I Kept My Basic Ironclad Relic. but an energy relic would help too.
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Deck Wants
Dropkick+ x2
Second Wind (In a pinch, Purity)
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Nice But Not Needed
Battle Trance+ or Offering+
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Aim For Every Shop You Can Find (And Some Question Marks), To Remove All Your Strikes
Second Wind
Once You Get Rid Of All Your Strikes, You Can Use Second Wind To Get Rid Of All Your Skills ASAP! (As Soon As Possible)
Finding Enough "Remove Card" Opportunities to get rid of the rest of your skill cards manually, is very much harder than using second wind or a Purity; Plus Second Wind Blocks Tons Of Damage!
This Leaves You With Bash, Second Wind, And Two Dropkicks.
Hit An Enemy with a Bash, Then a Dropkick, Then a Dropkick, Then a Dropkick....
Until They Die.
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I Got Lucky And Also found an Offering once I was set up above ^
Offerings extra mana helped me use bash on multiple enemies, and drawing more defends and a Second Wind was very helpful too.
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Since Offering Is rare and getting two dropkicks can sometimes be a problem (RNG!!!!!)
Another Variation of this Would Be To
- Beat A Boss On Act 1
- Die
- Start Again And Exchange Your Basic Relic With a Boss Relic, Which Would give you 4 Energy (At Least Slave Collar, Or Hopefully A Better Variation)
- Still Get All The Above Cards, But Instead Of Offering, Get A Battle Trance, and The Strategy is The Same Afterwards.
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I Didnt Have To rest at Bonfires much, so I smithed a lot - thanks to the basic relics Healing, but 4 mana would have helped a lot the whole time.
GL!