What to do once you finished a full run ?

[Zireael]

Hey
some how i managed to get a very strong deck !
and got to the spire . finished the "Game"

now i wonder as i still got more unlocks to do .
what should i do in the game? lets say i finished all unlocks with Silent ?
thanks

[Sinsling]

Try for ascension if you want or just play dailies/normal for fun.

[Shovel Priest]

There's Ascension mode, which is a progressive difficulty increase over the base game. If you haven't unlocked it yet, I believe you have to unlock it by defeating all of the different endgame bosses (though I heard there might be a newer alternate unlock method).

The Daily Climbs offer runs with various modifiers that shake up the core gameplay a bit. There's a new daily every day to check out.

That said, this is a roguelike, and usually people can play the base game of a roguelike over and over because the bulk of the game is randomized, and the core gameplay is fun enough that people just want to keep playing the game. That's been the case for me, at least. I bounce between retrying the highest Ascension difficulty and doing winstreaks on the base difficulty.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by Shovel Priest:

There's Ascension mode, which is a progressive difficulty increase over the base game. If you haven't unlocked it yet, I believe you have to unlock it by defeating all of the different endgame bosses (though I heard there might be a newer alternate unlock method).

Yeah, you can either beat each boss at least once, or beat the game a total of five times.
http://slay-the-spire.wikia.com/wiki/Ascension
describes how each Ascension rank alters difficulty.

Aside from that, one can replay and attempt to win in different ways, and multiple attempts will be needed for some of the harder achievements (e.g. you can't really force a Minimalist deck win, but if you get a very early Peace Pipe you might think about going for it).

[Zireael]

Thanks .
I want to ask about deck size , how many cards should i go for in a decent deck

[Ghostlight]

Keep playing bcause it's fun?

[Shovel Priest]

There's no magic number. You'll see a lot of rules of thumb out there, but in the end, just looking at deck size isn't good enough. Small decks of fewer than 10 cards are good for trying to go infinite, but are very vulnerable to statuses if you're not able to. Large decks are susceptible to drawing the wrong cards for the turn, but can absorb and try to benefit from curses and statuses.

It's more about each individual card selection. It's thinking less about "is this a good card" and more about "would adding this card make my deck better".

[Arti_Sel]

Originally posted by Shovel Priest:

There's no magic number. You'll see a lot of rules of thumb out there, but in the end, just looking at deck size isn't good enough. Small decks of fewer than 10 cards are good for trying to go infinite, but are very vulnerable to statuses if you're not able to. Large decks are susceptible to drawing the wrong cards for the turn, but can absorb and try to benefit from curses and statuses.

It's more about each individual card selection. It's thinking less about "is this a good card" and more about "would adding this card make my deck better".

This is a really good explanation.

However if you can't differ between good cards and cards that make your deck better, the deckbuilding for dummies recommended size is something like 18-24 cards. Exhaust/powers counts as 0.5, offering/adrenaline doesn't count at all. And going lower is always better.

[Raine]

Beat all 9 bosses with each character,
Hunt and grind to get all achievements,
Achieve ascention 15 with each character
try to get in the top 100 in a daily 12+ hours after daily changes.

Set your own goals. try to make an unconventional deck work. try to get a single card to do over 2000 damage?