"Who Needs Relics ? " Achievement

[Slayer]

I've tried for many hours with all of the 3 characters , all of the decks that i could imagine but i cannot seem to get anywhere . Trading my starting relic for a boss relic doesn't do much either , i keep trying to avoid elites and get to as many shops as possible to enhance my opportunity to find rare cards to build a strong deck . Doing it with the Ironclad seems almost impossible . Should i try more with the Defect or Silent ? So far both have been equally crappy for me . Please give me some advice (hopefully it doesn't rely that much on RNG ) .

[DriftingSalmon]

I've never been able to do it either, I've tried and gotten pretty far with few relics but to win the game without a lot of relics seems impossible to me too.

[Doffy]

Did it with Defect where I got the boss relic in the start that gave you extra orb slots every 2 turns or so - I just stacked a lot of focus and orb generation to evoke them and it worked wonderfully. Make sure not to try for achievements on Ascension, since that will just make it unnecesarily harder for you

[Jeff]

I was able to do it first try with ironclad, using the burning blood relic. It is surprisingly useful for survival.

Final deck was 19 cards, with Searing blow+7 as the main damage dealer. A lot of one-of's like battle trance, warcry+, true grit+, havoc+, double tap. (the only card I had multiples of was 3x defend)

Not an optimal deck but it worked. I got lucky on ? encounters, and was able to avoid all elites.

You might try a barricade + entrench type of deck...that doesn't require much for relics.

[RobJ81]

I honestly haven't bothered with it. I'm not an achievement hunter much. I play games how I want- not to get little icons because I did something the game maker thinks is special enough.

Life is too short to spend so much time on little icons to brag about.

[Ackranome]

I bet ironclad can do this achievement with a defense barricade build - you just need to get barricade early.

Defect can do the common card achievement with a lot of stack cards and some luck.

[Ray Robertson]

I did it with a defect frost/focus/orb slots deck. Common sense I did with a flex/perfected strike deck. I think I had like 4 or 5 perfected strikes in that deck.

[Slayer]

Thanks for replies , so far i am very unlucky with the cards i get or i find in the shop , for example i tried a frost channeling deck with blizzard as main damage dealer , i got all the cards for it while i was hoping to get blizzard in my next few shops . Sadly it never showed up , that deck would have most likely been a win since i managed to get all of the top tier frost channeling cards for it .

[The Fool]

Got it with the Ironclad/Philosopher's Stone and a defensive Barricade deck. Took quite a few tries. My winning deck didn't have any entrenches, but still somehow managed to work.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1405038042

[jdbuenol]

I did it with the starter relic, with the Searing Blow +12

[Ray Robertson]

Here is mine btw:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1479344244

The apparitions worked great for giving time to create an insane block engine each fight.

[WeatherReport: Global Warming]

I did it with Defect. I held on to the first relic and tried many times but in vain.
Then I tried snecko and it works perfectly.

1. Pray and get snecko eye by first relic exchange
2. Choose a path that connects the most resting sites, shops and monsters
3. Keep the deck relatively small
3.1 Cards that exhaust or played only one time are good.
3.2 Every time before you select a card, ask yourself "does this worth 2 energies?"
4. Cards cost more are more powerful in general.
5. Below are low cost cards I find useful:
5.1 Recycle
5.2 Hologram+
5.3 Seek
6. Cards I will also consider, depending on my deck:
6.1 Compile driver
6.2 Sweeping beam
6.3 Skim
6.4 Defensive cards

[Slayer]

Originally posted by Mikah:

I did it with Defect. I held on to the first relic and tried many times but in vain.
Then I tried snecko and it works perfectly.

1. Pray and get snecko eye by first relic exchange
2. Choose a path that connects the most resting sites, shops and monsters
3. Keep the deck relatively small
3.1 Cards that exhaust or played only one time are good.
3.2 Every time before you select a card, ask yourself "does this worth 2 energies?"
4. Cards cost more are more powerful in general.
5. Below are low cost cards I find useful:
5.1 Recycle
5.2 Hologram+
5.3 Seek
6. Cards I will also consider, depending on my deck:
6.1 Compile driver
6.2 Sweeping beam
6.3 Skim
6.4 Defensive cards

I believe at the time this discussion was posted the Defect wasn't released yet, i might be mistaken though, haha.

[sandman25dcsss]

Seek is awful with snecko IMHO. Spend 3 energy instead of 0 to get a card with 3 energy instead of 0-1? No, thanks.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Eh, it doesn't sound amazing, but I don't think I totally hate the idea either. Note that Seek doesn't draw cards, it just puts them in your hand, so that bypasses Snecko. So you can pick out a 0-1 that you want to make sure stays a 0-1. So if you have an important key card you need to keep low cost, Seek could make it a little more consistent. Or for your second time through the deck, you could take a card that rolled nicely last time and keep it that way.

[DJDiceZ]

Originally posted by Mega Missingno.:

Eh, it doesn't sound amazing, but I don't think I totally hate the idea either. Note that Seek doesn't draw cards, it just puts them in your hand, so that bypasses Snecko. So you can pick out a 0-1 that you want to make sure stays a 0-1. So if you have an important key card you need to keep low cost, Seek could make it a little more consistent. Or for your second time through the deck, you could take a card that rolled nicely last time and keep it that way.

For the latter: Especially if Seek rolled nicely. You got a point. Though it's still a bit of a risky gamble.

But let's not forget that Seek's uprade is pretty solid.

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Seek is awful with snecko IMHO. Spend 3 energy instead of 0 to get a card with 3 energy instead of 0-1? No, thanks.

I get you, i don't particularly disagree, but as said above, Seek puts the card in your hand, so unaffected by Snecko, and it's not like you're guaranteed to roll a 3 on Seek.