Please Remove Extra Large Blind For the Final Boss Ante

[Qalten]

(ie: The Wall, and others)
It's the only boss blind that is non-interactive, and just kills a run just for the sake of it. You only know two rounds in advance that it's coming, and you have extremely limited tools to try and take it on, unlike the other blinds which you can think about and try and prep for. The only way to handle big blind is to hope and pray you get an item that lets you re-roll or disable boss blinds, but then we're just hoping we get content to disable other content and that's just a waste of everyone's time.

Yes, you can also try and set your build to take on the prospect of a big blind, but there are very limited tools that enable you to do that, and then you're not exploring the other design space in the game, just ignoring everything else.

Please consider re-weighting this blind to not appear in the last portion of the game, it feels absolutely terrible to spend 30-40 minutes building a neat engine and enjoying the challenge only to have this massive STOP sign appear that you can nothing about.

[Ronald Brain]

Umm, you do realize there's a SKIP option, right? Heck, there's even a "Reroll Boss Blind" tag you can easily take if any Boss Blind might prove difficult for you.

[Qalten]

Originally posted by Ronald Brain:

Umm, you do realize there's a SKIP option, right? Heck, there's even a "Reroll Boss Blind" tag you can easily take if any Boss Blind might prove difficult for you.

You can't skip boss blinds. It's extremely unlikely to get the skip boss blind tag in the last ante and shouldn't be required to complete content.

[Bilgot the Heartless]

I mean... I can understand that someone is annoyed becasue he didn't make that great deck so he can not manage large blind. But it is the case of roguelike-deckbuilders. Someone you get punished. It's like sometimes you can make a lot of points but when you face boss that force you to sell a joker and all your jokers are important or boss that disables your one joker. Like really, just deal with it.

[LocalCatMom~]

You can and will beat The Wall. I have faith in you. Just keep fighting. Never give up.

[sab0t]

I've had the Wall as the final boss a few times now and haven't found it to be that bad, at least on white / red stake difficulty. maybe it gets much worse at higher difficulties, but it seems fine to me

[Kadarus]

StS established the tradition of bosses punishing specific builds to make forcing one specific strategy more difficult. Other bosses tend to punish the builds streamlined in a particular direction while The Wall punishes builds that are not streamlined enough. If your deck isn't strong enough to beat it yet, besides looking for reroll another way to handle it is trying to look for temporary boosts like Popcorn, Seltzer, Ice Cream, Turtle Bean etc

[elsewhere]

The joy in the game is finding unorthodox combinations of cards to counter Boss Blinds. Like... for example, I have a Joker that add chips for the number of cards in my deck less than 52. Another Joker that treats all numbered cards as face cards and a card that gives me a Multi based on face cards played. And combining all of that with a Joker that enables any card played to score, a retrigger, and finally the Half Joker sees that as long as I play at least three high value cards I can score 12,000+ each hand.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Qalten:

Originally posted by Ronald Brain:

Umm, you do realize there's a SKIP option, right? Heck, there's even a "Reroll Boss Blind" tag you can easily take if any Boss Blind might prove difficult for you.

You can't skip boss blinds. It's extremely unlikely to get the skip boss blind tag in the last ante and shouldn't be required to complete content.

Misread it as Big Blind, my bad.
Either way the Extra Large Blind is the least harmful one, if you've been building your deck properly that is.

[Draco18s]

I've run into this blind as the first boss and I'm not sure its even possible.
The last one I ran into I did a reroll on it and got another particularly difficult blind (always draw 3) and didn't have much synergy for pairs.