Nadir - Playthrough Part 6

The next circle of Hell I ventured into was Lust. In general the enemies here apply a lot of debuffs like Decay and Bleeding and some of them do Devouring Damage, meaning they heal the equivalent amount of every health point you lose, so having decent armour is advisable. The miniboss I faced here - Minos - was a pain in the ass. He had a Survivalist buff giving him armour every time a hard is played and he gets more of it if you redraw. This is a really tricky fight, because Minos deals a ton of damage with his cards, so you have to carefully activate the ones which apply Profanity and Desecrate - which disable the effect of his Red and Blue cards respectively. In addition to that I had to be careful with his Piercing damage effects because my health was reduced to very dangerous levels. So basically I had to be really picky which cards I played. In the meantime Minos accumulated way too much armour, so I could only damage him with my Piercing attacks. Eventually I defeated him, but it took awhile.

The boss of this circle was Asmodeus and he was a nightmare. His card apply tons of Bleeding, which is by far one of the most the dangerous debuffs - 10 points of bleeding can reduce your health completely unless you have shields, heals or cleanse. Unfortunately I didn't have many of those cards, so I died. At least I got some resources and unlocked the Soul Cages, making the Anvil of Souls node available, but I'm not 100% sure what that does. Predictably I couldn't buy the next circle of Hell until I defeat the boss of the previous one, but at least I got more cards for Jeanne.