Originally posted by Raketensegler:Play the job missions. When you have looted a chest, abandon the mission, you will keep the gold and found items.

I have completed all story missions and I am waiting for the 2 new mercs, who will receive all the top gear and card enhancements when they arrive. If you have the looting spider you can get both in one turn. The Demonic Dissent missions are in my experience by far the best, they almost always have a chest and pretty often even two. With the best boots (Rocket Boots) and Backstab along a Blink Cape and a Moon Ring for resetting the boots for the cape/and or Duelist's Advance after using them on the Backstab move you can pretty much manage even the longest dungeons in one turn. If you don't have Duelists Advance take Quick Hands and increase the top move. Take a stamina potion to regain the cards if you need 2 turns for a chest.

Play one of the cards with Duelist's Advance and just loot the chests in 1 or 2 turns. As cards take Backstab with jump boots or Flanking Strike with jump enhancement and + movement boots. Take the Scoundrel and another mercenary (unimportant which one, but if you need more than 1 turn, Music note is the best). This may not seem like a big deal, but suffice it to say the effect is so powerful that it had to be nerfed down from recovering 2 cards, and it is still considered borderline OP.Play the job missions. This small item is available at the very start of the game and lets you recover 1 card from your discard pile at any time. As soon as you have 10 gold, you should buy and equip each mercenary with one. While you should always look for items and equipment that complement a mercenary’s playstyle, few are universally useful, like stamina potions. Buy a stamina potion and thank me laterĪ well-kitted-out mercenary is a happy mercenary. Even a single summoned monster can alter this balance and turn an otherwise manageable dungeon into a nightmare. Scraping a victory with your very last attack before exhausting is very common and very rewarding. One of the main draws of the Gloomhaven campaign is how finely tuned the difficulty is. While I talked about not burning cards early in a scenario, doing so to kill a pesky cultist about to spawn living bones or even stun an ooze about to split is always a good idea. Staying out of enemies’ range while also dealing damage involves clever movement and careful initiative selection.Ĭultists will summon living bones 25% of the times This could mean forgoing your offensive plans for the round if that lets you stay out of range of a very powerful enemy attack. This may sound obvious, but you really don’t want to take damage unless you have to. This should always be a last resort, as a card in hand is generally worth more than any amount of non-fatal damage. Whenever a mercenary takes damage, you can negate all of it by burning a card from your hand or two cards from the discard pile. While you can and should default cards that are no longer relevant, it is not very efficient and could leave you struggling and lagging behind your fellow mercenaries.Ī good example is to always try and move towards the next room in the dungeon while actively dealing damage to enemies as well. The tinkerer has the largest hand size of all starting classesĪlways have a backup plan in case enemies going with a very fast initiative or using a defensive ability disrupt your primary one.

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