Sheol, or cathedral?

[CGoody564]

I can't decide whether I should go for the negative route, or if I should start trying to unlock the polaroid.

I am Judas, and I have small rock, thick mushroom, the mark, ceremonial robes, mom's knife (this worries me), Guppy (which is why knife worries me; not super fast fly production, despite having massive range due), 8 ball, safety pin, a few followers, mask of infamy, and some other things I can't tell what they are from the pause menu.

I'm running on 9 soul and 2 black hearts right now, and I have dark bum. However, I failed miserably last time I tried the dark room. Granted that run was underpowered as hell, but still, idk what to do at the moment. Based on my setup, do you think I have any chance of beating the negative route, or should I say screw it and go for cathedral instead? (i really want the unicorn horn or w/e trinket judas gets from negative, but I'd rather beat isaac than have no chance in hell against the lamb)

I would post a pic of my pause menu to show the items I have, but alas I don't know how to upload pics to the forum.

What do you guys suggest?

[Solo Death]

What unlocks do you have for Judas? that's a good way to decide

[CGoody564]

Not really. If I am strong enough to beat the dark room, I want to do that. However, if I am not, I want to beat isaac so I can start to unlock the polaroid for the chest. I'd rather do the dark room, but idk if I am strong enough, which is why I was asking and listed what I have. The mom's knife really slowed down my fly production or else I wouldn't have asked at all, but it seems I'll have to rely on mom's knife for most of my damage, and that worries me.

[ChannelDPRK]

yes

[Cryten]

I usually approach the dichotomy this way:
- The Cathedral and Chest fights have alot of tear spam so if I am going up I want 1 of two things, good orbital protection or alot of durability; usually with pure soul hearts for the shield every hit.
- The Sheol and Dark Room fights require good manuverability to dodge explosions, stomps, dark leeches and blood gushes so I want a build with high speed or a good stun or invincibility frames. High HP runs can do well in Sheol but often the demon fights getting to the Lamb will wear you down fast.
- If youve got the d6 or lots of keys Chest can save a run from the item drops if you've got a good enough build or the skills to survive the tier 3-4 boss spawns.
- if your utterly dependant on soul hearts or want to try for a last ditch guppy going Sheol/Dark may be the only way to get Dark chests after womb (excluding special rooms)
- If you dont have a good build for either direction then sheol tends to be a little easier since square straffing can trivialise phase 3 of the satan fight. If you've unlocked the negative take the polaroid and head down so you dont have to face the tier 4 boss rooms just the tier 3 boss rooms of sheol.

This is all my opinion and you should learn to internalise your own strategies for dealing with the rogue nature of the game. Goodluck, moms knife builds are powerful but often very vulnerable.

[Hedonism]

Judas + 2-3 decent damage upgrades + guppy + knife is largely enough to beat it ;)

[Tina]

i suggest going to the cathedral because once u get to blue baby fight therse the chest where u open 4 chests. if you get lucky they can EASILY carry you

[AutumnLeaf]

I'll almost always go to the Chest rather than the Dark Room simply because of four free items at the start, especially if I plan to fight Mega Satan.

I hope they add a little more incentive to visit the DR in Afterbirth.

[Whitelink]

The OP doesn't have the Chest.
So go for Dark Room
EDIT: well this post was made 15 hours ago so I think he made his mind

[NiceGuy]

i dunno what i should pick
me dudes

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by Gamecube260:

i dunno what i should pick
me dudes

Whatever. You'll do both over time anyway.