How to Play Snowflake With 100+ Damage Turns!!! Frosthaven Character Guide

[@dwarf74]

Also just as an extra note - Snowflake was my "main" in testing, and I absolutely loved playing her. I really tried to help make sure she'd be the best she could be. I was so worried the community wouldn't see her awesomeness - "what? Attack 1? Come on" - and disregard the power here. I am so happy to see her as so many peoples' favorite class. Thanks for this rundown :)

[@ucgxanathos2171]

Thank you! Absolutely fantastic class. It really hit me when I was looking at classes to recommend in a party with snowflake and literally every class would love to have Snowflake there to help it. Infinite range supporting options, healing, high damage, and monster control through hazards is just so strong. And if you pair with a meteor at that point you’re basically playing a conveyor belt simulator

[@daviddavidsson6243]

This is so cool! Sadly I just retired the Snowdancer and I played a healing build which was really different to everything you mentioned here! The class I’m playing now is the astral/moon/celestial class! Seeing a guide on that one would be really great since my first impression (after two scenarios) is that it’s the MOST FUN class ever in both FH and GH! Would love to see it!

[@ucgxanathos2171]

@@daviddavidsson6243 oh man I LOVE the astral class. Just recently hit 9 on my first time playing it and it’s been an absolute blast. By far my favorite element based character I’ve played. I definitely don’t feel like I have enough mastery on it to make a guide though. I’ve never touched either of the summons and mostly smash my face into infusions. Also I play solo so have perfect knowledge of the rest of my team making it super easy to generate and juggle elements

[@daviddavidsson6243]

@@ucgxanathos2171 yeah, I play a summon build for now! (I picked cards so I’d be able to play a striker in the future since that seems fun as well) The funny thing was that I completed BOTH masteries on the first scenario I played! Since we’re on prosperity 8 I started on lvl 4 and had 5 retired characters (so 8 perks). Then I picked the two infusions from lvl 2 and 4 to complete mastery 1 and since I played only with the summon I never attacked so I got mastery 2 as well lol! Even more funny is that the scenario we played was 44 (I think, the Trench) and it gives two checkmarks. To summarize, I now have 11 perks lol!

[@daviddavidsson6243]

Also, I persuaded my other players to pick major element/mana potions so that helped, and I myself picked infusion pot and Strategist Ring

[@ManUnitedChavon]

thanks for the nice guide and congratz on your baby :)

[@ucgxanathos2171]

Thanks!

[@MarekPaarek]

Snowflake is probably really good with Retaliating Shackles build, providing heals, shield (lvl 4), regens and wards, while also relocating both Shackles and the enemies in a way where it pops off the most.

[@ucgxanathos2171]

Also if you’re playing delayed malady + shared affliction snowflake can grant extra attacks so it definitely sounds like a good combo

[@gideonpepys]

I would love it if you did one of these for Geminate. In a recent video you spoke very highly of the class and I’m sure your insights would be of great value to those (like me) who want to love the class but struggle to get the most out of it.

[@ucgxanathos2171]

@@gideonpepyshmm I may have slightly misrepresented my opinions. For me Gem ranks 16/17. Its damage output is going to be a bit subpar, and it’s definitely clunky. It does have good access to immobilize/disarm/stun which is nice and its lvl 6 card corrosive acid is one of my favorites in the game. I really really leaned into that card while I was playing it

[@gideonpepys]

@ Yeah, I feel like they missed a trick. Great to have a class that can switch between melee and range; but what’s the point in one that HAS to switch?

[@gideonpepys]

Out of interest, which class is 17th?

[@ucgxanathos2171]

@@gideonpepys Drifter and it’s not even close. The mechanic of using charges means you can never go crazy and have super amazing turns back to back because you have to take time to pause and get charges back. Also the AMD scales really poorly and later in a character you’re hoping you draw your +0 get back a tick which is disappointing. Really good character at lvl 1 with a bad deck, but just doesn’t scale well at all

[@gideonpepys]

@ That’s an interesting POV. You’re right, but it’s not the consensus is it? But as soon as you say it out loud it makes sense.I feel a bit bad for recommending the class to my teammate now. (We’re Snowflake, Trap and Drifter.)

[@MarekPaarek]

I've seen you play all the scenarios and, still, I enjoyed this. Just reacting to the beginning where you mentioned you might not be doing any more of those. But I also think it depends on you enjoying the character and you seemed to enjoy the trap so... just a matter of time, innit?

[@ucgxanathos2171]

I think when I initially made that comment it was because I was wanting to get a speedrun finished so now that I’ve given that up I will have more time. As for trap, most likely lol

[@Rev3rence]

Expecting to see an in depth guide like this for Fist now that you picked him up. Honestly this is how i found your channel when I had to (yes, had to support..) pick up snowflake for my wife's meteor. This video got me hyped but I ended up really hating my time on her.. I don't know what it is exactly about her that just doesn't feel fun, even when you're burning losses for huge value it still feels meh somehow.. Fist however... Probably my favorite character in FH!

[@ucgxanathos2171]

@@Rev3rence we will see. I’ve only play a couple scenarios of fist but he’s been fun

[@ladasse]

hi! thanx a lot for your guide. regarding white winds, can you confirm that it is possible to mirror-flip in order to hit enemies on the other direction (right, instead of left when you look the shape on the card)?

[@ucgxanathos2171]

Yep, all attack patterns like that can be mirrored. So either a regular S shape or a dyslexic person's S

[@ladasse]

@@ucgxanathos2171 great thanx i did not know this rule, and make WW so much more useful

[@CarlChipman]

Frozen brand combined with a Shackles Condition Striker build is insane. Giving up to 12 monsters 4 damage + all the conditions that the shackles might have was super fun.

[@ucgxanathos2171]

That does sound awesome. Shackles has a really good AMD too if flake gives it a strengthen

[@dwarf74]

I usually think of White Winds like "skip, hit, skip, hit" and then filling in the other four from there. :)

[@ucgxanathos2171]

That was actually how I attempted to visualize it at first but I had a nightmare to a time trying to rotate it. Once I played some geminate and noticed it was double drag down it became so much easier for me

[@ucgxanathos2171]

Also while I have you here, if you were to play White out top, attack 3 targets and control each of them to move 1, and then use the ember energy source, would all of the monsters be controlled to move 2 or just 1 target?

[@dwarf74]

​@@ucgxanathos2171oooh good one! I think it would be just one because each is a separate move ability - but I can see arguments for the opposite. That damn item. 😅 Note that Chilling Impact would work for it tho - controlled movement is considered forced movement for it.

[@ladasse]

Another question, please, what is this FH simulator you are using?

[@ucgxanathos2171]

@@ladasse it’s Tabletop Simulator on Steam

[@LadyDath]

Not sure what he is using, but Table Top Simulator's Frosthaven Enhanced mod is excellent. My group has been playing with that and it works really well.

[@michaelnolan9416]

Does the bottom of storm wall count towards the mastery? Cause I feel like you basically get it for free at that point

[@ucgxanathos2171]

I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think so since it says “ward self.” I could see it either way though

[@LadyDath]

I would say no, since since the card is owned by the player who has control of it, so it is not YOU putting the status effect on the ally. Next, recall it is the FIRST ally to take damage each turn, so again, you have to make sure the ally taking damage is the one with the effect on them. This mastery is extremely difficult, according to BGG, if no allies suffer damage in a turn, the mastery can still be completed. As near as I can tell, the solo scenario should count. Since you have no allies, as long as you don't summon an ally, you can achieve the mastery because no allies ever take damage.

[@juliensmith5076]

lol @41:00