Darkest Dungeon

Regarding the darkest dungeon:

So I wanted to experiment with Virtue so I loaded up 3 brand new Abominations and a brand new Plague Doctor and went on a long Apprentice Weald mission. Brought along Ancestral 25% Virtue Trinket and the Kickstarter 25% Virtue trinket because why not. 2 of my Abominations had the +5% Virtue trait as well. Purposely got my first Abomination to 100 stress... Focused. Swapped the trinkets with the Plague Doctor because he had the 2nd highest stress, bam, Focused. Next Abomination, Courageous. Ran into a Shambler summoner thingy but waited to complete the mission and see if I could get my final Abom to become Virtuous. Ran between hallways until I got enough stress and bam, Focused. So I popped both my campfires right next to the Shambler alter and went in. It was an absolute slaughter. At one point one of my Abominations had +60% crit and +60 Accuracy just from Focused buffs alone. My first Abomination's Rake would insta clear the Capperclaw dudes before they could attack and my Plague Doctor just kept the Shambler blighted.

Was pretty damn fun. Wasn't sure if it was going to work, because I can't find base Virtue % anywhere. Some people say it is as low as 5% and others as high as 40%. With the 2 trinkets and the trait you are at +55%. It was a little bit of a pain swapping trinkets in between battles, but it was worth it. Killing The Shambler with 4 level 0's and no healer was great. The Kickstarter trinket is cheating I guess, but it's not that great, it's only 5% additional Virtue chance than another rare trinket and the -10% Stress Damage actually worked against me. So now I'm wondering if I was just lucky or if the Virtue mods scale higher than they appear to.

Have I killed The Shambler too many times or something? He just dropped 250 gold and a single Jade upon killing him in a Veteran dungeon. Last time he just dropped 1 Trapezohedron as well.

Also, here's an amazing mod made by an actual Darkest Dungeon dev:Welcome to Pitch Black Dungeon 5.0 - Delivered Unto Damnation : darkestdungeon

He's also made another one that is pretty amazing too. You'd be surprised how extensive the changes are. 70 different potions, every dungeon has a mini boss, etc. They *completely* change the game. The team is working on mod resources as their top priority right now, so we can expect to see some amazing mods for this game soon.



I am officially mega addicted to this game. I don't know why I enjoy it so much, but it's all I can play. I keep creating new saves and re-playing, and I haven't even touched the Darkest Dungeon yet. My newest save I am using Kickstarter trinkets and heroes just for fun to gear up thru the early game. I won't use any for Champion or higher dungeons though. But it's really fun to twink your heroes. There's over 270 kickstarter trinkets, but I've found the best ~20 or so. I'll post a list if anyone is interested. God I love running the Cove. I just had a Medium Cove mission where I was able to remove 5 negative quirks. It's definitely worth it to bring along curio supplies. I am getting a little annoyed at the quest system though. I've killed all Apprentice/Veteran bosses, and so far only 1 Champion boss mission has appeared. So I am running other random Champion missions on all 4 areas over and over again trying to get a boss mission to appear, but I am over a dozen missions in and I still can't get any to pop up other than The Hag Witch, whom I am avoiding do to PTSD the last time I had a full party wipe on her.

Bump. PLAY this game if you aren't. It is so good!! Modding is starting to happen and the possibilities are endless.

I wouldn't bother with the Pitch Black Dungeon mod at this point. It's just slamming your dick in the door levels of difficulty for no real return. All the class "rebalancing" it claims to have done is mostly just adding clears corpses to a few abilities and adding a bit of damage to a few skills, really nothing to write home about. Almost all the work appears to have gone in to making monsters in to various of levels of fuckery, like adding the siren charm to cultists, and making undead corpses all reanimate, or all the weald corpses cast blights at you every turn. I guess if you're super masochistic it might be fun?

The game sounds like something I should enjoy, but I really hate losing by design, even more by shitty RNG, so I'm pretty sure I would quit the moment my party dies. I'll probably get it on sale.

Wow I just realized that every single class has a unique and specific thing to say if you try and put them in a stress relief environment that they won't do. Flagellant Jester is by far the funniest. He talks of wanting to gaze down at pools of his own blood, and the pleasure of the whip, etc. Faithless Occultist is also my hero haha.

Ronne_sl said:

I wouldn't bother with the Pitch Black Dungeon mod at this point. It's just slamming your dick in the door levels of difficulty for no real return. All the class "rebalancing" it claims to have done is mostly just adding clears corpses to a few abilities and adding a bit of damage to a few skills, really nothing to write home about. Almost all the work appears to have gone in to making monsters in to various of levels of fuckery, like adding the siren charm to cultists, and making undead corpses all reanimate, or all the weald corpses cast blights at you every turn. I guess if you're super masochistic it might be fun?

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The other really cool mod is the one this guy did that improves on class versatility and class combinations. It's really amazing what they can do. It seems like modding this game is very easy and they are working on adding proper modding tools as well, which is really something special to look forward to. I can't wait. The design style of this game allows for some very grand, large mods that don't take an insane amount of time to create.

Lol it's crazy how much easier the game gets when you know what you're doing. When I first started the Apprentice Swing King guy messed me up. Now I just did the Champion one without taking a single point of damage from the Swing King. He was hitting for 0. I had him up to -305% damage -60 acc and -60% crit at one point. Love the different hero possibilities/combos. Full debuff party is fun. Arbalest/Occultist/Vestal/Leper. All with a different kind of increased chance to debuff trinket. Arbalest with her very rare bandana, occultist with his very rare cauldron, vestal with profane scroll and leper with a simple debuff amulet. Not a single debuff failed in over 12 rounds. So yeah when we were talking about this 2 weeks ago when I was new, yes, it's definitely possible to get him to 0 damage, even with the mark increasing his damage by 100%. I didn't heal once the entire fight. Just spammed debuffs until they eventually killed him. Which by the way, Swing King aside, it's a damn good party composition. All 4 characters can debuff, all 4 can heal, 2 can stun, 2 can mark, 2 can knockback/clear corpses. It's good stuff.

Also really fell in love with "Femme Fatale" team today too. It's with Vestal/Plague Doctor/Grave Robber/Hellion. Arbalest isn't femme or isn't fatale enough I guess.

Real immersed after one night

Ran from the collect call fucker guy 8)

Just finished NG+. Only had one death which was a Bounty Hunter. He died because I was running a Long Champion mission in the Weald with a level 3 Arbalist and I completely forgot to buy a single torch so she got way too stressed and then I missed a few attacks on a lone monster, reinforcements, retreat fail, fail etc. Lost his trinkets too :/. But other than that, everything went pretty smoothly. I wish it was a bit harder, but without the 91 week requirement, because that makes it less interesting since you just skip all the bosses. I'm over 200 weeks in now without ever having seen a single Madman box (Aria Box, Crescendo Box and Overture Box). They are supposed to be relatively common so I don't know what the hell the deal is.

Anyways, I've now beaten the game 3 times and I still enjoy playing it. Maybe I'm crazy. I'm really excited for the future of mods with this game and how RedHook wants to accommodate modders in the best way they can and are completely supportive of mods. Hell, one of their own devs is making mods!

So anyways, now I'm going to do a dark NG+ run, but am going to use backer trinkets an heroes just for fun. I've compiled a list of the best trinkets for anyone interested. You'll find the full list in a link below.

Speed, as most of you know, is king in this game. There aren't that many great speed trinkets, but there are enough to make your party much more versatile and allow more unique party compositions. But be warned, while it is true that if you lose a backer hero to death, you can get them back at level 0 from the Nomad Wagon, the same is not true for Backer trinkets. So if you lose a backer trinket and try to get it back, it will say "invalid trinket". I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended, but for now, that's the way it is. So be warned!

Backer trinkets aren't the end all, be all, despite what they might look like on paper. In NG+ you'll still be using at least half normal trinkets, if not more. Most of my new NG+ runs use only 2-3 backer trinkets for most party compositions. Stuff like Blasphemous Vile just simply can't be beaten. Plus, the backers that made the trinkets were really simple D3 minded and there are very very few utility trinkets and most everything revolves around simple stuff like CRT/DMG/PROT/HP. I don't think there's a single trinket with +Bleed or +Stun or +Blight, etc.

So without further ado, here are what are in my opinion, the beset backer trinkets.

Speed Trinkets:

Starbreaker+4 SPD
+4 SPD +4 SPD

-13% Heal Skills on First Round
-13% Heal Skills on First Round -13% Heal Skills on First Round

Reaper's Hourglass+5 SPD if HP above 75%
+8 DODGE if HP above 75% +5% CRT if HP above 75%

-4 SPD if HP below 25%
-6 DODGE if HP below 25% -5 ACC if HP below 25%

Cloak of the Antedeluvian+6 DODGE
+4 SPD +6 ACC vs Eldritch

+10% Stress DMG vs Eldritch
-16% Resolve XP -10% DMG vs Eldritch

Harpy Talon+4 SPD
+8 DODGE if Torch above 75

-4% CRT

Avalon+6 SPD
+6% CRT

-6% PROT on First Round
-10% Disease Resist if in position 1 -10% Blight Resist if in position 1

Cloak of the Heavens-15% Stress DMG if Torch below 26
+6 SPD if Torch above 75

-10% Move Resist if Torch below 26
-4% CRT if Torch above 75

Stay Frosty Cloak+4 SPD
+6 DODGE +8 DODGE at Death's Door

-10% DMG on First Round
-6% PROT at Death's Door -13% Heals Received at Death's Door

Oath-Breaker's Sheathe+6 SPD if Torch below 26
+7 ACC if Torch below 26

-8% Virtue Chance
-6% PROT if Torch above 75

Dano's Glory+4% CRT
+5 ACC +4 SPD

-4% Scouting Chance on First Round
-10% Stun Resist on First Round -8% Virtue Chance on First Round

Beloved's ring+5 ACC
+10% DMG +4 SPD

-10% Bleed Resist
-10% Blight Resist -10% Disease Resist

Jade Maiden Hairpin+6 SPD on First Round
+6% PROT

-10% Bleed Resist
-6% Death Blow Resist

Violet's pet+3 SPD
+4% CRT Melee Skills +5 ACC Melee Skills

+50% DMG when starving
+50% Food consumed

Hound Crest+4 SPD
+10% DMG +5 ACC

-4% CRT while Camping
-4% CRT while Camping -4% CRT while Camping

Gravier's Grimoire+3 SPD
+5% PROT

+3% CRT

-6 DODGE
-10% Trap Disarm

Amiga+6% PROT
+4 SPD +5 SPD if HP below 25%

-10% DMG
-4% CRT -13% Heal Skills if Torch below 26

Claws of the Cat+3% CRT
+10% DMG if Torch below 26

+4 SPD if in position 1

+10% Stress DMG if Torch above 75
+50% Food consumed

Zephyr+13% Heal Skills
+4 SPD -10% Stress DMG

-4% CRT on First Round
-10% DMG vs Beast -5 ACC vs Unholy



Healing Trinkets:

Necronomicon+13% Heal Skills
+13% Heal Skills +4 SPD

-16% Resolve XP
-16% Resolve XP -16% Resolve XP

Bloodbrine+30% Healing Skills if in position 4 +50% Food consumed while Camping
-10% MAX HP

Dad Jokes+23% Heal Skills -10% Stun Resist on First Round
-6 DODGE Melee Skills

Hysteresis+16% Resolve XP
+13% Heal Skills +13% Heal Skills

-10% Trap Disarm if Torch below 26
-6% Death Blow Resist on First Round +50% DMG when starving at Death's Door

Purity of Albedo+13% Heal Skills
+6 DODGE +8% Virtue Chance

-5 ACC while Camping
-10% Move Resist while Camping -4 SPD while Camping

Scroll of the divine Healer+13% Heal Skills
+17% Heal Skills if in position 4 +6% Death Blow Resist

-10% DMG
+10% Stress DMG if in position 1 -6% PROT

Damage Trinkets (Melee, Ranged and Crit lumped in). Also, lots of the damage trinkets also have defensive stats, so it'll be too annoying to make a separate list of tank trinkets, but I'll try to post a few in the next section:


Brutal Hairpin+15% DMG -10% Bleed Resist while Camping

Thraximundar's Rage+10% DMG
+10% MAX HP +4% CRT

-10% Bleed Resist on First Round
-10% Disease Resist on First Round -13% Heal Skills on First Round

Agnus Dei+8% DMG
+3% CRT +3% CRT

-10% Bleed Resist on First Round
-13% Heal Skill if Torch below 26

Arzac's Tome of Incantations+4% CRT
+4% CRT +4% CRT

-6 DODGE
-6 DODGE -6 DODGE

Blood of Innocent+6% PROT
+13 DMG if in position 1

-6 DODGE
-10% DMG if in position 4

-10% Bleed Resist if in position 4

Tournament Victor's Ribbon+5 ACC
+10% DMG +6 DODGE

+50% DMG when starving
-4 SPD if in position 4 -4% CRT if in position 4

Tyruil+10% CRT Ranged Skills +50% Food consumed on First Round
-6 DODGE on First Round -13% Heals Received on First Round

Wrath of Khan+4% CRT
+5 ACC +10% DMG

-4 SPD
-13% Heals Received -6% PROT

Boots of much kicking+10% DMG
+4% CRT +6% PROT

-10% Move Resist while Camping
-10% Trap Disarm while Camping -16% Resolve XP while Camping

Bowmen's End+8% DMG
+5 ACC Ranged Skills +4% CRT vs Human

-13% Heal Skills if HP above 75%
-4 SPD if HP below 25%

Cthulhu's Requiem+10% DMG if in position 4
+8% DMG +4% CRT Ranged Skills

-10% Bleed Resist vs Human
-10% Trap Disarm if Torch below 26

Ravenous Lion's Ring+15% DMG Melee Skills
+6% CRT Melee Skills

+50% Food consumed
+50% DMG when starving

Palid Mask+10% MAX HP
+5 ACC

+10% DMG

-6 DODGE
-6% PROT

-4 SPD

Shroud of Living Failures+10% DMG Ranged Skills
+4% CRT Ranged Skills +4 SPD vs Marked+

-6 DODGE if Torch below 26
+10% Stress DMG if HP below 25%

Nevra+18% DMG if HP above 75%
11% PROT if HP below 25%

-13% Heals Received at Death's Door
+50% DMG when starving while Camping -6 DODGE

Da powar+5 ACC
+10% DMG +5 ACC

Demon's Eye+5 ACC
+6 ACC if Torch below 26 +5% CRT if Torch below 26

+10% Stress DMG
-8% Virtue Chance if Torch below 26 +10% Stress DMG if Torch below 26

-10% Trap Disarm while Camping
-10% Trap Disarm while Camping -10% Trap Disarm while Camping

Eldritch Chamber pot+13% DMG if torch below 26
+10% Blight Resist -20% Food consumed

-10% MAX HP if Torch above 75
+10% Stress DMG -10% Disease Resist on First Round

Eyepatch of Iniative+20% DMG on First Round -4% Scouting Chance if in position 4

Fool's Bane+4% CRT
+5 ACC +10% DMG

-6% PROT
+50% DMG when starving -10% Bleed Resist

Aronynne's Bane+10% DMG
+5 ACC

-8% Chance Monsters Surprised if Torch below 26



Forlorn Memento+6% PROT if Torch below 26
+10% DMG if Torch below 26

-10% Stress DMG if Torch below 26
-10% Move Resist -6% Death Blow Resist

Goliath Killer+6 ACC if in position 1
+13% DMG if in position 1 +5% CRT if in position 1

-10% Trap Disarm if in position 4
-8% Chance Monsters Surprised if in position 4 -13% Heal Skills if in position 4

House Bloodrage Signet ring+4% CRT
+10% DMG

-4% Scouting Chance

Hysterical Visage+10% DMG
+5% CRT Melee Skills +6 DODGE

+10% Stress DMG if Torch above 75
-8% Virtue Chance -10% Blight Resist at Death's Door

Headhunter's Herbs+6 ACC vs Marked+
+13% DMG vs Marked+ +5% CRT vs Marked+

-10% MAX HP
-13% Heals Received -10% Stun Resist

Corwyn's Cape+3% CRT Ranged Skills
+8% DMG Ranged Skills +4 ACC Ranged Skills

+50% DMG when starving at Death's Door


Defensive Trinkets:

Bogi's Bulwark+6% PROT
+10% MAX HP

-13% Heal Skills if HP above 75%

Braveheart+6% PROT
+10% MAX HP +8% Virtue Chance

-6 DODGE if in position 1
-4% CRT if in position 4 -4% CRT if in position 4

Numinis+10% DMG
+6% PROT

+10% MAX HP

-10% DMG if HP below 25%
-6% PROT if HP below 25%

-4% CRT if HP below 25%

Knohbodi's Ring+5 DODGE
+5% PROT +8% MAX HP

-8% Virtue Chance
-4 SPD

trenche fist+6 DODGE
+10% DMG +10% MAX HP

-5 ACC if Torch below 26
-10% DMG if Torch below 26 -6% Death Blow Resist if Torch below 26

Helmet of the Mad Warrior+6% PROT
+4% CRT +10% MAX HP

-5 ACC if in position 4
-4% Scouting Chance if in position 4 -6 DODGE if in position 4

Well, that's more than enough and more than I intended on posting for how little people play this game (it's a great list for myself nonetheless). But I'll try to post more later if there's any interest. If you just wanna skip through to the best, I've posted most of the best ones, or at least my personal favorites highlighted in red, but there's a few more for the more selective people. Hope someone enjoys. To me it's the equivalent of twinking. I've beaten the game, and farmed it, and now I want to enjoy twinking.


Backer trinkets - Official Darkest Dungeon Wiki

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I feel like if I used any of those trinkets, the game would become trivial.

Then again, Im just starting to reliably clear veteran level dungeons. Have a 21 total roster, with maybe 12 level 3's, 2 level 4s, and the rest are...expendable resour- I mean, uh, level 1-2 up and coming reinforcements.

A nice quality of life mod that I've used is Faster Gameplay:

Faster Gameplay at Darkest Dungeon Nexus - Mods and community

Cuts combat/curio animation times in half to make the game flow faster.

So I was tired of waiting for more people to make decent mods and started giving it a go myself. I LOVE how easily they have made this game moddable. I have almost no prior experience with this stuff outside of some moderate code for MQ2 scripts and such. I am learning loads. My goal is to make all the classes as customizable as D2 classes were.

Just a fraction of the things I've done so far and that pop into mind:

Highwayman got some nice buffs!!

Class Changes

Highwayman
Duelist Advance - Added Riposte
Open Vein - Added Bleed Resist Debuff
Wicked Slice - Increased DMG mod to +15%
Increased Min Damage for L4/L5 weapons from 7/8 to 9/8
HP changed from 22/26/30/34/38 to 23/28/33/38/43

They also added a way to trade heirlooms at a rate of 3:1. Haven't had a chance to play with the Antiquarian yet, but can't wait.

Edit: So with the Antiquarian in your party, you get drops of Small and Large antiques, each worth 250 gold and 1,000 gold respectively. I did a normal light run and ended up with about 6 small ones and 3 large ones, so not bad. They stack. She makes gold stack to 2,000, up from 1,500. She also has a camp skill that produces a random trinket. Chances are as you'd expect. I've made it so she can very rarely produce a random kickstarter trinket (as I've done with the Nomad Wagon). She's good for light runs, bad for dark runs. She is decent in a blight group because she provides a blight debuff and at higher levels it isn't terrible damage (4/tick at max level). She can forcefully make someone guard her and it gives a huge buff, which works really well with the new Highwayman's riposte.

"id" : "T_ANTIQ_CAMP",
"difficulty" : 0,
"dungeon" : "",
"entries" :
[
{ "type" : "nothing", "chances" : 0, "data" : { }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 10, "data" : { "rarity" : "very_common" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 7, "data" : { "rarity" : "common" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 5, "data" : { "rarity" : "uncommon" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 2, "data" : { "rarity" : "rare" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 1, "data" : { "rarity" : "very_rare" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 0, "data" : { "rarity" : "ancestral" }},
{ "type" : "trinket", "chances" : 0, "data" : { "rarity" : "ancestral_shambler" }}

highwayman is back in business.

but why is antiquarian bad for dark runs? THat's where I usually get loot overflow.

FYI, multiple antiquarians means multiple bonus items per fight

and then you get this

OU Ariakas said:

Crimson Court DLC out today for $9.99. It's all over Twitch if you want to see it in action.

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Bought, mainly because I can't get enough of the narrator. I want that dude to talk to me all day.

Huh, it isn't just a new dungeon, monsters, class, it adds new buildings and mechanics. Pumped to check it out.