I don’t think I could have figured out that gremlin leader turn where you killed 3 gremlins and took zero damage. Genius
@rafaeljm32045 ай бұрын
"that card says dark embrace on it" got me laughing hahaha
@DerGully5 ай бұрын
It also says "plus" on it, which is, well, a big plus.
@alisonpahlkotter30135 ай бұрын
I've seen you use berserk so many times effectively. That a free turn comes up and there you are
@zacharron5 ай бұрын
I don't know why Beserk is so disliked. Unupgraded is almost unplayable yes, but upgraded its like having an energy relic every turn. I often take it.
@d.s.alcoda5 ай бұрын
@@zacharron card draw wasted, doesn't help til next turn, power in play sometimes not great for awakened, unplayable unless you get it on the correct turn (much easier with pyramid) I think its a lil underrated but it's still really not great
@thebabycow4 ай бұрын
@@zacharron I have taken beserk many times and very often I have barely ever Player it the entire run, making it barely better than a curse.
@chrisg66545 ай бұрын
I like that baalor considers cost reduction cards “energy generators”. It’s kinda like calling the weakness debuff block, which are both good ways to look at that kind of thing
@tcr75 ай бұрын
That's how I think of Watcher's wrath cards. If you double your damage, the enemy does no damage to you when they are dead. Eruption is a block card!
@DanBottiglieri5 ай бұрын
Wheyhey nice to see you use Berserk! I was despairing at the beginning when you were considering removing it over an 8 damage Perfected Strike.
@dragoncrash12345 ай бұрын
I’ve been learning so much from your videos! You took me from A5 to A8 on all 4 characters in the span of a couple week! A20 here I come. Love the content. Would be cool to see you do a ranking of all the elites like you did with the bosses
@MaksymkaUA5 ай бұрын
Just casually nom noming through elites and bosses. The eternal hunger even Ogres from WH FB are jealous of
@lualhatilualhati5 ай бұрын
i fell asleep at the earlier act 1 floors and i woke shocked to see baalor's act 3 ironclad with 150 HP
@vreesje5 ай бұрын
I have learned an awful lot through your videos. You excel at explaining essential tactics for the game and abstracting it from all its intricate (and sometimes overwhelming) details. Currently I’m at A16-9-9-9 with the four characters. Thanks!
@theshadowfighter1235 ай бұрын
30:05 My mind instantly went to Dropkick + Dolly’s Mirror the drop kick to make an infinite since there would be all of act 2 + act 3 to find rage/another block plan, a decent source of artifact removal, and another shop coming up to remove the writhe
@roboluigi5 ай бұрын
I bet if you said that in chat he would be like “sure, but where we’re going we don’t wont need a dropkick infinite”
@mnadhil19325 ай бұрын
after watching a lot of your ironclad runs, i finally got the minimalist achievement, thank you‼️ 2 pommel strike+, rampage+, feed+, and bloodletting+. also bought an abacus as an early block plan before i found the bloodletting in act 3
@mnadhil19325 ай бұрын
rampage finally a good card?
@shyguypro98765 ай бұрын
This is madness.
@ilanlaham69115 ай бұрын
Madness?
@creamlass5 ай бұрын
Bro the pulse effects on the tu-thumps. New canon
@Raptor7475 ай бұрын
I don't understand the disdain for Berserk. Yes, unupgraded it is an impractical power because two turns in a row of Vulnerable is a big price to pay. But upgraded, it's just one turn--the turn you play it on--giving you control and full knowledge of what price you're paying (if you play it at all), and there are lots of turns where the enemy is either not attacking, or attacking with manageable damage that you can somewhat or partially block. Then you get an extra energy per turn for the rest of the fight, at the cost of 0 energy to play it. If you have Clockwork Souvenier or Orange Pellets, you don't even have to pay that price. Considering that all other +1 base energy per turn options are boss relics with their own substantial downsides (and you aren't even guaranteed to get any of them in a run) or a 3-cost power (Deva Form), having a 0-cost power card give you that effect is pretty nice to have when upgraded. Then the whole "I'll remove that card first" when he has a 6-damage Perfected Strike in his deck is just...bizarre. Not to mention the fact that Brutality is another 0-cost power that gives you +1 card draw per turn, which synergizes well with +1 energy per turn to play more cards.
@secretlyapineapple5 ай бұрын
I think the thing that makes Berzerk suck is that it only generates energy the next turn, not the turn you play it while you pay for the loss in draw this turn. It may also be impractical to play it the turn you draw it because of damage concerns and so unplayed it goes into your discard pile to dead draw again.
@fancygiraffe33405 ай бұрын
It's a hard card to start a run with unless you're willing to upgrade it immediately. P Strike, Bash, and Sever Soul were the only damage cards he had here, so a lot depended on what he pulled from the first fight. Getting another damage card allowed him to care a lot less about P Strike and I imagine what shifted him towards removing it. But imagine a world where you only have 2 cost damage cards and one of those exhausts the rest of anything you could play. The P Strike is suddenly looking a lot more reasonable if only barely.
@boriss.23925 ай бұрын
Brutality takes up a slot and costs 1 hp per turn So you play it, then draw the card next turn you would have drawn the turn before if you didnt have Brutality in your deck After 3 turns it becomes a "net gain" of exactly 1 drawn card Since most hallway fights only last 5 turns, youre only gaining 3 extra drawn cards at the cost of 5 hitpoints which uh, use literally any other card draw generator at that point.
@zachhopkins61625 ай бұрын
To be fair he did re-evaluate when he actually did card remove and got rid of the pstrike. However I think he is correct that it was the 2nd worst card in the deck. It was kind of either 'upgrade it or remove it' since brutality in act 1 is quite bad in general and berserk unupgraded is bad pretty much the whole game. The upgrade to berserk is VERY good. Basically makes it go from bad to great especially with retain which he got later with pyramid.
@arpple02395 ай бұрын
I used to reduce cost of Barricade with Madness or Enlightenment then upgrade with Armaments, It revert the cost back to 2
@genevaconventionsviolator39945 ай бұрын
It's crazy to think that this absolutely insane run -has 2 copies of berserk -took the madness cards from the event -correctly took enlightenment All things I NEVER see in decks
@namvutranngoc69454 ай бұрын
runic pyramid moment
@NemesisCOD5 ай бұрын
Brutality + Rupture can be very strong because the Brutality upgrade makes it innate and from there you're drawing 6 cards which makes you able to play the combo surprisingly fast.
@nwcleear5 ай бұрын
smth smth brutality takes 2 turns before you start getting value self-damage strats are based though with this floor1 feed
@jkrycz5 ай бұрын
Cool to see a deck that's extremely powerful but in a pretty unusual way.
@soyz63755 ай бұрын
Love watching your runs. What an amazing one this one! I'd be curious sometimes to see the final score and point bonuses! It would be nice if the videos ended there.
@SheyD785 ай бұрын
Ah those repeat plays of flame barrier vs heart are such sweet revenge. Burn baby burn!
@zac93115 ай бұрын
Finally beat asc 20 with silent again, after weeks of practice. Thanks for all the help baalor
@NovaOrNeo5 ай бұрын
Its interesting seeing the opinion change on iron wave! Very cool
@Youmu_Konpaku_5 ай бұрын
Final 1K bonk on the heart :D
@AnacondaHL5 ай бұрын
Bully D: that Heart had a family D:
@neillpatterson5 ай бұрын
Xecnar said something poignant in a recent video. A lot of people say (upgraded) Berserk is a bad card because you may end up taking extra damage, but will gladly play Bloodletting multiple times during a fight and consider that to be a very strong card.
@CosmicIceCream5 ай бұрын
That's an excellent point. Sure, there are times when Berserk will result in too much damage to be worth it, but when upgraded you have full control over that and many times it can be played with low or no hp loss (admittedly, it's pretty terrible with Runic Dome, but lots of other cards are too).
@protectdavidchasetaylor21445 ай бұрын
I hate to be that guy, but that is an atrocious use of the word poignant. Perhaps the worst I’ve ever seen.
@neillpatterson5 ай бұрын
@@protectdavidchasetaylor2144 Hate to be what guy? An internet edgelord who doesn't know how to use a dictionary to make sure he's not about to make an ass of himself?
@protectdavidchasetaylor21445 ай бұрын
@neillpatterson how does anything in your comment evoke a keen sense of sadness or regret
@neillpatterson5 ай бұрын
@@protectdavidchasetaylor2144 I regret engaging in conversation with an internet edgelord who doesn't know how to use a dictionary. Go ahead, I'll wait.
@mariondiabolito40545 ай бұрын
Hates Berzerk. Leverages Berserk into MVP.
@michaelkertianis5 ай бұрын
Nothing like waking up to a new video
@crosseightyeight5 ай бұрын
1:08:42 someone on reddit actually mentioned this yesterday. The card's cost would go to 0.
@johancito163455 ай бұрын
No, this is madness
@itezel25 ай бұрын
Madness?
@JinyuGao-c8m5 ай бұрын
another new video of my favorite sts streamer
@anmolsandhu61595 ай бұрын
YOU MADMAN!!
@seaoftra5 ай бұрын
why is berserk bad? if you upgrade it its 1 vulnerable and if the enemy is not attacking thats a free energy
@jonathansimmons11065 ай бұрын
Badass run
@rage_20005 ай бұрын
Hey Baalor Have you considered naming your second channel “Baalorlorlord”?
@The_real_John38795 ай бұрын
What is the chef currency? A pandollar
@redford4ever5 ай бұрын
Seems fair.
@Papada005 ай бұрын
The tumbnail should have highlight Berserk and Enlightenment instead of Madness.
@anmolsandhu61595 ай бұрын
4:48 but the description says 0
@Baalorlord5 ай бұрын
The description was accidentally kept from the previous video. 3 streak is correct, description is fixed now.
@eversor431Ай бұрын
Definitely better to let the Heart kill itself with the thorns plus flame barrier. Basically a failed run imo.
@thomasneal92915 ай бұрын
Should have upgraded the true grit first.
@joaquinperaltasanhueza98095 ай бұрын
Where brimstone?
@isayahjenkins89225 ай бұрын
Boss swap meta
@babonjra5 ай бұрын
i once used boss swap and it gave me fusion hammer, still haunts me to this day lmao
@jinnitachi5 ай бұрын
@@babonjradon’t always think of this swap as a terrible thing. an extra energy is still extremely powerful and every character can still get upgraded cards with apotheosis, armaments, lesson learned, any egg, war paint or wet stone. i used to think swap into busted crown was an instant restart than i saw doom and gloom floor 1 and glacier floor 2. basically what i’m saying is any swap can work out for u and sometimes u just have to play through the run to see how bad/good it will be
@joosthartog13335 ай бұрын
In my opinion the relic that doesnt give u gold is way worse then fusion hammer. I allways reset those, its winnable still sometimes but just makes the game very stale.
@bugfriendz5 ай бұрын
@@joosthartog1333 ecto is far worse than fusion if you're not already toking or full on pots. there's just a lot shop nodes allow you to do, and losing access to them leaves you with only so many options to alter your deck outside of adding more cards.
@AbdulHalim-nk8dk5 ай бұрын
Gg
@CardCheckerStS5 ай бұрын
Timestamp for when Baalor picks up the cards in the thumbnail (Madnesses): Madnesses: (54:23) Madness? This is the Spire! (What a terrifying boss swap, but he obviously made the most of it!) (Edit: Okay, having now watched Act 1, I just want to say that I was entirely wrong about that boss swap lol, I guess that's the power of getting rid of bad cards)