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>>14669460

Research party composition, invest on getting your little town up and running, and always prepare for each expedition.

So how is Pitch Black Dungeon these days? I beat the mod before the first expansion came out, and I'm wondering how it's fared since the creator passed the project on.

All in all it was a really refreshing and generally improved take on the game even if it had a few grindy/arbitrary choices and flaws.

>>14669489

I don't feel guilty about the guys I've sacrificed to Come Unto Your Maker because it doesn't amount to much in the grand scheme of the game's setting since the ending is really gay. I'm working on a better alternative ending with my fan fiction in pic related.

Oh god the shitters have come out to whine again.

>The shitter hides here, behind the posts, spouting his mindless drivel

Such overconfidence in this thread, just a quick reminder

<t. Absolute madman who is trying to beat the game Stygian, one-type-per-comp, all-unique-comps, no-death, all bosses including CC purely for ePeen bragging rights and barbecue I'm poor and can't afford anything else atm 7th try currently, my 5th run got me to DD2 before a death

>>14669460

>How to deal with stress

Jester always has been a strong pick, but on the less Stressy dungeons (Warrens/Weald) a Houndmaster/Crusader as monostresser is fine until Stygian or Pitch because of how piss easy the game is there. Another method is running Leper/Abom/[Anything here]/Plague Doctor, since few attacks stress the back row, the frontrunners have fine solo stress heal and the crits they get will help the backline passive stress.

>>14669487

>Enemies dodging every single attack

Then stop running ACC down talismans on your Leper

>Last Crusade isn't viable no more

Yes it is, just don't run it on Stygian/ Pitch in the Cove/Weald

>Crimson Curse

Don't enter the fucking courtyard then. Leave endgame content for the endgame.

>Finishing combats as fast as I can

And that's why you trip up. In Darkest Dungeon you want battles to be the most drawn out long ass piece of shit going. Dungeons are jogs, not sprints and if you treat them like sprints, you will burn out and die before the halfway mark. Instead treat every battle like so

1.Kill the Stressers

2.Kill the Critbots

3.Kill the high-tier DPS

4.Stun the tanks/Slow and stun the minimobs

5.Heal stress and health

6.Heal stress and health

7.Heal stress and health

8.Heal stress and health

9.Heal stress and health

10.Kill the final mob that's now on 1 health after the stun damage accumulates.

Congratulations, you beat the game. Great stalling mobs include (ut are not limited to) the Fungal Giant (Shit ACC, only has one power attack if it ever hits), Swineataur (If you keep it in 1st row it's garbo-tier) and Large Bandits (outside of whips, fucking nothing)

The reason you are falling to RNGsus is because you are not denying the things that allow RNGsus to come down from the heavens. In DD, the name of the game is literally to deal with the bs before it comes. If you play the game reactively you fuck up like every memestreamer reddidiot. If you play the game proactively, it becomes a nigh cakewalk.

>>14669519

>>14669524

Wrong on all levels.

Having teams allow you to spec all abilities that the team specifically needs and nothing more, saving you a shitton while you are rushing Bank. It means you can plan for synergy and focus down perks specific for that dungeon (for example, you should really avoid running Plague Doc in Weald or Flagellant in Ruins).

It also means all your heroes level up as one, in turn meaning you don't have to waste 7 of your weeks grinding them all up to a given point also memenamed teams jej

>>14669505

The devs nerf reactive teams because it takes away from the core game. It's like if the Crossbows in Dark Souls twoshot on headshot, and could reload on a clip. It's not the way the game is intended to be played, so it gets nerfed. Hence why Crusader destress is untouched and HWM's marking shot got buffed-both top tier moves for proactive comps.

>>14669575

>Leper

Leper is a flesh wall for the first rank. His job is to stand there and tank the first few heavy blows and let his team work independently of him. He has the highest HP in the game, his standard heal gives debuff resists and his stress heal gives him MAAtier Prot. All his attacks are for and from rows 1/2 and he has corpse clear.

<The reason his ATK is so high is that it is supposed to be for the few times you can spare an attack, its flipping a coin down a well and seeing if you can get a neato little 50 point crit on their Javelin Boar.

<It's not the core of his kit

<Stop whining it's not the core of his kit

<Every other part of his kit contradicts it, bar the shitty memebuff

A general rule to see how the devs want you to play a hero is to look at their Crimson Court trinket combos. Outside of some very specific niches (DD flux Flagellant, Crits Grave Robber etc) the trinkets do exactly what you should want for a hero

>>14669605

>>14669612

Shitters stop talking. Outside of the jack-of-all-trades that is the Hound, I would steadily say Jester is the best class in the game. Where there are other big healers outside of Vestal (Flagellant, Occultist, Single Target Arbelist), there are no other big stress healers-at all. You have a minor RNG teamwide from Hound, a Mid Heal/Destress from Crusader and a Sacrificial Destress for Flagellant (arguably making it harder later)-then crits, which should never be relied on.

For context; when specced a Jester can heal 25+ stress per strum (Easily enough to get heroes away from Stress door and can fix a Afflicted hero up in under 6 turns), can almost guaranteed midbleed 2 non-skeleton targets at once, owns one of the better party buffs, has great destress/buff camping and is one of the rarer heroes that work in both slots 2 and 3. Jester is brokenly good-b u t n o t a s a f u c k i n g d p s y o u f u c k i n g s h i t t e r. A jester is nigh mandatory in Stygian, hence why the all-unique-comps is such a challenge; literally because you can't have 5 Jesters to split between your teams.

<Jester is not a DPS

<Stop whinging that he can't DPS because you sprint marathons

<His Dirk/Finale combo is supposed to be a Finale, not a mid fight move

>>14669707

>Finale debuff lasts for way too long

<Waaaahhh why does thuh Finawe not work after that????? Waaaaahhhhh

Shitter. Lurk moar.

>>14670075

Still nasty, arguably worse with the introduction of stealth making the real priority targets (Skelenobles and Fish Mages) a bastard to deal with outside of a Shieldbreaker. DLC makes funding a cakewalk if you rush bank, 5% a day on 50k gold will never run out

>>14669489

>Even then you're forced to kill 2 people in the final boss which was dumb

Wrong. If it matters enough (such as being part of a no death run) only bring 2 heroes. It completely negates the attack at the cost of making Phase 1+2 a bit harder/longer. I recommend Plague Doc/Leper or HWM/Crusader since they both combo well with self sustain and high DoTs. Live with the fact they are both going to be afflicted and its the easiest Darkest Dungeon of the 4.

I highly recommend using some waifu modded classes. I always felt the vanilla heros were too weak.

>rng dungeon

The fact that you can miss a jellyfish point blank with full light with a melee weapon with no stress at full health is complete bullshit

The game is fun when it makes sense but the dev removing actually fun strats and making the rng absolute bullshit just sucks

>>14678040

All done by Muscarine. They even have their own CC trinkets. https://www.nexusmods.com/darkestdungeon/users/330348?tab=user+files

From left to right:

The Shrapnel - Ranged damage dealer that has a seige mode transformation, but you have to carry and use ammo items that give her +120 acc which counteracts the -120 acc she gets from dumping rounds.

The Tusk - Middle line damage dealer with a bonus to larger enemies. Also has self heal and riposte. Bad at the front and rear ranks though.

The Fawn - Glass cannon that shuffles herself from front to bank ranks. Does high damage and stun, but puts a bleed on herself that can stack and kill her if you're not careful. Either carry bandages or use a -Bleed Chance trinket.

The Offering - Tank. Has both melee and ranged attack and can cover and move every other hero at the same time if you use it on each one. Also has natural +Prot. I love this hero.

The Hollow - Healer and blighter. Her gimmick is all her abilities give stress, but also give -%Stress that stacks. So the idea is that you build up a resistance over time and can have -%100 Stress before using the strong abilities. Also drains torchlight.

The Hood - A better Antiquarian. Gives a little less money in exchange for being a little less useless in battle.

I never liked these RNG games. Your entire success or failure depends on what is basically a die roll. Sure, you can minimize the detriments of failure or maximize the fruits of your success, but the end result is out of your control.

It just seems like a frustrating test of your patience, waiting on what result the game will decide, not you, the player. Seems like bad design to me.

>>14672217

>https://www.nexusmods.com/darkestdungeon/mods/600

It has the vanilla art style done well, but those titties are ridiculous.

>>14681353

His other class looks nice too.

>those titties are ridiculous.

Nah, if he really needs to he can just make a new female class that's flat to balance it out.

>>14681402

>not realizing DD is a haven for edgelords

>>14681375

So the Dragon's Crown approach to titty balance?

>>14678123

Atleast there's a mod that changes the nigger to not be one

>>14672069

>>14672066

>>14672071

The images made me chuckle but you still sound like the only autist in the thread who likes the way the devs balance things. I bet you even liked it when they added stealth.

>>14679039

Hence the whole role of him operating entirely alone as the flesh wall of the team. Albeit DDflux Flagellants do that better now with the addition of CC, Leper is still the more flexible (no reliance on Bleed damage, has Corpseclear, much stronger self heals) and less risky of the two bodytanks (doesn't need to be <30% to do anything, doesn't rely on tanking by staying immortal on Deaths Door). Believe it or not, Leper is not a shit Crusader, Leper is a great Leper because it's apples and oranges. Crusader is a support role (stress heal, stun and prot with a side attack is the only setup you should be using), Leper is a tank role.

>>14679192

As I said, if you don't want heroes to die; don't bring 4 heroes. It's not risk management you thick fuck, it's complete risk elimination. HoD kills your 3rd and 4th hero. If you don't want that to happen-don't bring a 3rd and 4th hero and certainly don't fucking whine when you deliberately did not do the one thing that prevents it.

HoD is far from the hardest boss too, it's very viable to bring 2 heroes.

>>14679249

Depends. Most of the mechanics in DD really allow for 1-2 rolls of RNG to not really fuck you over, the fun is dealing with them on a whim. However I completely agree with you when you get a streak of 4-5 minimal chance bad luck rolls in a row out of control such as when your 50% PROT MAA gets killed within one turn in DD2 because a Templar Impaler got a crit stinger, then got hit by the mob onto DD then got taken out by the Blight on a no death run

>>14679255

Shitters hate it because they can't play it and they get the bad feefees because other people can play it and they just don't get it.

If you like manipulating chances; working with organic problems and planning out strategy to make sure a basic mob doesn't fuck your party in 2 turns, you'll love it.

If you like hitting the bad monster with the big sword then getting the gold to make your hero better at hitting the bad monster, you'll hate it.

>>14683774

My point exactly.

Btw Musketeer is just an Arbelist reskin, you ain't missing anything out. If it bothers you so, just mod the Arbelest with the Musketeer images or get tha pee ess fowa vershun

>Faux-Lovecraft

Read:Tumblreddit the Stair Dragons. These people need to re-evaluate life.

They like the whole edgy 'everything is doomed so why try' or 'a caring god is always selfserving' aspect but completely skip over the whole 'cross breeding with other races is bad because mixed blood' and 'lol my cat is called Nigger-Man'

>>14684542

>It's your fault that I don't like they way the game has been designed and balanced to be played

<Use a B**d meme

>I bet you liked the addition of a hard, strategic mechanic in a hard, strategic game, despite the fact you literally said that Stealth is a nightmare to deal with on the Stressproc mobs

Fuck off back to Sims normalfag faggot

I tried drawing a lewd tavern replacer

>>14687046

You did good, anon.

>>14687046

changed the hair*

>>14686917

>HP

Yes but for different reasons. Crusader has HP so he can operate in the fist 2-4 danger rounds in a fight without requiring any sustain, with the intention of recovering in the stall rounds; since the stall for a Crusader is shorter than a stall for a Vestal, a Houndmaster and Grave Robber and a chuck of Crusader. Leper has high HP so he can facetank Swine Prince enraged solo targets every round and has the added sustain of being able to guaranteed heal a quarter of his health back with no other input. Leper is easily the best RAW TANK in the game; but his major weaknesses is that he can't operate as a Support or a DPS very well, when his Support/DPS capabilities are outshined by picks that go well alongside him anyways (namely Plague Doc as a Corpse Clear, MAA as a Guard and Hellion as a chuncky front row damagebot)

>Prot

Leper prot gives him a passive 15 Stress reduction. Crusader Prot gives a mark-which is nice; until you realise Crusader has next to no sustain outside of his team-in which case why are you supporting your support instead of your DPS. MAA again is for a different role, but is easily closest to Leper in working comps/dungeons

>Utility

That's Crusaders entire schtick. I would say Crusader is the Forward Prot counterpart to the Backend Dodge Houndmaster albeit without the disgusting amounts of overtuning . Crusader should be fully utilising the fact he can give minor heals, moderate stress heals, moderate torch maintenance and good stuns and not focusing on taking as much damage as possible like the Leper. The same way a Flagellant operates firstly as a support, but can be built as a suboptimal (yet working) tank, I would consider the same as Crusader (Support, then Tank/DPS) and Leper as a great tank first and a decent but suboptimal freind DPS second.

>MAA

Different role. MAA focuses on the Riposte and Gurad, with suboptimal rank 2-3 Damage when compared to DPS beasts like HWM, GR or Arbelist-in exchange for very good sustain without support in the danger rounds.

>90%

Yes, and that's where MAA, Crusader and almost every other class in the game passes Leper. Leper is very much a niche class, which cannot operate most of the time, but when you reach Stygian Warrens and Cove Hard dungeons Leper tanks are very welcome additions to a comp. For example, Leper/Shieldbreaker/Houndmaster/Occultist is probably the best comp to be going into Sty Hard Cove due to the fuckton of Rank 1 abuse Cove innately has.

To sum up, I think we are on the same page. I'm not saying Leper is a top-tier beast-fit-for-any-scenario type of hero like Houndmaster, he is very specifically a niche role for given scenarios much like the Bounty hunter and Antiquarian in C-D tier. When you need something on the front rows that can soak frontline damage so your healer can just focus on maintaining 2 DPS's, and is almost immune to status-Leper is your exact guy. Swine Prince, Necromancer, a good chunk of CC and Cove are Lepers hunting grounds. But as we both agree however, these scenario are few and far between, hence why a MAA or a Flagellant; albeit notably less tanky and/or more risky DDflux Flag, looking at you can and will operate with a lot more room and ease in 90% or situations. But to say Leper (literal tank) and Crusader (flex support) operate like each other in any situation is a pretty bs claim

I'm kind of in a weird spot. I'm figuring the game out organically so far, but now I'm low on money and so many of my characters have accrued a bunch of negative shit and the dungeons are starting to get hard and shit. Also got stomped by the swine prince and his little helper.

I feel as though reading up on the game will trivialize the experience into a spreadsheet simulator, but playing organically is a steep difficulty curve to climb that it's gimping my playthrough. What do?

>>14683946

I don't see a problem with it.

>>14687274

added more color

and drew a dd version, which I half regret

>>14689670

For your first try, (as long as you aren't on Stygian) you can send suicide squads of 2 Antiquarians, and any 2 DPS as many times as you want if you feel you need to grind much. Fuck em up, nick their shit and fire their asses.

If you want to play more seriously/ want to make set team comps, save a fuckton of resources to build a bank. I would argue the Bank is the first thing you should be aiming for. For negative perks, you can largely ignore all of them except:

-Fragile/Soft

-Stress Eater

-Light Sensitive (Less priority than the rest)

-Compulsive/Kleptomaniac

The rest are generally manageable.

For little Piggu, bring your best team with your best trinkets, kill the little pig first and take the angery hit the big boy does in retaliation. After that, the biggy piggy gets tired and deals MUUUUCH less damage for the rest of the fight ;)

>>14689708

>Cheat

Shitter

>>14691849

If you want the least fuck-over-able build, the following suffers from some movement difficulties, but will guaranteed beat the game and any of the final dungeons.

>Vestel (2 heals, Stun and Self Heal attack)

>Jester (Dirk/Ballad, Solobleed, Double bleed and Stress heal)

>Highwayman (Tracking Shot/ Riposte attack/ Point Blank/ Pistol shot)

>MAA (Guard/Command/Riposte Rampart)

Literally the best dedicated Healer in the game, the best dedicated stress healer in the game, one of the (if not the) best dedicated DPS in the game and the most flexible tank in the game. The build isn't very interesting, isn't specialised to a dungeon in any way (in fact it is suboptimal in Cove and Ruins since Jester can't deal as much damage and MAA/entire party has no debuff/DoT resist) but is strong enough to just chug along. Obviously better builds suit better regions, at which point the game gets fun.

For teambuilding as a general rule, you want to prioritise a Healer, then the stress healer, then the DPS then either another DPS or a tank-and out of the lot of them you should really want at least one stun.

Of course there are crossovers (Abom is a solid Tank/DPS, Arbelest is a good DPS with amazing solo healing capabilities, Flagellant is your Healer/Tank-then there is Crusader and Houndmaster which do basically everything to a moderate extent; and who's greatest weakness is 4 attack slot syndrome)

>>14695914

…where tits go?

Also have some D E E P E S T L O R E; Reynauld and Dismas are the only heroes in the game with credible backstory with each other. You better have not let them die Anon why would you let that happen?

idk how up to date this is but here

(if anyone has a newer version pls post)

>>14698793

>>14697753

For a moment I got too embarrassed of my crude creation, but ok

>>14698777

Yes, but he is easily the most reliable of the Tanks. Alts would be the Leper (very niche), Hellion (as a second DPS/stunner), Flagellant (extremely risky as frontline tank, especially for new players), Shieldbreaker (nuanced, difficult to use and not always a strong pick) or Abom (if you want to sacrifice the opaf Vestal with an Occultist/PlagueDoc/Arbelest)

Either ways, MAA is tanky enough for most newer players to be able to manage his HP when is looks like it's getting low-50%HP for him is often more than many heroes at full HP.

>Hag

Build is actually good for her. MAA is tanky enough to stay in the pot for the fight, Vestal can keep him alive if he is thrown out and if someone else gets thrown in, all 4 heroes have abilities that can attack the Hag herself to keep constant pressure, with Jester's doublehit as an added bonus if you really need to get Vestal out of the pot

>Siren

Siren is basically 'specialised team'-the fight. Bring a Crusader (double support+stun), DPS/Stunner (Hound/Hellion), Antiquarian (strat) and Occultist (extra heals+eldritch damage)

Trudge through the dungeon, as per usual then before the boss give everyone but the Antiquarian Holy Water, then unequip all of Antiquarians damaging moves. Since Siren charm is classed as a debuff, and will autotarget the most likely target in your party she will constantly try to charm the Antiquarian (since Antiquar has one of the lowest debuff resists in the game+everyone elses boosted resistance). Mixed with the fact your Antiquarian does nothing for Siren, it makes the boss extremely manageable because you have 3 high damage, stun-capable heroes to constantly cockblock Siren.

>>14698861

Still mostly relevant, but defo out of date. No info on Shieldbreaker, ability reworks and the importance of counterstealth. Either way, Colour of Madness will probs skew it more with time; so for now take it with a pinch of salt.

>>14700941

Nice, albeit a noticeable amount of the spraypaint tool.

>>14703118

Pic related

My Dismas just came back to life, oddly enough instill kept his head I found in a secret chest. It synergizes pretty well, actually.

so I got the ancestral edition on theswitch and it's not too bad, except I hate everything about it and wish i never picked it up. I keep bashing my head against the courtyard over and over and never get anywhere, I grind up party after party and they just get ground up and spat out. I get up the stupid crocodile that shreds my party, i've beaten him several times but I can't complete the mission because by the time he's dead all I got left is a single guy. Now practically everyone has the crimson curse and i'm considering just starting a new game at this point because that shit is seriously pissing me off.

>>14703440

>Implying it isn't the chadd who is into nice asses

>>14716102

For Context; treat Crimson Court as the Old Hunters in Bloodborne. You CAN access it about 25% through the game and steal a fuckton of cheap resources; but Crocodilian and Baron stand there as endgame bosses that can and will push your shit in without correct preparation and endgame trinkets/loot.

The extra punch in the gut however is that Ludwig sits in his pile of shit until you fight him. Crocodilian/Baron will send their pozzed little sub boys to give your entire party superAIDS if you leave them too long after you nosy around.

For Croc; he has to be the only boss in the game where movement is useful and the only instance in the game where Bounty Hunter is a viable hero. A fine comp for your first Crocstomp is Vestel/Jester/Bounty/Hellion, focusing on keeping Croco in Position 1, since the little shit can't submerge there. Position 1 features a Bleed chance as opposed to Position 4's strong ACC down so I prefer that; but if you want to focus on keeping him in Position 4 with a MAA over a Hellion/Hound over Jester that's still perfectly viable.

Croc is interesting in that he is one of the more endurance based fights in the game over some of the burst bosses like Cannon or Necro when you keep him in P1 however is a very quick burst boss if you want to keep him in P4; with the key issue being Crocs self PROT buff. Jester bleed may seem an issue at first in a P1 comp since Croc has kinda high Bleed res, but he delivers reliable damage between destress in the long run. If your game has been fucked; a reset may be what you need since the CC threat only gets worse the longer you leave it. Next time, you HAVE to fucking remind yourself.

If you aren't on Stygian, there is no need to hurry (if you are on Stygian you are going to want to beat it at about Week 75-85, with a dedicated CC team focused on Endurance/Reliability. Finish an entire dungeon in one Week each, have 1-2 weeks of destress and do the next. It's long and gruelling but is your best bet to give you a chunk of time to work with and 1-2 weeks to recover before you go into DD1-4 at ~Week 90)

Most importantly though >switch

>>14716197

>Not wanting to be the strong working man role model instead of some rando junkie

I personally thought you assfags got the better dude

>>14716618

I wouldn't know what the smell of some other dudes dick is, so I guess that's your problem you rage-filled ultrafaggot.

Telling people to stop whining and not to be surprised by how the devs are balancing their game isn't sucking their dick; though it may have seemed that way by the amount of shitters I had to tell bluntly. The addition of Stealth and indirectly making Shieldbreaker a tier 2 autopick was fucking stupid, especially when Leper, Bounty Hunter and to a lesser extent Flagellant/Arbelest are so niche they are basically dog-tier on anything above Radiant. Now we literally have an ultracomp of Vestel/Jester/Hound/Shieldbreaker metadomination and not a single word from the devs saying if they are going change this nor buff/rework the D-tier heroes. The devs are shitters in their own way; I never said they deserved any praise regarding balance

<Having to talk about Leper again

I'm not saying he is good, as you saw I'm telling shitters his role and place on a team; not as primary DPS but as a Fleshwall. As we both know however; his role as a Fleshwall is not one which is needed nor is reliable atm in the game. His niches are bosses like Crew, Swine Prince (since he can tank the frontal hits on his own while his team focuses the big pig) and Hag (since he has the HP bar to sit in the pot for a good amount of time and can roll high enough hits on the pot to oneshot on occasion, allowing his squishes to get on with it). Outside of that; he is a very difficult hero to use and is in no way comparable to the likes of something like the Hound (as is the way you seem to think I put him). Also playing him as a DPS and expecting results is obviously stupid to anyone with an IQ greater than their height in imperial. Though it seems like the devs intended him to be able to flex between the two roles the same way a Crusader can be built as a DPS or a Support, his ACC is so low it basically means he can only operate as a Tank to any meaningful degree. He makes for a great high-risk-high-reward hero; but is made redundant when there are next-to-no-risk-high-reward DPS in the game which also have some have the best movement in the game (Grave Robber, HWM)

imo the optimal buff for him (and chain mode Abom to a lesser extent) would be for one of his attacks act as a teamwide Taunt for 2 turns; guaranteeing that he can work his role as a bodytank. Guards would still have their place since they often come with innate buffs and take damage for one hero instead of 3; whereas a Leper/Abom taunt would be taking full damage on the first turn and would need to be built in a way that they can recover that lost HP on a turn-by-turn basis whilst the squishies behind them snipe the targets in order. It would also act as a secondary counter to Stealth; since it means you can bring a comp that doesn't crumble the moment a Pelagic Shamalam or a Bone Noble appears with their guaranteed 75 stress application wo/ a Shieldbreaker/HWM

>abilities

Which one; almost all his abilities are amazing when you take away the fact they have an ACC of 75/Can only be used in P1-2

I hate the collector so much.

>>14719400

Easily one of, if not the hardest fights in the game. At Hero Level 1-3 it is honestly better off running away since you will not beat him unless RNGsus blesses you with 5 crits, a stun and a missed Show Collection

This game took up like one year of my vidya time.

I swear games about learning to manage harsh and all-powerful RNG are like crack to me, like this and FTL. I may have a gambling problem.

I'm just sad the devs seem content porting it to every platform under the sun, I'd really love to see the game expanded even further, maybe with alternate paths or an actual final boss and ending. Or at least some new enemy types.

>>14719610

Yeah, that's gonna be cool for a few hours but still a better main campaign would be way cooler. At least randomized final dungeons would be a basic requirement I'd say; I remember how I fucking dreaded starting the DD during my first run while now it's just a lame victory lap.

>>14719598

>>14719610

https://www.darkestdungeon.com/harvest-moon/

The new DLC is going to be an endless mode based off the Lovecraft story Colour out of Space (tl;dr the question can you think of a new colour)

Confirmed extra stuff includes:

-new endless mode for a new area

-boss levels for the farm

-leaderboard for endless with my name on top of it

-a few new roaming Husk mobs

-2 new bosses (Thing From Beyond and The Farmer)

-new consumables (?)

-apparently a long new music track

>>14719658

I'm ok with the main campaign as a whole atm; sure it can be improved, but set events like Crow and Hamlet are nice breaks inbetween. Otherwise i'm chill with the whole 'you make your own journey' theme.

>just a lame victory lap

Not when it contains the 2 hardest levels in the game that are prime for ending Stygian nodeath runs in their tracks. Though an unlocked randomised DD would be nice after you beat DD1, perhaps with guaranteed Orange looot

>>14719723

AHHHHHHHH THE meme spacing MAKE IT STOP AHHHHHHHH

DD2 and DD3 are the risks imo.

DD1 can be dealt with easily; but is arbitrarily risky since you usually have your worst team do DD1 to make space for DD2/3 and the two specialists for 4.

DD2 is a cakewalk on anything that isn't a nodeath Stygian run. I've tried it all-3 heroes doesn't have the DPS/sustain to keep up with the mobs; Guards don't have enough PROT/DODGE to mitigate a Revelation followed by mob focus RIP Reinhardt; my closest to beating this godforsaken challenge run and bringing an Antiquarian isn't enough to deal with the mobs between. With the addition of Shieldbreaker I'm hoping that DD2 will be made marginally easier with Aegis Scales and Aegis blocks but even then. Perhaps DD2 just hates me.

DD3 is easy as you said; but if RNGsus decides to give you more than 3 teleports you can very easily lose a hero to endurance very plausible; my record for DD3 teleports is 5.

DD4 is a joke

Also checkem

>>14719850

GODS WHY MUST YOU CONTINUE SUCH ABHORRENT SPACING AHHHHHHHHHH MAKE IT STOPPPP

Against DD1, DD2 has the 2 Growth enemies- of which the stun growth can easily spiral a team if left unattested; despite the Fingers being much more of a threat to be focused instead (basically giving the stungrowth a good window to fuck a stall-centric team over while you deal with the Finger-which is beefy in its own right, especially if a fleshy decided to wall/heal it). Also much fewer/spaced out Fleshy cultist duos to stall on.

The Gladiators are just an added brick; since it means you lose 3 legendary trinkets to mitigate one attack; whilst also needing a way to not have one hero be shredded. For me I was running Occultist/Hound/Abom/MAA, with the Talismans on the back 3. When you get to Stygian; DODGE becomes a legitimately useless stat since all enemies (in DD especially) have accuracy ratings higher than the highest dodge achievable in the game (smart move by the devs amirite), thus the Hound needed the Talisman over the MAA else oneshot. MAA can mitigate a good chunk of a Revelation when his PROT is high enough along with his beefy healthbar; and is one of the safest heroes to not have a Talisman (bar perhaps Flag who's role is outdone by Occultist making him a dudpick for mobs or Leper who has the huge downside of you bringing a fucking Leper to DD2). Since I'm also doing unique comps, I was saving the Jester as my stress healer for DD3 since Jester has more sustain; and the Bleed helps on Cysts.

Thus when Rein got hit by a Revelation at 50% PROT, followed by a Polyp Blight taking him to 0; with Blight removing him I sat down and looked myself in the mirror. It was the maximum possible mitigation I could do and I got fucked over at Week 96 of 100. feltbadman.

Perhaps one could chalk it up to bad luck; but DD2 has always been the hardest of the 3 for me. Won't knock you though; Weald Plague Maidens are bastards to deal with in their own right; lost two of my runs to them.

>>14720023

>Some of Lovecraft's stuff can seem dated but this one was perfectly solid

Mark my words, Nigger-Man will stand the test of time. Pickmans Model is my favourite imo; it's not as direct as his other works and has one of the nicer, more subtle twists.

>>14720035

Because MAA is one of the slowest heroes in the game and relying on his guard when one of your other 3 heroes can easily be oneshot by Revelation is a oneway trip to a reset (MAA literally has a speedtie with the Gladiator, so its about a 50% chance the Gladiator will react before the guard is up). MAA is the one of only a few heroes can fully tank a Revelation hit, so he was the best choice for me.

Trust me when I say I already thought it through. It was the best possible comp for my run; I got fucked purely by RNG.

>>14720064

I personally prefer taking Leper as Tank to DD1; MAA for DD2 and Hellion for DD3 (unique comp restriction). With SB added; I'm probs gonna switch MAA for SB and Leper for MAA next time round if not only for consistancy.

I get that DODGE is nice on lower ranks, but if it fails you are done for. On Stygian you will get hit by a lot more attacks on top, so dodging is not as reliable as just mitigating a set amount of damage since it leaves you open to being 100-1'ed. It's not a risk you can take when you don't want a single death.

Also Retribution has an Accuracy of ~125%, meaning that at maximum dodge; it still has a 1/3 chance to Deaths Door the Hound-as opposed to Tanking is and going down to about 50% (much more manageable)

Going to use Shieldbreaker next time I can reach DD; hoping she can do what MAA couldn't. Looking forward to ending this fucking thing

>The game where the devs actively searched through the forums to find viable strategies so they could nerf them instead of fixing bugs

It was fun when it first came out I guess.

>>14720197

I'll admit that guarding the MAA would have been safer, but it didn't affect me in the end. I'm willing to roll a 50/50 into a 1 in 4 attack which has 1 in 4 chance to send one of my heroes to Deaths Door, when the Hound and the Occultist get high enough speed tiers to deal with it reactively.

I'm standing by my itemisation too; MAA CC trinkets are god-tier; meanwhile bringing a single Speed stone for one interaction which is still a 50/50 chance is much less value than +10Prot, +10DBR, +25Stun and +25 Riposte. Either ways; it wasn't the first turn that got me. As I previously said, MAA was at 50 PROT (actually 60 when you put the Trinket+2 guards) and got hit by a full on revelation into a Polyp into a blight off DeathsDoor. His health was easily above 70% and was no cause for any concern at the time. It was just pure fucked RNG, enemy speed tiers found themselves together and I got fuckered. Nothing I can do about it now, the save got deleted.

>>14720275

>>14720289

>>14720319

Have a rare wojak, on the house

>>14720434

Never played FE7, but I know for sure there used to be things like MAA being able to Solo Hard dungeons by purely riposting. Jester also used to be able take ~25% of a hard-tier bosses HP with a single use of his Finale skill at the start of a fight, despite the fact he is a support destress hero. They weren't bad nerfs in any way; they made overpowered heroes at the same level as the rest. The current 'overpowered heroes' are so not because they can solo stygian dungeons, but because they have lots of flexible utility and suffer from 4 slot syndrome (Houndmaster and Crusader) OR have an ability which few/no other heroes have to an efficient extent (Shieldbreaker destealth, Vestel groupheal)

On shitty rolls, you ca almost completely mitigate all RNG in the game. The fun is having to change strats on a dime yes, but it is also in seeing a good plan come together, ATeam style. If you are having difficulty the body of >>14672066 is a tl;dr on how to beat the game for the most part.

>>14720448

oh noe fuggg hou did yuo get me so gud :DDDDDD

>doing weald

>jester, vestal, graverobber, bounty hunter

>going alright

>fuck you nigger, rng time

>lose everyone but the vestal one room before the dungeons over

>vestal doesn't have any front row attacks

>mfw

>>14721871

>>14721912

Mod list please?

>>14724640

>>14724640

I was just starting on the screenshots actually, but I'm kind of busy at the moment, and taking individual screenshots of all the characters and lewd skins would take a while.

I thought when I was done I'd just put them all in one image, but this delivers quicker.

These can all be altered to be more or less lewd as well, but I haven't really fiddled with that as you have to rename some files. It's in the description of each though.

>>14724697

What?

>>14724741

But I don't get it. He wouldn't want bestiality?

>>14724504

>Are the DLCs actually any good?

Crimson Court makes the game way harder and more complicated. You're starting basically as a newbie, so skip until your second playthrough.

Shieldbreaker is terrible value for your money. Skip unless you really like the game and want to tip the devs.

I'm saying this as a huge fan of the game by the way.

>>14724775

>>14724780

I'm sorry, but that doesn't make sense.

>>14724697

Yeah I think, I just have it on the default. Let me see if I can find the mod…

It's a mod called "3 sexy skin" which contains the Abbey reskin, Survivalist reskin and a Blacksmith reskin, but I'm using a different reskin of the blacksmith. It doesn't give the instructions on how to swap between them. Just search sexy in the workshop, they all have it in the title. I took these instructions from one of the other mods.

>>14724813

I'm not changing my opinion on the subject regardless.