Slay the Spire 2 - early access March 5th - four player coop confirmed

Hateyou · 2026-03-19T06:44:48-0400

Brahma said:
Ok. The Regent has the worst feast/famine cards ever. You can get absolute SHIT cards and there is nothing you can do. They are just trash. Then again, you get god-like cards, and you're up to the 3rd boss in no time. (Still haven't beaten last boss with Regent).

The mid tier cards, again are mostly garbage with a couple exceptions where once upgraded, they are pretty good.

ANOTHER build that that I'm having issues with, is that Sovereign Blade absolutely needs the card that lets it hit everything. I swear I have seen it twice in like 10 runs. I get it? RIGHT to the boss.

Tips on The Regent? I refuse to move on to the next character until I win with this dude!!

I dig the regent, I just go for Star generation and a some Star attacks. Pepper in a few sovereign blade cards. I’ve never seen the hit all enemies card.

One general tip for the game is don’t make a huge deck. If you’re getting crap for rng, skip the card draw. I have much better tuns when I’m skipping half the selections rather than just taking crap that doesn’t fit my deck.

Gavinmad · 2026-03-19T07:03:10-0400

Hateyou said:
I dig the regent, I just got for Star generation and a some Star attacks. Pepper in a few sovereign blade cards. I’ve never seen the hit all enemies card.

One general tip for the game is don’t make a huge deck. If you’re getting crap for rng, skip the card draw. I have much better tuns when I’m skipping half the selections rather than just taking crap that doesn’t fit my deck.

I won a run in STS 1 last night (zero ascension) with a terrible defect deck whose win conditions were creative AI and discovery. it worked because i managed to slim the deck all the way down to like 17 cards base with a recycle to prune bad discovery results and status cards.

Genuinely one of the dumbest defect builds I've ever tried but it beat the optional boss.

Hateyou · 2026-03-19T07:31:38-0400

Gavinmad said:
(zero ascension)

Gavinmad · 2026-03-19T08:47:54-0400

Hateyou said:
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Hey sometimes you get the urge to build around shitty/greedy cards and that shit dont fly with ascension.

Penance · 2026-03-19T08:55:41-0400

Brahma said:
Ok. The Regent has the worst feast/famine cards ever. You can get absolute SHIT cards and there is nothing you can do. They are just trash. Then again, you get god-like cards, and you're up to the 3rd boss in no time. (Still haven't beaten last boss with Regent).

The mid tier cards, again are mostly garbage with a couple exceptions where once upgraded, they are pretty good.

ANOTHER build that that I'm having issues with, is that Sovereign Blade absolutely needs the card that lets it hit everything. I swear I have seen it twice in like 10 runs. I get it? RIGHT to the boss.

Tips on The Regent? I refuse to move on to the next character until I win with this dude!!

Came here to post almost the exact same thing. Trying to win a run with each character, did ironclad and silent and necro. I expected necro to be hardest and so far it kind of is but regent I've been dying to random shit. I thought this guy was OP. Granted the last run was ended by that fucking crab (fuck that guy). I've been mainly doing star gen builds. That reflect card is pretty amazing too.

Fogel · 2026-03-19T09:11:45-0400

1. Hit as many shops as you can to remove your starter cards, focus on strikes first
2. Keep your deck lean, I skip more cards then I take usually
3. But build around what you're given as well
4. Trial and error figuring out which cards/rewards are good and which are mediocre

Caliane · 2026-03-19T09:56:25-0400

im like 0-8 on the regent. I have no idea.

star gen seems like a "no shit sherlock". but, in game never seem to have the cards when I need them. take too much poke and lose over time.

I am an elite max'er. so that might be a problem. maybe I lean too much into elites. I also tend to aim for a merchant mid>late act 1. I do see some people push for early act 1 merchants.

Brahma · 2026-03-19T10:06:40-0400

FINALLY!!!

Brahma · 2026-03-19T10:08:36-0400

Hateyou said:
One general tip for the game is don’t make a huge deck.

Yeah. I try to keep it under 25 or so. I HATE when you get to the ? and you MUST take a card.

Fogel · 2026-03-19T10:59:21-0400

Caliane said:
im like 0-8 on the regent. I have no idea.

star gen seems like a "no shit sherlock". but, in game never seem to have the cards when I need them. take too much poke and lose over time.

I am an elite max'er. so that might be a problem. maybe I lean too much into elites. I also tend to aim for a merchant mid>late act 1. I do see some people push for early act 1 merchants.

Can't go for elites unless the RNG gods bless you with a good early hand, at least in act 1. Early merchant lets you purge a strike and possibly get some key cards early. Ascension 10 double act 3 boss down while taking 0 damage from both

Kuro · 2026-03-19T11:27:22-0400

Brahma said:
Yeah. I try to keep it under 25 or so. I HATE when you get to the ? and you MUST take a card.

I do have a ton of fun when I get an early Mind Blast (or god forbid multiples) and just start slamming garbage into my deck like crazy so I can start combats off with 100-200 free damage.

I keep trying the colorless card generation/cares about colorless cards synergy in Regent and it's bad on average but holy shit does it pop off sometimes!

Nester · 2026-03-19T14:32:37-0400

I forgot this was out.

I play STS and MT2 every damn day. I need Accession 20 !!
Guess i need to get the PC humming again, was loving this on coach mode via PS5,

I read online it was a big rehash of 1 and not a ton new stuff, is that correct?

Fogel · 2026-03-19T14:36:13-0400

Nester said:
I forgot this was out.

I play STS and MT2 every damn day. I need Accession 20 !!
Guess i need to get the PC humming again, was loving this on coach mode via PS5,

I read online it was a big rehash of 1 and not a ton new stuff, is that correct?

Yeah its basically STS 1 with higher production quality like better animations/sound. Mechanics/cards like 90% the same but the characters/cards aren't 100% identical to STS 1

Brahma · 2026-03-19T14:52:21-0400

Nester said:
I read online it was a big rehash of 1 and not a ton new stuff, is that correct?

YUP! And it's glorious!

Hateyou · 2026-03-19T16:29:14-0400

Fogel said:
Yeah it’s basically STS 1 with higher production quality like better animations/sound. Mechanics/cards like 90% the same but the characters/cards aren't 100% identical to STS 1

2/5 of the characters are completely new so cards alone is only 60% identical, and you’re missing a character so that bumps the % lower I guess. Then you have some identical artifacts (and some different) but a lot of different events/mobs.

Whatever long post short you fucking suck at %’s.

Fogel · 2026-03-19T16:51:06-0400

Hateyou said:
2/5 of the characters are completely new so cards alone is only 60% identical, and you’re missing a character so that bumps the % lower I guess. Then you have some identical artifacts (and some different) but a lot of different events/mobs.

Whatever long post short you fucking suck at %’s.

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