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Krumbsthumbs posted:In the game I'm currently running the champion fight is the only one I haven't beaten or even tried to do. Champion Weald runs are always dicey with those damned giants. that's where the occultist shines -30% damage means those trolls do basically no damage.
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Night10194 posted:At no point in the entire story will the Ancestor make anything but the worst possible decisions. I'm a ways further ahead from the LP and I'm killing all rank 3 bosses. Holy gently caress are those final reveals of how the prophet etc came to be awful.
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Oct 13, 2016 16:59
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Aww, Piggly 12-thru-2833. 
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Oct 13, 2016 21:25
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Man, I wish the exchange rate for the pound wasn't in the shitter or I'd get that in a heartbeat. Convert your savings to dollars right now. You'll thank me later.
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Oct 14, 2016 08:43
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so here's a trick to the Shambler: if you flee from the battle, you flee to the last room you visited. So what you do is you get to the shambler's altar, go past it to the next room, then double back. This way if the battle goes terribly, you can flee, camp and still continue the dungeon (although tbh I don't think there are many shambler fights that don't end with all members afflicted/heroic).
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Oct 14, 2016 20:40
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edit: beaten like Lucien in a dark damp cave
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Oct 14, 2016 21:53
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Mzbundifund posted:My favorite is the Hag's cauldron, which is enemy type CROCKERY. There's a unique one that's my favorite but we won't be seeing it for a long time.
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Oct 17, 2016 23:36
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Krumbsthumbs posted:The music boxes drop from fights with the crazy insane asylum dudes. It has a very low chance to pop up. Way to break the law of averages. Frankly, I'd rather have the boxes than the heads. Well, except for Julia's head. Once I have that I pretty much never do a run without it on my healer.
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Oct 18, 2016 00:02
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Err, Highwang, have you finished this game? Because your mistrust of dodge is pretty much anathema to how I manage my heroes - even low-dodge characters get +dodge items & perks in my runs.
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Oct 24, 2016 22:03
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Night10194 posted:I'm still catching up, but I see that Highwang has now discovered why Arablest+Occultist are BFFs forever. all-mark parties (arbalest-occultist-houndmaster-bounty hunter) are amazing
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Oct 24, 2016 22:06
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FisheyStix posted:Maybe it's just a lame highdea, but I like how the power differential between healing classes is a subtle reflection of the world of Darkest Dungeon. The plague doctor and the arbalest are the weakest healers- the power of man is weakest, but it has its place. Next, the vestal has healing powers through whatever benevolent god or gods watch over everything. And while that power is benevolent, and always benevolent, it doesn't hold a candle to the weird eldrich power that the occultist wields. Because whatever THAT is, it can heal incredible amounts of damage.... when it wants. And it might just have you pay a price anyway, out of spite. You're forgetting the healing power of the Crusader - not that it ever amounts to much, it's on par with the arbalest basically.
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Oct 25, 2016 11:33
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Night10194 posted:Arbalest's heal is useful to have for two reasons: First, she has some really great +Heal trinkets unique to her (she has a +33% one) that ALSO affects her Camping Heal which can save a party from a run that's going bad in a jiffy. Second, the +Heal buff and the fact that her heal is extremely reliable helps her cover for her Good Buddy Occultist, who is her best friend forever. She provides a nice 'I absolutely can't afford to roll a 0 on this' backup option, plus the +Heal buff will turbocharge his healing if you really need to spend 2 actions trying to get someone back from a devastating crit or something (or just have a turn to burn). Better than having 4 runs in where at least 2 people came back with the Red Plague. Every. time.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:11
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It's weird - highwang always camps before a boss, when dealing with a stress-heavy boss like this one (and the drowned crew) I will almost always camp after the fight for some good stress heal. Also always drop shovels first if you've scouted first - they have no notable curios anywhere worth the effort double nine fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Oct 28, 2016 21:45
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Highwang posted:I mainly do it for the buffs. Things like Restring Crossbow and Battle Trance can really break a fight if you prepare a cleansing as well like we've been doing. when dealing with most of the bosses I agree - the two warrens & cove bosses, siren, necromancer - but with the prophet and drowned crew I favor the stress heal over the combat buffs Also there are 18 pages for 4 short stories to be found. have fun ruining a lot of heroes going through book stacks and bookcases for those worthless scraps of paper double nine fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Oct 28, 2016 21:50
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Ashsaber posted:I hope you're happy. I had no real interest in Darkest Dungeon, but I've watched every video up to the Shambler fight that went disastrously, and had the game on my wishlist for a while. Today it was 40% off for Halloween and I snatched it right up. Be wary, triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall.
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Oct 28, 2016 22:59
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inthesto posted:I've pretty much learned all my tricks from this LP, and I'm down with camping before the boss fight too. Depending on your party loadout, it makes damage racing bosses almost too easy. u sure on the accuracy? I've gotten several holy scrolls/harvests/flashing daggers where only one enemy got hit.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:19
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what about crit chance? Does that also roll once?
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Oct 28, 2016 23:26
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Highwang posted:Waiting on my Employee of the Month statue from Red Hook Studios. given red hook's rather sadistic sense of humor - are you sure you want them to reward you?
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Oct 29, 2016 19:50
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I was going to write another chapter in The Book Of gently caress This poo poo (by K. Dragoon), but I was just gifted a copy of the game. in before tpk
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Oct 29, 2016 20:44
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:If you run away from a quest, do you get to keep your loot? you keep everything in your inventory but you forego the victory rewards, so you'll probably lose money if you do that (but you won't lose a hero ... normally anyway) e;fb
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Oct 29, 2016 21:41
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Highwang posted:I believe after every fight, each hero can eat up to 4 snacks at a time. I rarely consume food to heal though, its mainly a buffer against bad gameplay ideas. come on man, a little starvation never killed anyone.
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Nov 1, 2016 01:18
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... that town event is why I always beeline for lvl 2 treatment ward. It doesn't matter that it's probably a wasted investment, it just feels so good getting 2/3 heroes' quirks locked in.
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Nov 4, 2016 21:20
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Lord_Magmar posted:The other use of the Jester is he has the most movement skills in the game I'm pretty sure, so you can use him to put people under the rubble who'll be able to survive it, but that's not a very good use of him anyway so he's still the worst class to bring. better to bring a houndmaster with protect ally then.
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Samovar posted:Just started playing the game. it's got that dark souls hard where it's brutal until you see the code. After that it's just punishingly difficult.
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Nov 6, 2016 12:37
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the vestal is the good cop (pious, prayer, holy inspiration) to the plague doctor's bad cop (blight, drugs, plague association) - both healers. The Crusader is the Good cop to the bandit's bad cop. Both brawlers. I'd guess.
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On the topic of supplies and other info, I've made an excel file with all the stuff I regularly look up when playing the game. Might as well share. https://www.dropbox.com/s/yaaiqqaqvv8y7if/Darkest.xlsm?dl=0 download it, dropbox' online display messes with the formatting a little. Also mostly is just info from the wiki I copy-pasted that I didn't want to open every time I wanted to look something up; the provisions are taken from Damp's spreadsheet. One run you'll end up with too many bandages or whatever but overall I found it a good resource. I've taken a break from the game so this is just rotting on my hard drive. Might as well share. double nine fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 21:42
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Those are the best. Have you checked his grave yet? huh. Makes me wonder what the description is from a death caused by a Siren-controlled party member.
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Nov 14, 2016 23:17
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So using the bonfire at the end of a dungeon is really good because you can get a lot of stress relief. HOWEVER this is only really useful if: - you're going to use the same team in the next dungeon - you don't have a drat JESTER TO DEAL WITH STRESS RELIEF. 
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Nov 19, 2016 23:51
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Eating none of them.
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Highwang that was an incredibly fun fight. Never 100% optimize again. so here's something different: there's a streamer/youtuber called DDRJake who does weekly challenges. Basically the format is that you can suggest a game with a goal for a single session - beat super mario 64 in under 4 hours, kill the FTL final boss without upgrading X, stuff like that. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. What would be a doable and fun challenge for Darkest Dungeon for someone who afaik has never come into contact with it? I was thinking a "no-deaths" run but imo that forces a boring and defensive playstyle. The game also doesn't pace itself easily for a boss-run. Basically I'm thinking of an end goal to work towards that's difficult but doable, and maybe a gimmick that makes it more entertaining to watch without being crippling for a newbie. Is it possible to kill 1 boss per biome (4 bosses) within 3 hours for someone who knows jack-all about the game?
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Highwang posted:To wit: I wonder if Tapeworm and Stress Eater stack? I've never had that poo poo a luck. Yes. Yes they do. I've experienced both. And got both on a single person during a run. gently caress the warrens.
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my favorite is forgetting shovels. "Okay, I think I've got everything. Holy water and bandages for curios, food aplenty, two stacks obv, oh poo poo, almost forgot torches. Right, I think that's everything. Let's go!". Queue 4 crumbling walls within 3 rooms.
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JT Jag posted:I'm pretty sure I'd just abandon the mission the moment I walked up to the first wall and realized I lacked a shovel, presuming it's still early what kind of quitter talk is that??! We'll make it to the end of the mission, drat you, even if it costs the lot of you your sanity! And half of you your lives. (they had unupgraded gear and skills so no money was lost)
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You're not cursed highwang, you just had 0 ability to hit the back row stress dealers and the weald enemy parties tends to throw a lot of heavy meatshields in front - in addition to that, with the antiquarian in tow you have no offensive value whatsoever and her defensive passives aren't particularly great unless you stack dodge buffs IMO. In other words, your team sucked for this location. But this is darkest dungeon so it's to be expected. On an entirely different note, how the hell are you having so many crashes? I've dumped more than 150 hours into this game and it's crashed maybe 2 times or so.
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Lol, a possessed vestal will still increase torch light when she uses illumination, benefiting the player. (25mins in) It makes a certain amount of sense, but given I've internalised that more torchlight == benefits player, I'd have assumed that the devs would have inverted it. Also guard will fail when you try to guard someone who's already guarded, and when you try to guard someone who is guarding someone else (so no houndmaster protecting a man-at-arms protecting a hellion who's protecting an antiquarian). What, you haven't tried this?! double nine fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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You know how you can get a better chance of the shambler showing up? Dark runs. You should do dark runs, highwang. Do it. Doooooooiiiiiiit.
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... does the next video have friends visiting?
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Night10194 posted:Occultist can have many friends. Does he have many cheeses?
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Night10194 posted:The Darkest Dungeon combat theme is goddamn awesome. it's my second favorite combat theme in the game. edit: okay, where's the static images from? There was a cthuhlu-esque image, something resembling the Flesh, and some other images that may or may not be background images from darkest dungeon double nine fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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I liked the double team smackdown? Highwang didn't seem too perturbed with it and it felt like 't was in jest to me...
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