#Gloomhaven mindthief guide full#
The worst thing you can do is to run head first into a room full of enemies. Positioning Yourself: Using Funnels and Kiting It’s harder for slower classes to use these kinds of tricks, but in general, the slower classes can take more hits and rely less on it. These hit and run techniques are core to classes like the Scoundrel or Mindthief, who are both very fast, yet very squishy. A few very slow cards are worthwhile to keep, even if you want to go fast 90% of the time. Being able to pull moves like this off should be a consideration even when you’re building your deck. Next, you play a very fast (low number) initiative card, so you can attack, and get back out of the monster’s range before it takes its turn. Then when you go at the end of the round, you get into range and attack it. One trick you can use is to play a very slow (high number) initiative card while you’re out of a monster’s attack range, so it goes before you, taking its turn without attacking you. Planning out your turn like this is essential to the entire strategy of the game. If a monster with no damage is healing this turn, be sure to use your stun on a monster who’s actually going to attack. If a melee-ranged monster is attacking without moving that turn, you should do your best to avoid ending your turn next to that monster, or if a teammate if next to it, you can use your push on it to keep your teammate safe. If you want to land in hex A or B, but hex A will be in a ranged monster’s attack range after it moves, then you know you should be in hex B! Once you play your cards, you get to know exactly what the monsters are doing! Before your turn, you ought to look at exactly where each monster is going, what their ranges are, who they will attack, etc, so you can plan around it. Here is a handy Monster AI Flowchart that is absolutely essential for mastering how it works.Įven though you must play your cards before you can know what the monster AI is doing, you can still take its actions into account. Without further ado, here are my best tips and tricks for avoiding damage in Gloomhaven! Always Know what the Monster AI is doingįirst, if you don’t understand all the rules of monster AI, figure it out. Taking too much damage is often how you lose: you find yourself in a position where 4 or 5 monsters attack you, or you burnt one too many cards to prevent damage, and can’t quite make it through the final room. The single biggest key to winning a scenario in Gloomhaven is preventing damage. But when you don’t have a tank, it’s absolutely essential.
In Gloomhaven, even when you have a tank, you want to avoid taking damage at every possible opportunity. However, this game doesn’t work like that.
People often start playing Gloomhaven with a mindset from MMORPGs: Tanks stand in front, taking damage for days, while the squishy characters safely stand behind them. How do I play Gloomhaven without a tank? You may be asking. Playing Gloomhaven can be brutal in more ways than just time: you don’t have many hit points, and the monsters all deal too much damage. We’ve been playing Gloomhaven without a tank lately, so this topic has been on my mind. I play with my boyfriend, and we frequently lament what we’re giving up in order to make time for this monster of a game (Social lives. I haven’t written anything about Gloomhaven yet, and it only seems fair, since these days I play Gloomhaven ten times for each time I play any other game.
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