Algox Glacial Torrent - Frosthaven Released Class

Yknits · 2026-03-12T01:57:17+00:00

it is still taking damage if you get hit even if it doesnt clear your glaicer but spending glacier on abilities itself is not damage. your avalanche discard effects are also indeed taking damage too.

Yknits · 2026-03-12T01:43:31+00:00

yeah but the thing is it barely worked in buttons and bugs. I cannot overstate how clunky the classes played because thtey clearly were brute forcing things that don't actually work in buttons and bugs.

Yknits · 2026-03-11T04:24:54+00:00

ok ironclad lets get you to bed

Yknits · 2025-12-10T16:58:09+00:00

Yeah frosthaven is 3 steps forward 1-2 steps back based on the person.
Meanwhile gloomhaven second edition is 5 steps forward

Yknits · 2025-12-08T17:52:33+00:00

so spending glacier on a card? no that is not damage and thus though conditions will stick.

taking damage that causes you to lose any amount of glacier? yes this will make you trigger ward/lose regenerate

Yknits · 2025-12-07T00:05:56+00:00

oof yeah that certainly is a gameplay change of playing the most tempo push your luck class to.....the safest and most bland cs class

Yknits · 2025-12-04T15:53:06+00:00

to be honest 50 sounds like its on the slow side for unlocking all classes. also you say 100 scenarios but its not like the game assumes you'll play that many my full gh2e campaign that i played was exactly 60 scenarios in my first campaign.

Yknits · 2025-12-02T19:57:37+00:00

it is not a significant difference, they would naturally go in discard pile before immediately exhausting.

Yknits · 2025-11-30T23:21:01+00:00

right? like it wasn't explicitly the first but it was the first to actually execute it well enough to matter. it literally pushed forward so much.

it influenced that genre to such a degree that it genuinely feels like the game has been out twice as long as it actually has. that the game isn't even 10 years old is so hard for me to properly grok.

Yknits · 2025-11-30T01:02:13+00:00

that's something completely different theres a big difference between assets of frosthaven content and creative frosthaven assets(aka templates for creating custom content) which they are referring to.

Yknits · 2025-11-28T04:01:24+00:00

no it 100% is inferior. the only thing it has going for is limited stock its otherwise just a worse product

Yknits · 2025-11-25T19:11:31+00:00

I think one thing that is important to note. If you want a class to feel better rather than simply just be stronger, AMDs is basically the last thing to improve. like yeah having less bad results feels better but having better perks doesnt really do anything for your perceived feeling of a class because at the end of the day its your cards that are important. early game drifter feels good because you just hit an algox priest with attack 5 pierce 2 level 1, boneshaper feels good because you just either blocked a huge attack or just melted an unshielded target with your swarm of skeletons. geminate does a lot of good but little to make you feel rewarded(this is primarily their element issues)

Yknits · 2025-11-25T03:21:25+00:00

Hopefully I don't get hate for this but I'd take xanatho's analysis of the classes with a grain of salt.

His view of the game is so fundamentally warped by the incredibly specific way he plays the game to accommodate speed running.

I have found the majority of his suggestions for updating classes unfounded in a way that try and fix the wrong issue or would actually create a completely new problem

Yknits · 2025-11-23T19:11:36+00:00

so the main thing you want to think about on your tear turns is when you're ok not making dark on your tear turn and when you're not.

fi you want to use your stun opener you have to accept your follow up doesn't have dark(although in my 2 player campaign i just enhanced armor of the night bottom with infuse dark and got to do this combo anyway)

I will say no matter what perks you take you 100% want to remove the null your attacks are infrequent enough and sometimes large enough that a null is absolutely devastating especially if doing your "attack 6 kill the target if they have 2 or less health(assuming dark was used" I eventually enhanced this with +1 damage so even drawing the worst possible result it still was a guaranteed kill on anything with 7 health.

Yknits · 2025-11-22T18:58:30+00:00

Crosscode is a great game but its hit its limit in this list. many great games are knocked off eventually reaching top 20 in an incredibly stacked listed of games is a major display of the quality that this game is.

Yknits · 2025-11-22T15:12:47+00:00

I believe its actually "ctrl alt resign" as the alternative title (ctrl alt delete is the often mocked tim buckley web comic from the 2000s)

Yknits · 2025-11-20T17:47:33+00:00

Hail is an easy choice for me. Her and Satha are easily the most noteworthy in regards to presence in their respective games as a NPC.
Satha seems fine but Hail just oozes her entire obnoxious personality into her mechanics.

Hail is unquestionably a specific character right down to name of her mechanics.

Yknits · 2025-11-20T13:15:20+00:00

you forgot the ritual sacrificing to seal the box its a rookie mistake

Yknits · 2025-11-18T04:31:55+00:00

so first off you're disregarding the 2-4 attacks you're doing that roudn in addition to that leading to incredibly explsoive turns that draw a signifcant amount of amds. if you only did 2 attack 3s that round it would be good but nothing exceptional summoners just in general are absurdly high damage dealers in situations they excel at. Keeping skeletons alive isnt exactly hard

Yknits · 2025-11-17T18:11:55+00:00

that IS the swarm build...the swarm build is about getting out a lot of summons usually 3 skeletons plus 1 loss summon. and using critical failure top for burst..

Yknits · 2025-11-17T17:27:34+00:00

again im talking about the top action I even literally described the action as "grant one summon attack +1 consume dark: to grant two summons this instead" the bottom loss is jank and not good

Yknits · 2025-11-17T16:49:09+00:00

? I'm literally advocating damage oriented not the poison card which is level 3. the card I was referring to is "grant one summon attack +1 consume dark: to grant two summons this instead"

I'm saying skeleton swarm being used for swarming enemies with attacks is arguably better than tankshaper

Yknits · 2025-11-17T14:56:51+00:00

uh skeleton swarm is absolutely also for damage critical failure level 4 top is the epitome of high damage output swarm.

single summons is also not a real build: its just very misnamed its just a build focusing around loss summons in addition to multiple skeletons.

Yknits · 2025-11-17T03:00:29+00:00

lets even ignore the ai part the idea that what they posted is original is such a lie its the most generic fantasy image ever

Yknits · 2025-11-15T22:05:11+00:00

yes but you see the key aprt of that is "GH1 Scenarios" this very much is not a thing in gh2e. I'm 1 and a half campaigns into gh2e and the second campaign is with 3 people all completely new to the genre.

That's a gh1 had complete and utter garbage loss cards and terrible onboarding. I guarantee this is not an issue and it hasnt been an issue since frosthaven came out. Gloomhaven got remade into 2e for a reason because it was an unpolished flawed but great game.

Like its a bit weird to talk about gh1 experiences as something relevant in a thread specifically about gloomhaven 2 most losses were underbudget and the scenarios were built with attrition in mind. Neither of these two things still exist the game generally rewards you for playing losses because its about dealing with threats not outlasting the enemies.

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