I've been toying around with using dials for stall in place of some of the dim shields. The results so far have been great. I've been significantly less stressed using this setup. There have been a lot less "god I hope I get a shield", and "I need to drop all these shields" moments.
Since the deck costs a considerable 12 less
and 8 less
, I was able to slim the quanta sources a lot.
I'm not sure this is the right amount of cards, but I stuck with this since I know your stall:deck size ratios are well tested. I used the 3 extra slots for 2 sanctuaries(EMs and poison soak) and an hourglass(since I no longer use the
on dials).
It still has 18 turns of stall. 6 from dials and 12 from dims.
The benefit of dials is
a) They're cheap, so unlucky early quantum rolls are less of an issue and you need less
total by deck end
b) The AI loves stealing them, and they work
while stolen
c) They double as a acceleration using a quanta type you're producing excess in already
d) You get a boatload of them, meaning less bad draws
e) They only last a turn, meaning less hand hogging
My dials are only recently upgraded. I started with the following layout to farm them.
This works about as well as the standard slim deck as far as I can tell, but I've considerably less than 100 games with either so don't hold me to it. There's probably some tuning that could be done. Possibly -2 dials, +1 dim, and +1 light pendulum. Biggest plus side, only 3 upped cards!