Making Act 3 TOO Easy | Darkest Dungeon 2

In this video from R4nger, we take Rhys' team for a peaceful run in Act 3 and absolutely nothing goes wrong.
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[@tommydonnysalami4716]

Shuff got afflicted with 'abusive' towards the end of the stream fr fr lol.

[@level100derp7]

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[@SovietSnake89]

At this point, I kinda want to read your fanfic. Pretty sure it would be like reading the Necronomicon.

[@shadowfurydono]

I listen to boulderfists when I see one.

[@jimmy_h7911]

Man just cleared final boss with her. Unfortunately poor Reynauld couldn't make it due to me figuring out mechanics of fantoms and he gor blasted with 30+ crit twice. o7

[@ulrichwagner7311]

The thirst never ends does it derp

[@hugogomez4306]

​@@ulrichwagner7311 Nevah!

[@deviousraptor5078]

Finished Grand Slam with The Usual Suspects, just as I conquered the Heart of Darkness with them, now they returned destroy The Body of Work. Carried Junia's fat ass through all acts, she tried to throw during at 2. Act 3 still haunts me by Deaths Dooring 3 people at once because of a poorly planned turn. But i made it.

[@Yetiboy34]

The fact that he has not muted or banned anyone from chat is a testament to shuffles patients 😂

[@Rhyshys]

wow what a flawless run, bravo to whoever suggested this team!

[@bogdanariciu8605]

I finally got my Grand Slam achievment today and I still believe that act 3 is the hardest. I hate that shit.

[@ShuffleFM]

Congrats! What team did you use?

[@ugodelev4720]

Guess we never know ​@@ShuffleFM

[@madleap1364]

Going through the game for the first time now and getting stuck on act 3. How do I kill the lair bosses I am struggling so hard

[@karmine_yamaoka]

Not gonna lie, this had me laughing so hard. Keep it up Shuff! love watching these highlights. Love R4nger's edits, they really make the video so good.

[@S_Black]

Getting Vestal killed for extra mastery and exchanging her for a better character was a big brain play

[@elliotpoco7539]

Wish Red Hook would make size 1 Ghouls so we can fight 4x at once

[@mighark54]

What happened to PD at the Exemplar is basically the Alchemist experience for me. The Blight resist pierce feels too good to pass up but the lower HP results in her getting one-shot to Deaths Door and killed by a random DoT half the time, she's the hero most likely to die out of nowhere with that path. I think you NEED a reliable tank to use her safely, otherwise shit like this happens. Don't want to backseat because it's not cool but I feel like you needed Intimidate on Leper for that fight, though I can see why you wouldn't bring it in the moment, hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

[@ShuffleFM]

Intimidate certainly would have helped haha

[@Upsetkiller456]

I am 3/5 acts completed for Grand Slam! Just cleared Obsession by Malediction SHREDDING the final boss. Here is my comp, wish me luck! Rank 4 - Occultist - Warlock - All Rank Damage and Combo Generator. Rank 3 - Plague Doctor - Surgeon - All Rank Damage and Healing. (No one tell Red Hook how insane Incision actually is.) Rank 2 - Flagellant - Wanderer - The Undying Tank and All Rank Damage. Rank 1 - Crusader - Wanderer - Frontline Damage, Tank/Heal Support, highly potent with the combo generation from Occultist. I have tinkered around a bit with comps but this one I feel very good about.

[@carlitoes9473]

Im convinced barricades exist to justify runaway

[@eclecticspaghetti]

I didn’t know they changed Act 3 to the Tilted Confession.

[@victorhelm6515]

The UI theme playing with the oblivion tears was brilliant!

[@shizukousapostle1stapostle710]

It is amazing that the base stun change on so many heros is so low that even after you get the 40% buff after a stun there is still a scary chance that you will get stunned again 11:12 yep exactly my face everytime

[@SovietSnake89]

Bro I like the Barricades fights BECAUSE they can only target the front 2 ranks. It puts a specific kind of pressure on you. A lot of enemies in this game can reach rank 3, for some reason, so I like this. The Barricades dealing 2 fucking Bleed on Melee hit is mega-BS though, I will agree.

[@Luna-qq8zg]

"bro, leper, if you put your back into it and did more than minimum shit damage..." that was funny. its true,

[@TheMysteriouswatcher]

19:36 holy shit the Witch theme haunts my dreams

[@ultramario4309]

This video should be called "compilation of Shuffle arguing with his Twitch chat", with all the "misplays" of taunt.

[@TheGunslinger44]

Is there any chance you could make a guide on controlling stress without a stress healer? Cause it definitely feels more difficult than it did in the first Darkest Dungeon.

[@nunyabusiness8000]

Love that double ghoul is still the most horrid regular encounter

[@danielblager1401]

Finally beat a grand slam run with a team of Alchemist P.D., Banneret Crusader, Wanderer/Antagoniste Duelist, and Ravager Hellion! Really proud of the team actually, it worked super well! I'd recommend trying it out if you haven't already! Lots of healing and stress healing, good reach, good damage, and it dances not bad. Used Wanderer on duelist for all but act 3 for debuff support on FF. Didn't make a ton of difference tbh, I mostly used Meditate, Fleche, and Ruthless Instruction when Hellion needed to not die. I liked wanderer otherwise due to the riposte stance buffs and better touche damage when needed. Main issue I found with it was Hellion sometimes getting out of position due to turn order shenanigans. Had a couple close calls since I got ordained collector twice (one sturdy) in act 3 but aside from that it was pretty smooth sailing.

[@MrLocoSuave]

Leper as always carrying this shit like a boss and Shuff still giving him crap just for the sake of the meme LUL

[@lucaswatts2141]

Used scourge flaggelant for the first time recently and holy shit his mere presense melted focused fault

[@Korhi]

the fact the barricades are just immune to everything except burn is so needlessly frustrating for no reason. Obviously it can't bleed and sure Flag and PD don't really need to be stronger but why are they immune to blight?

[@sebastienguanzon4978]

For that Red Hook "immersion" they're so fond off.

[@princeoflemons212]

....Because blight is poison, not acid.

[@Korhi]

@@princeoflemons212 but it works on skeletons

[@SovietSnake89]

That was in DD1. DD2 separates Burn and Blight.

[@kabriii]

I defetead resentment today for the first time! I didn't have all the hero skills and paths but I managed to get the full 6 positive relationships (with Leper and Hellion having 20 affinity) which didn't carried me that much but helped. This time I was prepared

[@stnslv27]

Hi, Shuffle! I really like your content. Thanks for these wonderful videos. Keep up the enthusiasm.

[@user-vz4sh7sx1q]

hey shuff , why are your latest streams not on your live tab on the channel ? wanted to re-watch some

[@ShuffleFM]

I want thumbnails made before I repost them :)

[@WeirdSketcher]

I like how the one person who said "you played unsafe" just immediately shut their trap once shuff explained what exactly happened and how its unavoidable. Its always funny

[@Dreamcore_fan]

playing some DD with chat interaction must be such a treat. i only get my schizo voices as an audience and some days they can be brutal.

[@PxHDB]

La miniatura es oro jajajja, nice vid

[@avayevvnon914]

The main thing that irks me about the new encounters is that they were added in the binding blade dlc alongside the duelist, and they make one of her paths completely useless. U cant stack intrepide in these fights unless she's literally afk spamming preparation and meditation. Very strange to add a new encounter to shit on one of the new character's paths.

[@mateuszszafranski8964]

I actually like barricades. Mostly because GR doesn't give two fucks about guard, but still. I enjoy them more than double ghouls.

[@demoralive9107]

Vestal is more useful as a corspe than ally i see

[@deadku6150]

after doing my recent stygian grandslam, i gotta say act 2 is the hardest 😭

[@krewoliskii]

Barricade fights make me sad

[@michabanasiak2073]

Is it me or this boss never cared about blind debuff ...??

[@brunosu3808]

how cant i seee the skills and status of the enemy

[@ShuffleFM]

Hold alt when mousing over them

[@ultraginge1990]

I’m new and just trying stuff out. Very hard not to take plague doctor every run lol

[@agustinxd3monroy69]

After many tries and around 50 hours of attemps I've finished Grand Slam. I think that act 4 is fairly more difficult than act 3, but both of them are kind of unfair.

[@fishyfish1917]

i love when shuff pops-off on chat

[@losingluke]

4:31

[@Alt_Account_420]

!clutch

[@rotm4447]

Not a fan of 3 man, its like use those positional requiring blinds that barely exist in the game and that extremely rare combat item I haven't seen in 4 runs. Run a dodge team and have ff spam steal your dodge+ every turn and he's totally going to behold the guy on your team who cant gen them and inevitably force deaths doors. I'd get my vessel hollowed or take deep breath into dying light on my ravager/leper any day.

[@BullphonesHead]

The game is worth it but to be honest for me it feels like they didn t really care to make it fun

[@Faceplantz123]

dont bash the meat on stream man cmon

[@nazmmetin1862]

No disrespect obviously but you gotta google what chicanery means

[@ShuffleFM]

The hell is a Google? You could have just told me. Lol, lmao.

[@wolfrost9915]

Sorry but is to funny to look at ppl getting fkd by the RNG in this game 🤣, u can't do nothing about it but laugh , DD2 give DD2 takes.............. Aaaaaand my Flag died by a fkign Exemplar on the first DD check (whit the +10 DB from the positive quirk) afther a 30+ crit from 3/4 hp on the night i poster this comment just FML(still love thsi game).😂

[@mistercrankypants]

That's every run for me. Even if my team is completely killing it, some BS where the game literally cheats happens right as I'm at max time investment.

[@wolfrost9915]

@@mistercrankypants i think thats why is not boring afther the 50 run so im fine whit it.

[@mistercrankypants]

It's definitely not boring, but feeling shafted isn't great either. Sure it's DD, but getting out of a Levi straight into a random collector 6 steps down the road, followed by exemplar w very low health type situations are annoying. Or getting random very debilitating quirks Coward, etc as you pull into inn 4 with bad store itemization for removal, creating a complete potential breakage of your existing comps happens too often for my liking. I mean yeah, it happens, it's DD, but when 5 runs go bad in a row after 2+ hours in, the game definitely goes into the penalty box for a good while. OP comps nullify most of this, but that does get old fast. Some runs just feel like ez mode right up until the game just completely unloads hitting every 50/50 while you miss everything, get shuffled, focused, etc. I've been on both sides of this discussion too many times to not realize that there are very strong merits to both sides. RNG keeping the game interesting and never a foregone conclusion is the best argument for allowing transformative RNG to remain as is- but it really can be crushing at times. I don't like walking away from any run (or any title for that matter) feeling screwed and when they stack up it's exponentially crushing. Lifelong fan of the game, btw, I'm just in a morale slump. @@wolfrost9915

[@shivers47]

streamer should've taunted, i don't understand the plays he's making

[@stevehob2257]

First

[@tommydonnysalami4716]

Nuh uh

[@randomguy-tg8kx]

🤓

[@tseikk159]

So, here's some honest feedback: I really didn't enjoy this video. It was *way* too whiny for my taste. My advice would be to either enforce a "no backseating" rule in the stream, or alternatively for you (Shuff) to not engage with the backseaters. I get that it can be an entertaining tongue-in-cheek back and forth kinda thing sometimes, but this really didn't feel like it.