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For context I just started my first playthrough, I haven't played any "hardcore" games where death is permanent and in my first expedition one of my heros got paranoid in part because she was afraid of the dark and I was slow/learning how to manage torches still

Ever since I've been paranoid myself and burning torches to keep the light level at max, how impactful is the light level on stress/keeping your heros alive and not just sending them to a meat grinder

I have tried all her paths and have found them quiet clunky, in the sense that I almost have to chose which path AND which stance I want to use it in.

How do you compose a team with duellist?

(Instructice seems most generally useful with the extra action skill - I knew that already. Thank you for not reading the post if you are repeating that.)

(As well as using guard or just completely ignore defence and spam fleche, which is too obvious to mention.)

Exemplar applied vulnerability on highway man but then it weirdly disappeared after highway man attacked exemplar - not the around way around.

I don't understand.

so can someone give barebone how kingdom mode works. I never played dd1. But basically based on some youtube videos its a mix of both dd1 and 2. Which is fine whatever. I'm happy to learn from scratch. But the thing that makes me hesitant is that you cant choose starting skills. The problem is that I only ever played dd2 so I kind gotten used to that aspect, so moving from that is kinda odd. And you gotta work to unlock skills so I guess it's like long campaign ? like 3 4 hours long or what. I guess the base question is it like a long campaign like I dont know, maybe total war warhamer - like

Tired of seeing double healer team popping up over and over again with the usual suspects like MAA CRU LEP FLG VES OCU

(those who still mention these - thanks for showing your inability to read)

Nothing against playing safe but it is just a fucking game. I find it more fun to play without heal for the rush.

eg:

• in a dance team they complain about position being moved

• after crit'ing an enemy, sometimes even just attack and they don't have any fear qiurk

• when healing status effect and they aren't affected, different from healing a higher HP one first

• 100 flame negative banter when relationships are all over 16/20 and no negative relationship quirk

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I have a question related to the body of work and limited heal.

For my grand slam I'm using as healer a plague doctor which has 3 battlefield medicine and flagellant scourge with 3 deathless.

I was wondering if between the 3 phases it will replenish the heal used or if the heal use is forever gone. In that case it will be harder for 3 phases and 6 heal.

For context i beat it with a team of Vestal Runaway Crusader Leper because I wanted to try out an Monarch Leper. Run went pretty well apart from letting loathing consume twice, got really good trinkets but against the boss I definitely lucked out by the Vestal surviving so many luminence deaths door hits and popping a resolute, the plan quickly turned into keep her alive as long as possible so Leper and Crusader could chunk away at its healthbar but she still ate like 7 deaths door hits, even with all that luck we still got down to just Leper who survived a few of his own deaths door hits and his own resolute. Point being, my success is not really replicatable and would like a more concrete strategy in the future, or at least a general guide towards the right answer. Is it just supposed to be a dps test?, are you meant to spread the damage around with blocks?, debuff it so it doesnt do such devastating damage? Also what's the point of the first phase with the smaller eyes?

TL:DR got lucky on the Obsession boss fight and looking for a general idea on proper strategy for any future runs

NOT 1, NOT 2, NOT EVEN 3 BUT FOUR FREAKING HEALERS
1 vestal, 3 crusader
wanna play it safe but still can deal HUGE dmg ? i got you
every one can heal and 3/4 can stress heal, we can reach any rank, stun any rank, is tanky as hell, can always heal people off from deathdoor, can dance
what crazy is that i slot vestal in rank 2 and give her Profane Scroll and she becomes as tanky as a crusader
with this comp, you can instantly obliterate enemy's annoying backline and then stall the front line while regenerating HP and stress, the bone dude with his stupid tempting goblet ? GONE, skeleton crossbowman ? GONE
its a very fun team, try it out yourself

Said post: https://www.reddit.com/r/darkestdungeon/s/mt1LXf1MAU

After 2h i can say i had great time. Animations look awesome, game loop seems interasting and fun, gameplay is solid.
But i realised what was my main issue back on release and still is today. This doesn't really *feel* like darkest dungeon.
Because characters get reset every run, their deaths don't carry the same weight, and because of that the characters themselves don't matter as much.
There's no room for stories, like Cugley the Leper carrying dungeon after dungeon while becoming virtuous every resolve check, only to die due to overconfidence. No Aubrey the Grave Robber critting 10 times in a row and single handedly wining me a boss fight, making for herself permamnt spot in my memory.
If this game wasn't called darkest dunegon 2, but instead anything else i would probably love it. But with this expectation at the back of my head i can't really fully enjoy it.

Hello.

So I picked up the game 2 days ago. Having a blast, whoever there's so many things to understand and I have like max 1h daily to play if I'm lucky

I've noticed that the runs take some time wich i don't mind, but i lose a lot of time reading stuff etc.

I tried to search for some videos that had build guides, mechanic guides etc but most of them is like 2/3 years old and i've seen a lot of posts here about heros reworks etc.

Can someone point me for a video or site wich have some kind of up to date build for heroes and explanation for mecanics etc? This way I could listen to it on work or breaks.

Ty in advance,