The Spire

12 Slay the Spire 2 pages in The Spire.

• Acts and the MapA Slay the Spire 2 run climbs three acts, the Overgrowth or the Underdocks (a coin flip), then the Hive, then Glory, each opening with an Ancient and ending in a boss, before the Architect ends the climb. Each act is a branching map of combat, Elite, ? (Unknown), Merchant, Treasure and Rest Site rooms; Game Rant puts a run at about 45 to 50 encounters and up to about 40 minutes.
• ArchitectThe Architect is the figure at the top of the Spire who ends every Slay the Spire 2 run after the Act 3 boss, killing you before you can play a card; in Early Access there is no Act 4, no keys and no true ending, which Mega Crit promises for the 1.0 release.
• BossesSlay the Spire 2 has 12 bosses in Early Access, three per act: Ceremonial Beast, The Kin and Vantom (Overgrowth), Lagavulin Matriarch, Soul Fysh and Waterfall Giant (Underdocks), Kaiser Crab, Knowledge Demon and The Insatiable (Hive), and Aeonglass, Queen and Test Subject (Glory).
• ElitesSlay the Spire 2 has 12 Elite fights in Early Access, three in each of its four areas (Overgrowth, Underdocks, Hive and Glory), and every Elite drops a relic along with a card reward. Ascension 1, Swarming Elites, makes them appear more often.
• EnemiesSlay the Spire 2's normal enemies differ in each of its four areas (the Overgrowth and Underdocks in Act 1, the Hive in Act 2 and Glory in Act 3), with HP that rises at Ascension 8 and damage that rises at Ascension 9. The in-game Bestiary, added in v0.105.0, shows the moves of every monster you have met.
• EventsSlay the Spire 2 has 57 events in OP.GG's v0.111.0 beta data, plus 8 Ancients, met in ? rooms: shared events that can appear in several acts, and events tied to the Overgrowth, Underdocks, Hive or Glory. Each offers two or more choices, such as the Symbiote's Corrupted enchantment or Transform, and the Lantern Key that leads to an Act 3 reward.
• GloryGlory is Act 3 of Slay the Spire 2, the upper Spire, whose Elites are the Knight Trio, the Mecha Knight and the Soul Nexus and whose boss is Aeonglass, the Queen or the Test Subject; at Ascension 10 you fight two of them.
• HiveThe Hive is Act 2 of every Slay the Spire 2 run, an insect nest whose Elites are the Decimillipede, Entomancer and Infested Prism and whose boss is the Kaiser Crab, the Knowledge Demon or The Insatiable; an Ancient greets you at its start.
• Merchant and Rest SitesIn Slay the Spire 2 the Merchant sells 5 character cards, 2 Colorless cards, 3 relics, 3 potions and one card removal per visit, and Rest Sites let you Rest to heal or Smith to Upgrade a card, with more actions from relics. Card removal gets 25 Gold dearer each time, and from Ascension 6 (Inflation) it starts at 100 Gold and rises by 50; Mega Crit has not published the base removal price or the Rest heal amount.
• Neow and the AncientsAncients are the beings who greet you at the start of each act in Slay the Spire 2 and offer three relics to choose one: Neow at the start of the run, Orobas, Pael or Tezcatara in Act 2, Nonupeipe, Tanx or Vakuu in Act 3, and Darv in either. They heal you on arrival and replace the first game's boss relics; Neow alone has 28 possible blessings on the main branch v0.107.1.
• OvergrowthThe Overgrowth is one of the two possible first acts of Slay the Spire 2, a jungle ruin chosen by a coin flip against the Underdocks, with the Elites Bygone Effigy, Byrdonis and Phrog Parasite and the bosses Ceremonial Beast, The Kin and Vantom.
• UnderdocksThe Underdocks is the alternate first act of Slay the Spire 2, a sewer waterway chosen by a coin flip against the Overgrowth once unlocked, with the Elites Phantasmal Gardener, Skulking Colony and Terror Eel and the bosses Lagavulin Matriarch, Soul Fysh and Waterfall Giant.

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