Slay the Spire
Sealer May 2, 2018 @ 12:59am
The Defect - Card Upgrades
Too many of The Defect's cards have garbage base forms and need to be upgraded to be useful. This is barely an issue when playing other characters, but with the defect many cards give between 50 and 100% boost to the card effectiveness. This means that the character has to prioritize bonfires, which is extra problematic considering how slow and random his scaling is - he often takes a lot of damage in hallway fights if you draw the cards in a wrong order.

Looking at particular cards:

Chaos gets + 100% boost to effectiveness from an upgrade.
Darkness + 100% (kind of)
Capacitor +100%
Defragment + 100%
Buffer + 100%
Static Discharge + 100%
Coolheaded gets an extra card. Also, this card needs to cost 0 base, it's super bad right now.
Rainbow, Impulse, Echo Form remove exhaust effect. It should probably stay on Echo Form, but it will probably still be too strong.
Hologram goes from trash to fantastic with the upgrade.
Go for the eyes, Beam Cell are great upgrades, essentially +100% effect because of nature of the cards.
On top of that, countless cards get -1 energy cost, which is also a very important upgrade.

I like that you need to think about upgrades on this character, but too many of his cards have terrible base forms. In particular, cards like Hologram and Impulse are borderline worthless unupgraded, but I think many other cards could stand a little buff here and there to their base forms. I'll make a separate thread with card suggestions, since some of them are also just plain bad.