Facism
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Yup Mark the stuffing out of her, hit her with bleed attacks and sniper shots. Didn't even bother with the pot and nobody hit death's door 😄
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Darkest Dungeon |OT| A festering mecca of antediluvian evil
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Yup Mark the stuffing out of her, hit her with bleed attacks and sniper shots. Didn't even bother with the pot and nobody hit death's door 😄
Poodlestrike
Banned
The Darkest is always the same (or at least the same for each save), but afaik the others are random.
Jester/Highwayman/Abom? I dunno man.
so each new game, is a new dungeon?
Sorry to hear that, I've never seen or experienced the kind of luck you seem to have encountered, from my own sessions to the dozens of letsplays I've watched on youtube. It's a huge turnoff when you feel the game is actively working against you, the end result is this perception of "artificial" difficulty. RNG can seem unfair, but what you're describing sounds like a gross exaggeration. Not one single positive roll?
Poodlestrike
Banned
looooool
Tried my first champion boss today - the Swine God - with a squad of level 6 characters (Man at Arms, Leper, Grave Digger, Vestal).
I did great during the dungeon, and arrived at the boss with almost no stress and full energy.
It definitely did NOT end well: 3 dead - all but the Vestal, who's now insane - and the monster left with fucking 15hp (out of like 250).
Seriously, the small pig dude killed two of my characters with his screams, and the big one kept unleashing crits one after another. I am ok with hard things, but this wasn't even funny.
I'm pretty depressed now.
I did great during the dungeon, and arrived at the boss with almost no stress and full energy.
It definitely did NOT end well: 3 dead - all but the Vestal, who's now insane - and the monster left with fucking 15hp (out of like 250).
Seriously, the small pig dude killed two of my characters with his screams, and the big one kept unleashing crits one after another. I am ok with hard things, but this wasn't even funny.
I'm pretty depressed now.
Calcium
Banned
That's pretty damn funny.
Wait, is this a thing? What happens when a character goes insane?
I kinda love this guy.
You need to let him/her recover, otherwise if your stress level goes near 200 (or even 170 i'd say)... you instantly die of heart attack.
Plus they develop quirks, so they might skip turns, self inflict wounds, provoke enemies, refuse cures and so on. :S
Calcium
Banned
Oh, that. I thought going insane was another level of that mechanic that was in the upper dungeons. I've seen plenty of that so far.
The other day I saw something about Hell on the menu screen. Is Hell in the game or was it just referring to the Darkest Dungeon on the highest difficulty?
Skellig Gra
Member
Just beat
for the first time. Went relatively smoothly, I probably over prepared.
the apprentice necromancer
Begaria
Member
Necromancer, I find, is one of the easiest bosses in the game. He starts off alone, is susceptible to Bleeds, and Crusaders tear him a new one since he's also considered Unholy. A Crusader can take out the skeletons he summons likely within one hit to. I beat the Tier 2 Necromancer with barely a sweat, even stunned him a few times. The treck to him had maybe three battles tops, and no traps.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Didn't see it posted but Red Hook put up an update with some info on the new hero, the Antiquarian.
http://www.darkestdungeon.com/the-antiquarian/
Was hoping she would have at least some combat abilities, guess I'm just gonna have to wait and see.
http://www.darkestdungeon.com/the-antiquarian/
Was hoping she would have at least some combat abilities, guess I'm just gonna have to wait and see.
super-famicom
Member
Yeah, I beat Necro last week, he wasn't bad at all.
That new class looks interesting! Looking forward to the update.
She probably will have a few attack, but they won't be that strong.
I like the idea of the hero. Money can be a big problem and a hero like this should help a lot.
super-famicom
Member
Can someone shop the New Thread button in panel 1, and Bish's avatar in panel 2?
I check in when I see a new character is announced that might get me to come back, and it's literally the only character they could've added that can't care about at all.
Seriously, after playing for this long, loot is inconsequential. Money is just grinding and heirlooms are worthless. Seems kinda dumb to have this kind of character released this long after launch, but I guess that's just when she was finally ready. Sucks that if I ever decide to tackle the DD again I won't have any reason to use her.
Seriously, after playing for this long, loot is inconsequential. Money is just grinding and heirlooms are worthless. Seems kinda dumb to have this kind of character released this long after launch, but I guess that's just when she was finally ready. Sucks that if I ever decide to tackle the DD again I won't have any reason to use her.
super-famicom
Member
I hope she has a skill where she can throw money or shovels, or whatever you have in your inventory, at the enemies.
Begaria
Member
Hmm, running into the same problem I had with the Tier 1 bosses - my parties are starting to over level past the Tier 2 boss runs. I'm not getting many Apprentice runs to boost the Dungeon level and I've been forced to do Veteran runs to do so, which means I'm gaining XP for my four parties. Oh well, I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll take one party to Champion levels and just grind out Champion dungeons to raise the level.
Skellig Gra
Member
I'm having this same issue. It's like you need 4 main parties because once you get strong enough to take out a boss atleast a couple members of your team and about to hit the level cap. It's somewhat of a design flaw I think since you are repeating the same thing over again and again.
What I've figured out is that I need to always have 4-5 slots available for trash teams, for lower level runs. The key is to spend very little money on these mobs, outside of buying the skills they need, and maybe giving them one level of skills and armor/weapon upgrade.
Once they hit either Level 3 or 4, I dump them for fresh recruits.
Once they hit either Level 3 or 4, I dump them for fresh recruits.
super-famicom
Member
Seems like they're finally addressing one of the biggest weaknesses of the endgame.
This is a start, but the game really needs a bunch of tweaks to gold values and the heirloom costs as well.
There was a really informative post addressing this exact topic on the subreddit today.
This is a start, but the game really needs a bunch of tweaks to gold values and the heirloom costs as well.
There was a really informative post addressing this exact topic on the subreddit today.
afternoon delight
Member
Lots of respect for their decision to re-examine certain rules, so glad this is a continuing success.
I actually stopped playing because my party got too high level and I don't want to boot out those characters for new people to fight the Tier 1 bosses. I can accept I should've planned better but I still don't want to deal with the time and grinding needed to fix things.
Thank you for the links, the Darkest Dungeon has been one of the few games I have consistently gone back to but the grind always rears it's ugly head. The leveling restrictions are the worst, I still haven't beaten many of the Tier 1 bosses because most of my roster has been overleveled since Early Access. It is certainly counterintuitive to free open spots by dismissing perfectly good heroes (that have likely undergone significant investment, as it is quite cheaper for the lower levels).
I just started trying this out and had a really strange thing happen to me.
So, I play my first week, it goes fine. Second week, I get a quest to (I think) go to The Darkest Dungeon and kill some creature. Everyone in my party said things like "I can't! I won't!", but I couldn't choose to go elsewhere or not do the quest. I click on Embark and it says something about Abandoning the quest (I was thinking that I'd be going to the ruins, without the quest) and it sent me to the Darkest Dungeon and all I could do was retreat, which ended up getting two of my characters killed.
Now I have an incomplete party and can't go to any dungeons. The Stagecoach is empty, so I can't hire anyone else.
I have no idea why or how this happened. The UI, while it looks great, is incredibly confusing and because of that got my two best heroes killed.
Can anyone explain what just happened? I want to like this game, but it's so difficult to tell what is actually going on. And why on earth would it force me to take a quest that is far more difficult than I can handle, after just the first week?
So, I play my first week, it goes fine. Second week, I get a quest to (I think) go to The Darkest Dungeon and kill some creature. Everyone in my party said things like "I can't! I won't!", but I couldn't choose to go elsewhere or not do the quest. I click on Embark and it says something about Abandoning the quest (I was thinking that I'd be going to the ruins, without the quest) and it sent me to the Darkest Dungeon and all I could do was retreat, which ended up getting two of my characters killed.
Now I have an incomplete party and can't go to any dungeons. The Stagecoach is empty, so I can't hire anyone else.
I have no idea why or how this happened. The UI, while it looks great, is incredibly confusing and because of that got my two best heroes killed.
Can anyone explain what just happened? I want to like this game, but it's so difficult to tell what is actually going on. And why on earth would it force me to take a quest that is far more difficult than I can handle, after just the first week?
If you only did first week, just start back.
Also, quests are lifetime - the Darkest Dungeon is really your ultimate objective, and perhaps all your heroes whining they couldn't go was a hit of that : )
I think I'm going to have to start over, but I really want to know what happened.
I never accepted the quest. I don't know why it gave it to me. I don't know how to abandon it properly, since I thought I did and it sent me there anyway.
It's not that I'm mad that I have to start over. I want to understand what happened, so it doesn't happen to me again, and if it does, I can deal with it in a way that won't cause me to lose gold and half my party.
There really aren't quests. What you're thinking of are just the stagecoach objectives, which are more like achievements, not quests.
"Kill bosses and clear the Darkest Dungeon" are just the lifetime objectives.
If you just mean where to go - click on any of the green (later yellow and red) patches under the dungeon names.
Okay. I'll start over and see what happens. Maybe I accidentally clicked on something that I shouldn't have.
You can still change your target mission even if you've clicked on the DD one.
Skellig Gra
Member
Hard? No. But it's not much fun to just have to mindlessly grind.
New Game Plus completed within 62 weeks and with 3 deaths, which all of those occurred in the last battle. Somewhat disappointed that I lost Dismal just before Reynauld finished the mission, oh well. Originally I thought the increased difficulty and restrictions were borderline unfair but luckily that wasn't the case. All in all fantastic game, 5/5.
Does anybody know the exact changes in difficulty in NG+ mode? Did developers just increased the enemy health and damage or were the changes more subtle?
Does anybody know the exact changes in difficulty in NG+ mode? Did developers just increased the enemy health and damage or were the changes more subtle?
I keep four or five slots open, but the best example I have is taking on the Drowned Crew in the Cove and not having the right party configuration to defeat them. It's been a while now but I want to say I quit when the Drowned Crew was able to completely heal by Round 20 and the whole party was unable to cope with the stress much longer. The prospect of firing everyone and waiting for the right classes to show up on the Stagecoach felt - as Hollywood Duo pointed out - like an unnecessary grind. I would use an all Grave Robber build, but everyone was already overleveled for that encounter. And again we're back to feeling punished for putting time and money into successful characters.
super-famicom
Member
I ran into the Collector for the first time during a short run in the Wealds. I managed to beat him, in spite of everyone bleeding all over the place. Glad I had an Arbalest in the party, her crits were a lifesaver.
lol yeah im never finishing this game. decided to have a go at the darkest dungeon for the first time, got decimated even before finding the boss. Only 1 survived because he ran away (guess if you run away with 1 left he doesnt need to stay behind)
Just gotta keep feeding those adventurers into the meat grinder. Unless you yourself go mad from insanity, I suppose.
what do you mean? I went with a max level / skills team, with mostly orange items. what more could I do
