Before FFG revsion of the game, the Prophetess was the strongest, fallowed by the Warrior, Wizard. Who are in top 3 now? Any ideas?

With the Reaper Expansion, I would say the Dark Cultist ranks right up there with the the Prophetess and Warrior.

I'd say the Dark Cultist has the potential to be the most powerful by far, the prophetess would rank next after that hmm...I'd say its a toss up between the warrior, assassin, and wizard.

I'd have to go with Dark Cultist, Warrior and Assassin.

Assassin isn't as great as the other two but I just love it when I get to play as him in a game with a lot of players.  Though since the release of The Reaper expansion I'm going to have to go with the idea that the Dark Cultist may hands down be the best character in the game.

1. Wizard
2. Thief
3. Troll
4. Dark Cultist
5. Warrior

Any old-schoolers around? Does the Dark Cultist have a chance of becoming the Warrior of Chaos from the Adventure expansion, i.e. seen as too powerful?

Dam said:

Yeah the whole every time you kill an enemy or cause another character to lose a life roll on the table and gain something awesome still exists.

Heh, guess I count as an old timer! I have the 2nd Edition plus all the expansions including the Dragons expansion and i've been playing the game since 1988.

I haven't got the Reaper expansion yet but the Dark Cultist does sound like the son of Warrior of Chaos. Personally, while I did find the Warrior of Chaos to be borderline overpowered, in truth I never felt it was too bad. Other players picking on the Warrior of Chaos player always tended to bring him down a peg or two, something you couldn't do to the almighty Prophetess or Monk, Astropath or the High Mage (from the City Expansion), Cyborg,  and the Sprite (always has two spells!)

Minus the Reaper expansion, my top three Revised 4th Edition characters are:

1) The Thief. "What's that! Is it powerful?  Mine!  Do you have any gold? Mine! That's shiny isn't it? Mine!"
2) The Assassin "Ah hah! Stabbity stab!"
3) The Wizard "Hmm, do you like this spell? No? How about this one? Or that one? Or that one......?"

 My three would be:

1) Dark Cultist

2) Prophetess

3) Assassin

 i think the druid is up there pretty high with his new ability to gain his full complement of spells when he lands on a woods space.  that lets you cycle thru spells almost as fast a the wizard.  faster, in some cases, that we've played him.

my 3 faves are:

1. wizard/prophetess

2. troll

3. druid/dark cultist

yes i know that is really 5 but the wizard and prophetess are on the same playing field with the spell recharging and the druid and dark cultist are, for me, equally cool and challenging to make work.

the sleeper hit: the Sage from the reaper expansion. he always has a spell, can look at top adventure card whenever, and gets to reroll his movement die. although i did kill with the thief last night...

I played the Sage last night and he was awesome (the looking in the adventure deck and then try or not to try to land on draw spaces with the movement re-roll is a killer combo), but the Dark Cultist seems way better.

I have not play yet with a lot characters from 4th edition(revised)

But at this moment my top 5 i think is:

1 Wizard

2 Assassin

3 Druid ( have not play yet)

4: Merchant ( Have not play yet)

5 Dark Cultist (have not play yet)

Depends on number of players.

1-3 players:

1) Knight
2) Elf/Wizard tie (Elf owns in 2 player, still is strong in 3, Wizard is good, but will get stuck with spells sometimes)
3) Dark Cultist/Warrior

4+ players:
1) Knight
2) Thief/Wizard (with this many players, thief controls all items in the game, Wizard rarely gets stuck with spells)
3) Sorceress (can steal tons of followers, including all the game's mules, plus with 4+, someone is likely to be bad at psychic combat, and/or evil)
4) Dark Cultist/Warrior (rough tie)
 

I always loved the minstril from the original game...  Is he in the revised 4th ed?  I am getting my copy later today. 

Lord Aries said:

He is... still rocking it up!