Occultist and You | Darkest Dungeon 2 Guide

In this guide, I'll explain how to play Occultist with plenty of tips on the nuances of his abilities and strategies. There will also be some team member suggestions at the end to help you make comps. Next guide is going to be Vestal! I have it recorded already, just need to edit it.
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0:00 Intro and Strengths
0:59 Weaknesses
2:29 How to Play
3:56 Skills and Paths
22:12 Trinkets
28:54 Teammates and Outro

[@cobaltmetagross9266]

Don't click burning stars, Baldwin is at deaths door. Don't click burning stars, Baldwin is at deaths door. Don't click burning stars, BALDWIN IS AT DEATHS DOOR. But what if it crits...

[@portsyde3466]

'you click wyrd reconstruction and CRIT...for 0. +3 bleed.

[@colbyoravits6743]

⁠@@portsyde3466 ‘Baldwin fails the deaths door check.

[@aegisScale]

No matter how good he actually is, the Occultist has to be one of the funnest characters in the game. He's got so many memes: -Wyrd Reconstruction and the +0 CRIT Bleed -Malediction Cause of Death -To Stars, or not to Stars? -Murder Weapon Anemesis -Chaotic Offering stunning you -Roof Spaghetti -Shank

[@madlysoldier5143]

Sadly no more Tunak Tunak Tun 4 Occ in DD2

[@valyxillos2308]

One thing that you left out for him specifically is to NOT put on the Burn resist dark impulse trinket, his burn is weird because it is guaranteed to land so you basically just give him horror by using it with high unchecked power

[@okonkwojones]

Great tip!

[@burnin8able]

yeah, I learned that the hard way when I put a 66% heat shield AND a burn dark impulse on him "surely I'll be immune to burn now, completely nullifying the downside of unchecked power" little did I know...

[@lucaswatts2141]

I tend to put the one that gives strength if first, and give +6 speed on burn on him. Gives me some juicy burning stars

[@zekerboy9877]

I find it funny that the skill called "Burning Stars" doesn't inflict burn damage.

[@skullreda2762]

his pull is underated its one of the best abilitys to get rid of annoying back mob fast ..just pull it then oneshot it with your dmg dealer

[@magi_stricide]

The issue is that pulls can be resisted and frontline units usually have moves that moves them back to the front (and moving the back line unit back) HWM + Jester combo with take aim, encore, and shoot, is still by far the most reliable.

[@drunkenpotato143]

@@magi_stricide Why would you use a knockback skill if you want the enemy in front? Why would you ruin your own combo??

[@magi_stricide]

​@@drunkenpotato143 What I mean is that ENEMIES have movement abilities that get them to where they want to be. M (melee), M, R (ranged), R. Pull R to front row. R, M, M, R. Enemy ranged goes first (always more speed) M, R, M, R On melee action, melee moves themselves forward. M, M, R, R This doesn't always happen, but it's surprisingly frequent.

[@drunkenpotato143]

@@magi_stricide TBF they still pretty much lost a turn but yea my bad

[@IllD.]

​@@magi_stricide These movement skills aren't strong at all. The cultist with two swords has a movement skill that moves her up front but it does around 6 dmg.

[@kaiserroll5379]

I think Malediction would work better if it had it's own unique DOT that ignored the enemy's resistances so it would be more reliable and make Ritualist more appealing as a path.

[@colbyoravits6743]

Thank you!

[@marianolaguzzi]

True, also maybe it should require less unchecked power, because to me it looks like it needs way too much setup to payoff: you need to wait a couple rounds to generate the unchecked power, then a turn to use it, then wait for your teammates to attack the enemy a few times, hoping they don't resist; all the while you could have simply attacked the enemy and done more normal damage

[@burnin8able]

that and the fact that the burn DOTs can't be resisted in any way from unchecked power is pretty dumb imo.

[@Dubious_Neon]

​@@burnin8ablethe only reliable ways to get upside out of them are Butcher's Apron and Smouldering Hymnal, I've found (the burn DOTS)

[@Hedge_Knight_Gaming]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Wyrd would be so much better if crit heals worked like crit damage and max rolled 100% of the time.

[@rileyfosti843]

Well... duh?

[@Hedge_Knight_Gaming]

@Riley Fosti Fine, I'll elaborate more. The whole reason Wyrd is a bad healing move is the inconsistency it carries. Due to it being the only heal that's not a set number, it's also the only move in the game that does not maximize on a crit despite having a forced crit with Unchecked Power. Maximizing on a crit would also make it so you don't actively avoid pressing the button when you have 2 UP tokens, because a crit 2 heal feels like shit and gets heroes killed.

[@rileyfosti843]

@@Hedge_Knight_Gaming there that's better

[@poggers4392]

Sure make it heal for 75% max health and make occult shoot straight up to S tier Totally not broken

[@Hedge_Knight_Gaming]

@@poggers4392 They can tweak the numbers to make it not completely broken when they make it consistent, of course.

[@okfine9077]

People really sleep on Malediction. It's insane when paired in a riposte team (HWM + MAA), typically taking only one or two maledictions to kill a boss with ripostes alone. Think of it as increasing the damage on the target by 6 (including DOT damage). When upgraded, the res piercing debuff alone makes the skill worthwhile.

[@michaelcoleman2173]

Tip for Warlock fans: if you have to chose, put your first upgrade point for OCC into abyssal artillery! Fight's will not be lasting long enough to justify an early chaotic offering upgrade, and burning starts is not up all the time/isn't appropriate to use/set up all the time. Abyssal Artillery is always available, is consistent and when upgraded is a convenient unchecked power dump to not barbeque your occultist. Obv the double stun is stupid useful too.

[@slushisimcambi2521]

I know he is not the best rn but I really like him. He pairs amazing with Leper.

[@Zucca2011]

Its a shame his kit is a bit lackluster, his cosmic warlock theme is just too cool

[@victorhelm6515]

Deamon's pull into chop is such a nice way to kill a backliner real fast.

[@justafish4452]

@@victorhelm6515Classic feed the Leper strategy

[@vogunBurgundy]

I've found that the most obvious way to get Wyrd Reconstruction to function decently as a heal within a team is just to lean into the Bleed. Get Sodden Sweater as a pickup from the Shroud so you heal when you get the Bleed proc every other Bleed and resist it with the huge +Bleed Resist on your tank, run him with Runaway so she can Cauterize and turn the Bleed into even more Heal once you have the situation calmed down, that sort of thing.

[@jarylquincina7866]

I know the occultist is not top tier, but damn the meatballs and spaghetti gameplay speaks to me. “Dont heal the leper, think about the 15% crit + 5 on the trinket” 😂

[@kmnsk8583]

I'm 100% sure occultist will get a path rework, Vestal convictions powercreeps so much unchecked power, it is just sad for poor occ

[@centurosproductions8827]

I think he would benefit for some of the unchecked power attacks only requiring one, or having a lesser version at one.

[@thant0s]

Warlock Occultist is some of the best fun I've had with the game. There are a lot of opportunities for his nuking to go awry, between his self-debuffs and enemies hyper-focusing him with things like Blind, etc., but the guy just *shreds* huge HP, clowns on the backline, and can easily be a solid backup healer with auto-crit healing between nukes, with only a modest investment of skill and items producing big results.

[@Z-.869]

Would you think that malediction would work alot better if it worked like runaway's controlled burn? Where enemies in said rank of the malediction would receive either of the 3 dots, and the token stays around for 3 turns? Edit: also I'd like to confirm that teammates that are moved by enemies are not considered to be moved by the enemy when the other characters are effected, for example: You have jealous whispers on a character, then another teammate gets moved by an enemy and disrupts the teammate with jealous whispers, the guy with jealous whispers gets a positive token.

[@br0ck689]

Yeah obviously it would be better but it also would be incredibly less unique. They should make it last rounds instead of turns, like tracking shot+

[@orooooooo]

A recommendation to get the most out of your videos shuffle is to not assume whoever is watching the guide already knowns the basics for every character For example you keep mentioning specific moves like wyrd reconstruction and stars without even going through what they are briefly first I would assume most people watching a guide aren't already experts at playing said character Which makes it so you either need to watch the entire video twice to get use out of it or do your own research before even watching the video

[@okonkwojones]

14:00 I feel like that stun rolls way more often than 4% but then I remembered there feels like there’s also a ton of negative quirks that can proc stun or become stun because of an unlucky double daze that there’s probably more interactions going on than I’m clocking at the time. And those % triggers on a lot of those quirks feels excessively high in a lot of cases.

[@Fifthform13]

I love Occultist, His animation is super cool, Using burning stars is very satisfy

[@MrMarnel]

Despite some issues with the hero, I still find him very fun to play. Pull, tentacles, curses and stars all feel great. Maybe Malediction is good against the Act 5 boss? I like that he's effective against cultists due to how common both block and dodge are in those fights. Funny how Stars might be big best button and got indirectly buffed when Evangelists were given block. I also like running Stab on Warlock. On early turns in simpler fights I usually rather pull or spaghetti the backline instead of using Chaotic Offering and stab gives him something quick and easy to do in the later turns while hitting front ranks. It works in position 3 so if you don't have someone like Surgeon PD that also wants it there's no issue.

[@studentt6064]

His pull can also be very good vs evangelists/tangle footsoldiers, when you pull a backrank enemy and the turn order lines up, both evangelists keep using the move to get out of rank 3 and just constantly use the weak movement move. The same can happen with foot soldiers although that is rank 4. I find a lot more movement skills are more viable in dd2 than 1, not that they are incredibly optimal at all, but they can sometimes be all right. Pulling gun brigands is usually also decent, although when you get a spawn where there are 2 guns in the back it doesn't mean much.

[@awesomepork101]

You see burning stars. I see double stun

[@BorrasitoTakaTaka]

''We are not the same'' kind of thing 😂

[@OceansideSpiderHouse]

Two things I really like about the pull in addition to what you said are that it clears corpses even if it misses the damage, and that most backline enemies can only use weak retreating moves if pulled to the front, so if you can’t kill them, you will still greatly reduce their effectiveness.

[@rustytusks765]

Seeing Sphere on a Ritualist Occultist genuinely won me my Act 5 run, he just consistently got enough Unchecked Power to through out Burning Stars almost every turn, and in between I could just get the buffs from my curses to make Burning Stars hit even harder.

[@OhNoTheFace]

I love that occultist molds to his team. And I like that I like all of his paths. unusual for heroes in this game

[@suicideangel6159]

It's a shame Antiquarian defected to the dark side. Occultist really looked good with her, I shipped them(visually, not gameplay wise, although somebody defeated the siren using just these two)

[@LensenMessias]

Love your channel, love your content, hope you're doing great

[@KevinShmelvin]

An immediate buff to his token consuming skills like malediction and anamnesis is to make them cost 1 token so you can turn 1 get token turn 2 use. burning stars is good at 2. also they changed how the tracking shot prevents dodge to rounds not turns so i'm assuming all other similar skills will get the same treatment. This will allow setups like turn 1 chaotic offering and turn 2-3 malediction or anamnesis or consume token turn 1 and use turn 2.

[@hidood5th]

Pairing Aspirant with Orphan Runaway is pretty fun, though the path is really only good for Denial since it's the only one with a 4-enemy confession boss.

[@pavelsoloway3675]

My favourite occultist combination with ravager hellion. Occ Demon pull + hel smash does ridiculous damage to backliners and also pulls them to forward ranks where they usually can't do shit 😂

[@TheUplate]

Runaway works well with Occultist. Her cauterize can recover from a bad Wyrd reconstruction, she's often on fire, so Scalded skull becomes far better too. Malediction often adds fire damage which makes Backdraft more powerful. Runaway can use Firestarter on Occultist, then he can hit the every rank with Anamnesis. Runaway also pumps out a lot of combo tokens, which helps Occultist generate unchecked power with Binding Shadows and Sacrificial stab

[@thomasjenkin26]

What do you meaning the healing ability is bad? Getting 0hp heal and bleed is the best part.

[@skyc3598]

Occultism and plague doctor synergize so well for back line nuking. Not to mention plague grenade with abyssal artillery make easy work of the tangle boss.

[@ChuckShnozwell]

It’s almost comical just how much burning stars outclasses malediction and anamesis as unchecked power skills

[@siegdarklyon1900]

Loving the videos man, keep up the good work. As for the 'what do you want' part, do you have an approximate on dd1 hellion guide? Listening to those always gives me at least one new idea

[@frederickleake9122]

I'm looking forward to seeing the hellion guide, because I suck with her, but she's my favorite, so I want to do better with her

[@Ebola419]

I appreciate the just unlocked portions

[@alexgourdplant]

Alhazred my man! Luv this guy too much, stars is the bomb yo.

[@Nocure92]

Pull is great, if the rank 4 enemy hides behind corpses and the move gets resisted, it doesn't matter because it gets pulled to the front anyway.

[@LunetoHa]

Class: Mr First & Main reason for class rebalance (which is sad, only character who kinda embraces the void in all its horror)

[@leoscar9816]

For me aspirant is the go to, killing a marked ennemy with the knife gets you two unchecked powers at once, and the path make it easier and just generally deal reliable damage with the move. I get to avoid the self damage that way. Safe and easy star spam.

[@Avabees]

I miss hands from the abyss so much :(

[@squirrelfart275]

I had a Warlock Occultist pop the hell off with that Dreaming General trophy that converts Weak into Strength and Vuln into Block, or something, as well as the Mortal Ward (Crit token and Dodge+ on Death's Door). I would honestly recommend either of those since I find that Warlock Occultist is a very very fragile character and is going to hit Death's Door very often, and both those trinkets turn the downside of Occultist getting focused into Death's Door into these hilarious comeback slugfests. In general, this is how it mostly went every single fight: *Occultist getting double-tapped to Death's Door:* "Call an ambulance, call an ambulance!" *Burning Stars crit for like 50+:* "BUT NOT FOR ME!" It did not help that this Occultist I think was either Bloodthirsty or Vicious - this guy probably singlehandedly carried my first Act 5 win, basically from Death's Door. Make sure you have PD so that he doesn't die to DoTs.

[@bunnysupreme74]

Wyrd Reconstruction having a bleed of 3 (or a bleed of 2 upgraded) over 3 rounds sound insane! Especially cause in the first game, it started off having a 1 bleed for 3 turns. It would go up to 3 bleed and an 85% instead of 60% chance when fully upgraded, but because the healing output would get much higher, it was less risky the higher level it was. With the other characters, the devs have often just made the skills in the second game be very similar to the first game (e.g. Hellion's Yawwp giving her winded, even tho its a much weaker skill than in DD1), but for some reason, in this instance they did the opposite. Instead of the heal giving a low bleed at lower level, and then a high bleed at higher level, it is the other way around. And the limitation of a healing threshold really baffles me. I feel like the skill is so high risk, it does not need a threshold. You are always throwing the dice when using it, so you can't just easily spam it for recovery like you would other heals. Even if you used it right before a battle ends, you could still roll a 0. The healing threshold being this low too (33 percent!) also makes me wonder... Do they not know that this skill is too volatile to use at such low health? Why can Plague Doctor just heal with indiscriminate science at 50 percent, but Occultist can't? Or did they do this deliberately, so you are forced to have this nail-biting moment of "will this save me or will this kill me"? I know that they recently gave him the 50 percent threshold, but I am really curious why they didn't do that from the get-go and even needed the community to ask for it so often before they changed it. I really wish I was in the same room while they discussed how they would implement this skill for DD2. There are a lot of open questions about the decisions being made here, and whether they were deliberate or out of a lack of understanding how players use the skill.

[@serenolopez-darwin1975]

Occultist heal is one of the worst spells in the game, one of the big reasons being that you need healing most when a character is at Death's Door, and often times Wyrd just fucking kills them lmao. Also it can eat your crit tokens/unchecked power to crit heal for 2, which is just awful. Only use I've found for it is enabling Carved Bodkin.

[@vinnie6591]

love his curses and pull, those combo tokens are really nice for characters like leper. shame you didn't mention the guaranteed crit heal

[@CullingBlades]

crit healing for 2 hp ain't it my g

[@br0ck689]

He did at one point

[@dylanboczar999]

Crit doesn't necessarily mean anything more than that the 2 on the screen will be bold. If anything, knowing that you can create crit heals for OCC is an intellect hazard, because it makes you want to try using Wyrd.

[@jackdamon302]

I would like it if you gain unchecked power with Occultist like Vestal with her conviction tokens. Gain every turn baseline, get it in unique ways with his paths, then change Chaotic offering to do something else. Makes him more effective in battle, and doesn't just devolve into hitting chaotic, burning stars, third move repeat

[@ShadowFalcon19]

Wyrd Reconstruction = THE MEME HEAL + BLEED COMBO

[@cwp24]

I think I would use him as a purely support character with ritualist. Cursing enemies, healing with the most inconsistent heal in the game (only if It’s absolutely necessary) and combo. That’s it since this will be my least favorite character in the game. He is in serious need of some buffs to his skills and paths.

[@michaelcoleman2173]

Warlock has his uses, Abyssal is consistent as a backline nuke and Star's trivialises some encounters/enemies like Implication/Altar.

[@curry605]

Warlock is very strong, i had so much fun and i just got the final boss with him!

[@pavisepavisnt]

I haven't watched the entire video yet but there better be Malediction slander

[@notinwater]

Runaway could be a good teammate. If you use Wyrd and it causes bleed, Runaway can use Cauterize. Bleed gone and no threshold on Cauterize healing.

[@OmniPeasant]

I just recently discovered that burning stats are really good. Can't play support Occ anymore.

[@ExtremeMan10]

Finding some fire resist trinkets and debuff ones actually make him worthwhile for keeping more unchecked power.

[@natethenotsogreat8349]

I’m pretty sure you can’t resist unchecked power burn

[@aaronl4893]

@@natethenotsogreat8349 no shit sherlock

[@ExtremeMan10]

You can, its tied to burn resist.

[@portsyde3466]

@@ExtremeMan10 No, it isn't. He'll still burn himself, I know, I've tried it and made him immune to burn, yet he still burns himself.

[@michaelcoleman2173]

@@ExtremeMan10 iirc unchecked is weird in that unlike Runaway/Hellion's paths the dot it applies ignores burn resist. It just happens if you roll the 33-100% chance depending on stacks. Making UP consistent with other self inflicted dots would be a *very* nice buff to OCC esp Warlock which has UP the most and the least hp.

[@Darkestcatlol]

I have used occultist like alot and malediction Is good, but only in 2/4 region bosses and 3/5 act bosses. Even at it's best when ur warlock and u cast it 3 times in a row with crit tokens and skull trinket, you actually end up doing too much damage, to the point were you could have just did stars and beat the boss anyway. Out side of that its omega troll it just is a super slow control burn that's less consistent. Also you brushed off warlock I use to think it was weak but it's wanderer+ less HP for power gen is always worth and being able to chain cast spells can lead to insane moments were you cast a big spell multiple times.

[@marooniballooni03759]

I feel like occultist can be good with any party as long as you build him with your team as well.

[@personno.6.9billionth70]

You can say that with any character though. Occultist has a few more hoops to jump through to make him reliable compared to others like MAA or Jester.

[@marooniballooni03759]

@@personno.6.9billionth70 from what I've seen, I believe it is either a skill issue on the player's part when they can't make him work, or the game doesn't give them good enough material to make the build work in the first place.

[@MMurine]

@@marooniballooni03759 If a character depends on the game giving them good material to work with in order to be good, then they're not a good character.

[@carlitoes9473]

In DD1, whenever you crit, the skill/attack high rolls plus and the crit multiplier. Occultist doesnt do that. The crit multiplier is tacked onto whatever funny roll you get. I think it's the same deal in DD1. But yeah, a crit wyrd reconstruction is a waste of 2 power tokens because you could crit a 2 heal for 3. Also malediction really needs to have res piercing, at least when upgraded. It should last 3 rounds rather than 3 turns.

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

Got another Wyrd Reconstruction crit for 0 the other day so that's awesome

[@guiromeify]

I hate his healing move, eat the tokens for a weak crit heal

[@wanderalfa]

if malediction was 3 rounds it would be good

[@tinheart2853]

Malediction really needs some help, the only use I found for it was for Ambition's boss, and it actually worked but geez I hope they do something about it Also I feel like people are really sleeping on Binding Shadows. My strategy for it is to combo it with Jester (or basically any combo move you do you) and general trophy. That way you basically don't need offering because you can stack up his tokens in one turn if you're lucky

[@falseking989]

I spent a while trying to figure out a way to balance damage with survivability for the Occultist. I think Ritualist is fairly useless, because the game punishes support only roles and the path is extremely trinket reliant to reach averageness. Warlock is only viable with Radiant Flames, because having -40% health (20% for the path, 20% for Stygian) with Stygian Flame means he'll die from his own UP dot. The 33% chance to get UP is too uncommon to rely on it and is almost always wasted, because even if you get it on the first turn it's still better to cast Chaotic Offering then roll the dice next round. Aspirant was the only path I found that could provide damage and survivability even with Stygian Flame. The way I found to play Occultist is to put him in rank 3 and his main rotation is to use Chaotic Offering followed by Burning Stars. Always keep Daemon's Pull for combo utility, corpse clear, and forcing backrow mobs to use less damaging abilities in the front. Always keep Sacrificial Stab for rank 1/2 damage as well as finishing off enemies. The last spell is situational. Finally never use Malediction, because Burning Stars will always be infinitely better. Get Snappy Swig ASAP along with either Stimulating Poultice or a speed trinket. Stimulating Poultice is preferable since you'll want Enlightening Element to give him survivability. The comp I found to work well is a named comp "Biology Assignment" which is PD/Occ/Flag/Leper.

[@164blueman]

Do you think Wyrd would be more useful if it was a flat number heal instead of a percentage heal?

[@michaelcoleman2173]

Imo a good buff is to remove its "Must be at low hp to use" at 1 unchecked power. Lets you use it proactively (like in DD1) and discharge stray tokens you might get but can't otherwise commit to use.

[@Mat-ky5gr]

Can occultist resist his own burns? I got a run where he had 106 burn resist at one point but I was barely generating unchecked power. Since I only had like 1 for half of the entire fight I don’t know if it wasn’t procing or I resisted it.

[@dylanboczar999]

Nope! It's not resistable

[@Ayalaman31]

This character is night and day difference when you get his unlocks

[@Kaspar_Ementaller]

Chaotic offering-stars-50/50win

[@RosemaryCemetery]

What are those skulls over GB and leper and stuff?

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Occultist heal needs a few minor tweaks . . . one of them being the heal range. There are other heals without the conditional 33% hp, his specifically should have it bumped up to 40 and 50% respectively, with the bleed reduced to 2 and 1 a turn. Healing 9 - 12 as stated in the video but getting a 5 to 9 heal is still worth it if you can heal earlier than other characters. Why use occultist over a debuff path Vestal? Combo, and Stars, basically a damage sink. The pull is amazing, but Vestal can give similar debuffs for free and her consecration skills have so much worth with NO negatives. Super High risk and very low payout for everything but Stars while needing to manage his token economy.

[@andypandy3694]

Hey shuff. can you please do flagellent next, im having trouble making him stick in a party.

[@ShuffleFM]

He was the first one I did. Link to the playlist is in the description :)

[@andypandy3694]

@@ShuffleFM I looked for it in the wrong place. Thanks shuff.

[@odinulveson9101]

I see two ways to better Wyrd.R. Just for fun and potential. 1: Target heal 5-33% 2 bleed 50% UPG: target heal 10-44% 1 bleed 50% OR 2: Target heal 11-33% 3 bleed 50% UPG: target heal 22-44% 2 bleed 25% Grave Robber, Occultist, Runaway, Hellion, even Leper. ALL need slight buffs to all their skills and that they need NOT to rely on a few skills/ gimmicks/ items niche or not to be relevant. Heck take away Hellions regen capabilities and shes dusto useless! Rather buff the weaker classes up to the level of the stronger ones, fine tune, then if the game on any difficulty gets overall too easy... buff the enemies slightly but not so much that the buffed classes goes from good to bad.

[@Soaphist]

Do fire resist trinkets mitigate the burn chance of unchecked power?

[@dylanboczar999]

They do not, the burn is not resistable

[@Soaphist]

@@dylanboczar999 Well, that's a shame.

[@NaotoSaysNo]

The Burning Stars and You

[@GroBoiD7777]

Ritualist with + healing giving trinket from harvest child + crit from uncheked power = my record 108 healing. But in time of need it always will be 0 ))

[@Closetedtransgirl]

Occultist best healer in both DD1 and 2, it's not even close.

[@nilexinator5901]

im not the best at the game. but im in firm believe, that his heal is probably one of the worst moves in the game that actually gets used.

[@linobossio4421]

No other hero can do what Occ does, the Wackynes and Dice Rolling is what makes him fun, and i'm not alone when i say that Burning Stars looks sick, the man lit sends monsters back into oblivion with a meteor.

[@jepasdenom7643]

Malediction should easily get all DoT as AND not OR

[@davidgeorge1943]

It's a weird thing to say, but why does "Occultist and You" sound like the title of an anime?

[@PrivateDaisy]

What do you think about these buffs for the guy? 1. He can use Wyrd without health restrictions, or on those below 50% hp. 2. His curses deal 1 damage, like in Darkest Dungeon 1. 3. Unchecked power doesn't burn him (priority for me). 4. This other knife attack moves him back one spot (on Anamnesis path it moves forward). These are simple things, more complicated, but also important, would be changes to Anamnesis and Malediction, to make them able to compete against burning stars (I feel like even on the specific path Anamnesis isn't always better than burning stars and that is pretty dissapointing). Other option would be stars nerf and giving him easier way to gain unchecked power, also making him less reliable on offering, but now we are getting into rework rabbit hole. I like to play him, but maybe some die-hard mains have better ideas? Let me know

[@Michael-zl2iw]

An interesting idea for a buff that I've read somewhere is to make it so that he only needs one unchecked power for some of his lower powered charged moves, like the single target stun on daemon's pull. This would add an interesting dilemma "do i use my unchecked power now or do I save it for later so that I can do an even more powerful move (burning stars)"

[@PrivateDaisy]

@@Michael-zl2iw That's neat, I like it.

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

I think it would be interesting if Wyrd could overheal character (in another words your "reconstruction" can give your ally more hp than its max HP, seems fitting thematically).

[@PrivateDaisy]

@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime yeah, but as is, that would require Wyrd to heal a character below 33% health above his max health. That would almost never happen.

[@scottdick296]

My big change would be to make the stabs give one unchecked power automatically, and then a second point if the target is marked/deathblow/whatever. Right now, the stabs are basically useless for building UP, because they're way too slow to build up by themselves, and they're redundant if you already have offering active. But if you could use a finisher after two regular hits or one hit with set-up, that makes it a reasonable alternative to Offering. I would also buff Reconstruction by making the un-upgraded version heal up to 40%. It's weird that it only does 33%, since that averages out to only 16.5%, but most other heals do at least 20% unupgraded.

[@alext5497]

the curse version without burning stars is probably better. curses, stab and pull. heal being optional. If you are gonna go warlock, i wouldn't put him in rank 2. No wonder you hate him so much.

[@ShuffleFM]

I never said to put warlock in 2? I said to put warlock in 4 lol

[@j.d.6915]

Wyrd Reconstruction is a poorly designed move. It's not a heal that you will ever want to use unless you have no choice whatsoever.

[@dasuberpanda]

IMO (after many heart wrenching deaths) How to actually play occultist: dont. Your other 3 party members will thank you. Tbh I feel safer with 4 dmg dealers

[@Czesnek]

It is sad that the only reason to play this crappy hero is The Burning Star. Why he can't be as fun as Jester where all of his moves are very useful.

[@Korvinian4601]

he needs a rework

[@fortheloveofking]

Daemon is pronounced "demon".

[@biblequotesdaily6618]

the occultist is the weakest character IMO. thats why he's so important to the roster, because only sometimes is he one of the best characters in the game. he's the true gambler's choice- the guy who sells his soul for power

[@Atlas_FGC]

I'd like to know how people lose sight of things when they start talking about math in a game that's largely built around math, more notably probability. What an incredibly strange thing to say.

[@ShuffleFM]

Because when they start talking about math it narrows their perspective and they lose sight of context. That's how comments like "X is just a better Y" for heroes come about. In DD1 people said take Hellion because she's better Leper, when the 2 have different roles.

[@zippidisx2749]

I just cannot get into this game. Yeah the combat is better but the entire dungeon run format is just not entertaining to me. Darkest dungeon was one of my most favorite games but after 1 1/2 years of this game, It just isn't the same at all.

[@Korvinian4601]

the run is the same

[@JohnPaul-nb5iu]

The same games get boring over time.

[@abstraktw5744]

Eww occultist is so bad i have doubts even watching this

[@riordian2]

worst character xd

[@alejandrohernandez5293]

How to play occultist: Don’t

[@alx2903]

I have a serious question, has anyone used Abyssal Artillery to stun the backline? A chance to stun vs a guaranteed kill with burning star, besides, by the time when 2 unchecked is gained, one of the backline is already dead.

[@ShuffleFM]

There are a couple times you can tag both but it's pretty rare

[@butteredpie5666]

number 1: play pd number 2: profit?