Yeah, splitting up the party is always rough on high difficulty because you lose the interactions and synergies that good players take advantage of. And shrike fiends gonna shrike. It's gonna be a rough one for sure...good luck on the next attempt.
yeahh not only are shrike fiends perhaps the most annoying enemy in frosthaven, this scenario specifically took my group like 3-4 tries on normal difficulty. I think even on our last try we still lost by like 3 health so we just called it a win. Definitely one that I'd never be excited to play again. I think its an especially tough scenario for boneshaper with how the initial rooms are set up, especially if you're playing with only 3 characters and bone is on their own.
@@vslimes I just don’t understand why all their scary cards are fast and they’re bad cards slow. Move + 0 attack +0 at 90 and move -1 attack +0 2 targets range 5 at speed 10??? I figured bone by itself made the most sense as they have 2 cards to make things suffer 2 which skeles can survive 1 but not 2, but it didn’t come close to working out
Blinkblade can also solo a Fiend if you use a bunch of potions turn one. Fist *might* be able to go toe to toe with a Fiend, just by tanking/retaliating until you brittle/bash?
@@johnpeterson3386 yeah I think fiat can pretty reliably tank them. They rarely move away so can heal 3 every turn and icy uppercut with heavy sword gives me attack 7 to brittle. Still would take like 5 turns but possible.
I was so excited to play Boneshaper again and it's disappointing me :(. Doesn't actually fit super well in my team comp and for some reason every level I've been playing has been horrible for her
@@MarcusAZ2022 I want to beat it… maybe. Open information is also hurting as without it we would be lvls 5-4-3 so average of 4 divided by 2 is only monster lvl 2. Probably too much difficulty increase without access to better items. If I were fully loaded out with 3 herb potions and good armor on fist I bet it would be doable
This scenario is insane. Bad rng and this scenario becomes dam near impossible, good rng and this scenario is still very hard. Shrike fiends absolutely destroy summons reliant classes, plus classes that don't move much perform poorly here cos of the attacks on the scenario. This is one of the few scenarios my 4p group has failed, though this was the first encounter we had with shrike fiends. We let the scenario take damage in the first round, we went late in round 1 then early round 2. After dealing with all of them 1 person opened the door to the second room and couldn't get in range of all the wind demons and all the shrike fiends, who were all going faster than everyone else, and one of the shrike fiends crit the scenario killing it. We reset and tried again and almost failed on the second attempt due to the shrike fiends firing off their damage everyone almost every round (3 characters exhausted and 1 left on 2 hp when we won). The following sentence is not going to make you feel any better about this run. I'm pretty sure you missed 6 attacks on the scenario.
Normal Shrike Fiends are manageable, but Elites are just awful. "Boneshaper is the reason I lost this scenario" can be said about a surprising number of levels. When she's bad, she's worse than useless. I'd enhance Quenched Rage top to push 4, get a Swiftness potion, and try again. Meteor can solo a Shrike Fiend (generally) if you do a big 21 point push on turn one, which also creates obstacles and forces him to move through hazards to reach you. I've beaten this scenario a few times, and it always involves a big turn-one nova, burning tons of resources to get through the first section quickly. Good luck!
@@johnpeterson3386 I attempted it again with everything as I have it currently and it went better (but still not well), boneshaper got out 3 skeles on turn 2 and shrike fiends gave me their nothing special rather than an aoe and bone won its side pretty quickly. First room went really well on both sides but second was a mess and fist and bone finished with 3 and 4 cards each. They tried to take on the top room with an exploding corpse loss coming out to kill 3 of the 4 snow imps, but it just wasn’t enough. Meteor had 6 cards and tried to solo the bottom room but attack with poison and brittle from snow imps very quickly did him in.
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Yeah, splitting up the party is always rough on high difficulty because you lose the interactions and synergies that good players take advantage of. And shrike fiends gonna shrike. It's gonna be a rough one for sure...good luck on the next attempt.
yeahh not only are shrike fiends perhaps the most annoying enemy in frosthaven, this scenario specifically took my group like 3-4 tries on normal difficulty. I think even on our last try we still lost by like 3 health so we just called it a win. Definitely one that I'd never be excited to play again. I think its an especially tough scenario for boneshaper with how the initial rooms are set up, especially if you're playing with only 3 characters and bone is on their own.
@@vslimes I just don’t understand why all their scary cards are fast and they’re bad cards slow. Move + 0 attack +0 at 90 and move -1 attack +0 2 targets range 5 at speed 10??? I figured bone by itself made the most sense as they have 2 cards to make things suffer 2 which skeles can survive 1 but not 2, but it didn’t come close to working out
Blinkblade can also solo a Fiend if you use a bunch of potions turn one. Fist *might* be able to go toe to toe with a Fiend, just by tanking/retaliating until you brittle/bash?
@@johnpeterson3386 yeah I think fiat can pretty reliably tank them. They rarely move away so can heal 3 every turn and icy uppercut with heavy sword gives me attack 7 to brittle. Still would take like 5 turns but possible.
lol i feel your pain.
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I was so excited to play Boneshaper again and it's disappointing me :(. Doesn't actually fit super well in my team comp and for some reason every level I've been playing has been horrible for her
That was rough. You going to replay and try again? That +2 didn’t seem to scale well.
@@MarcusAZ2022 I want to beat it… maybe. Open information is also hurting as without it we would be lvls 5-4-3 so average of 4 divided by 2 is only monster lvl 2. Probably too much difficulty increase without access to better items. If I were fully loaded out with 3 herb potions and good armor on fist I bet it would be doable
This scenario is insane. Bad rng and this scenario becomes dam near impossible, good rng and this scenario is still very hard. Shrike fiends absolutely destroy summons reliant classes, plus classes that don't move much perform poorly here cos of the attacks on the scenario. This is one of the few scenarios my 4p group has failed, though this was the first encounter we had with shrike fiends. We let the scenario take damage in the first round, we went late in round 1 then early round 2. After dealing with all of them 1 person opened the door to the second room and couldn't get in range of all the wind demons and all the shrike fiends, who were all going faster than everyone else, and one of the shrike fiends crit the scenario killing it. We reset and tried again and almost failed on the second attempt due to the shrike fiends firing off their damage everyone almost every round (3 characters exhausted and 1 left on 2 hp when we won).
The following sentence is not going to make you feel any better about this run.
I'm pretty sure you missed 6 attacks on the scenario.
@@septimustavi9352 sounds about right
Normal Shrike Fiends are manageable, but Elites are just awful. "Boneshaper is the reason I lost this scenario" can be said about a surprising number of levels. When she's bad, she's worse than useless. I'd enhance Quenched Rage top to push 4, get a Swiftness potion, and try again. Meteor can solo a Shrike Fiend (generally) if you do a big 21 point push on turn one, which also creates obstacles and forces him to move through hazards to reach you. I've beaten this scenario a few times, and it always involves a big turn-one nova, burning tons of resources to get through the first section quickly. Good luck!
@@johnpeterson3386 I attempted it again with everything as I have it currently and it went better (but still not well), boneshaper got out 3 skeles on turn 2 and shrike fiends gave me their nothing special rather than an aoe and bone won its side pretty quickly. First room went really well on both sides but second was a mess and fist and bone finished with 3 and 4 cards each. They tried to take on the top room with an exploding corpse loss coming out to kill 3 of the 4 snow imps, but it just wasn’t enough. Meteor had 6 cards and tried to solo the bottom room but attack with poison and brittle from snow imps very quickly did him in.