Easy, Medium, and Hard Boss List in Darkest Dungeon

[@trowley7576]

The flesh "never had anyone on deaths door", literally healing your highwayman from deaths door

[@sneakyb4st3rd12]

i dont know who Auntie Quarium is but im sorry the siren took her

[@fabioverissimo1033]

When fighting the swine god you can use the arbalest flare to unmark your heroes, it just makes the fight super easy

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I do agree there are certain strategies that make this fight easier to easy. My only concern would be if the arbalest gets stunned and then cannot remove marks. Wilbur is the only reason why this fight is a medium for me. He is quick, you cannot touch him, and he can stun multiple heroes. However, the clear mark strategy is strong!

[@soulbound2]

Well now you tell me!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Yeah I tried this strategy recently and it's very strong.

[@cockytrice2598]

Not anymore, far as I know

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for clarifying. I only ever did it once but I think I killed him and that's when he started the pain. Still a risky strategy though.

[@yogii6787]

"Bosses you can actively prepare for. This means no collector and no shambler" *points at shambler altar and 0% torch frantically*

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Correct. It's one of those weird ones where you can prepare for but you may have to go to multiple dungeons before finding one. Also, if you do 0 torchlight runs, hallways fights according to the wiki have a 12 chance to be a shambler fight so it can act like the collector in a way.

[@yogii6787]

How... did you reply and heart so quickly..?

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

@@yogii6787Caught me at a good time :)

[@yogii6787]

Huh. Spood it is.

[@renx81]

Frankly, the collector is pretty easy with most comps, unless you have issues like afflicted heroes etc. Shambler on the other hand really needs a team that can handle being shuffled. Also, a shit ton of stress is almost guaranteed. Unless maybe when you have the abomination.

[@tchr-gv1im]

Best way to deal with the flesh is to bring the flagellant and the jester and just bleed it to death with their aoe attacks

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Flagellant is great and so are houndmasters if you like them. I recently had success stun locking some of the parts with a PD and hellion recently as well.

[@karlturner5678]

Flagellant is by far one of my favorite party members. I really hope he's in DD2.

[@dragonmist9963]

I tried a blight and bleed. Though it has been a long time since I played the game so I don't remember how well I did. I just remember absolutely destroying it. Take this with a grain of salt.

[@lucyndryna8775]

Bleed and poison- thanks to this, flash od the easiest Boss in the game

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Flagellant + Houndmaster + Jester + Vestal = easy win.

[@symon1033]

Darkest Dungeon Verdict Easy

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

After a couple of playthroughs it lightens up!

[@trondsjafjell4656]

Overconfident is a slow and insidous killer

[@khanhtung5460]

to be honest, he's too ez to deal. He hasn't a skill that do a lot of damage, even his stress skill. Only "Boarding clutch" cause bleed damage but it's damage is quite cute if compare to the others

[@GoodVulture]

thanks for making DD content in 2019

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

You are welcome!

[@JetBlackThreat]

There comes a point in time when you know you've truly defeated the game .. Not just literally but psychologically and figuratively as well that you pretty much know what's the right moves all the time... And just becomes just another fun game to play That's when you know how to give these tips

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I've beaten these bosses a couple times to say the least so I am glad i can offer some help.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

For the most part, the bosses go from easy to hard, but there is one that breaks the mold in there. Time stamps are below. In the next week I will be putting out a party composition video and I am working on a Trinket skit for now. After the trinket skit, I am going to try and get to the Darkest Dungeon Level 1 and 2 guide. Necromancer: 1:14 Vvulf: 2:15 Prophet: 3:00 Siren: 3:58 Hag: 4:42 Flesh: 5:40 Crew: 7:34 Swine: 9:05 Pounder: 10:55 Shrieker: 12:30 Looking forward to any discussions below!

[@freakkiller277]

For the Drowned Crew, if you get a hero to virtuous and put them at rank 1, heave to will always fail and then you've only got to worry about the remaining crew's damage.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I know some people really like that strategy, but I think the maximum chance is 70% with trinkets and quirks. So for me, I am not sure if I want to chance it and take that amount of stress damage before I get in there, however as you said, it is certainly a possibility.

[@PrinceTissueTF2]

Fun fact: if you can manage to pull the crew forward in front of the drowned anchorman, it renders him useless for the fight and unable to be summoned again

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Can you do that still? I thought they patched it since the crew has 245 percent move resist at champion level.

[@SoulTheScytheOG]

So I'm going to drop my two-cents in here from a stygian perspective: Vvulf - Pretty much spot on, the Vvulf isn't super hard as long as you have a solid guard, particularly MAA, and then the only thing to worry about is Death's Door checks from bleeds Necromancer - Nearly irrelevant boss aka free very rare trinket Prophet - Pretty similar deal, although I'd say it's a bit tougher since often in the early game establishing a team comp to take the fight isn't as simple as many other bosses Siren - The Siren fight is determined by whoever has the lowest Song of Desire resist, which the Antiquarian often will have. This fight isn't super hard as long as you don't accidentally take a different character with a worse resist Hag - Not necessarily hard to overcome, but to fight it without losing any heroes in Stygian I'd prefer to have a more comfortable team comp such as double hellion in order to be more consistent about saving people from the pot. Flesh - I actually find Flesh pretty easy given you run some AoE dot and have resist trinkets and holy water to avoid Death's Door checks from bad RNG stun+bleed Sodden Crew - I always felt like Crew was super easy given you can take out the anchorman with the anchored hero, so any solid 2 damage dealers in the frontline should be able to knock it out easily. Also blight stacking in this fight makes it pretty easy, since most of their attacks are total fodder Swine King - I honestly find this fight easier than a Champion level Skiver fight in the Warrens. Webber is certainly frustrating, but the wide variety of comps which totally counter the Swine King are kind of rediculous (debuff, double reposte, mark, rallying flare). Brigand 8-Pounder - I used to think this fight was annoying when all I did was run Lepers, but eventually I came to learn that this fight really isn't very complicated. Generally just running a single strong backline damage can be enough to take out the fusilier, but running 2 for good measure isn't hard. One iron swan from a Hellion with at least one ACC trinket should be enough to handle, but running something like a Houndmaster or Highwayman alongside it can make the fight even easier. Not to mention how strong a Shieldbreaker can be in this fight as it duels as a backline hitter and ignore prot for the 8 pounder itself and Brigand cutthroats with PROT. I think the notion of this fight being too RNG focused is based on the idea that taking a leper into the fight is reasonable, which in general it really isn't. Shrieker - In Darkest or Radiant, it's definitely worth it as you said to just take a fodder team to just survive if you're getting trinkets back. In Stygian this does get a bit more tricky since losing people can be a detriment, but in general it isn't too awful as long as you have a team that can hold it. Mark comps with the arbalest aren't bad here if you can land a debuff to lower dodge, otherwise running ACC trinkets on a jester/vestal/double damage or tank comp works pretty well, where you can use battle ballad twice into solo then finale for the kill in most cases.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The swine god is easy now in my mind. I did not try the flare strategy before the video, but I tried it after and it was such an easy fight. Regarding the Brigand, it took me a while to get it down, but yes higher accuracy and row versatility solves the problem quickly. Thank you for commenting and giving your thoughts and advice!

[@tatoulino515]

I like this comment section, people talking about their opinions, experiences and strategies about a (difficult and fun) game.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I like them too! The community really comes out and helps out new and more experienced players.

[@renx81]

Really goes to show what a high quality and intelligent game this is. We could discuss this for hours on end and never run out of things to talk about and learn from each other.

[@ashleyneku5432]

I didn't even know the Pounder could misfire.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Yep. It's an interesting mechanic they added.

[@shuliu8436]

I didn't even know the Pounder could fire at all :3

[@detectiveed.sciple817]

It didn't happen once for me until the last version, where if it hadn't misfired, I would've lost.

[@sebasulgc6629]

"The swine hits hard but doesn't hit often" Me after loosing a whole party of maxed lvl 6 with my main trinkets because the swine crit all my party 3 times in a row: Surprised Pikachu

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Yeah, he definitely can do that to you :(

[@detectiveed.sciple817]

Rest in peace Dismas. You made it so far.

[@blindeyedblightmain3565]

@@detectiveed.sciple817 it was Raynauld for me. Got targeted on both turns while Vestal was stunned. Even with decent prot second one came as 48 crit followed by an instant mark dealing deathblow.

[@Prayingfrog]

Today I lost a flagellant and a bounty hunter in the swine king fight to crits; never had a problem with him before, but boy oh boy he fucked my shit today.

[@renanwillian1411]

@@Prayingfrog honestly to kill swyne god you only need a cultist with a Demon's Cauldron, and just reduce his damage to a point where it become a literal joke, and for the sake of crits just use holy water and stun resistence trinkets on the vestal or occ if ou prefer to be sure they will heal every turn then you're fine

[@Peusterokos1]

I suppose this list is subjective, but some things I disagree: As hard is the Siren, high dodge prevents your teammates to turn over to her side. (Man at arms, Antiquarian, Grave Robber, etc.) The Pounder can be easily thwarted with the Bobba Fetch team (2 hounds 2 hunters) The Flesh is honestly one of the scariest bosses for me. Never an easy encounter, but then again I dont have a key strategy for it. All in all, for me the worst is the Sodden Crew. Its such a drawn out battle that holds very little at stake. Ive started using the same strat I use for the Siren out of spite since it just works against these drunken undead sailors. Also, fuck the Shrieker.

[@allanredhill8682]

For the flesh i would suggest a flagellant with reclaim and bleed, a pest doctor and a healer - maybe a vestal. It is very weak to dots and you have to target the right parts. A man at arms is also good for protection.

[@cataclysme7287]

I rarely got problem with the flesh, i usually go Plague doct, occultist, flaggelant and shied breaker/ Highwayman/jester (similar strat than Luca suggested). But yeah it's still really rng based, i hate when the boss goes 2 Infestation and crit my backline. For the syren i like to equip a lot of self buff/ weak skills and usually they just do useless things when they are on her side so its fine. I didn't know about the Jester strat for the sodden crew. I usually go high speed, high damage (sometimes with armor percing) and kill it fast. the boss doesn't have good dmg so it's usuallt ifne. The pounder can be anoying, i usually dedicate someone which is supposed to oneshot the matchstickman and the other dps hit the canon while the other stun/heal but it can go out of hand quickly if my team fail to kill the matchstickman. The boss i usually struggle the most by far are the shrieker and wulf. But vvulf difficulty is probably caused by the fights before meeting him, the bandits crits are awfull and the last time i had to fought him he came super early and i wasn't ready at all, my MaA were level 4 or under...

[@allanredhill8682]

@@cataclysme7287 yeah highwayman and jester are awesome in this fight. I only use the MAA and vestal because of the rng involved...

[@Alienoiable]

Get a jester and a houndmaster. Spam the bleed. Say goodbye to the flesh. This boss can sometimes hit you really hard but with DOT damage, he's going done quickly enough.

[@JagEterCoola]

For the Flesh, consider the following: Houndmaster (Position 1, Blackjack, Hound's Harry, Guard Dog, Target Whistle) +Dodge+Bleed trinkets Occultist (Position 2, Hands From the Abyss, Weakening Curse, Sacrifical Stab, Wyrd Reconstruction) +heal+stun trinkets Jester (Position 3, Slice-Off, Harvest, Battle Ballad, Inspiring Tune) +Bleed%+Speed trinkets (Speed is super important. He's already fast, but if you can go first every round on a jester, it's basically free extra damage) Plague Doctor (Position 4, Plague Grenade, Noxious Blast, Blinding Gas, Battlefield Medicine) +Stun%+Blight% Trinkets. (I'd love to run +speed on her but her blight and stun trinkets are really strong.) Jester should go first, use Harvest (honestly just spam harvest, with a bleed % trinket it should work almost 100%) If the middle parts don't have 100%+ bleed resistance (as with bleed+ trinket you will have 170%). If they do, use Battle Ballad. Second to go is often the Plague Doctor. If the back ranks are annoying, stun them. If not, use Plague Grenade. With the right trinkets, you may only fail 10-20% of the time. At this point the Flesh tends to go, but if your Houndmaster goes first, don't Hound Harry - Guard the Occultist, as he will be the tastiest target for the heads and spines. Occultist, if no one is too hurt by his turn, should just spam Hands of the Abyss unless the PD has already stunned those ranks. Your team doesn't have a lot of direct damage, so just Sacrificial Stab whatever has the least protection. After this, keep HM Guard up on Occultist, keep backlines stunned with Occultist if you can, plague doctor+jester will be a good amount of your damage, Hound's Harry as much as you can, Blackjack if anything really scary pops up. Within a few rounds, the Flesh will be dead :)

[@potawatadingdong]

Man I thought the cannon was about the easiest boss. I typically finish the fight without the cannon ever getting a shot off. The crew boss was always a pain for me.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I have the opposite problem sadly. For some reason that matchstick man is the bane of my existence.

[@JagEterCoola]

How to kill the Flesh: Houndmaster (Hound's Harry baby) Jester Plague Doctor Vestal/Occultist. I've done this with an Antiquarian too. Buff your PD's stun and blight, your Jester's bleed and speed, and your Houndmaster's prot and dodge, and enjoy the carnage.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I have found that the plague or stun combination with hounds harry is extremely effective. Thank you for posting!

[@aidanabregov1412]

Instead of easy, med, hard, why not predictable (and thus plannable), odd, and random? Cause you exclude random encounters as well as include some rather hard bosses in easy by your ability to plan for them. Good vid!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

This was a hard video to make because first time encounters are harder than others, and some bosses are heavily more reliant on RNG than others. But I agree it would have been interesting to have easier to plan against to harder. Thank you

[@jaroslavsvaha6065]

This is pretty much opposite of my experience, I've had the most issues with Hag and Prophet, while Flesh, Pounder and Shrieker were absolute walk in the park. Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying your video is wrong, just that it is really subjective to your strategies

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I completely understand, no offense taken. This video was hard to make because we all have a different playing style and it allows some of the bosses to be bigger headaches. Thank you for watching!

[@jaroslavsvaha6065]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Yeah, right now I'm experiencing Fanatic PTSD, luckily I managed to retreat before losing anyone, but still

[@kxDeveloper]

Absolutely. In my opinion the prophet is the hardest among the regular dungeon bosses. The other ones are pretty much easier. Probably there's some difficulty in dealing with the swine god too but not as much as the prophet. Tbh I think that the champion level exclusive mobs like the hateful virago and swine skewer are far more dangerous than most of the bosses

[@blindeyedblightmain3565]

@@kxDeveloper I hate Hag. It's an RNG monstrosity. Either you get decent RNG and kill her before your guy gets cooked, or you get double grab on the DD followed by a bunch of misses and no crits, ending up in an instant deathblow bc guy jumps up from the pot right before Hag's turn. Hate this boss with a passion. Prophet isn't that bad if you get Occ and MAA with decent stun resistance. I prefer killing Swine God first for the sweet 50% stun resist.

[@kxDeveloper]

@@blindeyedblightmain3565 well i guess its just different players play differently. I remember running 3 crusader and 1 occultist to holy lance the hell out of that shitty prophet

[@palpaul9723]

*"The twisted faces of the damned, piled high, and cloaked in malice."*

[@erykczajkowski8226]

1) Most bosses are hard if you don't have an optimal party/abilities/don't know what to expect. 2) I'd say the hardest are the bosses you can not reliably manage and are heavily RNG dependent: Flesh and Swine. Even if you are well prepared a series of crits/stuns can completely derail your gameplan. That said if RNG goes your way these will SEEM easy fights. But they have the highest probability to make you loose people. 3) With Brigand you can prepare increasing your accuracy so if you have the right trinkets it's actually pretty easy and reliable. 4) Having said that - having right trinkets is a factor in the fight difficulty. 5) And another factor is - how the optimal anti-boss team will fare in the dugeon they need to go through? Because sometimes the best team for the boss might be seriously suboptimal for the dungeon.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

You're points are correct about having the right party for the boss and the dungeon. Also, there are very few bosses that are reliably trouble in this game even with a good strategy. It was a fun video to make but it certainly has its difficulty.

[@williammitchell6254]

I cant belive you put the pounder in hard i dont think ive ever been hit by a single boom, let alone lose to it

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

At the time of this video, I believe my natural/comfort compositions were really bad against the pounder. I would still stick with at least medium because it has the potential of one shotting your whole party. Thank you for watching.

[@DrZaius3141]

Technically none of the 8 standard bosses can be considered "hard" when you're properly prepared, but what makes the pounder probably hardest is that it requires a very specific way of approaching it. While that may also hold true for the Flesh, the Flesh is very doable even with a crappy comp. Against the Pounder, you're always just a couple of unlucky rolls away from a TPK.

[@JenDen9]

@@DrZaius3141 Drowned crew is HARD in my opinion. I cannot find a reliably working strategy against them.

[@kxDeveloper]

@@JenDen9 use highwayman, give him the point blank shot skill and try to get him into the front position during the fight. When the anchorman anchored him, use point blank shot to break through. The fight will be pretty much easier

[@JenDen9]

@@kxDeveloper when anchorman chains your front hero he cannot attack anymore. Cannot do point-blank shot. You have to use other heroes to save him. Meanwhile every single action from both you or drowned crew drains the chained hero and heals the crew.

[@LiezAllLiez]

There are a lot of difficult bosses in DD but i find the cannon the MOST dangerous. It might not be the most difficult but the second you fail a dice roll and miss that shot on the fuse lighter? "Hello darkness, my old friend..." **BOO---**

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would agree and that is why I put the cannon up there. I know with high accuracy this boss is easier, but it is the only boss where you can die in a single turn essentially.

[@BartixShieldsmen]

Thanks for the antiquarian tip against the siren, I find the fight a pain and never knew that she had preferences

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It works pretty well, but just be aware it can be sporadic at moments!

[@BartixShieldsmen]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming i'll take those odds over my bounty hunter being constantly stolen alongside my healers any day

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Channel continues to be amazing and a huge help :) Thank you so much for all the content.

[@ryanpepper4376]

Occultist on swine king is, infact, OP.

[@cclemonb1222]

Funny how ppl are rating them when they have prior knowledge on the mechanics. None of the bosses are hard with wiki, but going in blind: I'd say swine (since you'll probably kill Wilbur 1st time in) and Vvulf. Including all wandering boss and DLC, I'd say Countess (because phases) and Shambler (you wouldn't know about tentacle buff until too late.)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I agree. It was hard making the list, because it can be hard to pull back to those first memories, and honestly all the bosses can be hard the first time through. I remember the hag ruined me, because I only had strong front row hitters and I could barely damage the hag behind the pot. But the Countess is very difficult without cheesing her to death with dodge strategies.

[@o_braxos]

I went against vvulf totally blind, with a hounsmaster, highwayman, vestal and i think a jester... breezed through everyone until vvulf, since i had no prot i tried guarding with houndmaster not knowing it was impossible to dodge. Thankfully i beat him with 0 casualties

[@prepthenun]

i found the flesh the easiest one, i always bring two plague doctors with me, a vestal for team heals and some heavy hitter (bleeding skills are welcome). i just stack blight with plague doctors since every segment is a part of a whole monster and its resistances are low. can get it done in like few turns. never lost anyone to it too.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Glad to hear! I do a similar strategy, but for the normal dungeon I like to have a PD and a houndmaster. Hounds harry is pretty reliable if you put a bleed trinket on him against the boss. I kept it at medium because of the changing parts can sometimes allow for a massive dps line up. Overall, I have only lost one person to him and it was because I picked a bad line up for it.

[@nickcline5569]

I find that a duo of shieldbreakers hitting all 4 segments with blight is more effective but I can see why that works too! I use a mod to make shieldbreaker good so that strat may now work vanilla

[@erykczajkowski8226]

It's an interesting concept, but seems to have a major flaw - you need to go through the dungeon first and PG is not optimal for warrens, most enemies have high blight resistance, having 2 of them in the party? An one needs to stand on R2 - not the safest ideal with relatively low HP and dodge...

[@bertoldopleari7779]

Absolutely agree! One Houndmaster/jester one PD one vestal and any frontliner will do it! I also love bringing Highwayman GraveRobber Jester/houndmaster and vestal (with every evasion i can get from trinkets) even tho is not the best comp, it's the funniest one if you always target the heart with your single hit moves. Jester is mostly for vel/crit buffs every other round and the finale on the heart! So funny

[@knightdew1651]

I got really pissed against crew because I brought along my damage dealer using a ethereal crucifix, to then get really pissed that the crew is UNHOLY IN THE ELDRITCH AREA AND IS THE ONLY BOSS LIKE THAT!!!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Haha yeah... crusaders work well though!

[@hawkecrail5186]

Drowned thralls and squiffy ghasts are also unholy

[@knightdew1651]

Yeah, but still the fact that one is rare and only on champ and the other is uncommon, but still there is only 2 enemies that are unholy in the cove and one of the bosses is still unholy in the place I think of when I think Eldritch

[@shamefurdispray859]

With the Brigand 8 and 12 Pounders, I had amazing RNG, nearly every cannon turn was a misfire, or an actual shot that missed most of my heroes, then I went into the Brigand 16 Pounder, and got absolutely decimated

[@evanwilliams1839]

If you have trouble with the swine god there is a very IFFY strat that can be applied. The only two characters required are a vestal and an arbalest/musketeer. Here is a three step plan. Step one: Mark Wilbur. Step Two: shoot and kill Wilbur. Step Three spam divine comfort. This strat will stress your heroes to the extreme as they constantly dip in and out of deaths door. All you need to do is bring virtue chance and then bash him down with some tanky boyos. I'd recommend a bounty to benefit from marks and a crusader or leper for damage.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I have done it that way before as well, just have to be careful with stuns but often it can be done.

[@Bittexu]

How to beat The Flesh: Plague Doctor spamming blight Abomination spamming blight / Rake

[@TheOldBee]

Swine King fight can be really easy if you bring a Flagellant with you. His best skills are based around taking damage and returning it with bigger power. Same goes for the Hag, but you have to be really careful about not getting greedy since you can really easliy put him on Death's Door and if she still has any turns left there's a big chance for her to land a Deathblow even with the best trinkets. Overall it's a good video, keep it goin' man!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would change the swine king fight to easy now. Regarding the hag, she was a weird one because she has killed a couple of my heroes in my first two campaigns, however I feel like I have a good riposte strategy for her now.

[@Klaital1]

You know that killing the shrieker doesn't do anything apart from save you from taking the big chunk of stress from when he leaves. What you really want to kill is the nest, because that gives you a huge load of gold.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

They designed the shrieker very oddly. I'm not sure why it counts as you killing it if it flies away. What they could have done was give the gold in the nest if you kill the shrieker as a form of payment.

[@Klaital1]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I don't think your really meant to be able to kill it, which is why it has so ridiculous amount of dodge.

[@MadSwedishGamer]

In my experience the Brigand Pounder has been one of the easiest bosses. I think the cannon has only ever gotten a turn once, when I got super unlucky against the fuse guy. Then again, I basically always buff accuracy because I like to be able to consistently hit, so maybe that's why. I also always bring a party that can hit any position (usually Hellion, Highwayman/Grave Robber, Vestal, Arbalest).

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I put it at hard because it can put your hold party at death's door if you mess up once. But if you do acc you should be fine

[@SilentDragonite149]

5:26 That totally happened to me once. It was even worse for me because that was my healer! That ended up leading to a party wipe. I like to pretend that it never happened, but I did get an achievement for it...

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The hag has a couple of moments early on where she can be annoying for sure. My first time in, I had people who could only hit the front row really and I had to back out.

[@brevyansingollo1411]

"X" Boss = Hard (you look at the party and there's a leper lol)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I have played all bosses many times without the Leper. He may be in some footage but that did not affect my grading. The Leper is certainly bad against most bosses though. I don't disagree with your statement I just wanted to clarify :).

[@renx81]

I've used leper successfully against the flesh and the prophet before, wouldn't dare try that on champion level though. I think he might be ok against swine king as well, but don't think I've tried it yet.

[@shorebreakers96]

@@renx81 He is okay against Swine. If you build Damage and survivability, he can eat a lot of damage while still deliver a lot. Because swine have abrely any dodge and is probably even slower than your leper, it can work. Maybe not the most optimised but it's okay depending on the rest of your party.

[@kbyebleha2978]

I will never forget my first fight with the prophet, refusing to hit my flagellant and everytime i switch him around to take the rubble HE DODGES. Everyone died of a heart attack

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Haha the dodging would be insane. It's not that low in accuracy.

[@eszmeraldajazminkovacs4418]

Agree: -Necromancer - easy -Prophet - easy (It is easy if you know what you are going against. At first I had no idea, and brought a team that wasn't good at hitting the last enemy. In that fight I lost 3 heroes. But then, the next time I brought a team with a lot of ranged heroes [A hellion is the best because it can hit the last enemy in a row really hard] and it was the easiest boss fight ever) -Siren - easy -Shrieker - hard Don't agree: -Vvulf - should be hard or at least medium (It killed my best team [lvl 6] in early game) -Hag - should be medium (It can really suck if it puts the stongest member of the team or the healer in the pot) -Brigand Pounder - It was easy because my friend told me that I must kill the Brigand Pyro. After that I just killed it every time, and the rest was easy. I know it could be hard if it dodges a lot and you can't kill it. I was able to kill it everytime and it haven't lit the canon ever. -The Flesh - It was a really easy fight for me personally, but I think I just got lucky. -Swine King - It was also a pretty easy fight for me. I don't really know why.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It was hard to rate some of the fights, since there is usually one strategy that can completely negate the power of the boss. The Swine King, I would move to easy now because of the flare strategy. Regarding Vvulf, I did not have many issues with him after my first fight, since I brought in a MAA and that makes the fight pretty easy. The first time fighting him is usually a disaster, because you do not expect those bombs to do 44 damage.

[@eszmeraldajazminkovacs4418]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I understand. Your video was really good, I just wanted to share my side of the story. :D

[@shadybrain3424]

shieldbreaker is a must against the brigand pounder, the camp skill to give armor piercing is really good. also if you just focus the match guy and the adds and kill the pounder last its easy. you can easily go through the fight without ever letting the cannon go off.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That is fair. I believe I tried to say without dlc but completely agreed.

[@flotheshaman9366]

My first boss in this game was the Swine King and I kid you not I was about to shit my pants because I had never seen anything like it. I dont really remember my full comp but I know that I had a Plague Doc that was my main dmg and I loved him so much and a Vastal to heal. When those 2 got killed by the 4th turn because of poor choices and rng I was spam clicking the Abandon button like crazy. Now I know how to beat him with ease but I still try to avoid him cause of the PTSD he gave me.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I think we've all had that one boss. For me it was the crew. For some reason my first time was just nightmarish.

[@ProfesorTeto2]

The fanatic obliterated my favourite party cuz i was overconfident

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

@@ProfesorTeto2 Ugh the fanatic ruined my first team composition as well :(

[@krzysztofgrudzien9313]

@@ProfesorTeto2 I guess no one told you before that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer....

[@jackcostello4046]

My game plan against the Crew. Put hound master in the front, stack his dodge buff with his guard move, and put someone behind him who has a pull ability. Just keep pulling until you get it, and keep your dodge buff high. Hasn't failed me yet.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for sharing!

[@giga9955]

Think you need to possibly reassess some of these as feel like you wanted to put more in ‘easy’ just to try and make you sound better; but then describe something which is completely in a medium category e.g. the crew

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It was difficult to get first impressions out and first encounters out. I think most of the bosses are pretty easy but I could see how some could be different. Though as I play more I think I would change some stuff now

[@giga9955]

HiDdeN SQuiDZ Gaming Don’t get me wrong though, I enjoyed the video and like your content and have subscribed

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I am glad and thank you!

[@janner2006]

Yeahhhh, I just had my entire party wiped by Vvulf. Not knowing how powerful Man at Arms / guard is in that fight beforehand really screws you up, especially when his entire party does so much bleed damage

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Vvulf is one of those fights you walk into first time and get shredded because of that. The second time however, its not too bad. Just put a stun resist trinket on the MAA to ensure no stuns occur.

[@janner2006]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Oh I'll get my revenge against that son of a bitch alright

[@EliteSpectre32]

Honestly shieldbreaker is insanely good for just about all bosses. Necromancer - Can hit hit regardless of his position and can pull him forward so the rest can hit him. Prophet - Again can hit pos 4 and can use Seperent's sway to get 2 block in case she is about to be hit by rubble Swine King - can stack expose on him to get 30% increased crit chance, has a camping ability that makes one ally immune to marking(you can make a party of 4 shieldbreakers and make the entire party immune to marking and spam expose to get way over 100% crit chance and turn the fight into a complete joke) Flesh - serpent's sway to block damage in case low, impale hits all 4 enemies with only a -60% damage mod and applies 2 blight (every part of the flesh has lower blight than bleed resist except for the butt) Hag - Hits pos 3,4 ,has decent dodge ,can join mark parties since captivate gets more damage vs marked + has a trinket that gives her +35% damage vs marked with any skill Pounder - can one shot the matchman in any position and has armor piercing meaning she ignores the pounder's prot and has a camping skill that gives the rest of the party 15% armor piercing Siren - good damage and blight Crew - same as above, armor piercing can easily one shot the anchorman straight through his prot

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Completely agree that a shield breaker ruins almost every boss if not every boss. Versatility is strong, damage is pretty good, and decent accuracy.

[@ankoku37]

For Swine God I bring leper, occultist, vestal, and arbalest. The vestal is there to heal (obviously), the arbalest is there to clear marks, the occultist is there to spam weakening curse, and the leper is there to hit hard. Yes, Wilbur inflicts stuns, but by having two heroes that reduce the Swine God's damage in different ways and a third to reliably heal, you're guaranteed to have at least one of them doing their job per round to keep your dudes standing. Absolute worst case scenario is your vestal and arbalest are stunned and the occultist's weakening curse is resisted, but the odds of that happening are low and the odds of it happening more than once are miniscule, and I've never had an iota of trouble with the fight. For the Flesh just bring a flagellant, hound master, and plague doctor and spam their AOE DOT attacks (with a healer of some kind to round it out). I've straight up ignored defenses doing this before. Stuns and heals be damned, even if you miss a turn or your damage is undone you're still going to be piling on enough blight and bleed to melt it. For the Brigand Cannon, I have a leper, bounty hunter, vestal, and plague doctor. This is a little complicated, but I'll try and explain. First, make sure the plague doctor is SLOWER than everyone else. In the first round, use the vestal to stun the matchman. If you miss or it resists though, that's okay because you have other people. If the matchman isn't stunned and it's the bounty hunter's turn then use flashbang or come hither to stun/pull him forward, but if he is stunned then the bounty hunter goes on duty clearing the other brigands. If the matchman is not stunned AND is pulled to the front then use your leper to kill him, otherwise buff him with revenge. Your last turn should be the plague doctor. If the matchman resisted the stun and either resisted being pulled or was pulled but dodged the leper, your last bet is to either try and stun or blight him (kind of a coin toss on which to do, but generally if he's still in the back I go for stun and if he was pulled I go for blight since noxious blast does more blight damage than plague grenade and those usually take him out for the round). IDEALLY though the matchman should have long been disabled for the round (if he's alive it's okay as long as he's stunned), and you're free to use her to buff the leper with emboldening vapors. After this it's just attrition. If you can spare a turn then use the vestal to stun or damage the matchman but if not then heal the damage dealt by the brigands, the bounty hunter is working to kill the brigands (he won't be able to take them all out but he can mitigate the damage they can do) or injure/stun and shuffle the matchman, the plague doctor is stunning or blighting the matchman, and the leper is bashing the cannon. With both buffs the leper is so stronk that he can usually destroy the cannon in just a handfull of rounds and you have so many ways of taking out the matchman that he'll only light the cannon if you're supremely unlucky. An occultist may be better than a vestal for this since you are relying on them to attack the matchman if necessary and abyssal artillery and daemon's pull would be very useful for that, but I always go into this deciding I would rather have a vestal's more reliable and party-wide healing in the event that things go wrong (as well as a stun that can be used from the back rows, since an occultist wouldn't be able to use hands from the abyss in row three) and she's never failed me.

[@jorgehuertas3995]

How to beat the hag: Bring 3 highway men and one Vestal. Spam the riposte ability and blow the cauldron with the strong meele shot. If she uses meat tenderiser she is getting 40+ damage recoil depending in your level

[@thewolfofthestars1847]

For some reason I've always had great luck with the Siren lol. Whenever she seduced one of my party members, said party member hasn't actually attacked the team. A Vestal was stolen away and proceeded to heal herself twice before being returned, a Hellion just buffed herself twice, and I think a Man-At-Arms just guarded the Siren for a bit before coming back... Just watch, my next play through I'm gonna get my ass handed to me lol

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Haha it happens. I handled the hag easily in the first playthrough, but in my second she straight up murdered someone in my veteran level. It was weird.

[@AnyaBlackk]

Even the low level Crew is giving me nightmares. The first time, I had no clue what I was up against, had to withdraw. For the second, I prepared better, brought a good party, and then got jumped during camp which messed up the party's stress levels, including the hellion I needed on slot one to tank the anchor while dealing damage. By the time my Occultist dealt the last blow, the other three were all afflicted and the Hellion was 2 stress off a heart attack.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The crew is rough for the first couple of times. High stun or high dodge can slow the anchor man's turns which maybe be just enough. Lepers and highwayman can also do a lot of damage if they get caught by the anchor.

[@AnyaBlackk]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Yeah! I actually took your advice and took a high dodge Jester and the anchor didn't hit once - it was a breeze.

[@Achillez098]

Great list, and great reasoning! Individual experiences vary, here's where I disagree: The Hag for me was hard, I lost an entire party of veterans because she kept spamming "Taste the stew" ability, so she was healing constantly while I was constantly down one man due to the cauldron mechanic. The Flesh for me was easy, just stack blight and bleed the whole fight and the boss will pretty much kill itself. The Swine King for me was easy, just get 2 highwaymen, 1 man at arms, and one vestal. Vestal heals, everyone else activate their riposte ability. With riposte, you can kill Wilbur without triggering the Swine King's rage ability.

[@DungeonDesigners]

Accidentally took level 0 Arbalest, Plague Doctor, Leper, and Highwayman against the Apprentice level Hag. The RNG gods smiled on me and I only lost the highwayman in the fight.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Always rough going into a boss for the first time. I took in a Leper and Crusader for the Hag, and it ended terribly.

[@xMrGreeneJeansx]

Been replaying DD1. A team of Musketeer, Vestal, Hellion, Shieldbreaker allows me to reliably kill the matchstick bandit in the 16 pounder fight. Usually the shieldbreaker one-shots it on their own. I always get unlucky with Swine God, last two playthroughs Wilbur kept marking the same two heroes 3 rounds in a row and I was lucky enough to survive a deaths door check.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It's hard to rate bosses due to personal experience, preparation, and play style. I found the pounder hard because of my earlier play style was limited. Thank you for watching!

[@Habaneri94]

My first hag was easy as shiet. Vestal, Jester, Highwayman and helion. It was during helping hand, and i had just maxed their abilities. Good trinkets. Twoshot the hag. Good times

[@NoneNullAnd0]

Prophet is fight is very simple, but he's the most RNG boss with his rubble attack, so he can party wipe if he decides to hit the same person after dropping their health to 0. The flesh is the easiest boss in the game due to AOE attacks. I went in with a bleed jester, highwayman and houndmaster and I killed on the first person's turn in round three (not even accounting for all the bleed damage that would carry over to the next round if it had more health). Swine king is probably the second easiest since you can just straight up out damage him, you can mark him for huge amounts of damage, and he's front line (victim to crusader and especially leper).

[@voodooozo3755]

Drowned crew can be really easy when your frontliner is virtued. If so then he will resist the anchor every time.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Some people really like that strategy and depending on if you have dlc or not, I think the highwayman can get to about 70% I think.

[@voodooozo3755]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming if you download a class called "samurai" you can get 130% virtue chance with camping skills, no 145% if you use low torch voivode in team. I used samurai with 75% virtue chance. Very good class.

[@vicio19995]

@@voodooozo3755 to be honest the samurai class feel like a cheat class in how overpower it his

[@voodooozo3755]

@@vicio19995 he is definitely strong but I dont feel that way

[@zackfake1253]

Have nightmares of my leper getting seduced and instantly turning around and 1 shotting my highwayman, who is then forced to point blank the leper for half his health because hes at slot 1 now

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That's fair. I've never had too many issues even without the antiquarian cheese. But lepers are risk in this fight but also high reward

[@michkp71]

For new players. I bring two houndmasters one occultist and one hellion for brigand pounder. Remember your occultist should prioritize to heal but if you have the chance try marking the matchstick man so that your houndmasters will have an easier time to kill him no matter what position he is. One of Your hound master should also be in position 2 and bring the blackjack so u can at least stun the matchstick in case you want to have a turn to focus the brigand. Bringing a good acc trinket on your hounds and hellion is also a good choice. One more thing, Before the fight always hellion camping skills that buffs her crit and damage if she is in position 1 since she is gonna be your main damage dealer on the cannon. One of your houndmaster could also supports her in dealing damage to the cannon in case you have killed or stun the matchstick.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for sharing!

[@condorreaper1460]

Honestly I found the crew to be the easiest, especially since when it gets pulled in front of the crew member you just win. Sure, 200% move resistance isn't easy to overcome, but a bit of debuffing here and a bit of buffing there, add a couple trinkets, and boom. You just win.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

So they increased it but you can still so it. Nice!

[@CriminalizeObesity]

Condor Reaper You don’t even need to bug the boss, the crew literally has no offensive power whatsoever lol

[@Fallingsnow64]

For shrieker, all I did was bring a vestal, 2 plagues, and a highwayman, along with shard dust. Use tracking shot, as well as getting the plagues to buff the highwayman as well, shard dust on the plagues, and just repeat duelist’s advance and point blank shot. I had the best experience killing the Shrieker this way.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

What a unique way of doing it! Thank you for sharing.

[@fairyonice9504]

The cannon was trivially easy my *second* time, but the Fulminating Prophet tpk’ed my team. I lost my first vestal to the bastard.

[@mosselliadelt]

I found the flesh to be the easiest boss, two hounds, a flagellant and an occultist mop him up

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would agree the flesh is easier more times than not, but the rng factor of the changing parts and having the bleed land can make it interesting at moments. I was also thinking without dlc but a flagellant is an excellent choice.

[@majesticfalcon6402]

Easier than necro? Or does that just not even count as a boss lol

[@TheOnlyToblin]

Squidz: 11:00 "Brigand Pounder: HARD" Me: "WHAT?" Brigand Pounder is, next to the Necromancer, the fight I care the least about. It's *so* easy as long as you bring stuff to kill the lighter guy. But, I will reserve my mockery of you until I've heard your actual argument. :)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

There are two factors that influenced my decision. My play style at the time was countered by the pounder. Also, if things are to go wrong, the pounder has the highest potential for a team wipe. If things go wrong against other bosses I don't feel like I would lose in one turn. Maybe the siren if she stole someone and did a crit on me. Even then, I would have three people left. The pounder in theory can put a whole team to deaths door. But I agree, if done methodically this boss is boring and easy.

[@TheOnlyToblin]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Yeah, I can definitely see that. I have yet to have the Pounder *ever* get a shot off at me, but I've also only played about 250 hours and actually only beat the Heart of Darkness for the first time two days ago, so compared to you, I'm something of a "noob". But the Pounder has never really been a problem. The Flesh though...that thing gives me nightmares. Actually, Hag is also one of my most hated bosses, because depending on misses, dodges and her choices of abilities, she has wiped more than one of my teams just to sheer RNG and bad luck. Granted, these days I'm a lot better at preparing, but Hag and Flesh have always been my nail-biters. :) (Talking non DLC bosses here. If we include DLC well...The Dreamer and literally ANY of the Crimson Court bosses are just horrifying XD)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It's always nice to hear other people's experiences with the game. Even after the amount of hours I've played, it's hard to for me to see bosses in a new light.

[@pungoblin9377]

I always thought the swine king was pretty hard but then I realized, as I’m fighting his last form, that attacking Wilbur makes him mad and I felt so bad for that one team I sent that got completely obliterated by the swine king

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I've done that no worries!

[@manhphuc4335]

For the Pounder fight i suggest double abomination, double hound master team. The Abom can hit 2 square and increase their damage with rage, while also can reliably hit the third place where the match man usually spawns. The first houndmaster i suggest you stack with acc and damage trinkets while the 4th one i suggest you stack with stress and dodge trinket as he will be the one doing protection for the abominations.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you!

[@flakeybitsus5830]

What really worked for me with The Swine God was the Marked for Death party (Bounty Hunter, Houndmaster, Occultist, Arbalest) I had my Occultist apply all of his debuffs and watched the rest of my party melt his skin off, it was so easy it was almost kind of sad

[@GeraltofRivia22]

I think it's a little unfair to rate bosses who have very specific strategies needed to beat them as easy. If you go in blind, you're going to get absolutely destroyed by a boss like Vvulf.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It was difficult to do. I agree about the prior knowledge affecting the scores.

[@yichizhang6909]

The crew is just way too easy. S/L a virtue for the front hero or use a houndmaster(with dodge trinket and dodge quirk if possible) to guard the front hero. Then the poor anchorman will miss all the time. Shrieker. I would say it is easy and hard. Just imagine shrieker steals 8 trinkets in week 10. sigh... With proper preparation, it is easy as fuck. Basically, I just need an occultist with a slayer quirk. Occultist uses hex to mark and lower the dodge, other DPS can deal massive damage(houndmaster is the best DPS here because his bonus damage against beast and mark). Limit on turn is not such a bad thing since vestal is not necessary: houndmaster can self heal; occultist can heal as well. If RNG is not bad, killing shrieker and its nest within 4 turns is not hard at all.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The crew is very easy because of Dodge strategies. I'll have to try out your shrieker crew because I can easily kill the shrieker but not the nest as well. I made it hard mostly because of the turn limit and the fact you need a debuff to lower that insanely high Dodge.

[@EliteSpectre32]

The Shrieker stealing trinkets event can only happen after week 42

[@gremlinbox5655]

I remember killing the Fulminating Prophet with three Jesters and an Antiquarian in the back. I obliterated him with finales and got lucky enough to dodge or get missed by Rubble of Ruin most of the time, if not all of the time.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Very nice!

[@thermophile1695]

I never had any trouble with the brigand pounder. I just took my Hellion on the front, buffed her out the wazoo with Jester, and used iron swan once a round. EZ

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for watching!

[@mamkindominator745]

2 higwaymen a grave robber and a vestal can do easy: swine, cannon, that huge crow. Never had any problems killing any boss with this team. They do incredible amount of focus fire and can easy hit 3-4 positions and annihilate first position. They only drawback - no stress relief

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for sharing!

[@Afgkid2003]

all my attempts with the hag have ended with a party wipe, despite me having a mark build or having a setup that targets the third or fourth spot, but I just KEEP DYING

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I am not a huge fan of the mark comp for her. I have had great success with riposte from highwayman point blank for the pot to free people. Give that a try if you have two highwayman.

[@renatoafonsomaiacarneiro950]

hun...I didin't know the Siren likes the antiquarian, that's very good! Now I have a consistent strategy for her, TKS!

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

It should work most time, but some times she does not want to cooperate :(.

[@renatoafonsomaiacarneiro950]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming NP, tks by the way, I was going to re-play this game this summer and I was dreding to figth her due to the fact that her "song" is not a debuff anymore and I didint had a decent strategy so far...

[@PlanetaryPhoenix]

I lost 3 heros at once to the 2nd Level Prophet from crits. That dude is at least a medium

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

He can do massive damage, but a damage reduction build or a mark build should be able to outpace him. He can be very tough if you face him without the correct composition but I do feel like he is easily countered.

[@aleksanderdrozdz7108]

5:57 welp... thats why this one is no "easy" for you my dude

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Sorry for missing this initially. Some of these compositions are going to be sketchy at best for two reasons. I needed the footage quickly and I have learned a lot since then. I would still place the flesh at medium though because the rng of the parts can really give you a different fight every time. I have had times where they just dps my people down in the front row quickly even with me doing the DOT and stun control strategies. Most times this boss is not a problem, but occasionally this boss can lay on the damage unlike some of the other ones.

[@PadraicSmith]

I've never really struggled with the Brigand Pounder, but I understand why one might.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

If I had to judge it now I would put it at medium based on the fact it could still knock your whole party to death's door. But over my past playthrough I've gotten much better at the mob control. Thank you for your comment!

[@PadraicSmith]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I'd definitely agree with you on most of these, and I agree that the Unstable Flesh is the hard to categorize; if it keeps spawning the maws and the invasion ones I find it really rough but I had a run recently where it spawned nothing but bone zephyrs and hearts and it was a piece of cake.

[@furioussherman7265]

The Flesh is actually quite an easy boss, I've found. All you need is a team based around DoT and a Vestal to heal them up. Plague Doctors, Abominations, Hellions, Jesters, Flagellants, Shieldbreakers, and Houndmasters all rip the Flesh to shreds by stacking Bleed and Blight nonstop.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The dots are great, I just felt that it can have some good damage rng and can kill a hero if you are caught off guard.

[@juliangonzalex3964]

The Flesh was super easy with two shieldbreakers, a houndsman and a vestal. The Shieldbreakers just do the blight damage back and fourth and the hounds man gets the bleeds, with the vestal to get the heals when needed. By the third or fourth round the Flesh is just eaten up by all the damage.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I did think about these guys without the dlc, but yes the sb makes this boss even easier due to the blight and damage she offers :).

[@agnastthrower5212]

I've never had ANY trouble with the Sunken Crew. I literally never even noticed that their Protection was going up, as I can consistently kill the guy with the anchor in 1 turn with 1-2 hits from my front-line people.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

For some reason, my first playthrough that boss was headache, but my second time through was real smooth.

[@Spiffyo]

Something about the Sunken Crew for a bit of help, but if you bring a Crusader or Leper, make sure to bring a Plague Doctor with Emboldening Vapors because even at level 1 She can give the Crusader and Leper +3 Speed, which will help alot and allow them to go before the Sunken Crew for the battle usually with an added damage buff.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Interesting strategy. I have not tried that, but I can see why that would be effective!

[@Spiffyo]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming If you do have the chance do give it a swing, because the Crusader and Leper can go before any severity arises from the anchorman. Since their damage is so high it's possible to 1-2 shot him to minimize his effectiveness. when I buffed a lvl 3 Crusader with a lvl 6 plague doctor with Embolding Vapors 5(any level was allowed) and tacking on the Ship's Figurehead damage; a +50 Crit hit against the Sunken Crew(Lvl 3-4 Boss).

[@taraalea]

Drowned crew's anchor is not affecting virtued heroes. You are getting 1 virtued hero, put it on rank 1 and win. For a cannon - you can stun charger instead of killing it (with plague doctor for example). Depending on version you are playing you can consider abomination instead of leper- rake is way better in long fights due to an autobuff, Vestal (now it is allowed to go with abom or occultist) and man at arms. I'd say Flesh is the hardest one, but was an imba tactic of 2 houndmasters guarding other 2 guys (they had up to 130 dodge and literally invulnerable). Other 2 can be any. I think you really overvalue lepers.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That's very cool! I just read the wiki and that's certainly a good strategy if you don't get back luck.

[@taraalea]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming had to learn about all bosses a lot while was trying to make 1000+ kills on endless harvest. The trick is to kill all with the SAME party (+shambler and sleeper). Also shileldbraker is imho an absolutely op dd with her pierce.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I've done the bosses a lot but I really should read each wiki in depth. Thank you for the knowledge!

[@marcoaledo7379]

I was surprised to see the Pounder on hard, in my case, everytime i played i had a very easy time with the boss. Never got to see the BOOM myself. I guess i was lucky because i came prepared for the fight the first time and inmediately realised the strategy. I bring at least two people (3 if possible) who are able to target the pyro, there is usually a grave digger just because of her good accuracy, an arbalest to heal/shoot and then some heroes with other healing abilities or high damage and mark such as the bounty hunter. i get why you say the fight can be hard, but i think the RNG can be greatly reduced with the right party, at least, i always felt like this boss was one of the saffest in my opinion. Always had enough chances by turn to avoid the Pounder from being lighted.

[@knightdew1651]

The crew is my most hated boss for 1 reason, and that's the fact that it's unholy. It's real bad when you bring eldritch slayers rings and ethereal crufifixes to and UNHOLY boss. And I almost always forget this fact.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The crew is annoying for sure!

[@MM-cg9tk]

For me, I would say the necromancer is easy (not my first run since I was new and the six feet under I think its name crits we’re insane) second boss I fought was the hag (I abandoned the warrens since my best team in the FIRST FIGHT which was immediately outside the entrance were all bleeding,diseased, and near death door, gave me ptsd) was difficult for the first time, not because into the pot oh no but because of her wooden hammer I Kidd you not was more deadly then all her abilities, rng was insane with her even when she was near death she kept dodging. As for my third boss that old guy who hangs in the back of the ruins was very easy thanks to some abilities clearing his marks (not all the time though), fourth boss is the swine thankfully i studded on how to beat him before going there through that hell again. And there’s more funny (and horrible) story’s but this comment is long enough :) (Forgot to say this is all in radiant mode since I knew anything harder was suicide for me lol)

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Regarding the hag, I remember when I first started playing this game, I took in a leper and crusader... both are so wonderful at doing damage to the third position :(. I had to leave with someone in the pot. Our first encounters are always terrifying. Thanks for commenting!

[@bloodiedkallo9713]

The Swine King is the easier boss; for me. Idk if youre thinking on the Flagelant, but a team focused on the damage for Dot, this battle can not be hard. Arbalester for remove the marks Dog master for dps and bleed Hellion for more bleed Flagellant for definitive bleed If you think the Swine king deals more damage than you can not control, prove a Vestal on the team insted a arballester And the heroes will no die never.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I would move the swine king down as well and move the siren up. Thank you for watching!

[@Zer-cr2yv]

Against the flesh i strongly recommend shieldbreaker and plague doctor dmg buff. It shreds through the segments really quickly

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Thank you for sharing!

[@ralfneumann6946]

I once fought the champion hag and thought: easy, right? Well. The dungeon was a long sausage meaning that I could skip 1 room. I also didn’t bring stress heal as the path to the boss wouldn’t be long, right? So one champion weald later 3 of my heroes were afflicted (everyone but my occultist), my hellions were suffering dd recovery and my flagellant was at about 130 stress. Thus it was boss o clock. A hellion gets grabbed, the occultist reduces the hags dodge but doesn’t, the other hellion missed courtesy of rabies and the flagellant hits a rain of sorrows. The hag spends the next 3 turns healing the flag spends the next turns trying to out dps the heals but fails, the hellion spends her turns missing (rabies and affliction) and the occultist basically does nothing. The hellion in the pot is finally boiled to dd, comes out, has her and the flag behind her crit with meat tenderiser, has a heart attack and dies. The occultist gets afflicted and the flag lands in the pot. The hag lost a total of 10 hp during this time. The other hellion (still alive) is getting to heart attack territory. A lot of missing from the rabies infected hellion and the hag spamming taste the stew to heal from the occultists sacrificial stabs the hellion is about to get into heart attack territory and the occultist is at about 140. I try to save the flag but the retreat fails and he lands in the pot again. I just hope he tasted awful as I had to leave him behind. Second time same team comp but a short dungeon and the hag gets dot-ed to oblivion. Thank you for reading my rant. TL; DR: Champion level weald can suck a fat one.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I agree about the weald being absolute garbage for sure.

[@hermesy.c.9668]

The abomination has always work wonders for me against the flesh, just puke on it every turn and the blight plus the blight resist debuff will deal constant reliable damage

[@krzysztofgrudzien9313]

2 shieldbreaker strategy is also great: impale - 4 position hit stacking blight damage + camping skills that give armor piercing to team (snake eyes) or blight chance and resist to themselves (adder's embrace). With 2 shieldbreakers it doesn't really matter who else goes to see Flesh, might be 2 antiquarians with dodge stack, comedy gold!

[@suthernhillbilly]

Crew is also easy because if you bring virtue it destroys the fight. For swine king I brought the good bad and ugly group and shredded him Although if you bring an occultist and bring weakening curse or (the one that decreases damage and prot by 10%) and remove damage altogether

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That is true about the crew. I tend to not build towards a virtue build but it is a viable strategy.

[@waldezurbe]

swine king strat: bounty hunter, occultist. mark, stun wilber, damage reduction. it works.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Over the past year, I would move the swine god to easy, since damage reduction and remove mark builds work well.

[@josecriollo6976]

I made an dodge build for the lvl 5 prophet consisting of 3 graverobbers and 1 bountyhunter for marks, all the graverobbers had max level with max base dodge and all of the team had above 50 dodge, needless to say that I also used the stealth move of the graverobbers which further improved their dodge to like 75 or more, the way to the prophet was piss easy due to the dodge and damage my graverobbers + mark + poison did, but when I came to the boss...throught the entire fight my team did NOT dodge even a single time ANY attack from the prophet and I was getting critted like every 3 turns, I lost my bountyhunter and a graverobber but rngesus came to my rescue and the other 2 remaining managed to survive several deaths door and kill the prophet

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That's the beauty and curse of dodge builds. When they are going well easy wins a few unlucky hits.... Glad to hear you made it out!

[@meisunebernadetta9868]

How to counter flesh 1-bring houndmaster 2-area-multi-stacking-beast-effective-bleed 3-bring some bard/masochist/lara-croft-wannabe bleed debuffer to make him company 4-chunk on those scooby snacks 5-enjoy the sight of a red bar shrinking

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That is pretty much the build I do go! Thank you for the comment.

[@kylep9216]

I'm surprised to see people say they struggle with the flesh. I've been running vestal, jester, grave robber, and flagellant, but to be honest any heroes with aoe dots can melt the flesh, i just didnt have the houndmaster before. Also didnt know that about the siren, cool! That fight wasnt so bad for me without that debuff resist exploit, but it will certainly be less annoying in future runs.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The flesh is normally pretty easy, but sometimes the heads keep spawning and ripping up your front liners really quick. Due to the rng of the boss I put it at medium since the parts and combinations can be so different every time you fight them.

[@danny_decheeto8300]

man, I just lost Reynauld to the necromancer It feels bad man

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I'm sorry to hear. Hopefully you get a from a from beyond event soon.

[@danny_decheeto8300]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming I foockin hope so m8

[@SCARaw]

i dont wanna judge bosses by easy/hard most of them have dungeons - once i failed necromancer medium with 0 torches by killing collector and shambler on road, shambler was 2 tiles before last boss and no fights where i could heal/compose squad (high stress before necromancer gives me 2 heart attacks):D necromancer - summon shit human or eldrich + unholy damages helps a lot, low hp made him easy to destroy with heavy hitters or mark tactics Prophet - human behind 3 tanky objects, Hellion, vestal and haundmaster/man at arms turn this fight easy Siren - you can destroy this fight like ultra destroy by just drinking HOLY WATER, Siren is human and eldrich crew - i dont know, i never had to use real tactic on this one, its harder to get to him than kill him, he is prob unholy swine king - clearing marks/guarding helps a lot, beast flesh - haund master and mass bleeding works wonders, this is eldrich brigant cannon - damage vs human helps and stuns/riposte helps, bypass protection helps, rng fight, last time i lost 3 ppl on strongest one (all max level - wrong party composition) Witch - this fight is weird vestal pos 4, haundmaster/occultist pos 3. lepper pos 2 + helion pos 1 should destroy it with stress casualties, which is human shrieker - its very very hard to kill him and nest in same fight, mark tactics dont works that well because he move offen, he jumps betwen positions so its rl annoying and turn to kill limit is killing me, he is beast + eldritch - bleeding should works on top of solid damage, i believe 3 haundmaster and man at arms should destroy him fuck healing, gamble on 66% death door resist WOLF bandit- damage vs human helps, riposte helps, healing helps, should not be very hard Shambler Eldritch riposte helps a lot, dont let his summons move too offen or have someone who ignores protection - trick if you see altar with shambler mix your own characters in weird positions like lepper 3 :D before starting combat, can help a lot Collector blight is effective, stuns works wonders, specialy 1st turn fast stun he is probably human or unholy or both :D

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

That's very true about the condition of your party before you get to a boss. I was trying to put them into a vacuum which is hard because that's not how this game works at all.

[@honkface8751]

I've lost one of my units pretty much every time I've fought prophet, and I almost always use a man at arms while spamming defend. It seems like out of all the non-special bosses he's the one that's had the most potential to kill. One of my only runs where I didn't lose a unit to him was a luck-based build relying on dodge. I could just be unlucky, but I think you were just lucky

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I've beaten the prophet about 12 to 15 times. I don't think I have ever lost someone yet. I've done quick damage comps, protection comps, and damage reduction compositions. If you want a pretty sound proof strategy feel free to do a leper intimidation composition. The damage reduction makes rubble do about only 10 to 12 damage I believe. I have a few videos on it!

[@themetroidprime]

I found the flesh so much easier than the prophet. Just spam bleed and blight on the flesh and with one healer and the flagelant in the front, the fight becomes insanely easy. Just go Flagelant, Houndmaster, Plague Doctor and Vestal/Occultist and it's in the bag.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

The flesh can output some serious damage and something I didn't show in the video was a damage reduction strategy with the leper for the prophet. I have actually used it a couple times and by turn 2 the prophet doesn't really hit that hard anymore which is nice.

[@marioskontopyrgos9931]

I find the Brigand 8/12/16 pounder really easy with 2 shieldbreakers. You just focus down the matchstick guy and hit the cannon with your third damage dealer. A vestal to heal your heroes from the attacks of the other minions works pretty well

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

I initially did these without dlc, however that does not change the fact that double sb would ruin this boss. Thank you for watching and posting!

[@marioskontopyrgos9931]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming Oh I see, my bad I missed that. Yeah without the SB it becomes a little bit harder to hit all 4 enemy spots reliably

[@akasha5904]

I thought the brigand 8 pounder was one of the easiest fights, cuz you have 4 opportunities to stun or 1shot the flag guy. The hardest boss for me was swine god, since I didn't really know how to counter him.

[@HiDdeNSQuiDZGaming]

Swine god you can get an arbalest to cancel the marks, it works pretty well. Regarding the brigand, I put it at hard because if you get unlucky twice it can mean the whole party is at death's door. Also the fight has so much rng it can be difficult to replicate similar fights and results.

[@yeet-sd9rk]

@@HiDdeNSQuiDZGamingThe musketeer's Skeet Shot is the same as the flare

[@stylishemerald3181]

Dude when I'm fighting with the Brigand Pounder, I never used my Vestal to attack. All I let her do is just heal her teammates, that's it. No stuns, no judgement, nothing, just the heals. I've noticed when using vestal to attack brigands at this matter, you already have fucked your cards. Tried few times when I'm almost to the brink of victory, all went collapse when I used her to attack. I dunno what it had to do with her.