Bounty Hunter and You: Darkest Dungeon Guide

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0:00 Intro
0:54 How to Play
2:44 Strengths
4:32 Weaknesses
8:14 Skills
17:29 Trinkets
25:05 Quirks
25:56 Team: Mark
43:24 Team: Leper Hook
58:41 Team: Backline Cleave
1:15:07 Outro

[@limcw6092]

Bounty Hunter: Points at a big cannon on wheels Brigand 12 Pounder: *Dodges*

[@AmericanBrit9834]

There was an even worse example before it was patched: Bounty Hunter: Points at a stationary unmoving pot Hag's Pot: Dodges

[@toad23567]

BH: *points* Eldritch abominations, swinefolk, skeletons: *Visibly recoils in fear*

[@ehoffart529]

BH: points Monster: Oh Lord you have outmaneuvered me dear sir. Please take this moment to one shot me.

[@TuanAnhNguyen-en9bx]

BH: You. Die. Monster: yes sir, sorry sir

[@Delicashilous]

Eldlich? Oh wait...

[@hidood5th]

BH: "Tonight......you."

[@gamesmash9859]

My favorite part of BH is his reaction to come unto your maker. Imagine staring down an Eldrich horror with indifference.

[@RookieREX]

could you please die for humanity? "do i get a raise?" .......y-yes... "... sure why not?"

[@Nitrishek]

BH is the coolest looking class in the game imo

[@nomedreaper1430]

He looks like he was pulled straight out of Dark Souls. He actually looks almost identical to Creighton now that I think about it...

[@arealhumanbean3058]

@@nomedreaper1430 He look like a mixture between Creighton and Shiva the deceased

[@noloxjexting8266]

Shiva the EAST? More like Shiva the DECEASED. THE LEGEND NEVER DIES.

[@TheGunslinger44]

@@nomedreaper1430 It's funny cause I made Darkest Dungeon characters in Dark Souls 3 and I used Creighton's Helmet for the Bounty Hunter haha

[@levyata8964]

It's the abomination for me

[@mysteriousdonkey4624]

Bounty hunter is one of the only two heroes that can stun rank 4 alongside PD, incredibly valuable imo

[@Dragonslayer-fs8dh]

Was ist PD?

[@konradsadowski6763]

Plague Doctor

[@fuzzythoughts8020]

On double bounty hunter I think his move overlap is a benefit, like, One can run marked, other runs come hither, and you can have one who supports and hits good when the opportunity arises, and the other is a Crit god

[@eeyuup]

I have a fun memory of bounty hunter when one time in the ruins I got an axe skeleton and a cultist brawler to get stuck trading spots 2 and 3. Fun times.

[@tiagocosmos]

I wonder what the BH looks like underneath his helmet/cowl. I imagine he's handsome and bearded with black hair.

[@doge4402]

Baby face

[@hellsing7310]

Didn’t the crimson court artwork show he’s got stubble?

[@KarnodAldhorn]

He has his "scarf" as a beard.

[@genericname8749]

@@hellsing7310 I thought that was the Highwayman.

[@gamingkid3809]

​@@hellsing7310 i don't think they have shown his face. It was probably highway man

[@cristobaldiaz9696]

Coolest man alive crits the heart of the world for 88 damage: the documentary

[@owlnuggets-sirdevin]

I love BH so much. that pull/mark move is CLUTCH

[@tootiredforthis1]

Pull em up, chop em down. I'm pretty sure when I first played this game that move didn't mark and I'm very happy with that change because it makes him much stronger and BH is my boy

[@bluejay7058]

@@tootiredforthis1 Hell, even without mark, pulling a backliner into Leper or Hellion range is hilarious! It's pretty much pre-corpse gameplay but with corpses.

[@jameslabbe4119]

Thank you for these class breakdowns, it's really helpful to a newer player to understand these less intuitive classes by showcasing what makes them cool. You have such a breadth of content on DD that I consider you THE definitive source for info and tips on YT. It's nice to see that you respond to your community too.

[@ShuffleFM]

Thank you for the kind words. I was worried some of the longer videos are hard for people to sit through, but I'm glad it was helpful

[@ecto_specto4521]

Real OGs remember when Caltrops was Hook and Slice

[@jacobnorris1487]

Definitely appreciate all the info, I've played this game for a couple years and never thought someone would be able to make an hour long video on any of these characters

[@SkyNinja759]

9:33 He's trading one turn to mark, so what is the upside to mark into hit next turn as opposed to double hit?... The _protection debuff._ Even if you just mark/collect back and forth it's setting your team up to slap high protection enemies for more damage. So technically it's more damage if the enemy doesn't resist the debuff (usually high prot enemies have low debuff resist, that's the whole mechanic).

[@GolfGuy32]

Right. Also you have to factor in the idea that it’s possible to then crit with Bounty Hunter for MORE than two unmarked hits combined because of the debuff and his bonus damage. So overall it is a boost to tempo even if it doesn’t feel like it at first. It’s like castling in chess haha

[@heavenheathern]

Also, the more protection the enemy has the more effective protection reduction is, because of how effective HP works

[@TheSpiritedFendron]

He's a straight upgrade to HWM imo, because all of the stuns and control that he offers are just straight up better and if you're against bosses, he just shreds them

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Ah, bounty hunter. I generally don’t pick out a “favorite” class for games, but BH would be one of my most likely picks if I did. Such a damn versatile killer. And *those crits.* Bounty Hunter one-shots might be one of the most damn satisfyingly meaty things in the game.

[@CinnamonKilljoy]

It's up there with critting hew and iron swan (or wyrd reconstruction 😂).

[@Kotoy1]

Damn, its 3 am and i was getting ready to sleep.

[@ShuffleFM]

Sorry I was trying to get it out earlier!

[@Kotoy1]

@@ShuffleFM Dont stress yourself man, its done when its done. Keep doing what you do, your videos are great.

[@omegazeta]

Was looking for this recently! Love these guides, thanks for taking the time to make them.

[@falseking989]

I was leveling a couple characters and I had bounty hunter in the 1st position. So, "Come Hither" was one of the only abilities I could use in the first rank. I discovered that in situation where you're confident you can quickly kill something important it is amazing. I later used in against Virago in a Champion Weald dungeon and it worked perfectly. I would pull him to the 2nd rank my leper would hit him and then my hound master would finish him. It was a very efficient way of dealing with a problematic enemy.

[@michaelcoffey1991]

One of my favorite classes and still learned a ton just by watching as I always do. Huge thanks @Shuffle. Appreciate the huge depth in which you cover each class and the pros and cons of each of them

[@couchpotatoe91]

That was a very interesting guide with some very neat teams. Thanks a lot for the work you put into this!

[@HallowedAshes]

I feel like the fact that BH reminds me so much of Creighton the Wanderer is the reason I love him so much

[@PsychoMonkeyxx]

Uhh shit my comment is gonna matter a lot here since I'm the funny Bounty hunter guy... **Snort**

[@couchpotatoe91]

1:13:42 This is exactly why I don't like exsanguinate: If it misses, it's sooo bad! I much preter the double heal as that one is guarantees to stick. Especially against harder fights like shambler exsanguinate has betrayed me more than once already!

[@ShuffleFM]

Exsang miss is one of the worst feelings in the game

[@4orehead683]

@@ShuffleFM paralleled only by Bleed Out missing or Finale missing (it can happen, Shrieker go brrrr)

[@sinkpissersupreme]

you actually made a video I asked for, you're actually the best

[@metalmat3651]

I like that the bounty hunter can work with pretty much any party configuration at any position.

[@Chaonyx_]

Really like this class despite its flaws, this vide is gonna be super helpful for when I play him the playthrough I’ve recently started.

[@nightcorechar6714]

bump I fall asleep watching ur vids to try to boost algorithm-chan, keep it up x

[@TheShy007]

Ty for all this guides it's really helpful I have learned a lot from dis.

[@demonicaxd99]

you deserve more subs and views dude, good work!

[@anhquan8647]

Great content! I learned a lot

[@stillwinston3765]

Thanos: I am inevitable BH: And you are marked!

[@johns8203]

Thanks for this guide !

[@anangrychicken6509]

Crit 81 "..."

[@Zedkiller1101]

High Crit Build with Bird Man is quite fun. Stress heals for days, with Leper damage sometimes.

[@templarclips9235]

one of my favs for sure. I mostly run him with my houndmaster - bounty hunter - occultist - hellion party. Amazing party for challenging fights.

[@yunogasai3350]

Uuuuuh, something funny about Midnight for the algorithm!

[@PsychoMonkeyxx]

B)

[@Thatoneguy-uw6fv]

Haven’t watched the vid yet but I found great success earlier on the first dd mission with a occultist, two bounty hunters and a flagellant. One hunter had crimelord molars, the other was faster, basically everyone else in the team set up the molar hunter with stun, mark and bleed for him to destroy everything he hit. It was also a really fun team I recommend it

[@ehoffart529]

Honestly I run two hunters an Occultist and an Arb. The Arb is actually the main healer as generally with that build you only have one character getting hurt during a fight as your DOS hunter melts everything. The Occultist is there for some stuns and Debuffs as wells as emergency heals.

[@Dinodroid3500]

Yesterday I was looking at your videos to find where was Bounty Hunter guide at, well guess I summoned it

[@sauravbane3444]

Picked this game up on a sale and left it to rot in the library until I came upon this channel. Seeing all these in depth analyses just made me immediately download the game. Now I'm just binging through these videos to learn how to play better xD.

[@ShuffleFM]

Good luck!

[@martintyrmer5484]

Rest of the party: panicking, hitting each other in affliction and skipping turns my bounty hunter hitting virtue and staring down a boss with mark on it: fine, I'll do it myself🗡️😎.

[@CinnamonKilljoy]

I definitely run BH as a controller and occasional nuke support rather than a dedicated damage dealer. I fell in love with the class again the other day when I brought him to three Crocs and they collectively got 1 (!) Apex off. Granted, he's my personal favorite (I know he isn't the best exactly), so I'm biased, but hell he can invalidate so many threats on round one between uppercut, hook, and flashbang.

[@extinctzebroid]

My favourite team comp for BH is BH, Occultist, BH, and Hound Master. Occultist slot 2 for stun and pull.

[@jacktheripper6761]

good guide as always, but i just want to say that you can use flashbang against Wilbur without triggering the big swine's attack.

[@rogerhill9559]

Big Swine guy is trivial if you bring two shieldbreakers... at the camp have them both use sandstorm camping skill (prevents the selected hero from being marked). Then you just use Adder's Kiss/Pierce while Wilbur wastes turns failing to mark and the big guy uses awful attacks as nobody is marked.

[@canaldecasta]

Is there a mod that randomizes the Game in any way? Or the classes? Like, vestal now has pistol shot, bellow etc. That would be cool.

[@alaaddinceylan2248]

it would be fun if this game had irregulator type of mod like on dark souls 3

[@metro2673]

I love bh. Between him and jester for favorite character. Really only like wounding helmet if I have 2 bounty hunters.

[@coolhandluke1503]

One of my best teams consists of crusader, bounty, arbalest and vestal. Great mark, stun and heal synergies.

[@ShuffleFM]

Sounds really solid. Very defensive, high hp, burst damage, stuns etc. Is stress an issue since the overall speed is low?

[@coolhandluke1503]

@@ShuffleFM Stress is the biggest issue, but you learn to manage stress well with this team. The stress casters tend to focus the arb, so I try and buff her virtue and stress res, all party members have stress healing when camping. I find this party can disrupt the back line just as good as anyone else by pulling one to the front with come hither and attacking the second with arb and vestal.

[@er4din903]

Don’t forget that BH’s mark also debuffs the target, which can benefit the rest of the team. As such marking and then hitting is generally better than just hitting twice, if we talk about pure dps. However in corridor fights, especially if the enemy is surprised, it can be more valuable to eliminate a weaker enemy esrly to get an advantage in action economy. In that case you would probably hit twice.

[@razeredits6303]

the description cracked me up XD

[@ragewinninethousand4140]

I think his two job deal makes him more flexible with who you take 😊

[@dtczyk8976]

Pulling those pink fish, or drunk skeletons into rank 1 is so much more useful than stunning. They just stand there knifing my guys for less than 5 damage

[@liambrady993]

Infinity war is the most ambitious crossover Shuffle and ThickyVeinySausage exists Nevermind

[@user-uj5mp9yt2e]

Me: alright, I lost my crusader and nearly lost Dismas if not for Vestal, lets see if I can replace him. *checks stagecoach* Bounty hunter, Man at Arms and Jester: Ello, fancy meetin' you here. My next expedition: BH: *points* Thats the guy. Dismas: G U N. MAA: T O N K. Vestal: H E L T H. now that i think about it, this is pretty simular to my other team: Leper, another MAA, another Jester and another Vestal.

[@ehoffart529]

If I'm running double bounty hunter I purposely run the DPS hunter with slow draw. I put my marker in rank four with the Unmovable Helmet and Vengeful Kill List for guaranteed pulls. My DPS Hunter is running Crime Lords Molars and Vvulf Tassel for heavy hits and Size 2 melting. First turn Come Hither back liner and Collect for quick kills on stressors and then Mark For Death more chonky front liners ones back liners are dead. The set up that let me run four dungeons in a row with the same characters were Hunter, Arb, Occultist, Hunter.

[@ShuffleFM]

Very cool idea! Slowdraw becoming a positive for once

[@couchpotatoe91]

With the backline cleave team, you could actually put crusader on pos4 without hindering anybody else. It would further help against backline enemies by allowing 2 holy lances before settling on pos 2. Interesting idea for a team definitely!

[@ShuffleFM]

I was supposed to mention that you can start crusader in 3 or 4 for holy lance but I think I forgot. Glad you caught it!

[@couchpotatoe91]

@@ShuffleFM Thank YOU for letting me be a smartass under your videos without ever feeling attacked. ;D

[@sirantonii3361]

BH also like never gets stressed out for me although I have probably 20 hours in this game so its bound to happen eventually but so far haven't had a single BH go insane and I use them quite frequently

[@elvenatheart982]

Love ur guides. Voice. Also respect the annoyance when saying sub to me and such lol

[@Delicashilous]

14:16 Thanks. I'm a huge fan of caltrops in Videogames and I wanted to know if they are worth it for BH.

[@NoName-md6fd]

GET OVER HERE ! FINISH HIM BOUNTY HUNTER WINS FATALITY

[@ivanacosta3214]

BH guide yeeeee

[@eclecticspaghetti]

I may have just not understood something, maybe you explained this, but what exactly does "hyper carry" mean?

[@Sightss_]

Someone you focus all your buffs on so they slap hard Usually means you bring only one dps or one main dps with all your damage bonuses stacked. So not just a carry but a hyper carry.

[@davidmcginnis9218]

So flagellants back hitting move, and caltrops would shred the back hanging boss in the ruins. Bleed stacks for days

[@ShuffleFM]

Caltrops are great vs prophet and hag, swine king too

[@randomlygeneratedname]

Is it just me or does bounty hunter seem to always want to go in pairs one taking trops mark hook and bomb the other both axe skills uppercut and Mark, so one sets up the other easily

[@ShuffleFM]

BH is definitely his own best friend

[@nemtudom9217]

Love ur vids man ,do u have in mind to continue the moded run ?

[@ShuffleFM]

Yes. I just need to sit down and do it

[@courier6640]

He knocks you out for a few seconds. He targets you and quietly mumbles *"GET OVER HERE!"* to himself, yanking you to him, or his crew. He can flashbang even bosses with a 120% stun resistance, meaning his flashbangs are equal in strength to some big, brollic black dude named Requis pulling a bedsheet over the enemy's head and proceeds to skullf*ck them. He bleeds you from afar if you're too chunky to pull. He cleaves those he marked into Oblivion. And to top it all off, he can move f**king everywhere while boasting some decent defense to even make Crusaders proud. (Not jealous, proud. They're THICC, but not THICCER than a Crusader, and certainly not a Leper or MAA.) Bounty Hunter rocks.

[@canaldecasta]

I love my boy, but oh man does he miss every.single.hook.

[@ehoffart529]

That's why you use Vengeful Kill List. +15 to ranged ACC.

[@yoda0017]

Woah, I'm early this time.

[@RickFoxChicken]

My BH team is as follows. 4th Rank Arb 3rd and 2nd rank BHs with complimentary skills, and 1st rank Occultist. Healing and stress healing both are a big problem here so it's important to get off stuns as early as possible. Caltrops can be used to help Arb make quick work of the backline. Occultist is primarily there to mark and stun, and unfortunately has to play reactively to heal. Basically a good backline or a crit will turn my team into soup. I refuse to admit defeat however, and managed to kill the Hag without my BHs having finish him equipped. Let thank sink in. I am a master videogamer and tonight I dine on your mothers gush. Foolish pride and all that.

[@SomeStupidBastard]

Best mark team is arbalest, occultist, houndmaster, bounty hunter. It works best in weald or cove.

[@SomeStupidBastard]

If you're lucky you could get a bounty hunter who gets melee accuracy buffs like some quirks or there's an accuracy ring that makes you accuracy go up by ten your crit go up by eight but you stress level would increase, that ring what ever it's called I absolutely recommend

[@cow_mangler510]

Bounty Hunter is the best hero because it's the only class you can cosplay boxer with

[@Rudi4rius]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@DawidDVD]

uga buga

[@arcana5625]

Play him as control until the boss then swap out his skills for mark 👌

[@sv_cheats3.227]

about the arbalest move in the background footage at 2:05, I was wondering if maybe blindfire to try and kill the hog infront would have been most beneficial rather than trying for a crit heal? Its an inconsequential play nonetheless but just curious.

[@ShuffleFM]

It absolutely would be better in that situation if you don't need to heal

[@sv_cheats3.227]

@@ShuffleFM oh my bad i didnt see that BH was missing health

[@ShuffleFM]

@@sv_cheats3.227 no worries! Your idea was good :)

[@patrik9328]

"Spy snort"

[@Tigerblade11238]

I like to treat the bounty hunter as the control/set up and let his damage be gravy. I've been having great success with BH in 2, HwyM in 3, Musk in 4 or Hound 2, BH 3, Musk 4, then put whatever the hell you want in 1 from the typical options. BH and Houndmaster are my two favorites. Just based on flavor and how flexible they are.

[@freed.man.1]

I've heard you mention a few times that dot is better against multi action bosses. That is true but only marginally. Since dot lasts for a set amount of actions, if a boss takes two actions per turn, the boss takes a double dot hit, but the dot also falls off twice as fast. If I'm wrong about this please correct me.

[@leonardolopes6360]

So why would it be bad?debuffs wont last as long for you take use of it,but dot will deal fulldamage anyway

[@ShuffleFM]

Dots deal their damage faster than normal against those enemies which makes them better. Damage per turn value goes up

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

Just lost my bounty hunter yesterday, dude was doing just fine until the stress got to him. Should've bail back then

[@ShuffleFM]

Sorry to hear that

[@jackyap0115]

Is it better to kill the stunned enemies first or the not stunned enemies ? In my original thought that killing the stunned enemies gets to reduce the number of enemy before they able to do anything. But as what u mentioned in this video, you said you are not going to kill the stunned enemy first. Is there any concept that I missed out in this part ?

[@ShuffleFM]

Killing a stunned enemy basically wastes the stun. If you already removed that enemies turn then killing the enemies that can act will further remove the turns they get to hurt you with. You want the enemies to get as few turns as possible per round. Ideally 2 or less for the first 3 turns.

[@jackyap0115]

@@ShuffleFM thanks for the reply. For example, if my pd stunts the backliners, does it mean I should focus fire on frontliners and then settle the backliners in the next turn, ideally ?

[@1God1Fury]

How do you use caltrops outside of boss fights? It seem worse than mark, position restricted and target restricted to 3-4. Fights aren't long enough to get benefit of caltrops and come hither, mark or stun is way more appealing

[@ShuffleFM]

I think it's only good for normal fights in that team with PD and flagellant. Otherwise it is only great as a boss killer

[@flagellantbestgirl]

Basically caltrops is often a weak flashbang since it’s denying an action vs slowing them down next turn, but it definitely has applications. First off, Flashbangs 150% chance is amazing but there are some enemies that will often resist it, vs Caltrops having a good chance to debuff most enemies. Then, if the team already has a fast stun with reach into the backline where all the high priority targets are already stunned/have the 50% stun resist buff on turn 1, then Flashbang is lower value. Caltrops means that turn 1 the backline action was denied via a teammates stun and turn 2 they will be slower and take more damage, making them easier to finish off. This is even moreso the case when running Plague Doctor + Bounty Hunter, since the backline will already be stunned by her so Flashbang’s value falls off somewhat. A rank 2 BH can run Collect Bounty/Finish Him/Uppercut/Caltrops and do amazingly well when paired with other stuns. Come Hither is fairly niche but pulls do allow you to take Courtiers and Shamans out of commission, and of course are huge value vs Skivers and Crocodilians.

[@canaldecasta]

Future video ranking/discussing the best "all four characters are the same class "parties? Could be a fun one.

[@geoprook7662]

Just helping out with that algorithm, don't mind me..

[@paulberry5750]

How does anyone beat the Sodden Crew or Shrieker with a mighty BH & backup?

[@leonardolopes6360]

The best team to hunt shrieker is occ/ BH/HM/arbalest

[@leonardolopes6360]

@@Allosaurus675017 1/2/3/4, with occ begining at the front

[@couchpotatoe91]

I mean... yeah, the Jester is better. But where's the fun in that? We might as well just run vestal-jester-x-x then. Just switch out occultist for a pos2 vestal and this team might get even better. For me, synergy teams like mark are there to use underused characters that get stuck on low levels if they didn't have teams like these. The arbalest especially suffers from this, but the bounty hunter is actually pretty similar in this regard as he really wants his team in order to function. I'm currently working on a small balance mod that adresses issues like these with small skill tweaks like nerfing vestal's aoe healing, nerfing battle ballad and nerfing hwm riposte while buffing things like vestal boinks, make hwm's hook bleed instead of mark, buffing graverobber dmg amonst other stuff. Basically stuff that makes character and skills more viable while nerfing those that outshine everything else to prevent power creep.

[@tegredyfarms5880]

Cool story bro

[@soft8oiled]

(snort)

[@jadeamulet2339]

Are you preparing for a challenge where you ban some character(s)?

[@ShuffleFM]

I was thinking about it. It's a video idea nontheless.

[@dcinreallife905]

i say "stuff like that" a lot too is it a cultural thing? what state are you from

[@ShuffleFM]

California. You?

[@jareddmunoz]

Representing Cali Shuffle, I like it. Greetings from the OC.

[@namenotloading]

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[@ExtraRaven_]

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[@justghost1543]

Lol, 3 min ago