Humility

Humility is a difficulty mod that buffs (almost) every enemy in Slay the Spire while avoiding simple number buffs like increased HP or damage.

Changelist

General

• Vulnerable has been changed so that if the player is afflicted with it during the monsters' turn, monsters that act that turn will no longer suddenly deal increased damage.
  • This allows monsters that are not the last to act in a turn to apply Vulnerable without affecting the damage of monsters that act after them.
  • Note: This means Fungi Beast will no longer alter damage if it dies during the monsters' turn from effects like Thorns or Lightning Orbs.

Exordium

Events

• Dead Adventurer
  • No longer gives a hint at which Elite the player might fight

Normal Enemies

• Cultist
  • Attack also adds a Void into the discard pile
• Gremlin (Fat)
  • Starts with 3 times more HP than usual
  • Starts with Slow
• Gremlin (Mad)
  • Anger replaced with Strength Up (gain Strength each turn)
• Gremlin (Shield)
  • Gives 1 Buffer instead of Block
• Gremlin (Sneaky)
  • Starts with 10 Thievery
  • Escapes on turn 4
• Gremlin (Wizard)
  • Takes 1 fewer turns to charge up attack
• Jaw Worm
  • Always in Hard Mode
• Large Slimes
  • Splits at 75% HP instead of 50%
• Looter
  • Skips Smoke Bomb prep turn
• Louse
  • Regains Curl Up after uncurling
• Slaver (Blue)
  • New Move: Trip
    • Big Debuff
    • Applies No block to player
    • Can be used multiple times (but not two turns in a row)
• Slaver (Red)
  • Can use Entangle multiple times (but not two turns in a row)
  • Cannot use Entangle on the same turn Blue Slaver uses Trip (see above)
• Slime (Small Acid/Spike)
  • Starts with 1 Extra Slimy
  • Slime Coating:
    • At the end of its turn, adds X Slimed into your discard pile.
• Slime (Medium Acid/Spike)
  • Starts with 2 Extra Slimy

Elites

• Gremlin Nob
  • Summons 2 gremlin minions on turn 1
• Lagavulin
  • Starts with 3 Demon Form
  • Removes Demon Form when waking up
• Sentries
  • A 4th Sentry is added to the fight

Bosses

• The Guardian
  • Skips first Offensive-Defensive cycle, starting combat in Defensive Mode about to perform Twin Slam
  • Has Barricade while in Defensive Mode
• Hexaghost
  • Name changed to Pentaghost
  • Skips turn 1 Activate, starts combat using Divider
  • Divider deals H x 5 damage instead of H x 6
  • H is calculated as Current HP / 10 + 1 instead of Current HP / 12 + 1
  • Skips the last Sear in its move rotation, cutting the move rotation before Inferno down to 5 turns instead of 6 turns
• Slime Boss
  • Splits at 75% HP instead of 50%

City

Events

• The Colosseum
  • Second fight changed to double Gremlin Nob instead of Taskmaster + Gremlin Nob
  • The Gremlin Nobs in this fight will not summon gremlin minions
• Masked Bandits
  • Pointy
    • Starts with 2 Thorns
    • When Bear dies, gains 1 Enrage
  • Romeo
    • Mock changed to Debuff, applies 5 Weak to player
    • When Bear dies, gains 1 Enrage
  • Bear
    • Bear Hug also applies 2 Frail (before the negative Dexterity)
    • When Romeo dies, gains 2 Enrage and 2 Strength

Normal Enemies

• Byrds
  • No longer stunned when Flight is removed, instead goes straight into Headbutt
• Centurion and Mystic
  • Centurion can only take 10 damage per turn while Mystic is alive
• Chosen
  • Hex now shuffles a Dazed into the draw pile whenever you play ANY card
• Fungi Beast
  • Spore Cloud goes off automatically after 2-4 turns as well as on death
• Mugger
  • Skips Smoke Bomb prep turn
• Shelled Parasite
  • Plated Armor is replaced with Metallicize
• Snake Plant
  • New Move:
    • Attack + Debuff
    • 17 damage
    • Applies -3 Strength and 2 Shackled to player
• Snecko
  • Starts with 1 Snecko Bot
  • Snecko Bot:
    • Whenever you play a card, choose a random number from 0 to 3. If the number is equal to the cost of the card played, gains X Strength.
• Spheric Guardian
  • Starts with 3 Buffer

Elites

• Book of Stabbing
  • Name changed to Book of Punching
  • Painful Stabs replaced with Painful Punches
  • Painful Punches is identical to Painful Stabs but puts the Wounds on top of your draw pile instead of into your discard pile.
• Gremlin Leader
  • Maximum number of gremlin minions increased to 4
  • Spawns up to 3 gremlins at a time with Rally
• Taskmaster
  • Attack is changed to 7 x N, where N = turn / 2 rounded up

Bosses

• Bronze Automaton
  • Skips spawn turn, starts combat with Bronze Orbs already spawned
  • Bronze Orb
    • Stasis move now steals 2 cards
• The Champ
  • Starts with 3 Strength
  • Cannot use Defensive Stance move
  • Gloat and Anger moves give 1 additional Strength
• The Collector
  • Maximum number of Torch Heads increased to 3
  • Spawns up to 3 Torch Heads at a time

Beyond

Events

• Mind Bloom
  • I am War option changed to fight 2 Act 1 Bosses in a row
• Mysterious Sphere
  • 50% of the time the fight will be Snecko and Mystics instead of Orb Walkers

Normal Enemies

• Darklings
  • A 4th Darkling is added to the fight
• Jaw Worm Horde
  • Starts with Life Link
• The Maw
  • Always uses Slam on turn 2
  • Starts with 2 Strength
• Orb Walker
  • Starts with 2 Artifact
  • Gives player upgraded Burns
• Shapes (Exploder)
  • Starts with -1 turn on Explode
• Shapes (Repulsor)
  • On death, puts 2 Dazed on top of the draw pile
• Shapes (Spiker)
  • Gives ALL monsters 2 Thorns when buffing
• Spire Growth
  • Constrict move (Big Debuff) changed to also deal damage equal to Quick Tackle
• Transient
  • Starts with +1 Fading
  • Starts with 999 Regenerate
• Writhing Mass
  • Starts with 8 Regenerate

Elites

• Giant Head
  • Remove Slow
• Nemesis
  • On non-Intangible turns, has Semi-Intangible
  • Semi-Intangible: Reduces damage received by 5
• Reptomancer
  • Retomancer and Daggers apply 2 Venom when dealing unblocked damage
  • Venom:
    • Poison but blockable

Bosses

• Awakened One
  • Added a third phase:
    • 200 Max HP (220 on Asc 9+)
    • Gains 10 Ritual
• Donu and Deca
  • Now have a single, shared health pool
• Time Eater
  • Starts with Double Time
  • Double Time:
    • Whenever you play 6 cards, gains 1 Strength

Ending

Elite

• Spire Shield and Spire Spear
  • Both start with Barricade

Boss

• Corrupt Heart
  • Debilitate move also applies -1 draw per turn and -1 energy per turn