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I am attending Gencon this year and I have been looking for Pathfinder ACG events and have found none so far, are you hosting ACG events this year?

So I am signed up for Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild play at Gencon, this is my first time playing in the Guild. I signed up for Season 1, Adventure 1; Season 1, Adventure 2; Season 1, Adventure 3.
I have downloaded and read the Guild rules so now I am asking, what is a good character deck to buy for me to use? I usually play the cleric in my home campaign and in Wrath of the righteous, it seems like a likely character to play.
Please give my your thoughts on this as experienced Guild players.

So I am new to the Adventure Card Game and I have questions that the rules didn't seem to answer and that I couldn't find watching youtube video demos.

1) When you are placing random monsters or barriers or other card types in locations during setup, can they be elite or should everything start out basic at 1st level?

2) During a combat where the monster card says must be defeated by magic, and you have none, does that mean that you automatically take damage, less your defense, if any?

3) I'm unclear of how to take damage when the monster or encountered card says take 2d4 damage. Is this in addition to the normal damage, can you reduce the damage with additional defensive cards you have in play? It seems like this extra damage could wipe out a 1st or low level character in one hit.