Flagellant Guide: Darkest Dungeon

[@jamesstaton3265]

My main memory of using a Flagellant was having him die horribly in spectacular fashion. Long-ass run through the Warrens with a party of Hellion/Flag/Jester/Occ. Battle mission, that ended with having to explore *every* room. Ran into the Collector, Thing From the Stars, and a Skiver in near every fight. Jester got afflicted, became hopeless, got put on Death's Door multiple times, and survived 7+ death checks *even after developing Weak Grip.* Flagellant got put on Death's Door once, and then dies to a Wretch puking on him in what was ultimately the final fight of the mission. ...and then a couple weeks later From Beyond occurred and he was on the list.

[@melancholyman369]

The game fully acknowledge the fuckry that was that death

[@jamesstaton3265]

@@melancholyman369 Worth noting that there's been some voodoo bullshit going on in that save file. From Beyond's occurred four times, and it's always had the person I wanted back. 1. The Hellion that was part of that Warrens run. She died fighting Vulf. 2. That Jester from that Warrens run. Died to a heart attack against the Fanatic. 3. That Flagellant. 4. Dismas made a return, letting him and Reynauld tackle the Heart alone.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

At least he came back! That is always nice and long battle room missions can be so grueling :(.

[@melancholyman369]

I got something even scarier, sent Dismas, Reynold with a lvl2 Flag n Occ in a lvl3 bloodmoon warrens in the dark. Reynold die to bleed, Flag cracked, Dismas n Occ virtued. I immediately sent Dismas to pray in Reynold's stead...(I was feeling it cauz of greed). The following week from beyond spawn's, guest who is on the list out of 7 ppl? The game answers prayers bruv, lol

[@Klaital1]

The one weird quirk about the Flagellant you forgot to mention is that you cannot ever have more than one Flagellant in a party.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That is true. Thank you for adding that!

[@davidsw92]

"Today we will review the Flatulent, who has harnessed the raw power and suffering of Taco Bell burritos -- gassing himself and his enemies to death, along with some occasional rectal bleeding."

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The rectal bleeding can be intense.

[@seahawk1579]

Why not Martyrs seal?? 15% max hp, 12% death blow resist, 60% damage and 15% crit at deaths door- seems like a no brainer for me.

[@einherjar8147]

I mean, it fits with his kit, for sure... But it's a waste of a trinket slot if you're not at Death's Door. And while it boosts his already high Deathblow resistance, repeatedly rolling against Death's Door is a losing bet, in my opinion.

[@crusadernikolai1996]

einherjar 81 I always use it and let myself fall to deaths door then combine it with exanguinate for a massive power strike with high crits chance and crit on heal

[@seahawk1579]

@@einherjar8147 still 15% max health for no downsides whatsoever. Most max health items have a negative- this does not

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

@Seahawk One of my favorite phrases is " I screwed the pooch on that one" (means I messed up bad lol). Don't think about the phrase too hard, but I agree the Martyrs seal should have been up there rather than the eternity collar.

[@Klaital1]

Because you still don't want him to get to death's door as that always gives lot of stress to everyone. His direct damage isn't that high anyways.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for watching and let me know what you think of the flagellant! Also, I deleted the audio on the eternity collar. I am conflicted if it is worth putting on or just putting on another trinket for more damage or other effects. Let me know if you have used Eternity's collar before and your experience with it. Time stamps are in the description.

[@justaclock4768]

Not sure if you mentioned it in your other video,but I’m gonna say it anyway: Flagellant,despite not gaining debuff from death door recovery, will receive debuff from heart attack so....try not to make him too stressed out. It’s not worthy to go for a heart attack if you just want that death door buff.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you!

[@zangatsubankai]

I'm not sure how you feel about modded classes but Flag works AMAZINGLY with Marvin Seo's lamia. She can heal bleeds, pull people into his range and stress heal him. A combo I've found that works super well

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I'm not against modded classes just haven't used many. Thank you!

[@Team_Orchid]

Rain of Sorrows, Plague Grenade, Harvest, Beast Bile, if you're fine relying on reclaim and food for healing most of the time that is a fun DOT spread. Doesn't work in the ruins though. Also I wonder how effective suffer is with a sheildbreaker's camping ability against the swine god...

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The flagellant is decent against the swine god. He can mark himself/and transfer one, thus taking the heat off someone else. Just have to make sure Wilbur doesn't kill him.

[@Team_Orchid]

I'm specifically thinking sheildbreaker uses sandstorm, making him immune to the mark condition, then he takes the mark off of the other frontliner when needed. Could make for a good combo.

[@Milkaholic76]

Replace plague grenade with hounds harry and you got the ultimate weald/warrens DOT

[@Milkaholic76]

Well, partially

[@J_just_J_yes]

@@Team_Orchid WAIT YOU CAN DO THAT?? i mean, use SB sandstorm camp skill to make Flag immune to mark, then what happen when Flag use suffer??? can anyone confirm this?

[@onion69420]

Wish i could bring 4 of him

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

What a combo that would be.

[@Chikanuk]

Good video, and this is my few cents about it: 1. Flag can run even champion bloodmoon without ACC trinkets, cuz he have +10 ACC on all skills. Most of the time you wanna put one acc trinket oh him, to negate misses, but its a cool option. Especially if you lock some ACC quirks. 2. Btw on the future videos of this kind - better make few notes about quirks and team comps. Just few words, to give new people general direction. Personally i prefer ACC, SPD, Healing taken\done and stress related ones. And in this order. 3.RECLAIM IS DA BEST! Seriously - its 12 heal from the start, and its heal over time wich work BEFORE DoT damage! - Even if you have 500 bleed and blight damage on hero, one reclaim will safe his life from it. Btw - its not only have base bleed chance, but it actually can be affected by +\- bleed trinkets. So, if you wanna less bleed on him - dont poot +bleed% trinkets on. Also this is another reason why flag + PD is such a great combo. Also, this heal will never benefit from "+healing skill" trinkets, only from "+% heal recieved" on target, if im remember it correctly. 4. Most of the time you will not self mark, heal+bleednuke and even endure. Cuz you wanna have his attacks, redeem and his HoT. Endure needed only if you have some heavily stressed hero in you party. Just switch one of default skills for 1 fight and spam this. 5. DeathDoor Flag - is dead flag. This is "OH SHIT" mechanics, not some sort of main strategy idea. Cuz this 13% with eventually happens, in 2-3 dungeons at best. Sometimes first DD check will kill hero with maxed Death Blow resist.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for your feedback. I agree that endure is an ability that can be switched to rather than always on. Regarding deaths door, I agree that 13% is still way too high to try and function at for more than a fight or two.

[@majorfallacy5926]

if you have good control over your enemies, playing close to deaths door is pretty good. If you hit deaths door once per fight that's like a rest in terms of healing. Also ideally you want to trigger redeem at the tail end of normal fights. Another fun thing you can do is have a dot on you when the fight ends (like from reclaim or a curio) and have lots of food with you. Every time you hit deaths door you'll heal your team for 10%, meaning you can walk away from a really bad fight 100% healthy

[@matesajben5274]

Well it is a shame you didn't talk about the eternity collar. I still remember that crimson court fight in the viscount quest... I had a flagellant with the martyr's seal and the eternity collar. I fought the Crocodillian, who nearly wiped out only my flagellant and a hellion surrvived and they both were constanly getting on death's door after I used up all the healing skill of the flag I could only self-heal with the hellion. So my flagellant had to stay on death door for at least 5 turns(got an achievement for it) and became raptorous, his damage was insane... The only reason I could not kill the boss quicker was its stupidly high dodge.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would have liked to talk about the the martyr's seal, but I messed up and overlooked it initially. I think it is a good item if you wish to go to deaths door occasionally or have it as a last resort plan.

[@BlizzardAcolyte]

Very unfortunate that the sample FLAG used for this video...is a dude named Courteney. "Rain of Sorrows can melt the backline" is arguably the biggest understatement of all these review videos: if I have a FLAG without this armed, you can be sure I'm broke/sick/sleepy/salty or otherwise out of my mind.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Haha that is an unfortunate name for such a deadly man. Rain of sorrows really is one of the great abilities against enemies that can bleed.

[@pkerwi]

If you are lucky enough to get it, I've found the tempting goblet with the bleed amulet to be the best load out for a flagellant who's not stress healing. The speed and health buff are amazing and the - virtue change means nothing on the bloody boi.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Like you said virtue chance is pretty useless on him if he gets afflicted.

[@austineis3790]

Rapturous + death's door + martyr's seal = double damage Use suffer and another death door trinket to give him a lot of death's door resistance

[@maddorori817]

I was wondering if you could use Man at arm's Guard to keep Flag at a perpetual death's door for that sweet 60% dmg

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Definitely if you can avoid air attacks and stuns.

[@maddorori817]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming how about topping it off with aegis scale incase attacks getting through then?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That would definitely keep him very safe.

[@skyisclear8461]

This is a great rundown of a character I actually never use ... It would have been interesting to see your skills loadout for the two types of Flagellant you mention (support and damage). That's partly why I don't use him - the skills seem so similar and I don't know how to get the synergy right.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

To sum up damage flagellant this is my typical load out. Punish, Rain, Redeem, and either suffer or endure. Support gets: reclaim, suffer, endure, and either redeem or you can keep punish or rain of sorrows on if you want a damage option.

[@skyisclear8461]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Great! Thanks. I might try him. I'm just so nervous of a character who hovers near death all the time when you have a 12 character limit :/ Though he really is very cool.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

He doesn't have to be near death's door to be effective. I often keep him capped off in terms of hp but he has some great skills to dig himself out of bad situations.

[@skyisclear8461]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Great. Good to know. Thanks. Definitely one of the more interesting characters.

[@tomsilberberg1978]

This is what I've been waiting for! Thanks Squidz!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

You are welcome!

[@theodopholous6407]

Fledge-a-lent?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Yeah, for some reason that is how I started saying it and it is hard for me to correct myself. Thank you for pointing that out though.

[@theodopholous6407]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming lols. Just thought it was sort of funny. Thanks for the informative content, appreciate the info and the effort. Keep up the great work!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you!

[@SCARaw]

i dont like this class i know hes rl op with that strange heal and weird hidden perks on low hp or heal for 2 guys for full hp his skills are fine specialy one that bleed single and bleed 2 at the end and heal i dont like his relics usualy taking tanky ring or other trinket like this EDIT btw its amazing how op he is but still balanced kind of with other heroes because hes most op mechanics arent reliable for good leadership and buffing him serves barely any purpose good thing hes -virtue chance trinkets (prob 2 in whole game that are neutral if i m correct) dont have effects there and i think Critical tank focus+tough ring/heavy boots would made him amazing dot tank good versus heavier beast like swinetaur terrible hard to use effectivly bcs some of his skills works simply works only at low hp when comparing it to more OP/reliable heroes added after flagelant (arbalest - currently nerfed to be balanced and shieldbreaker - currently fucking stronger than my fav one and only Helion + Man at arms + hound master + highwayman combined into one character)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would say the Flagellant is a strong class but I am not sure about overpowered. If he cannot bleed, he becomes about average, however his healing abilities really do help top him off. He is practically the only character that drops to 25% hp and you grin, because you know that he can heal bomb now.

[@Klaital1]

I generally go with Bleed Amulet + some sort of +accuracy trinket with him, unless I want to use him as stress healer in which case I just give him two -stress trinkets.

[@toads8748]

What's the background song's name?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I will respond to this comment. My friend made it and it is at this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6qsk6V6fsirp5I

[@toads8748]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming thanks man

[@theun99]

Hey Hiddan Squad, there is currently a kickstarter running for the "Darkest Dungeon: the Board Game" Still 7 days on till closing and it is looking very nice already. With lots of detailed miniatures and nice stretch goals. Mayby a nice subject for a youtube video and if not then to all of those interested go take al look!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I saw they were doing that, and I will check it out here shortly. Thank you!

[@1God1Fury]

Mary Sue's boy friend

[@vantablacc3264]

I'm pretty unlucky with Flagellants. IDK why. I already have 6 of them dead just by a single blow. ...And I always equip them with +Deathblow resist trinkets.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The death blow resistance feels like a trap, since that's what the mechanically want him to do at moments.

[@aknsanl4223]

at least they are martyrs and so they get 99 virgins at heaven :)

[@Klaital1]

I personally just prefer to never have him reach death's door in the first place.

[@2345Z]

Do you think you will do a modded Darkest Dungeon run?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I may after this stygian run. Get some weird classes and maybe different enemies.

[@crusadernikolai1996]

You showed eternity’s collar but didn’t actually review it in the video?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I did and I took it out because I think it was not a great item since the Martyr's seal is a much better choice. I made this decision last minute which is why it was uploaded on Monday and not Sunday. Thank you for noticing!

[@DagarCoH]

So, you're telling me that the Flatulent has the ability Rhinosaurus? Listening to stuff while cleaning can be confusing...

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Haha that would be confusing!