Our Bottom 5 Investigators 2024 (Arkham Horror: The Card Game) 

Probably forgot about her. She'd definitely the most forgettable investigator. I've never had an Amina idea that I didn't just think someone else did better.

by far the worst investigator. awful

Thats what i always think, yes

I'm wondering if we'll get an investigator with chaos bag manipulation, outside of Jacqueline.

Also Bottom 5 (Least favorite from each class; no particular order) -Parallel Wendy Adams -Amanda Sharpe -Wilson Richards -Jacqueline Fine -Alessandra Zorzi

I forgot #1. 1. Luke Robinson. He never even had a chance, sharing a name with my brother-in-law. It’s a shame, because I really like Mystic/Seeker combination.

the fact that she has a decksize of 35 instead of 30 is already by itself a debuff (that's basically the penalty for taking versatile). If you removed all signature cards (which are 4 and make that whole deck size issue even worse), that would help, but she'd still have 3 more cards than normal. I'm not sure if by "featureless" you mean a Lola without her role restrictions, but while by removing them you would make her definitely less weak, you'd also completely deprive her of anything that makes her fun to play and anything that provides a thematic experience for playing an investigator that can interpret many roles and switch among them. The concept of role switching of Lola is good, I would argue that it's actually fun and interesting... but one thing is complicated mechanics that reward you with exceptional feats if you master them, another thing is mechanics that you need to master just to barely function at all. Instead of switching roles to overcome her limitations, Lola should switch roles to gain bonuses for specific tasks.

@@JannPoo I find her deckbuilding rules to be the most intriguing: What can I accomplish with access to any 3 classes up to level 3. Yes, the role-switching presents an interesting dynamic in theory, but the way it's implemented, you're just hard-locked out of your off-role cards. I think something softer would be warranted to really make this role-switching feel less confining. Maybe weakening the can't use abilities on off-role cards to "using abilities on off-role cards causes them to exhaust" and/or "off-role cards don't ready".

I feel for Parallel Daisy and the Geared Up taboo. I feel she had a really fun highroll with that and it was fun to try for and made her unique, but unfortunately she really feels the taboo.

That's the game telling you not to do force flipping, unless you really want to play him as a generalist and don't want to include survivor clue 'test at 0' cards into your deck.

So the change to the "fighty" resolute side, to make him more tempting on the flip, is lower his fight down to 5 and add "At the start of the Investigation Phase, search your discard pile for an innate/spirit card and add it to your hand." That might make him more fun.

I think they seriously misread Norman's deckbuilding.

Events Only Challenge

@@astutedunsparce4036 then he doesn't belong on this list.

@@astutedunsparce4036 Did they mention that? I watched over that part trying to figure out what was up and maybe I missed it repeatedly, but seems pretty important thing to include. I thought there was a parallel events only Norman.

@@astutedunsparce4036 thanks, I was so worried I have been playing him wrong! 😄

The recent 5 have been really cool though.

I guess you guys are from Edmonton. That's pretty coo

Yup, it is!

This is a great question. I have an idea of why this might be the case. Mystics use the Willpower assets (Shriveling, Rite of Seeking, Wither, etc.) to perform basic actions with Willpower. At level 0 these provide no +Willpower. Compare to Guardians, whose level 0 weapons often include a + Combat score. Guardians also have multiple level zero allies that provide a static bonus to combat while in play, see Beat Cop and Grete Wagner. For equivalent, Mystic just has David Renfield at level 0 and only when he has doom on him will he give a bonus to Willpower. Comparison: A 4 Combat Guardian with weapon asset and combat boost ally means testing at at least 6. A 4 Willpower Mystic with a spell asset needs both a Holy Rosary equivalent *and* David Renfield with doom to hit that value at base. That's 3 Assets, compared to 2. I assume Mystic's lackluster card and resource economy makes this more pronounced. Tl;dr Mystics need more cards to make up for this shortcoming because their spell assets don't give a Willpower boost at level 0, while Guardian weapons give a combat boost.

@@watalitepa1959 i see, that makes sense yeah, thank you for the explanation

@@watalitepa1959I’m still new, but mystics get mythos cup token manipulation and this has to count for something. My wife is playing a Jaqueline right now and she can draw 3 tokens from the bag and choose which one to keep. She isn’t testing with a high score, but. Ring able to cancel a -4 token and use the 0 token is ridiculously OP. Thoughts?

@shawnfairbanks9339 Jacqueline has token manipulation printed on her card, and that certainly helps a lot. I'll admit I am not super familiar with the Mystic card pool, so maybe there are a lot of tools for token manipulation at level 0 that I'm not thinking of. That said, I think these are both different ways of mitigating variance, if you think about it. If you test high enough above the difficulty, you make it less likely to pull a token where you fail the test. It's kind of the same with token manipulation, reducing the likelihood that you draw and resolve a token that fails the skill test. Either way works, high skill value is just the more straightforward way of mitigating variance.

@@watalitepa1959 indeed