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I did acknowledge this, my comments about haste are about how structures don't work without it, and the most consistent ways to get it are either a random shield improvement event or archangel armour. The event has showed up in very few of my runs, and the archangel amour negates the main benefit of strucutres.

If I were to spitball ideas:

Keep the Brick, Roof, and Tower the Same

Have the Brickwall Gain 2 For Each Adjacent Structure, Count as 2 Structures, Give Defense Twice, or some combination of these.

Have The Balloon grant gain no additional defense for adjacent structures, but grant 1 Haste for each adjacent structure. This is a good payoff for it being hard to combo with the other structure pieces.

Love the game, but I do have one negative comment: Structures honestly don't seem to have any use.

For the amount of space they take up their defense bonus just isn't worth it. Almost any armour will outpace it for both passive defense gain and utility, given that unlike all but one of the structures, most high rarity armour has useful passives

Their only synergy seems to be with the manchette, glass bottle, and a few rings. While it is nice to gain these benefits and still have passive defense, they don't give enough of a bonus to make it worth using structures, since the defense does not scale well.

Their rarity also makes no sense, with the brickwall being worse is almost every way to the basic brick, and balloon being harder to combo with the rest of the items with no benefit. 

I get the design could easily be broken if things are not careful. I imagine if the balcksmith event that can give a shield haste were combined with a structure build it would be insane...but I have seen the blacksmith once in my 20-30 runs. But for how bad structures are, there need to be more ways to either gain haste or they need a serious buff to how they scale.