Gloomhaven | Starting Character Preview

hey YouTube Jonathan here at night knowledge part of the evolution of my videos not only includes striving to make each video better but to try new things such as techniques or equipment I'm using my DSLR nikon d750 full-frame camera today as I've always been tempted to see why a videographer at a charity event last year was using this instead of a traditional camcorder I usually use my Canon Vixia r800 which is three years newer but also three to five times cheaper if you count the lens currently attached to my camera we're also testing today a mic my friend lent to me the rode videomicro compact on-camera microphone as well without further ado today's video will help you describe each of the six starting characters that you'll find in gloom Haven to your friends there are many simple ways for your friends to choose their starting character such as what they look like what their backstory is or what their character looks like what they do but in terms of the longevity of the game and having a good time especially since this is a legacy game that can span tens if not a hundred campaigns of gloom Haven it's good to pick a character that suits a player's play style so let's look at the characters in detail to see how they really work so the first character we're gonna look at is called the service cry cart that is not the character's name but is actually the race and the type of race it is if you want to take a look at the miniature that's what the miniature looks like while the survives crack heart looks like something like a tank or a fighter it could be farther from the truth when you look at the ability cards in detail the crack heart is actually a mostly ranged character and maybe one of the more consistently ranged character and I say consistently because there are some cards that will once you use it it's lost so you can't use to begin that scenario unless you have a specific card that can bring it back which is rather rare so the service crack heart character can actually do ranged abilities quite often and at a OE and they also have quite a few abilities to heal so if you liked doing ranged AoE damage and you like to heal some vas crack heart might be your character he has very few melee abilities when they are is typically AoE as well but it's mostly range I'd say 80 to 90% of the crack heart ability cars are ranged the next character that we're going to look at is the human scoundrel miniature the human scoundrel character is almost exactly what you would expect unlike the crack heart she has fast initiative so she'll be moving faster than other players both players and hopefully monsters she can apply poison to her enemies poison and gloom Haven makes any damage that the enemy takes add one damage so they're doing more damage to that specific creature the human scoundrel as to expect as a thief has a lot of cards that allows you to loot so you'll be getting a lot of money in the game which is good for you but not necessarily the party you don't want to be looting everything because in New Haven unlike other types of D&D like games there's no sharing of items or money so if you're looting everything you're actually denying it from your party members as you expect the human scoundrel character also has high DPS big movement and is mostly melee she does have a ranged abilities from level 1 which she can use multiple times but is one of her rare ranged abilities she'll be mostly a she'll be mostly a melee character and usually she'll be flanking the enemies to do most of her damage the next character that we're looking at is the Inox brute if you take a look at it so similar to the human scoundrel the Inox brute is very similar in like what you see is what you get so he's your tank like character he is mostly melee very few ranged abilities he's more of a fighter than a tank in that he has mostly attack abilities he has some tanking abilities like retaliate or shield but not as many as you would think for tank so it was more fighter less tank one of these special abilities of the brute is that he will have push abilities which is great when you want to keep enemies away from you or push them into traps the Inox brute is one of the few starting characters that also has the pierce ability which will pierce through shields so you can do better damage possibly against higher-level creatures or against bosses so for our next character we have the vermin Ling Mind thief I never thought that you would have this type of character as I started character but here we go as you can see a vermin Ling is like a rat man the vermin Ling mind thief has faster initiative than other characters which is as expected it can summon rat creatures such as swarms or up to later levels a rat king it'll do more damage 2d buffed enemies so a human scoundrel and a vermin link mine thief would work hand in hand because the scoundrel may poison the target and the vermin link mine thief will attack it and do more damage thanks to the scoundrel the vermin Ling might be also has a few lute ability cards so he'll be a looter as well and he has this buff card called augments he has three to five of those kind of cards and what they do is kind of like a paladin Sora you use this augment it stays on the board until you put or you use another augment to replace it and it provides a buff only for the vermin Lee mine thief whether it gives you extra shield it heals you on attacks or maybe it does more damage I really like the augment but remember in the scheme of everything that means there's one card that you're not reusing over and over it's just staying on the field but there is flexibility in that you can switch out the augments when you need it so if you want do a lot of damage you use that argument if you want to tank a little bit you you switch the augment to the one that allows to tank and the vermin like my teef if you can imagine it is a little bit as a mix of both arranged and melee the fifth character for glutton Haven starting characters is the orchid spell Weaver so the orchard spell Weaver is almost exactly like you would think kind of like the scoundrel in the brute in that it's a spell caster so we're talking about mostly ranged abilities unlike the crag heart the orchard spell Weaver has a ohi's but limited so the AoE shall do will she'll only be able to do a certain number of times or I feel like less than the Krag heart are they more powerful I haven't really tested that out she does have the ability to heal just like the crack heart and like the crack heart is a slower type of character she does have some abilities that does allow her to tank a little bit if you have the right cards bottom kind of works along the same ways as crack heart maybe more more consistent single target ranged abilities whereas the crack heart is more consistent a OE abilities and one thing because I didn't show at the very beginning but the orchard spell Weaver has less starting health than the Kreg heart she's has six while the crag heart has ten so very much like a glass cannon so if you want to do a range damage and heal but do from afar you might want to be the crack heart if you want to be more running gun you know slip in and out you might be the spell Weaver the last starting character for bloom Haven is the quadrille tinkerer quite possibly the smallest character of the party unlike the scoundrel brute and spell Weaver the tinkerer is actually the name of the of the character more give gives it more away than than the looks the Quatro tinkerer is very much the classic healer he has about four or five healing spells so more than any other player so if you like playing the healer you're gonna want to be the tinkerer now and it does have eight hit points so it's more than the spell Weaver so the Quatro tinkerer is a an arranged only character it has very few if any melee abilities I feel like it's if you like a utility type of class is something that can do everything someone that uses traps the tinkerer is your go-to character as well because you'll be able to summon traps and maybe pull pull enemies into it or maybe help a brute to push them into the trap so just as a quick recap for all the characters if you're looking for a tank you're looking for the Inox brute if you're looking for ranged characters you're looking for the service crack heart the orchard spell Weaver and the Quatro tinker if you want to heal we recommend the cuatro tinker then either the service crack heart or the orchard spell Weaver if you want utility and summons you'll either go for the vermin link mine thief or the orchard spell Weaver if you want to loot the human scoundrel is you want to go mine thief then the Inox brute if you want to be fast a fast character you'll pick the human scoundrel or the mine thief so that concludes today's video on a comprehensive look at the six starting characters of gloom Haven thank you for liking commenting and subscribing let me know in the 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Channel: Knight Knowledge

Views: 35,771

Rating: 4.5673289 out of 5

Keywords: gloomhaven, dnd, board games, boardgames, fantasy, tabletop, analysis

Id: ri7MpPhuDSQ

Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 12 2019