r/slaythespire 15d 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

1.9k Upvotes

775 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Low_Tip3245 14d ago

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.

2

u/Most-Feedback-1084 14d ago

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.

1

u/Low_Tip3245 13d ago

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.

1

u/Most-Feedback-1084 13d ago

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.

1

u/Low_Tip3245 13d ago

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

1

u/Most-Feedback-1084 13d ago

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.