Leper and You | Darkest Dungeon 2 Guide
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- In this guide, I talk about the Leper. It covers everything from his skills and paths to trinkets and teams. One thing I did forget since it's so easy to miss is that under the "Conditions" tab, you can see that Leper has a % chance at the start of combat to get 1 or 2 blind tokens. So if he starts blinded and you're confused, that's why :P
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0:00 Intro
0:13 Strengths
1:05 Weaknesses
2:05 How to Play
2:43 Skills and Paths
14:14 Trinkets
18:19 Teammates and Outro 
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After learning leper's lore i can see why people see him as the "Chad" of darkest dungeon.
>Became a king that was kind to his people
>Caught a disease for being so nice
>Stopped an assassination attempt while alone and half-blind
>Refused to elaborate further
>Leaves, sent off by a parade of grateful citizens.
I doubt anyone could name a cooler backstory from this series, or, hell, even from other franchises.
@@aegisScale My man's only reason for being with the group of ragtag idiots is that he contracted an incurable disease, AND HE'S STILL ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
He's here for purely benevolent reasons.
The sweetest man you know is coming to murder your greatest failures and save the world, and all he asks is for you to point him to the thing so his big fuckoff sword doesn't hit the pavement.
@@aegisScalein DD1 comic strip, unlike other character's comics, his final shot has the white halo that's associated with being virtuous instead of the usual iron crown
@@aegisScale I can do you one better:
>Raised his potential heir to be just as based as himself
Long live the Chad Leper
Another Strength is that in his first reflection battle his ability is quite literally The Chad Stride.
Monarch would be great if instead of +2 speed they gave +80% debuff resist.
Then the path would be useful.
Much like he said, I just can't convince myself that running an enemy specific path is a good idea, especially with the built-in negatives. Definitely agree with you, though.
@@travisunderwood7898 People sometimes argue that cosmic enemies are the only enemies that matter, but you still have to battle at least one region boss before coming to the mountain. And that is very difficult to do with a dead weight Leper. Can spam vulnerable with Intimidate on the Librarian (and take away the dodge tokens) for sure, but the rest are just too rough. I guess Leviathan wouldn't be so bad if the big guy took him instead of one of the others? I dunno.
@@masterblaster2678Here’s your solution: A, preferably DOT, team against the General. You can poke the Taproot with Intimidate, which’ll bait attacks to him. Don’t need to do that? Use Purge! It applies Vulnerable now, so it’ll help out other units!
Rot Squad (PD/GR/Flag/Leper) is fantastic. I actually beat Act 2 for the first time with it today. Go Blight, give it a shot.
Each of these class guides are gonna say "another great teammate for ___ is Man-at-Arms" because Man-at-Arms is insanely good
Some won't! MAAs guide might say he's good with anyone though lol
Because Man at Arms is the GOAT, the GOAT.
MaA decided he was done having his quality be _arguable._
Every team benefits from that one dude who can't fucking die.
@@chadhardt6136 specifically the one dude that doesn't die AND throws himself in front of you whenever the enemy DARES to think about hitting someone else.
I always take "Break" in "The Tangle" vs the 2x armor soldiers, i think thats the best place for that ability.
I used it to get through part of the Ambition final boss where it gained block+ per turn, it really sped up the fight while giving me massive momentum.
I wish monarch gave him 100% ignore/resist blind when fighting cosmic enemies. Then he could effectively get the full value when he’s in a cosmic fight.
i just started playing dd2, but my go to backline with leper is occultist. Demonic pull gives leper access to combo'd backline squishy enemies
This is affectionately called "feed the leper" lol. It's a really good strat.
@@ShuffleFM I remember this term from DD1 LMAO
yea, played "The Meatgrinder" (occ, jest, hwm, leper) a bit. great fun, though it was a bit of a struggle to maintain jester on pos3/4 for stress healing and keep the hwm alive on pos2. what does the rest of your comp look like?
@@dasZecke92 chop leper, 2nd rank occultist with range damage path, virtuoso jester, and the blight path plague doctor. Most fights is kill the back line, then deal with the front.
@@stevenmandziuk7733 nice, thanks. I think I'll try that, probably with healer path PD though
I love his Simple Flower Trinket against Leviathan. As Poet is pretty difficult to move so if the Hand keeps using Batter against him he becomes night unkillable.
Interesting. I find Break super useful in fights where enemies stack block and super block which makes my Chop hit about as hard as Break, except Chop would only take away one armor stack.
Cleansing Clasp is also a good trinket on him, is usually guaranteed to take off the blind as you usually always have > 25 baubles
maniac flag seems to go well as you can just sap all the blind tokens amongst others and just put them on enemies instead
Woah, thank you so much for the pace of uploads! You rock!
Been waiting a year to make these so I gotta do my best for y'all who stuck by me :)
Biggest tip
Totally hidden mechanic means that Leper is guaranteed to get blind tokens any time you get crit or strength 😭
Real?
@@BassRukarioGuerrero no
@@awesomepork101 i cant confirm, but i think the self blind token got the -20% resist from the crits
@@anton28710 nope, crits only pierce DoT resists (yes, that means your crit daemon's pulls and weakening curses aren't actually helping)
Your videos have helped me so much. Quite grateful for the high quality content
The best change from DD1 to this is the fact that he doesn't T pose anymore when hit, that was always so strange lol
Hard disagree. Chad Leper shows his dominance to the weak enemies by T-posing when hit.
@@zer0stars okay nevermind you are right lmao
That's him welcoming the hit or just straight up letting himself get hit since the disease lowers his ability to feel pain.
I've only just unlocked all his skills, Leper either seems to be quite mediocre or with the right items/buffs pretty damn strong (e.g. critting 50-60's on the regular)
The trinket that gives +66% crit when you are blinded is pretty nuts on him, though most stained items are eh. Usually take stun or bleed resist.
personally I think Leper should also ignore blind if he has a token of some sort, maybe this could be changed via a trinket, so a whole move/s isn't overbuffed.
For example one trinket could allow Leper to ignore blind if he has a strength token, but the downside to this trinket is that strength no longer increases his damage by 50% (and maybe have a second upside that makes combo tokens increase his damage by 50% instead :/)
Personally I think his combo consuming abilities should give him better crit, either through that trinket you mentioned or on mastery. That way it doesn't feel like you're wasting combo.
In my last run i had a Tempest Leper with Cruel Intent and a combo based team and it was so much fun. Long live King Baldwin.
The pain train
Thank you for hovering over the tooltips.
I always use Jester with Leper in the group but nowadays i started using Vestal as well and Consecration of Light feels so good on him, giving him extra turns with Jester really makes Leper a great Chop spammer. Only downside is that i feel like my party is too heavily focused on him as a carry sometimes so if he gets CC-d or i can't reach the enemy, that kinda sucks. Great vid as always!
I always have the most fun with leper playing tempest and stacking up as much debuff resist as possible between trinkets and the slime pet. If you rarely have to worry about blindness tokens, he starts to feel like more than half of a character.
actual tip not found in descriptions, you can use some items that target enemies to consume the blind instead of the blind removing item, way more useful.
Also 2 weakness 1 vulnerable plus 2 taunt to self is not deadweight, he got corpse clear, he got a self heal to tank those taunts it's pretty good.
I'm late to commenting on this but just in case, Ruin+'s bleed doesn't get nullified by bodkin afaik, so you can use Ruin+ with bodkin just fine (it has a pretty good synergy since it'll nullify/reduce other incoming bleeds while giving you extra actions from Ruin+)
I use MAA's command to cure blindness and give attack to Leper, then use consecration of light for the attack and maybe crit.
This is a good guide to have an idea of how to play Leper, my only small complain about this is that you do not have access to all the skills right away (unlike in DD1 where you can purchase them)
You have to go through the hero shrine until you get the skills you want or need for the set up
luckily, half the skills you want to keep already are unlocked
One run i had a Lethal Feint Leper with Calibrating Censer so i would just have him miss one round, get crit and strength, and every time i readied up another chop, my mind would always provide the sound of a gun cocking as he lifts his arm up
where did you get the crit from?
@@BankruptGreek lethal feint gives a critical token on miss
Occultist works pretty well with Leper for no other reason than pulling backline to the front and marking them all at once to just keep the chop machine going
You can even use Stars to apply combo to an extremely beefy frontliner like a boss to just pile on a buncha damage at once (as if Burning Stars wasn't cracked enough already💀).
Burning stars is so pushed that it singlehandedly turns occultist from fun but rng-fest character, to a fun rng-fest that can also just unexist the nearest annoyance.
Don't know if you already covered this topic, but I would like to see a video where you talk about the gameplay differences between DD1 and DD2 and your opinion on them, such as campaign progression (such as 5 chapters instead of one big campaign and the carriage vs dungeon topic), characters and Hamlet/altar progression (difference between altar and Hamlet as permanent upgrades and how you unlock new abilities and upgrades for heroes) and core combat ( such as removal of dodge, acc and prot in exchange of tokens and combo, enemies deathblow resist and more corpses interactions) and maybe other stuff like trinkets and enemies combat design.
You certainly see all the time people saying how bad DD2 is compared to the first game, but the truth is that it is a very different yet familiar structure and gameplay, and the combat feels weirdly much more complex and simple (or straight forward) at the same time.
I really like the difference between the 2 games, and I don't think any is superior than the other, both are enjoyable with different but familiar structures and design, but I would like to see your opinion on it and see what people think of this topic
one of m'y favorite teams so far is chopp lepper upfront, riposte man at arms, then maniac flagellant and guard vestal in the back
In the early access if you give ruin leper an extra turn to cast ruin a second time you can keep the buff from the previous ruin making him keep the buff for 6 turns.
One neat little pairing I found is Leper and Occultist.
My favorite combo is demon's pull into chop.
I literally had no idea 2 dazes caused stunned, now with this newfound knowledge, I can actually play the game.
I’ve found that the lure trinket (can’t remember what it’s called) works well with Poet Leper for tanking. It often procs for me when I click intimidate for triple taunt with withstand active. And he takes basically no damage while drawing most of the aggro.
Hello Shuffle FM just wanted to tell you that the 3 Boss got reworked and your guide with the taunt no longer works.
I think a new one would be great contend.
Thank your for all the great videos.
You made my return to playing DD way more fun, your altar of hope and the Hero best build guide was super helpful..
Maniac Flag with Lepper is funny, Flag’s punish when upgraded inflicts Combo or if you don’t want to upgrade it, Lashes gift eats Lepper’s blinds which you can then Sepsis onto an enemy.
Hoping for vestal soon, her bonk setup seems kinda crazy on paper
I don’t know if I’m crazy, but it seems like chop/hew doesn’t consume the combo token if the leper manages to resist the blinding effect, or it could be that he wasn’t blinded when the attack lands. It’s a nice little thing to have even if the blinding chance are still quite high even with upgrades
You probably confirmed it by now, but yes if the leper is not currently blinded he won't consume combo tokens.
Make vids like this for every character right now please. Thanks I’ll wait
The Giga Chad of Darkest Dungeon has returned
I might be weird, but I prefer Poet path over Tempest, and for these reasons: 1) Poet can tank, self heal and stress heal incredibly effectively - I mean, you almost never attack (I don't count Intimidate), but he's close to immortal and the rest of the group can chill out and even the healers and stress healers can focus more on dmg. 2) You almost never lose a round by being stunned or moved, which is the most annoying thing. 3) He works better with any group, because he doesn't need that much support as Tempest. He does everything he needs himself - but I do recommend to group up with Nightsworn, because speedy Repartee makes him even better tank.
I'm very fond of using Occultist with Leper. Debuff and combo enemies, yank squishy backliners forward for Leper to chop.
I didn't realize the Monarch reduced damage for chop outside of cultist encounters. I really need to read these paths more carefully, I thought was low rolling every time
Occultist I feel is also good with leper because he can mark enemies and also debuff them with weakness and the 50%more damage.
The Chad, the KING, THE MAN!
The team i run with leper is jester ocultist runaway and leper
ocultist being able to get rid of corpses and get a backliner on front and putting a combo is perfect for leper
ive been using poet leper/examinate flag/grave robber/alchemist pd as a big dot team while leper spams withstand and bash to tank, its been doing really well
Grave Robber- Surgeon PD - Runaway - Leper here. Rainbow DOTs everywhere. Absolutely massacred the first act boss.
I used this team for the Grand Slam Achievement. 10/10. Highly reccomended
Great video as always and even greater with timestamps hahaha!
I remember using Leper for the first time and thinking he was really bad compared to his DD1 version, but after putting him with a combo team (Runaway and Highwayman), he was a lot better and a lot of fun to use, despite the damage still being a bit underwhelming.
Leper is one of the coolest looking characters. I wonder what happened to the Abomination. Such a fucking cool idea and so well done on DD1. Anyone would know and would mind replying?
I had a Leper the other day with a couple of +dmg quirks, cultist trinket that gives +dmg for each negative token, he was chopping for 80+ dmg. Such a chad.
Leper w/ MaA, Runaway, and Jester actually sounds really fun
I really like running Maniac Flagellant with him and just removing his Blind with Lash's Gift.
Very good video and good insight. please make one for flag as well.
Already did :) ruclips.net/video/mBkP0AiWrTc/видео.html
Be easy on the dude's low resists, he is a very sickly man
Tank Leper is probably my favorite playstyle for him.
with what skills?
I like to pair leper with a maniac flagellant to steal debuffs as well as combo
So would flag be a strong teammate because with one of his paths he can take negative tokens from his teammates and then sepsis them onto others, plus he has stress heals, strong healing, and dots for strong dps support, plus taunt for when leper needs to heal
Oh yes definitely. Shuff said this too on stream, don't know why it didn't make it into the video though.
My current 'slap team' is Vestal, Dismas, Jester, Leper with Dismas opening 90% fights with upgraded riposte move. Love em, got me through act two no problem currently slapping away act 3 in first try, mid way through.
Currently running that team myself. Although I think I prefer Doctor, Robber, Jester, Leper set up more after playing it.
Grave robber's pirouette and corpse clearing by dead of night is so useful for keeping Leper constantly fighting
Plague doctor for healing away blindness if I can't use Jester for whatever reason via stun, daze, etc along with DOT
What's your Dismas set up? I'm finding that he keeps on pushing Leper out of position one by riposte.
Leper gets pushed to position two, then Jester at position 3 activates due to high speed and then I have to make a decision to either advance and set up Finale while forgoing Leper turn, or I force the leper back in with battle ballad or encoring Dismas.
It always feels like I'm giving up something.
@@HellecticMojo I put highway man at 3rd spot and start 99% of fights with the riposte move. Makes him go forward to 2nd, Jester takes 3rd. IF leper gets blind or every 3-4 turns Id do jesters melee that moves him forward and mark the target. Then Dismas is back in 3rd and ready for next riposte set up.
Hail to the king!
Leper clutch 80 dmg with chop is the most beatiful thing i've seen in this game
the legend of chad thundercock continues
Good to see Leper is no longer "chop + solemnity" the character lol
I just use the milk soaked linen for leper works like a charm
Perfect time for me. Literally playing with Leper, Flag, Vestal, and Plague doctor. Maniac Flag to take away his blinds and stick them on enemies and Seraph Vestal to give him crit
Who's stress healing?
Leper likes the censer trinkets a lot imo
What´s with the little skull icons over some of the characters at the bottom?
be aware Cruel intent (blind gives crit) is kinda bad on Tempest path because of the debuff resist, it feels like you only get a blind about half or a third of the time and then crit only 70% of those. If you got 2 alternative trinkets for 30-40% more damage it's going to be way more consistent with less need for marking enemies.
I mean... Correct? The debuff resist does end up close to 66 (2/3)
Im using HWM with Tracking Shot and its pretty gud, but haven't tried any other heroes yet
Monarch Leper is good but you need to carry him to the end, when he becomes an absolute beast
Long live the king
I love monarch leper, he's carried a few of my runs, and i completely disagree that he's dead weight in normal fights. He's still a great tank with health easily in the 40s or 50s with food, and the intimidate spam makes sure everyone is weakened and attacking him. Plus speed in cultist fights is great if you just know not to use slow trinkets on him
I agree. My dislike comes from my muscle memory needing to flip. I end up forgetting to use chop on cosmic first round or use chop on normies first round and feel like a colossal doofus.
After 1.0 and changes to cultists break is now actually really good, you should try it
Poet is spamming bash mpnarch still sucks
Wow i never realized movement resist was so bad in dd2. 30 seems to be the max across all characters without paths. I wouldn't actually call his bad because he upgrades later to normal move resist.
Why would you prefer to take Runaway over Plague Doctor? Asking out of curiosity I just started playing
On blind I typically just pop Ruin for that turn. I typically run Vestal, Jester, Runaway, and Chad.
I owe my first clear of Denial to Leper. Got cultist trinket that gives 66% crit at the cost of constant blind. I had Jester on the team with Leper. 'nough said.
Had a fun run where i built around my jester largely, runaways smokebomb was a carry since i could ignore blinds and when i couldn't id just lasha's gift with flag, worked well enough but far from a meta build
Long live the king
One time I got a trait where he loses all debuff tokens at the start of a turn if I have 25 relics
I hope next video with Highwayman and You it will be just 10 second video with telling you to pick Sharpshoot and spam take aim with pistol shot lol.
I love leper ngl, i think my highest hit with him was 79 crit i believe, so satisfying
I run from back to front grave robber, plauge doctor, highwayman, and leper
sraph vestal and any occultist
make him a powerhouse
Just ran a GR - MAA - Flag - Leper combo just for fun but ended up killing all region bosses in one run ._. Currently at the mountain with this team but I have high hopes since this team turned antiquarian fight into a pillow slap from the pillagers. And there's extra mastery points i can't spend to add to that
I just set up my leper so that there was no way he could get the blind token (about 98% debuff resist with the path and trinket choices, and more with reflection ofc) and oh, +10% extra crit chance. It's nice having a Leper slap a +/-50 DMG crit two turns in a row after Ruin
You forgot an amazing ATIQ trinket, that at the start of turn removes negative token
True!
why is break a bad move? it seems like a great way to deal with armor. deal normal attack damage while removing all armor tokens, other options require a damage-less turn (like occ hex) or just doing partial damage to remove tokens one at a time.
Self blind to remove armor when there aren't too many instances of it being critically important
@@ShuffleFM armors easy to ignore but i find negating it can rlly help damage efficiency, i see 3+ enemies per area with >1 armor tokens, would rather risk blind than be forced to have multiple attacks debuffed. Thanks for reply
Watching this made me realize how in the current state of the game tanks are not very efficient outside road fights. There are so many aoes and multi turns per round that even with taunt you can't really tank all hits. Yes you consolidate damage somewhat but then it pushes you to heal the tank more often forcing two players (healer and tank) to not deal damage as a result.
Can he resist his own blind? If yes how does it work? if i upgrade chop and give him 60%+ debuff resistance does this mean he can't blind himself?
He can resist it. It's a normal debuff resist check, so 100-resist
@@ShuffleFM Thanks!
Been wanting to run cruel intentionally leper with duelist ignore blind skill. Seems more consistent than combo
Duelist didn't exist when I made this :P
@@ShuffleFM i know bud. I just got around to watching the vid though...lol. haven't seen anyone mention yet but I guess you'd have to bank on getting that trinket with the comp already set up.
Fog before Sunrise
Seems like Monarch is a great commander.
My man Shuff disrespecting Break, how could you? I've been hitting like the 20s on Break through Block+, something which the rest of Leper's kit can't do. I mean, with how much more prevalent Block has become on Cultist fights compared to before, it's really important to chew through quickly for fast kills.
Ruin doesn't add up mathematically for me. So you lose 1 turn of dealing damage because you used ruin, which is equal to 100% of a dmg skill. And instead you get 3 turns +20% dmg which is in total 60% of extra dmg, which is less than the 100% if you'd just use a dmg skill instead. Did I miss something?
He can get hit multiple times and charge it. Ruin+ also bleeds him to stack it higher. It can get to 100% or high during 1 use
Honestly, my hot take is that there is never a reason to NOT have Solemnity. It's just SO good.
2 daze become a stun!?
hay i notice that Leper might have this flesh eating sickness in germany we call it "Lepra". Miiiight be the cause of his non existent reistences....imean you can pull the flesh right off , poor guy
What exactly does crit do in dd2 ?
150% of the attack's max damage + ignores 20% resistances like Deathblow resist and DoTs
guaranteed 2x damage on hit
also heals 1 stress
@@suco0110 not 2x, 1.5x max damage (which is why crit is so good for leper, average chop+ is 11 damage but crit chop+ is 16*1.5=24 damage, over twice as much)
@@aws6900 it only gives DoT res Pierce, doesn't help stun/debuff/move/DB res. For the best, since most bosses like critting heros on DD.
First and foremost, friendship with Monarch ended, Tempest Old King's Court (Jestal-MAA-LEP) gang rise up. Man, that's upsetting, I always thought 100% damage bonus overrides the regular decrease. Why would you run a situational +25% when there's a constant +33%? Not to mention Lair Bosses ain't considered Cosmic. Genuinely hope that's an ovelooked coding error by RedHook and not the intended behaviour, cause the latter is Yellowhand levels of stupid
Disagree a tiny bit with Intimidate, new Sluice is spooky enough to sometimes warrant an upgrade + Wharf Rats also go into stealth. Not saying prioritizing Intimidate upgrade over, say, Solemnity is better, but it has its place depending on who you run with Baldwin, mostly (usually should be either a Tracking shot, Hearthlight or Illuminate alongside him to remove the need for upgrading).
Considering how Ruin's +DMG buff tooltip is misleading ATM and only works for 3 turns instead of 1 Battle (Red Hook pls either fix description or make it 1 use battle-long), the best way to use Encore on leper is after he's used his natural 3rd turn, assuming you popped Ruin as Leper's very first action. This way, Ruin has already come off cooldown, but Ruin's buff didn't expire yet and thus gets a 6 turn duration with a second use. Got some dummy big damage that way on Denial locks before they remade Infernal torch being 1 flame at all times and Lurker got useless as a perk
Also, off-topic question: do you know what's the base scouting chance is and does Childish Shamblino put it into negative values? Been wondeing if getting Unabridged Edition evens it out or not
Unabridged specifically negates Shambly's downside. So it returns you to base scout chance.
@@josh___something Ayy nice, thanks
Long live Baldwin IV the Leper King!!
The self blinding really nerfed Leper from the beast he was in DD1
On the contrary, Debuff resistance(or combo tokens) allows the Leper to once again cleave apart enemy teams with Chop.
After the first turn(or ON the first turn, if you have a combat item to waste a blind), Tempest leper can just cruise through most fights without needing more combo. Chop+ 60% blind + Leper's 53/63%* debuff res + 50% hit chance on blind = 90% hit chance for the succeeding hits, more if you have burner combat items like linseed oil and caltrops, or just milk rags.
*If you memory a leper with +10% debuff res
Me running damage poet whenever i use leper