Darkest Dungeon

The fiends must be driven back, and what better place to begin than the seat of our noble darkest dungeon thread?

I NEED A FUCKING HOUNDMASTER IN MY ROSTER

sometimes i feel bad for the Collector, every time he show up in one of my run, i end up bullying him hard with stun and crit, maybe he is only trying to show his collection of heads to someone just to not feel lonely

Can anyone link me the "how to use champion" image?

mandatory read for newfaggots to this game

I've been playing this shit for hours. Just discovered the power of Plague Doctor + stun trinkets

you just woke up and this is the first thing you see, what do you do?

>just resurrected Renauld
I'm sorry I failed you

Say no thank you and walk away

>went to DD2 with vest bh scoob lepper
>didn't guard vestal from revelation
>got constantly reminded
>eventually everyone afficted
>bh and vest died from heart attack
>scoob sacrifice himself for the leper
>went to hag champ dungeon next
>vest occ sb hell
>didn't remind myself I need one more nightmare left
>howstressful.jpg
>occ on death's door blighted
>Last snake had low hp decided to roll the dice with vestal I need 2nd min damage
>snake got 1 hp left
>occ died from blight
>still thought it was a good idea to fight the hag
>oh shit nigger.webm
>team got wipe lost my ancestral items
>got resurrection event see Reynauld
>pic related
THE BOY IS BACK IN TOWN

What skills should I generally equip for highwaymen?

see

Prepare to lick the smeg off each one of their badly neglected cocks

Duelest advance and point blank shot are a classic combo when you put him second from the front

avoid the ranged skills aside from the one that gives a self buff

most of his melee shit are strong

Just fought the sonorous prophet for the first time lads, had no idea what to expect. I just barely made it out of the fight with 3 people at deaths door and blighted. Was a fun fight though.

hes best used as a riposte melee teamed with MAA
front row riposting, things kill themselves while back row stuns or maintains the group with buffs or heals

>yfw surviving 20+ hits on Death's Door

>recommending point blank and grapeshot
Holy fuck lmao. I don't know how many times I need to keep posting this but the entire point of HWM is abusing riposte to attack multiple times per round.
To this end you want to stack blade damage with your camp buffs and potentially tracking shot.
At which point your wicked slice will be more flexible and powerful than point blank, usable from three rows and targeting two.

Essentially you just want riposte and some combination of slice/open/pistol shot/tracking and MAYBE point blank if you ever feel like drastically restricting HWM to the front row and chunking a high prot target every other turn.

Crusader should get a guard

>build best anti-shambler party I can muster
>find shambler's altar when I still have firewood left and minimal stress/damage
>compulsive jester touches the altar before I can activate it

This.
If you run HWM you should really be using him in a dance comp anyway with constant riposte/melee skills.

>having a jester
>best anti-shambler party
Nani?

oh okay, i guess ill come back next week

Grape shot is terrible, but point blank isn't bad. It puts you into position for another duelist's advance.

OH WAIT THERE IS NO WAY TO PASS WEEKS
fucking shit game, there isn't even anything that says you are in a failstate.

Anyone got the map of Wolves at the door?

I send my team of Vestal, BH, Shieldbreaker and MaA to deal with him

The problem is that its against rank 1 only, which by the time you've killed the back rows doesn't matter much anyway
Also his post camping boost to his melee skills is crazy good

TOLD YA ABOUT STUNS

Go in da dungeons

Stuns are overated, dodge stacking is better
You don't need to waste turns/slots if you don't get hit

He has no party. He wiped every character and trapped himself in a perpetual hell.

>PD
>cock

Dodging is highly inconsistent compared to stunning, and you'd be sacrificing other valuable trinkets to pull it off.

LMAO how the fuck did you manage to wipe everyone in your roster? You must be early in the game, so restarting shouldn't hurt

huh, dind't know that was possible

...

ask where the fuck my best girl grave robber is

Consider than stuns generally aren't reliable past the first one. The good stuns are the ones that deal damage so that it actually sets up a kill.
PD back row 3/4 stun looks good on paper but you want to focus them down anyway on turn 1.
Her shuffle stun also deals no damage, and her damaging follow up is mediocre for trash mobs

My roster is leveling too fast. Is it worth it to let lvl 3s go to get better low levels for aporentice bosses?

If you look at his relics he has 1,097 busts, 954 portraits, 688 "papers" (don't remember their names) and 425 shields to top off he also has 3,380 gold.

>just started playing
>first hero to die is Dismas
the game just picks your favorite doesn't it

Then you still have one reliable stun and even then after that a decent one that can still get you over 50% with certain trinket load outs. Anyways I am talking about in general, not just the Plague Doctor.

"robbing" arbalest's "grave"

You have to actually TRY to wipe everyone you own. user needs to remind himself

>brought flagellant with me to fight apprentice necro due to lack of foresight
>mfw realizing the necro himself isn't a skeltal and can bleed
>mfw getting like 12 bleed damage per turn on him

the only way to play is to take your 4 starting niggas and go straight into the darkest dungeon. or are you some kind of pussy?

My healers are leveling too fast. Rec me some no-healer parties

I think you're missing the point, he has over 3k heirlooms and over 3k gold before cove and warrens are unlocked.
He's clearly fucked around with something non-kosher.

Heros with self heals
urdone

I see. No wonder he hasn't posted after I fed him (you)s

i get it, he is a little cuck from reddit who wanted to bait (you)

Yeah I figured that was fishy, but it does make me wonder if save editing is an easy feat.

Arb's. I did an Arb, GR, HwM, and Crusader combo and did well. If you have an Antiquarian with her heal trinket that can be good as well.

get more healers

i started playing with mods today, and one of the ones i installed was super mode, where everyone is like 10x as strong, my highwayman was 1 shotting the entire enemy group with grapeshot. so i took the 4 starting niggas to the darkest dungeon immediately. they died from stress, not damage. so all i need to do is just download no stress mod :^)

Wow this was fucking easy, Shieldbreaker just crit Vvul for 60+ blight damage.

Her Captive is too damn good, she is my favorite hero by far and anyone who said she is trash and underpower doesnt know jack shit

Agreed.
Too many shitters avoiding her, especially when it comes to camping when she is a powerhouse later on

>When you can scale the bombs away

yes of course, HOWEVER..

>you need to pay for the DLC to get the best character

tell me dear user, what is afflicting you?

>snake shit
>snekfags
ready to get reminded?

>Just started playing DD
>Had a Bounty Hunter named "Borislav"
>He was my favorite character because he kept saving the day during tense moments
>Tragically dies along with a bunch of other heroes in a level I wasn't prepared for
>I'm distraught, I consider giving up on my current save
>Press on, becoming less of a scrub in the process
>I get some cemetery event where I'm able to resurrect one of my dead heroes
>mfw one of the choices is Borislav

I honestly can't remember the last time a game got me this hype, holy shit.

I GOT A

BAD CASE OF LOVIN' YOU

When will I get my first resurrect event? My fuckin' level 6 Occ Abdul just got ended from full hp in 2 attacks and I'm PISSED.

>tfw PD loving you is probably a good way to wake up dead

Some butthead the other day said if I use a torch on a red orb curios I'll get mad loot. I had my first party wipe. If only he told me I'd have to fight for the loot.

wew

The first time I went against Vvulf he rip me a new one, thanks to his stun and the other Raiders. I took scales in case he stuns me MaA or the raiders shanked my BH too much.

Good thing I never use them, better to keep them for something else.

>Too many shitters avoiding her, especially when it comes to camping

The nightmares are pretty hard and can end a run if they fuck you up too badly. The champion fights are a fucking nightmare

>Double Adders stunning and crit healing
I hate that shit

> she is a powerhouse later on

She is strong from the get go, people forget her Captive has 60+ damage vs marked and blight on top, Expose not only breaks stealth, but gives alot of -spd and +crits for the whole party.

She is strong but no Flagellant "I can win the game by myself as long I can bleed" op but more of a methodical way with shuffles, pull orders, aegis usage and other things.

Yeah, its shit and I agree it should be a little more cheaper and I dont like stealth at all. Still Im pretty happy with her

Why was the ancestor such a dick

Boredom, lots of money, and a hardon.

One of the last nightmares destabilized a run and ended up killing my SB. Such is life.

>Thought Vvulf was going to blow me the fuck out
>Finish with just my MaA afflicted, nobody ever on death's door
kinda disappointing.

in how many weeks on average did you finished your first run
im on week 73 and only made 1 trip to the darkest dungeon cuse im scared of them, but every veteran level boss is dead

Eh, I'm on 79 now
Finished CC and doing DD3 now
Haven't rage quitted from a wipe this time

For the longest time, he operated on the virtue of "How could I possibly fuck this up anymore?" by fucking everything up even more, every time
Eventually he reached peak fuckup and an hero'd

Its still not updated for shieldbraker, right?

Week 89 without a single DD run attempted so far.
I've done way too many short missions instead of Med/Long ones. :^)

>third dungeon run with bunch of noob mercs
>100% room battles
>going well so far
>COLLECTAH right before last room
>ohfuckohfuckohfuck
>managed to kill him but 2 of newbies got COLLECTED
>had to retreat
Kinda salty.

dazed

This guy slaps your gf's ass and (snort)s. What the fuck you gonna do about it?

The real problem with Vvulf is going for the first time with +stress trinkets, little shovels or bandages

I marked her beforehand, so she explodes into ludicrous gibs the moment he slaps her ass.

pay him to slap mine

>on week 16
>highest hero is a vestal at level 2
>every other hero is fresh from the stage coach because I keep dismissing them due to stress and shit quirks
>only killed necromancer apprentice by some miracle

What am I doing wrong Sup Forums? At this rate I don’t think I’ll ever get a hero to level 3. Should I make more of an effort to equip my guys with trinkets and higher level weapons?

>dismissing dudes due to stress and quirks
do you not know what the tavern/church and the sanitarium are for

>dismissing stressed heroes or bad quirks
there are curios that can remove bad quirks. you can also let your dudes idle for stress relief. you basically should always have a full roster

>stress
you do know you can just put them in the bar or abbey to recover from it?
>Should I make more of an effort to equip my guys with trinkets and higher level weapons?
absolutely, as long as you think that hero has potential

Stop dismissing them. Quirks are just something you have to live with. Only pay to remove the the really bad ones that make your heroes fight like shit or weak to certain attacks.

The only time you should be dismissing dudes is if they're level 0 or 1 shitters with such bad quirks and such high stress it's not financially worth it to keep them. Like having a bunch of quirks that make them grab shit and means they're just a stress inducing liability in a dungeon.

>the p2w character is overpowered
woah

Thank you guys. I’ll make more of an effort to keeping my hero’s in check.

those heirloom numbers

Getting a better hang of the game
Took out two medium bosses, necro and prophet
Though I figure since that's just ruins
Wish my barrack size isn't so full, I really want to keep some folks around

>focus ring on gr
don't do that

Where do I find/steal more deeds early game? I really need to up my barracks size and my blacksmith capability.

>First time against ectoplasms
Oh boy, wasn't expecting that. rip L0 Anti, thanks for the loot

Got a bunch of the other stuff? Click the twin-arrow icon to the right of the icons next to your money

Reminder that when a hero tries to activate a curio due to a quirk you can right click the item in your inventory before the little zoom/activation ends to unlock/cleanse/etc

They fixed that bug