LogFAQs > #960099068

150 gold vs. Doubt

What I'm going to say here probably goes for similar events as well, e.g. the one where you get 50 gold vs. 275 gold and regret, or the event where you can upgrade a card vs. getting the upgrade relic + pain.

The first thing I look at is where the next shop is. You can get a net of 75 gold for removing doubt, and doubt itself isn't the worst curse if you're not reliant on attack cards (see: poison, orbs). If it's a long way to go, I probably won't take it, though sometimes if I see a sea of ? rooms on my path I might go there and hope I get one.

But overall, I don't love this event because removing a curse means I can't remove a strike. I probably turn it down a lot of the time, but I also have a sunk cost fallacy going on sometimes where not taking it means that I went through a room with nothing to show for it, and the spire isn't kind to those who don't improve their deck. But, you could make the same argument to say that skipping a card is the same thing, and obviously there are many times where skipping is the right move. So yeah, definitely a fallacy.

Oh, and if you've got some of the curse relics like onomori or du-vu doll or that one that increases max hp, then go for it. This is usually an early act 1 relic though so chances are you don't have that unless you got it from neow.

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