Congrats again! Curious if my chapter 4 run will go as smoothly. Just did the sluice and I'm headed into the final pre-mountain region now and the team's feeling pretty good. I started the run with a blight plague doctor, ranged highwayman (Incidentally I finally unlocked all his shit and ranged highwayman with the burning book trinket to give him a strength token if he's first in the initiative line (Which is fairly likely, especially if you give him that inn item for +4 initiative) is hilarious. Especially with his grapeshot which gives him another strength token due to his subclass), stress guarding jester, and full tank man at arms. Shit was going good until the plague doctor died to the fucking general of all things (Goddamn enemy crit on my squishy character made extra squishy due to her subclass reducing her max HP and then a bleed getting her to fail her first death's door roll) but I was lucky and got flagellant as my random replacement and he's a good all-rounder.This is funny as hell. I beat the chapter 4 boss on first encounter
My guess would be because you always face them after you've got your shit situated with trinkets and mastery points. I've wiped on the damn librarian in the first region of a run because I was too confident I could kill him immediately since he's a pretty easy fight, but my team wasn't really up to snuff yet. You've also got more time to plan for a chapter boss because even if you don't know the mechanics you still know X regions to the mountain, while lairs are randomly placed within a region and sometimes they're early and sometimes they're late. It's also possible that the lair bosses are stronger, because if you get unfortunate with roots with the general you can get your party shut down and the goddamn leviathan is like a supercharged witch from DD1 taking and fucking up a party member. Chapter bosses though don't seem to stun/steal/incapacitate party members in the same way so you've at least (Usually) got all your actions.
I wouldn't go so far as to say annoying but definitely not as memorable as DD1 and he doesn't seem to be enjoying it as much. In fact the only DD2 line that's been sticking in my head most of all is "THE LOATHING WHISPERS!". Not sure if it's just Wayne June not giving as good of a performance or if it's by design, because when I first started playing the game I assumed he was the Ancestor talking about meeting up with the zombie dork, but as the game goes on it's clear it's the zombie dork talking and the "You" in question is you the player. So maybe he was directed to not give it as much gusto since he isn't voicing the Ancestor which seems like a dumb choice since his lines don't have the same punch as DD1 most of the time.
"Remind yourself that preordering is a slow and insidious killer."
no, i'm talking about design.
That's not a bug.Well, the last boss fight is bugged
big spoilers
The last boss has 3 phases. In the last phase the boss has 999 HP and it summons all kinds of Spectres.
In my case the boss summoned a Spectre which I could only hit once because after the first Point Blank Shot it moved to the last rank and I could not damage it with any of my characters. This Spectre was doing 50+ hits per round and it simply dissapeared after 20 rounds (glitch!?). But at that point it already killed two of my characters and there was no point in continuing.
Basically the last fight takes like 20-30 minutes and only specific party(s) can make it till the end. Absolute garbage design.
I guess I got what I deserve for playing this piece of shit.
EGS exclusive Darkest Dungeon reached 300,000 after 1,5 years.
Reached 230,000 copies on Steam in just a week.
hmmmm
how quickly the tides turns
Flagellant seems to be a high-healing but low-damage Plague Doctor.
He might technically do less damage than PD but since I had him using the extra blight subclass he was still putting out quite a bit. Especially paired with the PD so he could rain of acid and PD chucks the double back line grenade and that's often good enough for most fights, and unlike the PD who is particularly fragile when you've got her blight subclass the flagellant turns into a giant self healing fatass. Not the best stress healer, not the best health healer (Especially with the extra blight), not the most damaging, not the tankiest, but he still seems GOOD at all of it. Presumably why he's got the chance for a random surprise boss fight.
Your guys are so friendly with each other.Goofy-ass team of leper, runaway, grave robber, jester is doing great. No healer (Though apparently runaway gets a heal skill unlocked but I haven't got it yet) so I'm relying on combat items and leper taunting like a motherfucker and using full heal solemnity on himself. Getting massive damage from leper and grave robber since I can apply combo tokens constantly with jester and runaway, and they've got other uses like runaway being good at breaking stealth and clearing dodge tokens (Her full enemy team clear-stealth counts as an attack so when you get a monster den and get a full stack of dodging spiders you just send the runaway after them) and jester applying vulnerable/blind/bleed and doing occasional stress heals to the non-lepers. On top of that I picked up the whiskey still in the first inn so we've been driving the party bus across the land. I'll probably get blown the fuck out whenever I reach whatever the final boss is since I don't know what's coming but for a team I threw together on a whim it's been really great. Have to admit one point where DD2 blows DD1 out of the water is I have so much more fun with assembling parties and fucking with trinkets and skills in DD2.
The hidden power of that whiskey still wagon upgrade. The jester actually started with the teetotal quirk (Forgot the actual name of it) so he was fucking things up a little but I made sure to hit a hospital so he could get sloshed with everyone else. Even before that I was buying weed and decks and cards.
