I also wasn’t aware of the Efficient-Doom build option until I’d played the class to level 9 and properly considered all the cards. I chose to play as the Expose build because the summons looked like they would be difficult to control and I enjoy playing ranged damage. And we always want to be targetting Doomed monsters! So it’s the perfect match! The level 2 Expose card top ability gives us Advantage every turn when we target a Doomed monster. It’s a damage-focused build which uses the Expose card in every scenario. The Expose build is the standard build for the Doomstalker, and it’s the build I played. So this build is a late bloomer, but if you start playing your Doomstalker at a higher level, then you may not have to wait to try this build out! Expose build Moving multiple Dooms from one monster to another is available at level 8. Multiple Dooms are only possible after level 5 thanks to the ability on Inescapable Fate. This build takes advantage of a couple of mechanics – transferring Dooms from one monster to another and having two Dooms on a monster at any one time. The summoner build is possible and I’m sure lots of fun, but I think it’d be more difficult to make work than the Expose build. The only way you can heal them is via a Doom at level 6. The biggest drawback is that while you can support your summons with Dooms that give them bonuses, you only have access to one summon controlling ability – and you don’t get it until level 5. With this build, you can embrace the ranger archetype that runs around with multiple animal pets. Now that I’ve played as them, I’ve realized there are three main ways this class can be played. Several months later, I finally got to play the Doomstalker! My friends all picked their characters too.Īs we got ready to play our first ‘training’ scenario we read the rules and realized that all our characters were locked classes! Oops! We put them all back in their boxes and chose starting classes instead! We also read the rules incredibly carefully before doing anything else! When we first got Gloomhaven, we dived in and opened all the mini boxes just to see the sculpts! Finding a ranger class, I was super excited and chose to play as the Doomstalker.
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