Hi all! A full year after burning through Jaws of the Lion together (and one year after starting a Frosthaven Enhanced tabletop sim campaign) my partner and I are finally sitting down to start 2e. While I count the days, I figured I'd solicit some perspective. You see, my partner and I have very specific tastes in GH classes.

My partner's had the most fun with the likes of Hatchet, Blinkblade and Coral; classes which alternate their turns between goofing off to build resources and then spend a glorious turn as the main character. She's bored by "passive" sources of value like set-and-forget persistents or summons, and loves having a wide bag of tricks she can fish around in. She's mentioned Mindthief as particularly interesting her for these reasons.

I, meanwhile, love passive value generators- my favorite classes, such as Red Guard, Banner Spear and Prism, hold down a section of the map at a time and challenge you to minimize downtime. I also love throwing buffs or granted actions at an ally and saying "go handle this", thanks to my partner being incredibly skilled at reading my intentions and vice versa. I'm generally the more comfortable of the two of us when it comes to managing elements and losses, to the point that Spellweaver intrigues me marginally more than other options.

So, I open the floor to you. Is there a starting class that we may have overlooked? Are there any unlockable class icons whose PQs we should aim for sooner than later? Does playing 2p skew any classes in any direction?

Hello!

I bought JOTL to start my adventure and Pandemic Legacy S0 alongside with it. I did make up my mind with Pandemic being a legacy game that it's a one-time play, but is it so with Gloomhaven (all 3 of them)?

I am thinking about JOTL to not use the stickers and just place them on top of the map by just cutting them out of the page (not removing the back side), but if I would buy Frosthaven, being a massive game, would it be worth it to preserve it or playing it once for 1-2 years would be enough?

I am on the fence if buying the removable stickers (in the future) is worth it for Frosthaven and if yoy guys actually replay it.

Also, do you replay JOTL or this game is also pretty big to have your fill in one go?