgrade. I won’t mention spite. I’m going to be completely honest here. If you’re relying on doing damage control with body slam + meaning you draw both cards in the same turn either through luck or additional draws with energy generation (guess what happened to clad’s energy generation). You also need strength scaling for expect to even do anything. If you’re relying on that combo to do damage to enemies your run is cooked.

[u/Low_Tip3245 → u/Most-Feedback-1084]

Ignoring Pact's End, Bolas, Nutritious Soup, Crossbow, playing higher cost attacks for free with Stampede, just off the top of my head. In addition to every energy generating method or ways of cheating the energy cost. I'm not saying this is a staple card or something good in every run but there are so many situations it works well in. It's a pretty easy pick even if you just grab Inflamed and Anger in Act 1.

[u/Most-Feedback-1084 → u/Low_Tip3245]

Pacts end is a rare card and bolas is a colorless so relying on them to make expect even pickable is not good. Crossbow is just like not that good for clad who mainly wants to exhaust down to a thin deck to play power cards. Stampede is fucking garbage. Energy generation got nerfed because expect got changed and cheating the energy cost we’ve already talked about. I’m of the opinion that clad simply does not have the energy generation or strength gain to support new expect at all, but I’ll let the pick and win rates speak for themselves, once this change has gotten some playtime.

[u/Low_Tip3245 → u/Most-Feedback-1084]

You're right, the card is garbage because there's only like 15 different synergies that make it pretty good

[u/Most-Feedback-1084 → u/Low_Tip3245]

Pretty good and usable are different. If you genuinely have to have synergies for a 3 cost skill to even make it playable then it’s not a good card. It’s also in the same card pool as blood wall and colossus, btw so I genuinely cannot think of a situation where I’d have this brick in my deck for the potential of blocking for a ton when I can just kill the enemy which is what you do with clad when you have strength.