Stray

"A messenger from The Void. The Stray conjures alternate forms to fulfill demands. Gaining additional HP is difficult with this class, but you'll gain more over time..."

- Class Description

The Stray is an event class from the Alpha Anniversary Event. It can gain a random boon with its first ability and can kill troublesome droids with its second. Its most important quality is its passive, which greatly restricts this class' healing capability. As such, the Stray is considered an advanced class that should only be used by those that can keep taking damage at a minimum.

Strategies

 * Your passive sets your MaxHP to your current HP value, which will make healing very difficult. In order to heal outside of using Heart Containers, you need to use items that both increase your MaxHP and HP in the same room (i.e. Chocolate Donut & Strawberry Donut, Potion of Protection & Healing).
 * This class is extremely difficult in Ascension as the modifiers will decrease the Stray's initial MaxHP even further than most other classes due to its passive.
 * At Ascension 9, 10, and 13, your starting MaxHP is effectively set to 25, 19, and 13 respectively, down from 100.
 * At Ascension 15, all forms of healing is halved, which may force you to use multiple healing items after increasing your MaxHP.
 * The cost of killing Friendly Droids can be mostly more forgiving for this class, but be careful, as killing a Friendly Droid at ≤20 HP will kill you.
 * Activate your Pursuit ability often for small benefits over time but keep in mind that you have a 12.5% chance to activate Transcendent's 1st ability Control, which not only warps your forward or backward a world, but can lower down your HP and MaxHP. You may want to mind the room # you're in before activating it.
 * You can kill a specific troublesome droid with Forget if no other hostile droids are alive in the room. If there are multiple droids tied for the lowest HP, Forget will randomly kill one of them.
 * If there are no Weak Droids, Hunter Droids have the highest targeting priority for Forget as they have the second lowest base HP of any droid.

Trivia

 * Stray is one of the only classes besides the Transcendent who has a Rune in the background of their class render.
 * If this class is owned, Stray alongside Transcendent will also lower the tempo of the lobby music when selected as your class.
 * Stray is, by far, the most expensive class, at a whopping 20. 20 successful equals to 10000 points, meaning it's cost is not only equal to Cultist in its pricing, but is also harder to obtain, as Crown Challenges are generally more difficult than normal runs.