For a more in-depth look at how the randomness in Slay the Spire works and how events can spawn, modder and speedrunner @ForgottenArbiter wrote an explanatory post about it. It is quite verbose and technical, but you can find it here: forgottenarbiter.github.io/Correlated-Randomness/

It's hilarious that he got gambling chip from the box. Perhaps one of the few relics that could make the trade worth it haha

@minecroftstave9788

Жыл бұрын

And getting the boot from scrap ooze. Probably the worst relic for all that hp loss

@TheMagicalArden

Жыл бұрын

Gambling chip for 5 max hp and a regret?? HELL yes!

@Menolith

Жыл бұрын

And he even got the Ginger to neuter the Gremlin Visage debuff.

@joseurbanos.domingo6344

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMagicalArden satisfactory

@kobarsos82

Жыл бұрын

so true !!

Baalor, thank you. I could NOT beat the heart. I’ve been watching you play for several weeks and I finally beat heart with all 4 characters tonight. You’re by FAR the best teacher of this game

@whirlwindsky

Жыл бұрын

Between Baalor and Frost I have improved in StS by a ton. Frost is for sure more on the silly crazy runs, but have learned a lot from both of them.

My act 1 philosophy is "If I'm unlucky, I won't lose much progress." which is why I always take scrap ooze.

Baalord: "Dead Adventurer you say? Well you can't be ambushed by a sleeping character." Me nodding at the facts he's spitting as he isn't ambushed.

I prefer the way Downfall does Wheel of Change. If you don't like your spin, you have the option to fight the Gremlin's bodyguard Gremlin Nob in exchange to instead obtain the Wheel of Change, which lets you spin the wheel again for free at every rest site until you get a spin you want.

how I feel about the ooze is I usually lose more HP in an elite fight, so I find it worth it more often than not.

Amazing! I hope you do the Act 2 and Act 3 events as well!

Ranwid from "we meet again" event 1:08:00 asks to give him the last card you've added to your deck, not a random card

Awesome dude thank you I’ve recently stumbled across your channel and it’s actually allowed to me to get better I finally beat my first ascension 1 because of you

@3hourgames

Жыл бұрын

Keep At it! once you beat a few in a run it's a non stop addiction to make it to the end. then you find yourself 100's of hours in and dreaming about the game lol

@Finnloaf

Жыл бұрын

@@3hourgames This is so true, I started playing three weeks ago and I got so into it! These videos helped me so much and I'm at ascension lvl 12 with silent now, I've also literally dreamed about this game multiple times hahaha

17:33 Just out of curiosity, I went and ran the math (well - I wrote some code that ran the math for me) on the Scrap Ooze event. The expectation value of HP lost to gain a relic here is ~11.3 (at low ascension) or ~16.7 (at high ascension). Obviously as a stochastic probabilistic process, these numbers are impossible - at default values you will lose 3, 7, 12, 18, ... and at higher ascension, it's 5,11,18, 26... - but it should give you some sense of the value trade for the relic over many attempts. The nature of probability means that any time you arrive at this event, there is a ~14% chance you'll have to click at least 4 times, at substantial (18/26) HP cost. There's a ~4% chance you'll have to click one time more than that.

This is the insight I need. As a fledgling Spire Traveler just past ascension 10, this is great info. I look forward to the other acts.

One detail that I think is important to mention on the living wall, especially for newer players is you DO NOT want to use the transform on a curse card. Transform will only transform a card into the same type or color of card (if it's a colorless card, it will give you a different colorless, if you got prism and you feed in another character's card, it'll roll to give you another one of that character's cards, etc.). Transforming a curse will just give you a DIFFERENT curse, which was definitely not what I was hoping for, the first time I tried to transform a curse. Transforming a curse is useful maybe in the same instance of you having curse synergy from a relic or two but you've got a particularly nasty curse (Regret, Pain, Normality, etc.) and you'd like to lose that particular curse but not the bonus it's giving you. Otherwise, if you're looking to remove a curse, just remove it. Transform isn't gonna do what you want it to.

@elim9054

Жыл бұрын

Prismatic shard only affects combat rewards. If you're playing Ironclad and you transform a green, blue, or purple card, you will always get a red card, for example. Colorless cards and curses do always transform into a different card of their respective type, though. Also, transforming curses when you have Omamori *does* effectively remove the curse at the cost of an Omamori charge. That said using a transform on a basic card to reroll for something better is usually much stronger. If I get an early Omamori I'd rather save it for something like Ominous Forge, Calling Bell, Cursed Tome, Mind Bloom etc.

@Veronica-qp2xy

8 ай бұрын

learned this the hard way 😭

Thoroughly insightful and enjoyable as always. I really appreciate how accessible and non-technical this is, so well thought out and well presented. Thanks very much

I just want to say that you are my favorite slay the spire youtuber. Like your video style, and in general the content is of a high quality. Keep up the good work!

Your videos have got me to ascension 10 with all characters, Watcher been the last one. Just wanted to say thank you and keep them videos coming.

Great video idea, I dig all the content in which you share your knowledge and we get to learn more about the game

Ever since I started playing Slay, your videos have helped me a lot. This game is so fun yet so difficult. Thank you for the great content.

For the golden idol, and similar events, when I was new, I used to think if the card didn’t do anything, it couldn’t hurt me, and I should usually take cards that seem good, rarely skipping 😅 Now I understand that what you draw is important

@Zxv975

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's an unintuitive consequence that every new card you add makes your good cards rarer to draw and take longer to redraw. My girlfriend recently started playing and I was always talking about how good card removals are, and even though she hears me say it all the time, she just intuitively can't grasp how removing a card or skipping a card can be beneficial. I was also the exact same the first time I read the advice online. How can *removing* something make you stronger? Equally how can *adding* something make you weaker?! Made no sense to me, but that's because I was only considering the immediate effects of the card and not the secondary effect of having worse card draw. Hearing Baalor talk about card draw as one of the two major resources (along with energy, which is far easier to understand as a resource) was the thing that helped me finally understand it.

@daforkgaming3320

Жыл бұрын

@@Zxv975 I think this applies to all deck builder games, roguelike or not. Usually each of these games have a card draw aspect and a material system, something used to pay for playing cards (in this case its energy) The reason most newer players in each of these types of games find energy easier to understand is because its frequently blocking you. The game spells it out for you. You can't play your cards BECAUSE you can't pay for them, it shows right in your face that you have 0 energy and all your cards in your hand cost 1 or more, so it would be easy to understand why it is important. Card draw on the other hand is harder to see cause the game doesn't spell it out for you. The point of card draw is getting the cards you need to play at the right time. While energy shows you that you don't have enough, card draw doesn't. If you have poor card draw, draw all the cards you don't need and then die cause you didn't have good enough card draw to get the cards you need, you may assume that you just didn't have the right cards in your deck or that you got unlucky, when the reality is you could've lived but because you didn't have card draw, you didn't get the cards you needed on time.

@drummingtildeath

7 ай бұрын

It's the reason no one uses a 61 card deck in magic: the gathering. It just dilutes your draws.

Ohhh this is a really cool idea for a video series Took me a long time to figure out events. I know I don't take cleric/fruit heals enough.

A video packed of useful informaiton once again baalor, Your explanation for each of the choices of and what is best choice for specific circumstance and you shed light on importance nuances rather than just saying one option is always bettter compared to the rest and that "bad" options could very well be viable depending on the circumstances.

I can't explain how much this video has helped me. Thank you so much!

I think this guide is gonna be pretty great. I'm the type of player where i advance a few ascension rankings in a row and then struggle for a while to get the next.

This is exactly what I needed! You da real MVP

19:12 ah, my favorite event, upgrade 2 defends at random

@daforkgaming3320

Жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for the day that this event is the last event I get on act 1 and not the first

I love this so much! I watched it and then listened to it while falling asleep.

This video was super helpful! Please make videos about the act 2 and 3 events :D

This video is absolutely great! I'm a new player and love this!

I also weigh curses an extra 25g because that is the increase in card removal cost for the next card. Just a thought; also assuming you are removing at every shop you can.

I used Note for Yourself to force a Defect game with Juggernaut..... One of the nastiest runs I've ever played. Sure, I cheated, but holy crap was that fun.

I had to force myself to stop spam grabbing everything no matter the cost to get relics! It's so easy to get into the mindset early of "well it's only a little bit of health" but then you end up with a ton of curses and can't afford to upgrade either. Great vid!

ive beat one a20 and am working on the others. this is so useful! i've done a lot of stupid things apparently lol

My first time beating the Heart was with Watcher and Shining Light upgraded both of my Tantrums. Easy cruising after that

btw the recommendations here do not translate for when you are playing the daily challenge. In daily challenges you pretty much always take the curses unless you are almost certain you won't make it to 5 curses by the end of the run

Great video, thx!

Blessed video thank you so much

So what I'm really getting from this is avoid early ? spaces unless you have Neow's Lament and can path to an Elite or two. Then at floor 7+, preferably after 3+ fights, a campfire, and an Elite, go for a mix of ? spaces and combats/Elites. Makes sense to me!

The cultist head wakes up the sleeping act I elite on turn 1 with the caw, if you should still encounter it before moving to act II.

YES MORE GUIDES 💛✨️

Excellent vid!

The Sssssserpent is kinda like "Gain 75 gold and add a Strike/Defend to your deck" because you will spend the 75 gold to remove the curse instead of a strike/defend. So it kinda end-up being the opposite of the shop removal of paying 75 gold to remove a strike/defend.

can you get an upgrade shrine if the whole deck is already upgraded? (small deck, eggs, lesson learned or endless run)

Divinity Stance with A Note for Yourself meta

Re: Scrap Ooze advice of figuring out how much health we need to survive the remainder of the Act -- is there a rule of thumb for how you usually calculate this? E.g. How much on average HP are we expected to lose per floor fights? Then for elites and boss?

@Math.Bandit

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that just comes with experience since it will depend very heavily on your specific deck/relics/boss etc.

@josephward4918

Жыл бұрын

As the other comment said, it just comes with experience. For example, Gremlin Nob attacks for 0, then 8, then 24, then 24 again (on ascension 20 assuming you don't play skills); that means you need to know whether you can kill on turn 3, turn 4, or turn 5 - you will take 8 damage if you kill Nob on turn 3, but 32 damage if you kill on turn 4 and then 56 damage if you kill on turn 5. If you think you can kill Nob on turn 4 and you have 38 health now, then you might be willing to click the Scrap Ooze fight once (losing 5 HP and dropping you to 33); any more than that will mean you don't have enough health to face Gremlin Nob. If you think your deck can kill Nob on turn 3, then you could be willing to click up to four times instead.

Fantastic video

Pain curse can be a key card for rupture+reaper decks

7:22 - that is a man who has trained himself to sanity check himself every time before clicking a button

Also keep in mind that the pain curse has synergy with self forming clay and you can generate a lot of armor. :D

baalor the greatest to ever do it. period. greatest broadcaster ever

I would "argue" (not like anyone really disagrees) that the items that give you benefits from curses in slay the spire are all underpowered and NEARLY useless. I wish they had done more with them. Awesome tutorial as always baalor

@janreinacher1

Жыл бұрын

Also, wtf I had no idea you could search the dead adventure completely. I have 800 hours in the game and search as much as possible (as long as I think I could survive it) and have never seen that once. Lol

@josephward4918

Жыл бұрын

Du-Vu Doll is good because you have an unremovable curse at A20, so it's just Vajra with possible upside. The others I agree.

@janreinacher1

Жыл бұрын

@@josephward4918 while I agree that du vu has early act 1 relevance, that doesn't carry on to the later acts. Which still makes it half decent at best. Best case scenario with a cursed key start it's still just okay IMO.

@zaclittlejohn2701

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather see du-vu doll than Vajra on A20, as du-vu can scale if you get other curses and makes the book event in act 2 less of a dud if you get necronomicon and Vajra will always be only 1 strength.

@janreinacher1

Жыл бұрын

@@zaclittlejohn2701 sure, but again vajra isn't exactly top tier tier after the beginning of the run. Yeah, du vull can be good in the right circumstances (so can any item in them game), but most of the time it's not. It's not like you can depend on getting calling bell, necromicon, etc regularly though. All I'm saying is, it duds out way more than the majority of items.

43:02 It would be cool if there was different flavour text for giving 'fire'-based card such as Combust or Flame Wall

Yeah I used the note for yourself event to remove a doubt curse back when I was very new to this game. Now whenever I play on a low ascension to look for achievements the doubt curse is there mocking me. Thankfully I just got my last achievement aside from the A20 achievement, so I won't have to see that any more

22:28 if ftl devs made slay the spire, cleric WILL appear even if you have no gold, maybe even multiple times

What rarity of relics are given from these events?

You def got a great streaming voice and it makes a world of differnce.

Y’know the funny thing is I’ve gotten the “NoteForYourself” event twice and I have probably less that 100 games of StS

lol, I've been wondering about A Note For Yourself "Why is this event always receive a strike and store a card?" I'm not sure if I've ever stored anything else.

I wonder if you can win on a bloat curse Act 1. What do I mean by that? The first 7 card rewards, take something no matter what. Keep taking curses from events in Act 1 until you have taken at least 3 from events (except maybe for the Donut one, most of the time you take a curse you get some benefit, but here to get the relic you not only take a cruse but miss out on some HP). And third, no shop card removals until Act 2.

Part 1 Is here after so many tries

can the world of goop even spawn if you have 0 gold?

Oh you mean there's a game beyond Slime Boss 😜 PS thank you so much for this

10:43 Is it actually worth it to mitigate this curse even if you have Omori? Since you can only mitigate 2 curses with it, wouldn't it be best used at another time to mitigate a curse like Regret instead?

@erikcarp9359

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you’re not guaranteed to even use up all the chArges of omori

@Zxv975

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've finished many runs where I had leftover Omori charges, effectively wasting 50-100% of a relic. I'd say take the curses you can (if the reward benefits you the most, of course) rather than waiting for the optimal curse to skip, as it can very easily not happen as curses aren't that common.

@jblev736

Жыл бұрын

Best to use omamori asap since many game you don't end up using the 2 curse charges the whole game. If you use up your omamori and then get a bad curse later, you can always try and remove it at a shop. But it's never really worth saving the omamori for later

In Match and keep, you can close the game, open it again and re do the event knowing where the cards are

People don't see A Note for Yourself?? I saw it in my first run ever. I see it fairly often. Last time I got it, I left a spare Omniscient for me later. That's gonna be a fun run.

got a gambling chip while taling about not takind the big fish curse lol

one time i did the scrap ooze event the % went up to 110%

I feel like donut and banana should be switched. Donut is much more calories in the short run, but banana is better for you in the long run.

I need a mod that will rename the Transmogrifier to Transmorbrifier

16:59 always click click click click click click click click

You should do a tier list of events in slay the spire.

i might have missed it but which events are considered unfavorable?

@josephward4918

Жыл бұрын

"Unfavorable Events" doesn't add any new events to the pool, it just makes lots of events worse at A15 and above. For example, the sssserpent gives you 175 gold for a curse at low ascension, but only 150 gold for a curse at high ascension.

@negative1n139

Жыл бұрын

@@josephward4918 ah thanks for the info

sorry for the obvious question, but why remove the curse instead of transforming it? Event was analyzed perfectly but this point was not addressed I think.

@LuckySieben

Жыл бұрын

Transforming a curse turns it into another curse, unfortunately.

@dddlll7003

Жыл бұрын

You transform cards into cards of the same color. Curses are black, you will get black color card (curse). People often unfortunately learn it hard way. Exception is status cards in moded version turn themself in curses for some reason

Quick question, is there any point to the 'leave' option at the golden shrine?

@nottud

Жыл бұрын

Maybe for someone doing a low gold challenge I guess

@watermaster5336

Жыл бұрын

Not wanting bloody idol to heal you over 50% HP for Red Skull strength.

@zaclittlejohn2701

Жыл бұрын

If you are below 20% health and can't take an injury curse into your next fights, then leaving the golden idol might be ok.

@watermaster5336

Жыл бұрын

@@zaclittlejohn2701 They are referring to the shrine that just gives you money or money+ curse, not the golden idol event.

@nottud

Жыл бұрын

@@zaclittlejohn2701 Wrong event. We on about gold shrine not golden idol.

How about the lore of the game and of these events. LIke who are the charactors you play why are they "Slaying the spire" . Who is the whale that gives you things? Why are we killing the heart of the spire?

Never been this early, I might be first

Why does it sound like you're reading an email while doing the intro?

Almost insta-like for that first pun

First time through the 3 faces event, i thought I'd be greedy by transforming a curse... didn't realize that they transform into other _curses_, which made me worse off in my case even before grieving the opportunity cost

The Waffle House Has Found Its New Host

@Baalorlord - thanks for your video, but please please edit your videos to remove your verbal tics, dead air and mistyped key words. You could have cut 20 minutes out of this effort.