Complete Overkill! 

Well, too much gripping suspense in Act II for a video to fall asleep to 😂

Don't all Defect decks become focus orb decks? 😂

he does take a lot of calculated gambles

That art was AI generated and it still struggles with that kind of stuff.

​@@suunraze No, it wasn't, where did you get that idea?

​@@suunrazeso, all of defect's powers come from Creative AI?

That was good

​@@howlrichard1028I think he was playing a "Creative AI" joke

You’d need an infinite money source (like double nightmare + wish) and courrier to achieve that.

Very common in endless runs. Once you get most of the relics in the game, you just start getting a ton of circlets

I feel like maybe a Claw keyword might work better, so you could put it on Scrape too. Clawing: Any time a card with Clawing is played, raise the damage of ALL cards with Clawing by 2 for the rest of combat. It's probably still not the strongest/consistent deck archetype, but it'd be damn fun.

they don't solve the draw problem, but they help mitigate the consequences if you draw poorly on turn one, anchor softens the blow if you draw poorly other than a hyperbeam on turn one, you may be able to pick off weaker enemies and reduce incoming damage

Well, heatsinks and storm, as balanced cards, both make powers have effects that are worth less than 1 energy (zap is underpowered as a starter card and 1 draw isn’t worth 1 energy at all) however, this card would make powers also give the effect of defragment, which is a card that’s well worth playing for 1 energy. Considering it only costs 1 more energy than storm and heatsinks, it’s value per energy greatly dwarves those cards. It’s pretty overpowered but not in a way that would harm the game as there are cases where it wouldn’t be valuable, it has potential to be drawn after your other powers if not upgraded, does not give instant value (tough you can still play other powers before ending turn or evoking an orb, making this less of a downsides than with demon form or machine learning, for exemple) does cost 2 energy and doesn’t get crazy amount of focus right away, It would still work within the game’s balance altough it would still be one of the most powerful cards in the game. It would DEFINITELY need to be a rare card, as to not make it optimal to force a power build which would narrow the amount of good options even if it itself wouldn’t be in a card reward, and It would still be balanced if it cost 3 energy instead (and maybe upgrading to costing 2)

IMHO it sounds extremely broken.

Barrage's problem is that it needs to be "activated"; it's the definition of damage that is not frontloaded. For sake of comparison, Barrage needs you to play about 2 orb cards to do with Blade Dance does at no cost. This is a significant factor early on. Barrage is, for lack of a better term, a damage solve. Its comparable its AoE cousin in Blizzard. Decks which want to evoke lots of Orbs are also another reason why you might not see Barrages; generally that's Dark Orbs, but you might also end up on the receiving end of a bunch of Loops and no Capacitors. 12 damage for 1 energy might be completely unneeded in a deck if you need better draw, too.

@@citizenofvenus 12, sure, 18? and that's base. If it's spam evoke? Sure. But if you have lots of orb slots, you can fill them consistently and quickly, which always is something you want with Defect, AND you can't yet deal 60 dmg per attack, I have no idea how you'd not want that. Also, Blade Dance comes with annoyances like hand space issues and card count for Time Eater and Heart Beat of Death purposes. Plus, there isn't inherent Strength scaling for Silent. Defect has Reprogram, and even without, he can have Focus, Orbs, AND a max 60 dmg base 1 energy Attack that admittedly needs set up, but so does any winning strategy, even Ironclad Corruption Decks and Defect's own Evoke decks. Sure, you have to channel orbs, but you already SHOULD on Defect, and yeah, it is 'just' a max 60 damage solve that does 18 damage at base orb slots, upgraded. That is almost a Streamline upgraded, it's only 1 energy, and it scales with Orb slots in attack count AND scales way better than ANYTHING except Thunder Strike with Strength, up to a whopping 10 times, which is ludicrous. With a few Holos alongside your orbs, I dunno what's gonna survive. Not to mention your starting relic plus a Glacier and your Barrage is already maxed in the early game, and only gets better and better as you scale more. So unless you go any path that doesn't scale orb count and (for whatever reason) does not channel enough or any orbs quickly, I do not see how this attack is not ridiculous

​​@@swordzanderson5352 considering that capacitor is a slimed before the act 2 boss, you shouldn't find yourself with one in more than 50/60 percent of runs, also consume exists, also if you have 10 orbs channeled you are already winning most fights. Also your point about strenght scaling is ridicoulous, first of all silent has accuracy, but also a reprogram orbs deck is like a super niche reprogram deck which is already a tough card. BD+ with 2 accuracy+=64 damage While Barrage+ with 2 capacitor + and a lot of orb gen=54 damage. Also also also best attack in sts? Really: Tantrum, eruption, feed, reaper, glass knife, die die die, talk to the hand, ritual dagger, immolate, doom and gloom, ball lighting. Are all better in most cases.

@@swordzanderson5352 It's a very strong attack! But the opportunity cost for the upgrade is weird, you will spend time getting orbs that you may not get. It's a specific solution to a common problem. It allows you to kill enemies faster once you have orbs, scaling with orb slots and strength (note: as Defect, you may not get strength scaling). This is good and very common for Defect. Let's say you got a bunch of Lightning Orbs and your entire idea is that you're just gonna block using up front cards and come out the other side with like 40 autodamage to everyone. You don't need any more damage that is gonna remove, you need to get your Lightning Orbs faster into play. If you are already capable of killing everyone in 2-3 turns once everything is set up (say, you have a Capacitor+, 2x Defrag+ - hey, that's 3 upgrades that are more important than Barrage! - Electrodynamics, and Tempest), then your objective isn't to kill faster, it's to deploy those cards faster. You can take it and be slightly worse depending on the situation. And if your Barrage comes up against, say a Skim, or a Heatsinks? It's a better Blizzard for sure, but that's what it compares to. A generic solution to a specific problem. It's not bad! It's a very good card! It's not the best attack card in the game IMO, but I take it very often.

@@jesap6460 Perhaps I should specify that it the best Attack card in terms of pure damage scaling, but I did indeed say *powerful* very clearly. Also, it is very much a known issue that Accuracy is, at times, a dead draw and a take after you have enough shivs, and that you have to draw and play it, meaning it already is the same in terms of needing to have set up for scaling. When considering how crazy Defect can get in terms of energy and draws on a regular basis, it is considerably less punishing to have Barrage+ with 2 capacitors except maybe in the Awakened One fight, and Insertor helps as well. And what aobut my Strength scaling statement being ridiculous? Barrage scales 10 times per Strength, just like Focus for the Orbs, I had nothing ridiculous going on there. There are also other methods to gain Strength other than Reprogram, though I could've been clearer that, yes, Reprogram Orb decks ARE rare, even more so than Reprogram decks on a regular basis, but what's ridiculous about praising a card for gaining 10 damage for 1 strength when most gets 1, 2, or at most 5 damage? And Capacitor being a Slimed before Act 2 is a hard disagree from me. Any Focus and good Frost Orb generation or even Lightning orb synergy would want a capacitor, which is most Defect decks. Most defect decks want more orbs, and then more slots. I can agree if you say it's a dead draw in Act 1, but for the entirety of Act 2? Heck no, unless your Act 1 card rewards were catastrophically bad or your deck doesn't care much about Orb gen or slots. And as if I ever said it is universally the best Attack card. I even mentioned a bunch of cases where you won't need a Barrage, and obviously if you don't have enough orb generation and slots, or even have a Consume as your Focus source, yeah, Barrage is garbage. Corruption is also absolute garbage if you play it too soon or you don't have enough Skills. Shivs are great, yeah, I love Silent Shiv decks, and they are often generally a great damage source while having tons of synergy with her other abilities, and they are generally more viable and pickable, and even THEY have their own issues. Baalor's videos have almost always been about how everything depends and is situational, and even objectively bad cards have their place. My point here was and has always been about highlighting the ridiculous damage potential this card has and how it singlehandedly outshines every other attack in terms of *power* and I made no mention of utility, and I could be clearer about how even with enough Orb Generation and Slots, you don't necessarily want or need one, but again, when your Defect deck is at a decent state with low possibility to brick and decent orb generation and even slots generation, which is a *common trend* in a Defect run, Barrage is an AWESOME pick. I KNOW it's situational and niche, I KNOW it has requirements, and I know there are better cards in terms of UTILITY than just big bonk, but I was highlighting it's damage potential, which I thought I made very clear. Which apparently I did not. I admit that I could have been more clearer, but I also sense condescendence from your reply despite my comment merely being a passionate praise (with tones of exaggeration, though not really, find me another 1 energy 60 damage card that scales 10 times with Strength) for a common Defect attack card that is situational but said situation is already often the goal in a common Defect run for a successful deck. I am very much open to discussion and debate, and will definitely admit to my wrongdoings and admit any misinformation being spread, but upon review, I have NOT done anything of such like, though clarity is something I can improve on. I did get lazy because usually the StS community would know where I'm getting at and coming from. I will continue to do so and improve upon this, and I understand that you and I have a misunderstanding due to my wording and your impressions, but please respect my opinions as I do yours, which has nothing to do with whether or not you disagree with me, since that's where the fun in discussion lies.

You rank strike's value way lower than you should. Only does 4 damage less than melter.

Relative to Defect's other one-cost cards, it's just not enough. Rip and Tear isn't taken often either and usually serves as a good early damage solve which can scale a bit with whatever Strength you may have

Yep

He is, if you watch live you’ll see his current streak :)

Thanks yall 😁. Maybe it’s time I gave Defect a chance.

@@uneedamuracle Do note that Defect requires you to be MUCH more deliberate and thorough, and unlike Silent who struggles early on, Defect can have issues THROUGHOUT his run, so you need to be always on your toes, but if and when you get Defect going, you are the God of the Spire.

@@swordzanderson5352 I appreciate it! I’m like a 25% winrate on A20 Ironclad. I play Silent here and there but never got as into the other characters. I know people LOVE the Defect, but the orb mechanics never appealed to me. Maybe I just need to give it more of a chance. 👌😁

What platform? Do you have everything unlocked? Any mods?

No mods, pc