Nadir - Playthrough Part 5

The next circle of Hell I ventured into was Greed. Fittingly a lot of the monsters you encounter here have the ability to steal your buffs, so prioritising pure damage, armour and heal cards is essential when building your deck. The new Character Development Node is incredibly useful throughout the journey. You can spend soulshards in it for some permanent upgrades to your health, damage and other skills. It basically makes the card ship obsolete since your money is much better spent here. The boss of this circle is Moloch. I really like his design here - a Minotaur who has children locked away in his belly. He starts the battle with 5 Shielded, 5 Counter and 5 Rage and a lot of his cards sacrifice one of those for massive damage. When you redraw he gains 1 Counter and 1 Shielded. The key here is to be shielded when you activate any of his sacrifice cards or alternatively trigger them when he doesn't have the corresponding buff. Depleting shielded and Counters with small multi-hit attacks is the way to go and having the armour to absorb the damage helps, but unless you have some fancy card there's no way to erase the Rage.

When I defeated him I went back to Nadir and bought the Gardens of Desire which unlocks the next circle of Hell - Lust. I also purchased more cards for Jeanne (who is my main and only character) and more damned to fight against - not really sure if the latter is useful aside from giving you a bigger variety of enemies.