I have thousands of hours across devices, and Watcher is still by far my hardest character to play. She can be extremely broken given the right combos, though. Here’s some general, rambling advice:

Wrath builds really want a lot of resources to exit Wrath (as I’m sure you noticed). All of the Empty cards help a ton, especially because they’re also just solid cards, but Fear No Evil is great to have 2-ish of in a 20 card deck. Definitely take a Tantrum if you have any strength artifacts, too. Rushdown also helps a lot more than seems intuitive (to me, at least); it’s also the basis of my favorite infinite in the game. Intermittent Wrath decks also really like Follow-Up and Wallop, and Conclude can sweep the first act a lot of the time, but that gets risky later.

Scry-with-block is pretty consistent, especially if you can get some Weave in there. I never take Just Lucky unless I’m building a Weave deck. (Most 0 cost cards are really traps, even though Claw is Law).

Divinity is pretty good, but requires upgraded Worship and probably also Devotion to luck into it. Wheel Kick is pretty good generally, but really helps out a Divinity deck to push your damage that turn.

By far my favorite Watcher card is Like Water, though. Passive block just for being in Calm is insane, especially if you have 2-3 in the deck. Easily worth playing early against The Awakened even with the strength buff. I will often get rid of any Wrath cards in my deck if I get enough Like Water and just sit in Calm the whole time.

I will say you should probably always skip Pressure Points. I love the mechanic, but because it’s the only card that interacts with it, you need like 3-4 upgraded copies to make it work at all, and that’s just too inconvenient to get.

In general, I think Watcher is way more situational with her card picks than other characters (except maybe Silent, but that’s very specific builds). Because of that, you really have to lean into the first handful of uncommons and rares you pick up. If you’re inconsistent with an archetype, lean more heavily on block, since you’ll be relying on burst Wrath damage. Protect is your best friend with a varied deck, and it and Perseverance can bail you out of a lot of bad situations. If you’re running a block-heavy deck, you can also get a ton of use out of Signature Move; Divinity/Signature Move is probably my favorite thing to have happen in the entire game (except maybe Nightmare/Catalyst).

Take all that with a grain of salt, though; I’m mostly a Silent and Defect enjoyer, and I struggle a bit with both Watcher and Ironclad (relatively), so my takes are probably a bit biased.

I’m super curious with what you roughly came up with! I never would have thought to look it up.

This is my experience as well. I was talking about it with some of my partners recently, and we all agreed we’d never go back to being mono, even if we were only with one person.

Also, the official poly flag

For sure! I think in a lot of ways, my first partner and I got lucky on the compatibility front. We’ve just always vibed super well, and usually come to the same conclusions about stuff, even if it’s by different means. I think we were also both pretty inclined towards multiple relationships, even though we didn’t really realize it until we’d been together for a long time.

Communication is definitely key, though. There are a lot of things that are kinda implicit in a monogamous relationship that you need to talk about more explicitly when it’s open. I think we’re also lucky in that we’re both friends with each other’s partners.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle was at first was insecurity, both about the relationship and myself (and herself as well). Getting over the idea that your partner may ditch you for another person they have NRE with is hard, despite assurances. Obviously, that never happened. These days, I’m so far from that version of myself these days that it’s kinda funny to look back on, at least.

My partner and I met as young, straight, and monogamous. We’ve been together for 18 years, and married for 13. We opened our relationship about 10 years ago, and now each have two other partners we’ve been with for several years (with some dating in between). We love where our lives have ended up, and are very glad we started dating multiple people. It’s definitely more complicated to manage multiple intimate relationships, but worth the effort if you’re inclined that way, I think.

Edit: just because I’ve seen other comments, I figure I should say that we tell people we’re polyamorous as shorthand, but we all mostly practice some form of relationship anarchy.

Here’s hoping they help! I waited until just last year to get diagnosed at the ripe ol’ age of 36. It took a whole to get the right meds figured out, but they’re helping a ton. They also have the side effect of severely reducing some chronic pain I had.

I will say that I kinda had to convince my psych that I actually had ADHD despite it being super obvious to all my friends. I scored too “well” on a computer aided test (oops, all video games). The thing that convinced her was making a spreadsheet of all the symptoms if both types and making a tick for each day they adversely impacted my ability to get stuff done.

I kinda love it when none of the cards in an Arcana work with my build, but there’s a Wheel in there. Easy pick, even on a nope.

Enclosure schmenclosure :P

Men I Thrust

Weirdly, kinda the same vibe as the original.

As a bipolar II person, this sounds like the beginning of a round of hypomania to me.

Seconded! Been using the suite for years and it rocks. It’s also multi-OS compatible, which is super handy.

I only ever played the first one! My dad picked up the CD somewhere while working on a busted computer, I think? I replayed it like 12 times because I thought it was so interesting as a kid.

It’s Megan! I’m going insane!

Honestly, this whole thing has a cohesive vibe to it (or maybe that’s just the mood I’m in). Either way, I like it!

I’ve considered it before, but maybe I should look into it a bit more concertedly! Every time I’ve gone into a doctor for a long term condition, they inevitably tell me to take B12 for 2 months and come back, and by that time I’ve usually lost my motivation for doing something about it. 😆

My spouse: I was promised flying cars, and I don’t even get a conversation pit!

Yeah, StS really ruined me for other deckbuilders, and I’m still chasing that high. Some pretty good ones have been Power Chord and Banners of Ruin. They’re both team-based games where cards are tied to certain characters, and I think that particular mechanic adds enough that it took me a while to crack the code on them.

They’re not technically a non-profit, but there is a co-op doing exactly this named, very creatively, The Drivers Cooperative. They’re only in Colorado and New York (and I think specifically NYC) right now, but it’s exciting to see that happening.

I was actively taught in high school that “unions were nice, but not necessary any more, they get in the way of all our very cool free trade!”

Obviously, my thinking on that has changed a whole lot, but both my partner and I got fed that kind of rhetoric straight out of text books.

The wiki just says they’re married. I know it’s not “official”, but it’s official in my heart.