Gloomhaven - Beginner Tips & Strategies for the Best Enhancements

all right let's talk beginner enhancement strategies tips and tricks so that you can maximize your effectiveness of enhancements and some of this stuff it's gonna be game breaking it's gonna make you so powerful it's ridiculous i'm not going to give a ton of specific examples it's not going to be by class it's going to be more a general overview of how you should be thinking about enhancements but there are some tips in here that are gonna make you ridiculously overpowered okay let's get started [Music] make sure that you don't enhance cards that have a later level card that is similar and you know functionally better or stronger because it's really easy to get caught up and go oh i use this card a lot right now and then later on once you're level six or seven or whatever it may be you're like i don't even want to take that card with me anymore because i'd rather take this card it does the same thing for me and so take a card like sweeping blow for the brute and then we've got brute force and you know you would never want to upgrade sweeping blow because brute force is just a better version of that card and so just make sure you're looking through your cards and understanding trying to have a decent understanding of where you're going to go in your build paths throughout your later levels be careful around fringe builds one of the things i like most about gloomhaven is that there's multiple different build paths and synergies and anti-synergies within the class as you level up so just be careful that when you're enhancing that you don't enhance something that's a very fringe build and it's based upon one card and then you know somebody uses the class later on they won't get that benefit or even yourself if you decide to try and change to a different build so try and enhance cards that are you know mostly guaranteed to be good regardless of which build path you decide to take for the class adding bless or strengthen to heals that target all allies and the best examples of these are ones that just say you know heal one all allies with no range requirements or anything then you add a blaster strengthen on that and it can get crazy especially if you've got an ally that has summons so you know let's say for example your ally has a couple summons out and you're in a four-player party you add a blast to something you could put five blesses out right two summons plus three allies stuff like that so make sure you're looking at anything that targets a lot of other allies to add bless and strengthen to and you can do some really crazy things and make sure it's a reusable card as well and you know if you could put out three four or five blesses or strengthen three four five allies every rest cycle i'd think you'd be happy with that i hope you're liking the video so far if you are please go ahead hit the like button it really helps me out a lot and subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications so that when i publish new content you're notified no notifications is a little bell uh also i work with noble knight games they've just got a crazy selection of rare stuff out of print stuff and so i've put a link down in the description if you go ahead and click on that link and you buy something through them i make a small commission i really need your help to you know grow the channel and get better and better and noble night games they just have they have everything they have the largest selection of games in the world it's really quite impressive board games card games role playing games you name it they've got it alright let's get to the next tip a tale of two great halves some cards are just better than others the top is a rock star the bottom is a rock star be very careful about enhancing one of those cards because those type of cards you might use them 50 percent of the time for the bottom and 50 of the time for the top and so if you enhance a half half the time you're not going to be using it you're going to be like i need to use this crazy move4 jump on the bottom and then you've got a really good top attack and so you've enhanced the top attack but then you're like well i need to use this move for a jump and so just be careful that you're actually going to use the enhanced half of the card the majority of the time enhancing multi-target cards costs more but is often much more effective than enhancing a single target card because regardless of how many targets the card hits the enhancement cost is just going to be double so if you can get something that's got three plus targets and you you know add another target and we're not talking about aoe we're talking about the little target symbol the more targets the more the effect uh the more your enhancement is going to affect the power so if you hit four targets and you add plus one damage that's plus four damage every use versus plus one damage for a single target so even though it costs more look for those level one cards that have a bunch of targets that you're going to be able to use multiple times and you're going to get a ton of usage out of that enhancement gold is a finite resource and so anytime you're going to do an enhancement you've got to compare the effect of that enhancement versus what items you currently have available so what you know you want to make sure and accelerate your power curve so that you can play on harder difficulties make more gold etc but to do that you've got to make sure that you're making the most effective move so just make sure you're comparing that compare the enhancement versus items that do similar things and make sure that the enhancement is actually going to be worth it and remember you can only have a limited amount of enhancements on for each class enhancing lost cards is almost never a good idea because you don't get to keep playing them sometimes with a card that's just a discard you can play like 10 times in a scenario no matter what you do to a lost card it's almost never going to be as effective as enhancing a discarded card or a card that is not lost and so just make sure when you're looking at it even if it's a powerful effect for that one time over the course of a scenario enhancing a non-lost card is almost always going to be better maybe there's some exceptions there's probably a couple you know spell weaver can use lost cards more than once so if your spell weaver it doesn't apply to you as much but just make sure you're thinking about that when you're looking for cards to enhance adding strengthen to a bottom action that targets yourself and if possible targets yourself and all your allies and the main benefit here is when you strengthen yourself with a bottom action you can actually be strengthened for two turns so you're gonna strengthen with your bottom action you're gonna attack with your top action which is now strengthened then the strengthen lasts until the end of your next turn so next time you go you're also going to be strengthened this is very powerful giving yourself advantage for two turns in a row large aoes an adding curse or disarm this is the game breaking part some of these you can just get absolutely ridiculous with like take dirt tornado for the craig heart put a curse on that and it just gets wild i actually generally don't do these because they're they're too too good but if you want i mean it's totally fine to you know become super overpowered and so adding curse or disarm to a large aoe is pretty much going to be your most powerful enhancement strategy period and absolutely game breaking hopefully this video helped and thank you so much for watching you

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Length: 9min 1sec (541 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 06 2021