Darkest Dungeon

Ronne_sl said:

Yea, it stacks, butadditive, not multiplicative. So say a monster hits for 100 damage and you hit him 3 times with -30% damage debuffs, they do stack, and this debuffs him to 70 damage, then to ~50, then to ~35, removing 30% from his current damage each stack. If stuff stacked multiplicative he'd just get a flat -90% to his 100 damage and hit for 10, which would be broke as fuck. Same goes for bleed/blights, you can stack up multiple blights for 5 damage per stack, but a blight fo 5 and a blight of 5 isn't gonna multiply to a blight of 25.

Same is true for buffs. If you do a bunch of camp buff stacking for +damage, combined with trinkets and get your Hellion to +100% damage, she doesn't just do double damage, she does way more than that. It adds them in whatever buff % they are, so if she starts at 100 and gets +20% damage from 3 different places, she goes to like 100 base > 120 > 144 > 172, rather than just going to 160.

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Yeah. It's definitely got some FFT going on. Need my elevation skill up.

I'm probably sure this doesn't exist as I've looked around but on the off chance that I missed it does anyone know if there is a mod out there that disables combat animations? I played the heck out of this game in early access and I noticed it then but after a few hours now I can't stand how slow combat is; I'm sure that half my time playing is tied up in the animations and it's getting tiresome.

Don't summon a shambler in champion dungeons. Just don't.

It's almost as if it's fine-tuned.... the very last Veteran boss I kill gives me the deeds needed to finish the blacksmith.

And I'm almost out of Veteran heroes as well. Everyone else is already a champion.

Let's see how Champion Dungeons go in the release version

Should i bother mopping up all the lv1 boss quests?

Hot damn Occultist/Houndsmaster/Grave Robber/Vestal is so godly. Finally got a Cleansing Crystal, but don't actually really want to put it on my Occultist just to prevent the bleed from happening when it lowers his debuff chance so severely. His debuff is amazing, but not as good as Vestal's. I just did a Long Veteran mission with those 4 and they all left with less than 5 stress with 0 Torches. Only got a couple diseases on my Grave Robber, which I could have cured if I remembered a camping skill. I've stopped using the Jester now that I've gotten better with party compositions, debuffs and other stress reducing mechanics. I like it better without him, he's quite boring unless you are running some crazy composition where your party is constantly bouncing around, that might be fun.

I actually think I'm going to "cheat" and modify some stack sizes in the game files though. I think it's really dumb that you have quests where you start with 3 items or have to get 3 items and none of them stack. Combine that with other small stack sizes and Trapezohedron and it's just a bit ridiculous. I think I'll make Oil Paintings stack to 8, Food to 20, Trapezohedron to 3, Gold to 30,000 and all quest items to 3. I appreciate the inventory management part of the game, but I believe it's a little too severe.

So modifying stack sizes was exceptionally easy. It's all labeled really nicely as well. If you think inventory management is too severe too, just go into C:/Program Files 86/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Inventory. And then change the values as I've done here. Food (provision)/Gold is toward the top, which I did after this screenshot. Works like a charm! I basically just doubled everything, except quest items and Trapezohedrons, which I set to 3. I still want to struggle with inventory management, but I just don't want it to be as painful as it was before. After finishing a Long dungeon, I still had to discard around 9000 gold in stuff, possibly a little more. So I think that's still fair.

What a fucking disappointing end the Darkest Dungeon is. I probably won't even bother finishing this.

Anyone have a list of the Kickstarter backer hero names/trinket names? All I've found is a Plague Doctor one. She's pretty cool though, comes with Evasive and Steady locked in. It's cheating, but I want to try a new run and I don't mind using some Kickstarter heroes/trinkets.

Found it. Only took 12 different google search combinations:

Backer heroes - Official Darkest Dungeon Wiki

DD Backer Trinkets - Google ???

The subreddit is pretty active. Been getting almost all my info from there.

Most recent patch reduced exp needed for resolve 4/5/6. Lots of complaints about how that does nothing given the still absurd deed requirements for Blacksmith.

Morrow_sl said:

Hot damn Occultist/Houndsmaster/Grave Robber/Vestal is so godly. Finally got a Cleansing Crystal, but don't actually really want to put it on my Occultist just to prevent the bleed from happening when it lowers his debuff chance so severely. His debuff is amazing, but not as good as Vestal's.

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Does anyone actually use the Vestal Debuff though? It requires her being in the front 2 slots, and then she can't heal Or does her heal not scale well later in the game and she's useless for that purpose?

It still seems like the Occultist would have the better debuff, it's -10% more damage reduction at each skill level.

joeboo_sl said:

Does anyone actually use the Vestal Debuff though? It requires her being in the front 2 slots, and then she can't heal Or does her heal not scale well later in the game and she's useless for that purpose?

It still seems like the Occultist would have the better debuff, it's -10% more damage reduction at each skill level.

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She pairs well with the Occultist. You can double debuff and/or use damage dealing abilities with both of them. They make sure nobody dies. Also, with two healing trinkets, her group heal does ridiculous amounts. It's not rare for even a level 3 Vestal to heal everyone for 7.

moontayle_sl said:

The subreddit is pretty active. Been getting almost all my info from there.

Most recent patch reduced exp needed for resolve 4/5/6. Lots of complaints about how that does nothing given the still absurd deed requirements for Blacksmith.

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Lost my first level 6 today. Was my favorite one too, my Grave Robber with On Guard, Evasive and ranged crit locked in. I think they shoulda increased exp for level 3-4 and reduced 5-6.

More Darkest Dungeon rantings:

There's mods out for the game, though I haven't really checked any out. If the games moddable, I'd think someone may have made a way to get around that. I also agree I don't like the design decision that your heroes are temporarily usable even if they succeed. Losing your heroes because they die or go insane is fine. Losing them because you beat a dungeon is wtf.

I continued now with my champion only roster. Immediately lost one to the hag, and another to a shaman stress attack. I've burned through 150k to outfit enough characters for champion dungeons, and now I'm broke again. I'm this tempted to apply those mods mentioned earlier to stack more money, the money grind is still just as real as before. Secret rooms are so fucking rare now that even with an ancestors map + explorer quirk you don't scout half the time.

Sinzar_sl said:

There's mods out for the game, though I haven't really checked any out. If the games moddable, I'd think someone may have made a way to get around that. I also agree I don't like the design decision that your heroes are temporarily usable even if they succeed. Losing your heroes because they die or go insane is fine. Losing them because you beat a dungeon is wtf.

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I'm sure there's a legit mod out there for it, but if you want to make it so you can go into lower level dungeons with your higher level chars, you can go to your steamapps/common/DarkestDungeon/campaign/quest/quest.json file and at the very end change the numbers to be:

They will still bark at being too high level but you can use them in your party no problem.

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