Strangely enough, the CV collector lineup is one of the best for this level (in my opinion), two riposties, as HWM and frontline support MaA, with Vestal being main healer, and Anti for Dodge bluffs, and forced guard (the rest of which going to preference) in conclusion, I'm fighting the shuffling horror as a mini-collector.
I went into this blind with my team of Hellion, Houndmaster, Vestal and Plague Doctor (armor still lv4 btw). Barely survived with 4 afflictions and Plague Doctor chilling at death door around 5 times in the boss room, despite my Vestal having both Sacred Scroll and Junia's Head equipped (that's an extra 66% healing skills !) and everyone else having a book of sanity with them. In the end it was the blight and bleed that killed the boss (still have no idea how she managed to stack 3 consecutive blight on that thing). Skipped the treasure room but at least everyone got out alive so im happy with that. At first i tried to not spoil the darkest dungeon for myself, but after this and knowing the second quest is gonna be a long one, i think i'm fine with spoilers now.
I found it interesting that once you completed this mission you will find that sometimes the character icons will turn into monsters. Some may found it disgusting but it is just awesome .
I did this blind for the first time, big mistake. Here was my loadout: Arbelast Vestal Crusader Leper Lost everybody execpt for Ravioli the Leper, who came in clutch with a crit. You will all be missed, Belt, Mallory, and SirComplainsALot.
having a healer and two position dependent characters into a fight that shuffles heroes around is a recipe for disaster. I’m not gonna blame for not foreseeing that, but that’s the only thing that could’ve been forseen by the name of the boss
I run a Ocult, Jester, Highwayman and Man at arms, pretty good overall until the the healer do the mighty Bleed and 0 heal . No deaths but a heart attack on myself.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming My main comp is Ocult, Reynauld, Dismas and a Leper. Insane damage and the stress is easily controllable with critics and banner. Good luck.
It's a little funny: in three trips through here, I have never camped in the recommended room...I always do it in the treasure room or the final room before the end, since I always want to be sure that last hallway fight doesn't pile too much garbage on me before getting to the main event.
This maximizes the fights, however you can keep the campfire as a safety net for sure! I personally like using all 4 fights from the campfire, but it is more risky because it is a main source of stress removal.
Thanks for the guide, it helped a lot. Concise and well explained! I finished the quest with a grave robber + occultist + crusader + hellion team, it was a bit sweaty due to rng but still surprisingly easy and fun. The occultist had been in my Hamlet since the first weeks, died, got revived in that town event, proceded to go on many more missions and now survived the Darkest Dungeon itself. Absolute legend. I love these little stories of sorts you get while playing and the fact that there really isn't a "meta" team in this game.
This guide made me realize Vestal is a huge trap in this dungeon. Doesn't bring any damage, and while she can top everyone off, can't do anything about the stress. I think next time I will bring Highwayman instead, focus more on ACC equipment, and make my Man-at-Arms have a more aggressive set-up. Thank you for putting this together! This dungeon is honestly stressful more because I don't want to grind people back to rank 6 and get the accessories I need, hahahahah
I finished the first DD quest. My team comp was (from rank 1 to 4): -BH: Ancestor's pen + Flesh's Heart -Hwm: Ancestor's Signed Ring+ Gunslinger's Buckle Jester: Tambourine + Bleed Amulet (The amulet went crazy) -Vestal: Bloodthirst Ring (i know you didn't like the ring, but i love it on my Vestal lol) + Junia's Head. It was surprisingly easy! Battle Ballad, Ancestor's pen and the mark synergy with highwayman / BH made the dungeon pretty relaxed. The witch were a little problematic but the bright tambourine helped a lot. I even defeated the boss with Jester's finale for 51 damage. The funny part is that one time i summoned the Shambler with the same Jester. The Shambler defeated Dismas and 1 Hellion. But the Jester had a Virtue and used finale for 50 if i remember correctly. My boi Canaigres (Jester) created 2 of my most beautiful and hyped memories from Darkest Dungeon. Man i love this game so much.
I've never tackled this dungeon without a stress healer - in fact I always go with Jester and Hound Master - so it's interesting to see it done a different way. The Highwayman looks perfect.
3 Highwaymen get this done actually quite well. The raw damage Output is just insanely high. The only downside is that you have to occupy 3 roster Slots with hwm. Hellion is also really good here from my experience
The hellion would be excellent for this dungeon, and I probably would replace the bounty hunter with her if I had a second chance. The only reason why I would be nervous about 3 highwayman in this dungeon is because I really like one for the final and third.
This was HUGE help :) never knew there was a select chosen path. Thank you so much for this and as time goes on will enjoy seeing this same style guide for the 2nd and finally the 3rd level.
I'm watching this after going in blind (I guess I just like the experience that way) with a Vestal, Highwayman, Hellion and Graverobber. The Hellion (my fav for a long time, her name is Britney Bitch) ramped up 195 stress at the end of the boss fight and I was praying not to lose her! Thank god I got out okay. Great video btw.
finished this level with Occultist, 2 Highwayman and Crusader yesterday after watching this guide. Got very lucky when my crusader hit 100 stress early on in the dungeon because of The Finger but turned out to be powerful instead of an affliction. Anyway thanks for this tips!
Just did the dungeon for the first time after watching this, crusader, shield breaker, occultist and vestal. Had 2 on deaths door during the horror fight and then lost two before the horror even died. The last two (occultist and crusader) were BOTH on deaths door against priest and both died before they could kill it. Lost one of my best parties ever... But hey, completed the quest and got like 5 achievements for heart attack death, team wipe, surviving 5 deaths door and other stuff I can't remember.
The first time I fought this boss, I went in blind, I had a party of 2 MAA, a BH, and a vestal, 2 of them died on the boss fight (forgot who), but it was worth it. I was surprised, I thought that all enemies there would be immune to stun, tanky, with high prot and hp, and be stupidly high physical and stress damaging, but they were surprisingly manageable. The difficulty spikes up in the next missions. Spoiler for next bosses: Revelation squads strat: Equip 3 with special torch trinket, use a MAA to guard the trinketless hero revelation deals high stress damage, and as stress reduction caps at 80%, revelation hurts your head even with the special torch trinket (but that allows you to use ancestor trinkets or the abomination resistance camp skill without any drawbacks, as 80% stress reduction is the cap, so anything that increases stress up to 20% has no effect on the stress you receive from revelation ) The big cancer beholder thingy strat: The dungeon is big, like BIG There are 2 cancer beholders in the dungeon, they’ll be in specific spots that you can find in the wiki if you are not in the mood to explore the big dungeon, but I’d explore it, it’s the last and only giant mission in the base game, so enjoy it, if you are in radiant and have a full roster of heroes, send a party to explore there before killing the bosses after finding out that the cancer beholder was a coward and had a high chance to run away every turn, I brought a hellion with iron swan to hit and a BH to stun the little guy (the weird little guy is the one that allows it to run away), then the fight was manageable, laser hurts though I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO FIND HIM AFTER HE RUNS AWAY, the dungeon is really big, so DON’T LET HIM GO, if you let him go, I’d say you just lost 15 minutes of your life and a lot of food, and supplies, and gold, a lot of gold. Now real spoiler Against final boss strat: you may look at the mission menu and see it is considered a short mission , and you may think that there’s a catch (like the shrieker short mission, where you start in the boss fight), you would be incorrect, so buy food, imagine passing 2 hunger checks on your way to the boss, and pathetically losing 2 heroes in phase one and getting one affliction to top it off, losing everyone, unlocking that cool achievement. The boss has 4 phases, better plan ahead, spend all your money on things to help, except shovels and laudanum, don’t forget to soft reset the mission until you get a critical scout, the devs put a Easter egg in there for you. you’ll automatically lose 1 to 2 (2 is most likely to happen) heroes, unless you fight with only 2 heroes (a guy killed him with only reyrey and dismas, look it up on RUclips) or cheese the fourth phase with a leper or jester (look for guides on RUclips), so don’t be stupid, let your front row guys with self sustain alive and kill the back row healer/ support when they politely ask you to kill someone bring tons of bandaids and antivenom, be prepared as he deals high stress damage, bleed and blight, bring heroes that damage all positions for phase 2 (like the leper, but in all seriousness, I brought a leper and I was fine, self sustain rules in phase 4), phase one is easy, just kill the clones he summons, the real one is invulnerable, but killing his friends will make him sad, hurting his feelings, triggering phase 2 phase 2 sucks (big stress and damage), the boss gets taller (not joking), and he summons the broken furniture from the prophet fight, but the furniture is invincible now and is called absolute nothingness (you can in theory kill them, but it’s stupid, and you’ll get nothing from that, you need to land 100+ hits triggered by the fated quirk, which would probably take 1000+ attacks if you are lucky ), so you’ll have to target the boss directly, and he changes positions every turn, so a highwayman, a BH or a hellion help a lot phase 3 is just a window to heal (just hit him to heal, but you’ll get blighted, no really, it’s weird), so relax a little, his attacks in phase 3 are not annoying, if you made this far without losing anyone, pat yourself on the back, because you’ll shortly have to choose 2 of them. after 1 or 2 turns of easy blights and easy heals, phase 4 starts, you’ll lose 2 heroes during this phase, so don’t kill dismas or reyrey for the chievo, leper and crusader (not reynauld, too risky) are both good here, as self sustain is great, just keep chopping and smiting the boss until he dies. Even more spoilers up ahead: After he dies, he is dead, kinda, and you win, kinda.
I finally grew balls to go in DD for the first time :D jester, position 2 ocultist and double BontyHounter. Their stun slap is amazing at denying damage and bleed
My plan for the first mission after the catastrophe that was my very first try is: Shieldbreaker, Grave Robber, Crusader (obviously not my boy Reynauld) and an Occultist. The composition is basically one that can hit any rank hard. I locked and unholy hater on the Crusader I’ll take so that he can basically one-shot the Rapturous. Shieldbreaker is to hit any rank especially with her shard trinket as well as ignore prot, move around and hit with blight and shield herself. Crusader is the most tag of this tag team because Holy Lance will launch him into an offensive while having both healing skills in case gamble healer does bad. Occultist is to provide debuffs against the ascended brawlers and priests, with a +healing skill trinket I can rig hid healing combined with his shard trinket to protect him against the Horror snd the priests. The Grave Robber will actually be the heavy hitter because of Shadow+Lunge with one of her CC trinkets she can pull of up to 66 crit which is basically a “Come Unto your Maker” against the enemies there, with her potion buff and pick attack, she’ll pretty much be unstoppable
It worked flawlessly! No one even reached death’s door or the resolve test, they just plowed through most of the enemies without trouble and ironically Death Lash turned out to be a bigger problem than The Finger or Fate’s Reveal
I first did this dungeon with an Occ, PD, Abom, and Hel, actually went pretty well surprisingly, even though I forgot to equip the proper skills. Only problem, is all the stress targeted the Occultist, and he had to tank two heart attacks and some bleed, surprisingly, he lived. So, all in all, I need to stop stressing myself the hell out about high-level areas, else I'm gonna start hitting deaths door.
I was able to do it pushing with an Abomination spamming rake, a Crusader with healing and stress healing trinkets spamming healing, an Occultist with healing and debuff trinkets and a Plague Doc to buff the Abomination and remove bleeding. Was tense but thanks to the route I made it nicely.
Man I just finished my first try and I was 2hp from beating the boss my loadout was: Crusader Highwayman Vestal Man at Arms To add insult to injury right after coming back empty handed the Shrieker stole 6 of my trinkets so now I gotta deal with that. On the plus side I got the "What is already dead cannot die" and "Valiant Sacrifice" achievements so it wasn't a total loss.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming yeah, I’m on my third day and the stress management is the biggest hurdle in having, Nothing a night in the sanatarium can’t fix, though I’ll definitely get back to you if I need any help, I appreciate the input
@@jackofastora8962 tbh i had to play the game once,get my ass wreck,quit for month and come back to be good at the game(also not playing the crimson court is a good idea)
Feels like the Grave Robber should work fine here. Purging Bleed/Blight at least the one time per battle, pierce against the boss and being a flexible 1-2 position so the Shieldbreaker fits in nicely as well. Jester on 3 and Vestal/Occu on 4 seem obvious.
I went in with and Occultist, jester, highwayman, and hellion. Every single one died but the occultist killed the shrieking horror so we did succeed in the quest. Damn I feel like a shit player tho...
Do not worry, the first level of the darkest dungeon is on par for the hardest next to the second level. My first time through was no cake walk and I had to back out once and almost lost someone my second time through, so it is natural!
Went in blind on my first time with Crusader, Highwayman, Plague Doctor and Vestal. Didn't even make it to the boss, totally underestimated bleed and stress healing...
Just did this. Went in with one torch. I thought it was some sort of blood torch. Everyone died... two from heart attacks at zero hp. One of those had two heart attacks after two enemy attacks. I reached the boss, at least. Bring torches.
Just beated the boss for the very first time with the same comp, I strugled a bit before the boss, but in the end somengoodncrits made the job. Congrats for your videos, they helped me a lot.
I have to go in with stygian difficulty and I’m definitely bringing vestal and highwayman. There is a problem with two other party members. I have a houndmaster 2 crusaders 2 highwaymen 2 hellions a PD an occultist a GR a jester 2 bountyhunters I really need to know which two other party members would be the most safe and efficient way of tackling both the dungeon and SH. I want least risk with highest output, with the least chance of death’s door. I can take any trinket, quirks don’t matter much and I can buy any camp skill. I really need help because losing to it would be a major setback, please help, I’m on week 53 and Vvulf being a huge asshole doesn’t spawn even with a more than 36% chance, my fucking nerves are on fire
So the biggest thing is the mixing. A PD would get mixed and melted too badly. I am almost thinking a 2nd hwy saving the last one for the fourth dungeon. Occultist would be best in the 2nd dungeon. Crusader could have holy lance but may be a bit slow for this dungeon. I would be between a crusader and a bounty hunter with Mark. The biggest flaw would be 0 stress heals with the BH. It would have to be a fast line up and good campfire skills.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I think I could brink candle and crescendo box for crusader for dmg and speed buff. It would be a safer option second hmw sound good, he is a great damage dealer and riposte will melt SH. I’m not sure about bringing a BH into first dungeon since his mark needs an additional round to place and then to hit, plus SH has two turns in one round, making mark disappear quickly so if the team comp Vestal, HMW, HMW, crusader on cocaine?
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming aye I got it. I was shit scared but I steamrolled it all. Thank you, this wouldn’t have been possible without your help edit: bruh literally right after the dd, Vvulf decided to attack. Like actually the worst timing. I hope it’s not too much to ask for help a bit?
I think the wall works better in the other 3 dungeons. Having slower heroes that rely on not being shuffled is bad for this dungeon. I worry it would take too much stress damage before the final fight and then be shuffled too much. The leper and vestal have a high probability of being useless in the final fight. You will want heroes that can be useful at any row or have great shuffle abilities.
@FU6713 this dungeon out of all them relies on speed and versatility. I'm not sure what heroes you have but often I like highwaymen and maa for riposte. I've never tried a GR but she wouldn't be terrible. Having a vestal isn't bad if other people are faster than her and can move her back. The maa and highwayman can move forward so can a crusader. I don't mind a crusader vestal here but the other two can't be slow. So I would do a highwayman with a crusader and probably leave out a maa. The last option could be grave robber, shield breaker if you have the dlc, bounty hunter would be iffy, and a hound master may not be bad due to the row versatility and ability to protect. Abominations, arbalest, abominations, antiquarians, and bounty hunters either don't have the damage or suffer from being shuffled.
You could try the jester here. Have them increase the speed and move back forth with Dirk stab/finale. You can try the wall, it just may take a while for the final fight. The leper will be the key damage dealer and getting him reliably to second position may be difficult. With some decent RNG you could melt the boss via riposte and big criticals.
Man. I got distracted watching this video and accidentally entered the level WITHOUT ITEMS just 4 food and 3 holy water from the crusaders and vestal. almost, ALMOST everyone made it out alive, but the fricking vestal died on bleed, just 1 turn away from victory (the percentage on "death's door" is a lie, died on the first hit of bleed)
I just lost 2 legends a bounty hunter and a vestel, like some of my favorite heroes, somehow both Dismas AND Reynauld finished the job themselves, if they died i probably woulda quit ngl
How do you equip trinkets? How do you get more hp or level up? I need a basic, basic guide! I just keep getting new crew because my players keep dying. I don’t understand removing afflictions, etc. where is a very basic guide? Thanks
i went into this dungon blindly whit maxed out heres abilitys and speels as crusader.houndmaser.a healer.and musketer everything was going well until randomly the houndmaster gets 3 crits in a row on him and a bleed and insantly dies on the next turn it was so traumatizing to watch XD
I accidentally brought Reynauld in but that is a different highwayman than Dismas. I also have the achievement already so it was not much missed on my end.
Dang, as you can see in the video I had a deaths door as well. The first level is easily 2nd hardest if not tied for the hardest darkest dungeon level. Sorry about the hero deaths
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I just went in with a shieldbreaker, Occultist, Highwayman, and Jester and had no difficulty at all. This guide definitely helped thanks
Idk how you managed stress with a bounty hunter, highway man, occulist and crusader. I went in with that exact team you had and they all got too 100 stress and failed their resolve. Not 1 passed....and 2 died. hmmm
For the most part, cultist witches will have to be killed first (holy lance, riposte, pull, collect bounty) and then stun control the enemies from the cultist robe guys down to regular damage individuals. Finger of death is painful and if you can stun them every other turn as you heal is the best scenario. The campfire is also major in resetting your stress level. The only real campfire skill you need is the more melee damage onto the highwayman, the other 8 points can be stress heal and eat the maximum food. If you have books of sanity, -20% will also be huge.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I went back in with a hellion, master of arms. jester and occultist and some stress trinkets and had way better success. It was kinda of easy tbh. Thanks
Well nowhere near ready for the endgame but i did learn somthing i wish id known from the start kek i may be retarded but didnt know you could even use items during a characters turn without ending that characters turn and i feel quite dumb
i personaly dont like guides because i m looking for tips, for me its more about finding what X person thing about characters/trinkets/abilities its alvays worth to discover something new and guides are prepared video shorter than 50 episodes series with whatever commentary, for me letsplays from DD are not very enjoyable to watch
Don’t forget to bring your antiquarian.
Gold is your priority. Always.
Gold is king!
Strangely enough, the CV collector lineup is one of the best for this level (in my opinion), two riposties, as HWM and frontline support MaA, with Vestal being main healer, and Anti for Dodge bluffs, and forced guard (the rest of which going to preference) in conclusion, I'm fighting the shuffling horror as a mini-collector.
Houndmaster is your Therapist must need lol
I first read "God is your priority."
I thought this was a guide to beat the darkest dungeon with level 1 heroes, lol
Lol not quite sorry!
DD with level 1 heroes involves a lot more praying lmao
I thought it's a beginners guide but it's a Progress Noob guide instead ;D
I could give you a great guide:
1)pray
2)repeat until success
3)profit
I went into this blind with my team of Hellion, Houndmaster, Vestal and Plague Doctor (armor still lv4 btw). Barely survived with 4 afflictions and Plague Doctor chilling at death door around 5 times in the boss room, despite my Vestal having both Sacred Scroll and Junia's Head equipped (that's an extra 66% healing skills !) and everyone else having a book of sanity with them.
In the end it was the blight and bleed that killed the boss (still have no idea how she managed to stack 3 consecutive blight on that thing). Skipped the treasure room but at least everyone got out alive so im happy with that.
At first i tried to not spoil the darkest dungeon for myself, but after this and knowing the second quest is gonna be a long one, i think i'm fine with spoilers now.
Thank you for watching and I would argue that the second dungeon is probably the hardest even with spoilers.
yeah this game is not the best to go for full blind. Having to risk at least 1 hero of 6th level because of unforseen gimmick is very time consuming
I found it interesting that once you completed this mission you will find that sometimes the character icons will turn into monsters.
Some may found it disgusting but it is just awesome .
The characters icons do that and there are some quick animations on the dungeon map as well. It's a cool feature for sure.
I did this blind for the first time, big mistake. Here was my loadout:
Arbelast
Vestal
Crusader
Leper
Lost everybody execpt for Ravioli the Leper, who came in clutch with a crit. You will all be missed, Belt, Mallory, and SirComplainsALot.
Yeah the arbalest would be rough for the final fight with the shuffling.
They been missed..
(Peaking on Graveyard with a tons of fallen sacri.... I mean heroes)
On my blind run I stumbled into the boss room intending to rest in there it was quite a surprise
@@rarecactus6012 Uups. Oh Lord.
having a healer and two position dependent characters into a fight that shuffles heroes around is a recipe for disaster. I’m not gonna blame for not foreseeing that, but that’s the only thing that could’ve been forseen by the name of the boss
I run a Ocult, Jester, Highwayman and Man at arms, pretty good overall until the the healer do the mighty Bleed and 0 heal .
No deaths but a heart attack on myself.
Awesome! I am learning some new team comps from people and I definitely have to give it a try next time.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming My main comp is Ocult, Reynauld, Dismas and a Leper. Insane damage and the stress is easily controllable with critics and banner.
Good luck.
Bring plenty of bandages for healing the bleed and holy waters to prevent it! Good luck.
It's a little funny: in three trips through here, I have never camped in the recommended room...I always do it in the treasure room or the final room before the end, since I always want to be sure that last hallway fight doesn't pile too much garbage on me before getting to the main event.
This maximizes the fights, however you can keep the campfire as a safety net for sure! I personally like using all 4 fights from the campfire, but it is more risky because it is a main source of stress removal.
Thanks for the guide, it helped a lot. Concise and well explained!
I finished the quest with a grave robber + occultist + crusader + hellion team, it was a bit sweaty due to rng but still surprisingly easy and fun. The occultist had been in my Hamlet since the first weeks, died, got revived in that town event, proceded to go on many more missions and now survived the Darkest Dungeon itself. Absolute legend. I love these little stories of sorts you get while playing and the fact that there really isn't a "meta" team in this game.
I'm glad it helped!
This guide made me realize Vestal is a huge trap in this dungeon. Doesn't bring any damage, and while she can top everyone off, can't do anything about the stress. I think next time I will bring Highwayman instead, focus more on ACC equipment, and make my Man-at-Arms have a more aggressive set-up.
Thank you for putting this together! This dungeon is honestly stressful more because I don't want to grind people back to rank 6 and get the accessories I need, hahahahah
The vestal can be a little bit of trap because she is slower and less damage for sure. Thank you for watching and posting your experience!
also the fact that because of her, my inventory is always cluttered by uneaten food. It’s honestly better to rely on supplies rather than battle heal
I finished the first DD quest. My team comp was (from rank 1 to 4):
-BH: Ancestor's pen + Flesh's Heart
-Hwm: Ancestor's Signed Ring+ Gunslinger's Buckle
Jester: Tambourine + Bleed Amulet (The amulet went crazy)
-Vestal: Bloodthirst Ring (i know you didn't like the ring, but i love it on my Vestal lol) + Junia's Head.
It was surprisingly easy! Battle Ballad, Ancestor's pen and the mark synergy with highwayman / BH made the dungeon pretty relaxed. The witch were a little problematic but the bright tambourine helped a lot.
I even defeated the boss with Jester's finale for 51 damage. The funny part is that one time i summoned the Shambler with the same Jester. The Shambler defeated Dismas and 1 Hellion. But the Jester had a Virtue and used finale for 50 if i remember correctly.
My boi Canaigres (Jester) created 2 of my most beautiful and hyped memories from Darkest Dungeon. Man i love this game so much.
It's a very good game and thank you for sharing!
I've never tackled this dungeon without a stress healer - in fact I always go with Jester and Hound Master - so it's interesting to see it done a different way. The Highwayman looks perfect.
He's really strong for the first one but yeah I felt the effects of not having a primary stress healer for sure :(.
3 Highwaymen get this done actually quite well. The raw damage Output is just insanely high. The only downside is that you have to occupy 3 roster Slots with hwm. Hellion is also really good here from my experience
The hellion would be excellent for this dungeon, and I probably would replace the bounty hunter with her if I had a second chance. The only reason why I would be nervous about 3 highwayman in this dungeon is because I really like one for the final and third.
highwaymen are on a league of their own so yeah.
This was HUGE help :) never knew there was a select chosen path. Thank you so much for this and as time goes on will enjoy seeing this same style guide for the 2nd and finally the 3rd level.
It is the path I choose, but I think it avoids must of the heaviest stress fights, but the path can be subjective depending on your party.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming It is a godsend :) so happy your doing it for all 3 levels.
I have existing videos for the other 2. I'll try to get them into a playlist soon.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming wonderful!!
"Darkets"
I appreciate all of these guides thanks Squidz
Thank you for pointing that out! Hopefully that'll update quickly and you are welcome.
I'm watching this after going in blind (I guess I just like the experience that way) with a Vestal, Highwayman, Hellion and Graverobber. The Hellion (my fav for a long time, her name is Britney Bitch) ramped up 195 stress at the end of the boss fight and I was praying not to lose her! Thank god I got out okay. Great video btw.
Thank you for watching!
I just used this guide to complete the first darkest dungeon thank you it helped a lot
I am glad it did!
finished this level with Occultist, 2 Highwayman and Crusader yesterday after watching this guide. Got very lucky when my crusader hit 100 stress early on in the dungeon because of The Finger but turned out to be powerful instead of an affliction. Anyway thanks for this tips!
The finger ability can be a little rng dependent because a critical or focus fire can really hurt. I am glad it worked though!
Just did the dungeon for the first time after watching this, crusader, shield breaker, occultist and vestal. Had 2 on deaths door during the horror fight and then lost two before the horror even died. The last two (occultist and crusader) were BOTH on deaths door against priest and both died before they could kill it. Lost one of my best parties ever... But hey, completed the quest and got like 5 achievements for heart attack death, team wipe, surviving 5 deaths door and other stuff I can't remember.
I'm glad it worked out in its own weird way. It's a tough mission for sure.
The first time I fought this boss, I went in blind, I had a party of 2 MAA, a BH, and a vestal, 2 of them died on the boss fight (forgot who), but it was worth it. I was surprised, I thought that all enemies there would be immune to stun, tanky, with high prot and hp, and be stupidly high physical and stress damaging, but they were surprisingly manageable. The difficulty spikes up in the next missions.
Spoiler for next bosses:
Revelation squads strat:
Equip 3 with special torch trinket, use a MAA to guard the trinketless hero
revelation deals high stress damage, and as stress reduction caps at 80%, revelation hurts your head even with the special torch trinket
(but that allows you to use ancestor trinkets or the abomination resistance camp skill without any drawbacks, as 80% stress reduction is the cap, so anything that increases stress up to 20% has no effect on the stress you receive from revelation )
The big cancer beholder thingy strat:
The dungeon is big, like BIG
There are 2 cancer beholders in the dungeon, they’ll be in specific spots that you can find in the wiki if you are not in the mood to explore the big dungeon, but I’d explore it, it’s the last and only giant mission in the base game, so enjoy it, if you are in radiant and have a full roster of heroes, send a party to explore there before killing the bosses
after finding out that the cancer beholder was a coward and had a high chance to run away every turn, I brought a hellion with iron swan to hit and a BH to stun the little guy (the weird little guy is the one that allows it to run away), then the fight was manageable, laser hurts though
I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO FIND HIM AFTER HE RUNS AWAY, the dungeon is really big, so DON’T LET HIM GO, if you let him go, I’d say you just lost 15 minutes of your life and a lot of food, and supplies, and gold, a lot of gold.
Now real spoiler
Against final boss strat: you may look at the mission menu and see it is considered a short mission , and you may think that there’s a catch (like the shrieker short mission, where you start in the boss fight), you would be incorrect, so buy food, imagine passing 2 hunger checks on your way to the boss, and pathetically losing 2 heroes in phase one and getting one affliction to top it off, losing everyone, unlocking that cool achievement.
The boss has 4 phases, better plan ahead, spend all your money on things to help, except shovels and laudanum, don’t forget to soft reset the mission until you get a critical scout, the devs put a Easter egg in there for you.
you’ll automatically lose 1 to 2 (2 is most likely to happen) heroes, unless you fight with only 2 heroes (a guy killed him with only reyrey and dismas, look it up on RUclips) or cheese the fourth phase with a leper or jester (look for guides on RUclips), so don’t be stupid, let your front row guys with self sustain alive and kill the back row healer/ support when they politely ask you to kill someone
bring tons of bandaids and antivenom, be prepared as he deals high stress damage, bleed and blight,
bring heroes that damage all positions for phase 2 (like the leper, but in all seriousness, I brought a leper and I was fine, self sustain rules in phase 4),
phase one is easy, just kill the clones he summons, the real one is invulnerable, but killing his friends will make him sad, hurting his feelings, triggering phase 2
phase 2 sucks (big stress and damage), the boss gets taller (not joking), and he summons the broken furniture from the prophet fight, but the furniture is invincible now and is called absolute nothingness (you can in theory kill them, but it’s stupid, and you’ll get nothing from that, you need to land 100+ hits triggered by the fated quirk, which would probably take 1000+ attacks if you are lucky ),
so you’ll have to target the boss directly, and he changes positions every turn, so a highwayman, a BH or a hellion help a lot
phase 3 is just a window to heal (just hit him to heal, but you’ll get blighted, no really, it’s weird), so relax a little, his attacks in phase 3 are not annoying, if you made this far without losing anyone, pat yourself on the back, because you’ll shortly have to choose 2 of them.
after 1 or 2 turns of easy blights and easy heals, phase 4 starts, you’ll lose 2 heroes during this phase, so don’t kill dismas or reyrey for the chievo, leper and crusader (not reynauld, too risky) are both good here, as self sustain is great, just keep chopping and smiting the boss until he dies.
Even more spoilers up ahead:
After he dies, he is dead, kinda, and you win, kinda.
Thank you for your post and the tips it provides!
HiDdeN SQuiDZ Gaming
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these tips saved me from losing for the 3rd attempt so thanks for the great guide!
You are welcome! I am glad it could help.
I finally grew balls to go in DD for the first time :D jester, position 2 ocultist and double BontyHounter. Their stun slap is amazing at denying damage and bleed
Nvm, it was position 3 ocultist, BH cant punch from 3rd tile
The bounty hunter is definitely a hero I've used and I enjoyed his presence in here. Thank you for sharing!
3:11 The cultist priest looking at my Vestal: fuck you in particular
Poor vestals get chewed up in here.
My plan for the first mission after the catastrophe that was my very first try is: Shieldbreaker, Grave Robber, Crusader (obviously not my boy Reynauld) and an Occultist. The composition is basically one that can hit any rank hard. I locked and unholy hater on the Crusader I’ll take so that he can basically one-shot the Rapturous. Shieldbreaker is to hit any rank especially with her shard trinket as well as ignore prot, move around and hit with blight and shield herself. Crusader is the most tag of this tag team because Holy Lance will launch him into an offensive while having both healing skills in case gamble healer does bad. Occultist is to provide debuffs against the ascended brawlers and priests, with a +healing skill trinket I can rig hid healing combined with his shard trinket to protect him against the Horror snd the priests. The Grave Robber will actually be the heavy hitter because of Shadow+Lunge with one of her CC trinkets she can pull of up to 66 crit which is basically a “Come Unto your Maker” against the enemies there, with her potion buff and pick attack, she’ll pretty much be unstoppable
It worked flawlessly! No one even reached death’s door or the resolve test, they just plowed through most of the enemies without trouble and ironically Death Lash turned out to be a bigger problem than The Finger or Fate’s Reveal
Glad to hear and congratulations!
Hellion, Occultist, HWM and Jester made this mission a joke in my playthrough (darkest, normal settings).
amazing guide! Went in with Man-O, Vestal, Occult, and Jester was super easy barely an inconvenience😃
Awesome!
I first did this dungeon with an Occ, PD, Abom, and Hel, actually went pretty well surprisingly, even though I forgot to equip the proper skills. Only problem, is all the stress targeted the Occultist, and he had to tank two heart attacks and some bleed, surprisingly, he lived. So, all in all, I need to stop stressing myself the hell out about high-level areas, else I'm gonna start hitting deaths door.
I feel that pain when they focus one person with stress damage. Very annoying and can complicate your dungeon run rather quickly.
I was able to do it pushing with an Abomination spamming rake, a Crusader with healing and stress healing trinkets spamming healing, an Occultist with healing and debuff trinkets and a Plague Doc to buff the Abomination and remove bleeding. Was tense but thanks to the route I made it nicely.
Excellent! I am glad to hear the route worked.
Man I just finished my first try and I was 2hp from beating the boss my loadout was:
Crusader
Highwayman
Vestal
Man at Arms
To add insult to injury right after coming back empty handed the Shrieker stole 6 of my trinkets so now I gotta deal with that.
On the plus side I got the "What is already dead cannot die" and "Valiant Sacrifice" achievements so it wasn't a total loss.
Achievements are achievements! But I do understand your pain and how things like to pile on top of each other one after another.
I’ve recently gotten the game, and the rng is even worse then I thought, I can’t even breath without *PLUS 10939 STRESS ALL YOUR HEROES HAVE AIDS NOW*
It is a rough initial start for sure. As you progress, you learn how to minimize it a little more. Feel free to ask questions.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming yeah, I’m on my third day and the stress management is the biggest hurdle in having, Nothing a night in the sanatarium can’t fix, though I’ll definitely get back to you if I need any help, I appreciate the input
@@jackofastora8962 tbh i had to play the game once,get my ass wreck,quit for month and come back to be good at the game(also not playing the crimson court is a good idea)
Kinda late to party but thanks for the video man. it helped me a lot after a party wipe :D
I hate this game but I can't stop playing it
The game can be frustrating lol. I'm glad you're still playing
Feels like the Grave Robber should work fine here. Purging Bleed/Blight at least the one time per battle, pierce against the boss and being a flexible 1-2 position so the Shieldbreaker fits in nicely as well. Jester on 3 and Vestal/Occu on 4 seem obvious.
I have seen people use the GR before, but she doesnt fit into my playstyle most times.
You just gotta be careful about multiple priests fingering her
I went in with and Occultist, jester, highwayman, and hellion. Every single one died but the occultist killed the shrieking horror so we did succeed in the quest. Damn I feel like a shit player tho...
Do not worry, the first level of the darkest dungeon is on par for the hardest next to the second level. My first time through was no cake walk and I had to back out once and almost lost someone my second time through, so it is natural!
The only issue I have with this video is that it ended. :P Was fun watching that gameplay.
Haha thank you!
Thx to you I beated it on my first try!
Team: Jester, Abomination, Highwayman, Man at Arms.
Love your videos mate
Thank you so much and I'm glad you got it done!
went in blind
had my first party wipe. On top of that, they were level 6 Dismas, Reynauld, an Abomination and a Vestal
Dang sorry to hear. It's one of the most brutal levels if that makes you feel better.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming it does haha
thanks
hearing that intro jingle after a lvl 6 party wipe and needing help be like 👁👄👁
Haha I can understand that.
Went in blind on my first time with Crusader, Highwayman, Plague Doctor and Vestal. Didn't even make it to the boss, totally underestimated bleed and stress healing...
This is probably the 2nd hardest mission overall.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming SECOND?!
Haha yeah. The 2nd darkest dungeon is really rough.
Do u need shovels? I dont wanna end up getting a tonne of stress from an obstacle.
You do not need any shovels in there
HiDdeN SQuiDZ Gaming Cool, cheers 👍
Just did this. Went in with one torch. I thought it was some sort of blood torch. Everyone died... two from heart attacks at zero hp. One of those had two heart attacks after two enemy attacks. I reached the boss, at least.
Bring torches.
Oof yeah that's tough!
Just beated the boss for the very first time with the same comp, I strugled a bit before the boss, but in the end somengoodncrits made the job. Congrats for your videos, they helped me a lot.
I am glad they could help!
I have to go in with stygian difficulty and I’m definitely bringing vestal and highwayman. There is a problem with two other party members. I have
a houndmaster
2 crusaders
2 highwaymen
2 hellions
a PD
an occultist
a GR
a jester
2 bountyhunters
I really need to know which two other party members would be the most safe and efficient way of tackling both the dungeon and SH. I want least risk with highest output, with the least chance of death’s door. I can take any trinket, quirks don’t matter much and I can buy any camp skill. I really need help because losing to it would be a major setback, please help, I’m on week 53 and Vvulf being a huge asshole doesn’t spawn even with a more than 36% chance, my fucking nerves are on fire
So the biggest thing is the mixing. A PD would get mixed and melted too badly. I am almost thinking a 2nd hwy saving the last one for the fourth dungeon.
Occultist would be best in the 2nd dungeon. Crusader could have holy lance but may be a bit slow for this dungeon. I would be between a crusader and a bounty hunter with Mark.
The biggest flaw would be 0 stress heals with the BH. It would have to be a fast line up and good campfire skills.
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I think I could brink candle and crescendo box for crusader for dmg and speed buff. It would be a safer option
second hmw sound good, he is a great damage dealer and riposte will melt SH. I’m not sure about bringing a BH into first dungeon since his mark needs an additional round to place and then to hit, plus SH has two turns in one round, making mark disappear quickly
so if the team comp Vestal, HMW, HMW, crusader on cocaine?
I think that would work. You have a tank, 2 heals, a stress heals and massive riposte damage.
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thanks a lot, I’ll try that soon. 86 weeks really starting to get close
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aye I got it. I was shit scared but I steamrolled it all. Thank you, this wouldn’t have been possible without your help
edit: bruh literally right after the dd, Vvulf decided to attack. Like actually the worst timing. I hope it’s not too much to ask for help a bit?
Do you think the wall team comp is good for this mission?
I think the wall works better in the other 3 dungeons. Having slower heroes that rely on not being shuffled is bad for this dungeon.
I worry it would take too much stress damage before the final fight and then be shuffled too much. The leper and vestal have a high probability of being useless in the final fight. You will want heroes that can be useful at any row or have great shuffle abilities.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming damn might have to use something like final crusade to counter the shuffles
@FU6713 this dungeon out of all them relies on speed and versatility. I'm not sure what heroes you have but often I like highwaymen and maa for riposte. I've never tried a GR but she wouldn't be terrible. Having a vestal isn't bad if other people are faster than her and can move her back.
The maa and highwayman can move forward so can a crusader. I don't mind a crusader vestal here but the other two can't be slow. So I would do a highwayman with a crusader and probably leave out a maa. The last option could be grave robber, shield breaker if you have the dlc, bounty hunter would be iffy, and a hound master may not be bad due to the row versatility and ability to protect.
Abominations, arbalest, abominations, antiquarians, and bounty hunters either don't have the damage or suffer from being shuffled.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming All of my heroes are tanks apart from jester, bounty hunter and highway man lol.
You could try the jester here. Have them increase the speed and move back forth with Dirk stab/finale.
You can try the wall, it just may take a while for the final fight. The leper will be the key damage dealer and getting him reliably to second position may be difficult. With some decent RNG you could melt the boss via riposte and big criticals.
I wiped doing this the first time- brought both an arbalest and leper
That is the negative of going in blind. Hopefully your second time goes better.
It did, thanks to this guide! I'm gonna continue to go in blind- hopefully I don't need to come back for your walkthrough of the 2nd dungeon 😅
@garrettreven5144 glad to hear and good luck!
Man. I got distracted watching this video and accidentally entered the level WITHOUT ITEMS just 4 food and 3 holy water from the crusaders and vestal. almost, ALMOST everyone made it out alive, but the fricking vestal died on bleed, just 1 turn away from victory (the percentage on "death's door" is a lie, died on the first hit of bleed)
I've done that before. I'm glad you won though!
Been playing alot but idk whats the end goal here. is it just doing the darkest dungeon level?
Essentially. The game has 4 final levels.
Who else brought a leper on the SHUFFLING horror, I'm such an idiot
No worries I've done it before!
Is there a madman in the darkest dungeon level? Also do I need shovels
No madmen no shovels
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming thank you so munch for munch on the guide of the darkest dungeon level I manage to beat the game.
Of course and thank you for watching!
I just lost 2 legends a bounty hunter and a vestel, like some of my favorite heroes, somehow both Dismas AND Reynauld finished the job themselves, if they died i probably woulda quit ngl
I feel that. I actually stopped playing darkest dungeon for a little because of a few final dungeons. I am glad you stuck in there!
i brought a jester, occultist and two highywayman an they were soo strong it made the boss and the dungeon look ridiculous
thank you!
thank you for watching!
How do you equip trinkets? How do you get more hp or level up? I need a basic, basic guide! I just keep getting new crew because my players keep dying. I don’t understand removing afflictions, etc. where is a very basic guide? Thanks
I could make an extreme basics video just give me some time :)
i went into this dungon blindly whit maxed out heres abilitys and speels as crusader.houndmaser.a healer.and musketer everything was going well until randomly the houndmaster gets 3 crits in a row on him and a bleed and insantly dies on the next turn it was so traumatizing to watch XD
Yeah that's darkest dungeon in a nutshell. Things go well until they don't... Sorry to hear!
Why did you bring Reynauld and Dismas here instead of just using them against the final boss
I accidentally brought Reynauld in but that is a different highwayman than Dismas. I also have the achievement already so it was not much missed on my end.
This guide is really good but I got unlucky and lost 2 heroes now I am so fucking tilted lol
Dang, as you can see in the video I had a deaths door as well. The first level is easily 2nd hardest if not tied for the hardest darkest dungeon level. Sorry about the hero deaths
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I just went in with a shieldbreaker, Occultist, Highwayman, and Jester and had no difficulty at all. This guide definitely helped thanks
Idk how you managed stress with a bounty hunter, highway man, occulist and crusader. I went in with that exact team you had and they all got too 100 stress and failed their resolve. Not 1 passed....and 2 died. hmmm
For the most part, cultist witches will have to be killed first (holy lance, riposte, pull, collect bounty) and then stun control the enemies from the cultist robe guys down to regular damage individuals. Finger of death is painful and if you can stun them every other turn as you heal is the best scenario. The campfire is also major in resetting your stress level. The only real campfire skill you need is the more melee damage onto the highwayman, the other 8 points can be stress heal and eat the maximum food. If you have books of sanity, -20% will also be huge.
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I went back in with a hellion, master of arms. jester and occultist and some stress trinkets and had way better success. It was kinda of easy tbh. Thanks
1st try I lost my 4 legend RIP
2nd time i watched your video but i lost my 2 legend again I barely cried😭😢
Did you get past it though?
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming no but i almost did last one almost end rest of my legends
Heart attack is so annoying this is the reason why am I losing
I went in there with a leper, a vestal, a grave robber, and a highwayman, that was not fun
Leper is definitely rough for this level. That's the fun and unfortunate part of going in blind.
Well nowhere near ready for the endgame but i did learn somthing i wish id known from the start kek i may be retarded but didnt know you could even use items during a characters turn without ending that characters turn and i feel quite dumb
There's many subtle things in this game. You'll get the hang of it!
how about with 4 crusaders! O_O
Non stop holy lance sign me up!
Just lost my favorite team because I went in blind sad
Oof. Yeah it's a brutal first one for sure.
you can use a trainer instead
A trainer?
Pray for me I’m doing torchless and deathless
Good luck!
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming 😳 yeah just got reset yesterday I’m on week 4 right now
The game turns on you quick. Everything is going well and then one critical...
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming yeah I’m on my 16th attempt
@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming it also like 4 crits in a row
Please add subtitles, I can't hear anything.
Do the auto captions not Work?
I loved this game until I finally went into the Darkest Dungeon...FUCK this game!
They're really rough!
So many crits... Jesús.
It was some nice rng against the boss!
i personaly dont like guides because i m looking for tips, for me its more about finding what X person thing about characters/trinkets/abilities its alvays worth to discover something new
and guides are prepared video shorter than 50 episodes series with whatever commentary, for me letsplays from DD are not very enjoyable to watch