5 Signs You Are Playing Well: Darkest Dungeon

[@snorlaxxo8039]

You forgot about the part where rolling 5 virtues in a row is an expression of skill.

[@Jawny00]

and purpose

[@pringlepenguin2448]

Who needs stress checks when you have jester

[@heehoopeanut4509]

It’s really just a skill issue if you DONT get 5 virtues in a row

[@ANGST.ARGENTINA]

@@heehoopeanut4509 whoever's does dis needs to get good!

[@petkofuchalski9809]

Honestly, it really is inpressive to get 5 virtues, when the max hero count on a mission is 4 :D

[@ExtremeMan10]

If Reynauld or Dismas are alive you are playing well

[@jacobchesney1558]

I think misspelled godlike wrong.

[@xkali8119]

Uh that, my Dismas died on my first attempt on Darkest Dungeon, now I wait for ressurection event :P

[@redundantfridge9764]

If either of those men die, I just scrub the save.

[@cecil937]

I remember the first time I played I was incredibly unlucky, got a few misses and was crit a couple times, and dismas dies in the prologue. I thought it was scripted and just carried on.

[@flks7172]

Dismas is alive but became a psychological example. Every shit they write as a psychological disease, is in that man. "(

[@gavinvick3592]

At the end of my dungeons, i have no provisions. Just an inventory full of gold, trinkets and baubles, all paid for in blood

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

but it's the monster's blood, plus a little of my flagellant's because he insisted

[@phasedcloak2835]

​@@wilsonweiseng6485 flaggelant is the only person that consider inordinate exsanguination is a virtue

[@ErnestoAguila-mk5oi]

😂

[@WolfsWinter]

"The cost of preparedness is measured first in gold, second in blood." The moral of that highwayman story.

[@markoap91]

A slight misquote but yeah. That's why it is important to manage your economy well, be it heirlooms or gold and to have people as upgraded as they possibly can be on their resolve level, especially for bosses.

[@alexd.e7993]

6. In the old road Dismas and Reynauld found their redemption

[@RollieReee]

I named my cultist of one of my friends, and shouted at him for like half an hour cuz he kept rolling 0 heals. When he died i was relieved and burst into laughter This game is truly madness

[@gorgeouszan]

Man that drives me up the wall. 0-17 chance to heal and for me it looks like 0, 2, 1, 0, 4, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0 (I literally got four 0s in a row before), 3, 12, 13, 15, 0, 1, 2, 0...

[@videoms1271]

@@gorgeouszan dude I've gotten 22s and higher and on different occultists I get 0, 1, 2

[@theharvinator]

one time i had a clutch 23 crit or so during a boss, saved my leper, then proceed to hit 4 0 bleeds in a row. barely beat em

[@user-yt8ud9np9i]

You will never understand the "0 heal crit + bleed"... It happened to me... And that hellion survived only by 1 hit point...

[@gimpgumby1127]

Shuffle: “Are ya winning son?”

[@jehifferdavidguirigaimaldo6124]

5 is the most important, once i understood that some mission will fail, some trinkets will be lost and some heroes will die, i started having much more fun with the game, and once i started having fun and not worrying i started playing better, and those things happened less often, so, yeah its a pretty stressful game, but its important to just relax and enjoy the good times

[@THEREALSPARTAN]

6) You make mistakes It's normal. Everyone does it.

[@arckmage5218]

TL DR: you stop being afraid of hallway fights. I was playing about a week ago and just wanted to relax, so I went to a file that was already like 90 weeks in. I was also, watching Jorbs, who plays Slay the Spire. He mentioned in that game, about how good players understand the value of, and thus aren't afraid of hallway fights. I realized then, that when I have good comps in a dungeon, I am not afraid of hallway fights. Since they also have guaranteed loot, I usually end up with really full bags by the end of the dungeon as well.

[@t3chn0dr0n3]

Hallway fights? I don't get this. They're made to be easier than room fights, usually having weaker opponents and 3 enemies instead of 4.

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

@@t3chn0dr0n3 this implies that he isnt confident at all on his team and is thusly afraid of any time the game throws enemies at them, even the easier fights of the game

[@spiritwicc3953]

@@t3chn0dr0n3 yes, but sometimes they are avoidable if you see them coming and the dungeon has branching paths, so they're just an unneeded trouble. They don't tend to have fantastic loot anyway, so skipping over them you don't miss out on much. A good tactician picks his battles, afterall...

[@peng5997]

​@@spiritwicc3953 I just beat the champion swine and it was so easy that I decided to loot the rest of the dungeon. Then my houndmaster died after receiving multiple crits and failing the first death blow check to a blight...in a hallway battle.. pick your battles indeed

[@jakemertens1382]

When I scout a secret room, I like to plan my route to hit it at the very end of the dungeon so I can hold onto 3 different types of provisions or I can gamble risk-free with a partial stack of gems, replacing it if it doesn't pay off

[@Doc_Tar]

I had a multiple crab monsters in a level 3 Cove work over my level 5 leper down to multiple bleed out death's doors, but I abandoned the mission before the next crab monster gave him the killer arterial pinch. Sure everyone got stressed and three of the came back afflicted, but no one died and I'll look for ways to kill those crab monsters early next time. You can never lose this game on radiant or darkest mode, only give up.

[@runtergerutscht4401]

Plague Doctor. By curing the crab bleed, she effectively heals for 16-24 damage on top of base healing. And she has strong blight. I don't think there's a better solution for crabs

[@BoshyG]

Is there not a turn limit to radiant?

[@oldy4080]

I like how it highlights the last point of the video - the mistake here was on the preparation step when you took someone with low bleed resist (Leper) to the Cove. I made the same mistake in my time - and it was horrible. I was out of bandages really quick - and no amount healing could overcome this constant bleeding. I did complete the mission in the end - but it was a close one...

[@epser5842]

The only metric of skill is how many times you have beaten bloodmoon torchless with no stuns or heals

[@ShuffleFM]

Thick the only good DD player confirmed

[@sothisisbasicallyhow4696]

So! I beat my radiant estate a couple days ago and am struggling through my first darkest one with CC on, so I needed something like this today. Thanks shuff.

[@ShuffleFM]

Grats on the win!

[@soter8253]

You count how many turns the enemy gets due to stuns

[@Bee-ef7tz]

6. Your entire roster is filled with PD

[@michawielgus9827]

Lepers*

[@muxilava]

Occultists*

[@orthobison9749]

Crusaders*

[@-_-5470]

Antis*

[@gimpgumby1127]

Antiquarians*

[@cerebralcloud92]

One of the big things that I find is good practice is to TAKE NO CHANCES. If there’s even a 1% chance to just get Crit to 0 by an enemy, don’t rely on that 99% chance where everything’s fine. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong.

[@CuteLittleLily]

@Rathalomaniac dont forget enemy dodge count for that iirc. People usually just got bad luck bias. When they got 3 crits in a row against the enemy. Theyll be happy and then move on. But if enemy do 2 crit in a row against them, they salty and said its unfair. People only remember the bad thing, human nature

[@t3chn0dr0n3]

The talk at the end of the video reminded me how I learned that Blinding Gas should always go first. I had made a front-heavy Champion team comp for Ruins with Vestal-PlagueDoc-Crusader-Leper (yes, I know that's a horrible team comp, but that's not the point). On my very first fight in the dungeon I decided *not* to use Blinding Gas as I had surprised the enemy and thought I would get a huge lead anyway. Every single unit on the enemy side then proceeded to attack my PlagueDoc and killed her on turn 1. Overconfidence was a pretty fast and insidious killer. I still finished that run.

[@TheTSense]

Number of Dead Heros < Number of Quests abandoned times 100

[@Damorann]

I think you are illustrating the concept well with your Highwayman story : it's about preparation and mitigation. The game is designed to be hard and give you terrible surprises and you have to be ready to deal with them. I think a lot of people find it hard because we have that natural tendency of thinking that the worst won't really come around so we act fairly loosely... until it hits us, then we start to blame the game. If we know it's going to be hard and plan for it, we find out pretty quickly that such misfortunes become truly rare. They can't be avoided 100%, but if a bad streak like that happens only once or twice during your playthrough, you know you did well. Excellent video !

[@jholliman4168]

Strike first and strike hard I learned that quick from playing Generation Zero you think your all that and then your dead

[@liamtoomey1828]

Ahh it’s a good day when you’re early to a shuffle post

[@tremeschinion9420]

first actual expedition i did, i forgot to bring torches, and immediately got 2 party members afflicted, shortly before losing Dismas to his first death's door hit, to an Eldritch Pull great start so far

[@GoodRNG]

Just started playing a few days ago and have now put more hours into your videos than the game itself! (Mostly cause I can watch at work, but still.) Really appreciate all the help and resources you’ve put into this channel, keep it up :) I’m an FPS player but darkest dungeon has caught me by surprise and I’m addicted.

[@jamesdielissen8613]

If you have the GoG version, install it to a USB stick and play it at work 😏

[@LRomer0]

Up until this day the most absurd death I had was in the warrens where my level 6 vestal (fully leveled and everything) got stunned, put into deaths door by the exact same attack and then died to the bleed in the first hallway combat....

[@Khrene]

8:40 He also might've dodged one of those hits with the better armor. I think what makes this situation sting is that its difficult for even an experienced player to make a cost benefit analysis / risk assessment on if its worth that 3 to 5000 gold for an armor upgrade. And being punished so severely for nothing short of flawless play is pretty disheartening. Like seeing the damage table for in game enemies helps, but its not fun. Its one thing Im looking forward to in DD2, is all the simplification. As much as I love DD1, with stuff like the Dodge and Miss tokens working like the Aegis/Block tokens, you can plan around dodges and misses and instead of obsessively prepping the perfect team and the perfect trinket setup and the perfect etc, the game forces you to think on the fly. I feel like this make it more transparent

[@ShuffleFM]

Great breakdown, I agree

[@disasterjones5798]

I don't know if it's a sign of playing well per se, but I'd say that it's generally good to know when to walk away and take a break. Some runs are punishing, and the frustration from that can disrupt concentration, reflexes, and strategic thinking, which typically leads to a snowball of worse gameplay and worse mentality. If it's not improving or if the frustration is growing into actual rage, give yourself some space from the game, come back to it with a fresh and level head when you're ready and you've had the time to mull over what went wrong. Continuing to play a game designed to be frustrating when you're already angry is a great recipe for doing something you'll regret (like deleting every save file in the middle of pitching a fit 😞).

[@victorhelm6515]

Nice video! That turn four battle securing is a good one, having the fight under control by that point is sign of things going well. The other day I had the first situation that felt like Rng being against me, there was only one thing I felt like I could differently. It was intermediate lvl warrens, whole team had lvl 4 gear and I felt pretty good. On the first tile of the first hall way I get a fight with spiders, no surprise for either side. All the spiders went first and all attacked my occultist in the back, two crits and will all attacks combined they brought him down to death's door. Being spiders, you can guess what happened next, they had blighted him and he died right there as he was first of my team. I was baffled by what was happening because when I saw the second crit I had a feeling he was going to die and there would be nothing I could do to stop it. So after that fight I left the dungeon and just going to try again another time. The lesson I think I should learn from that encounter is to have at least one fast character on my team or put trinkets on for higher dodge or hp. But yea, pretty crazy that happened. Still a fun game though even if getting over 30 stress in one turn can be a huge pain.

[@gordo_daimon]

The exact same thing happened to me. I have the feeling that the game has some kind of inner works that measure how well you are doing and then punish you with unavoidable things like that just because "the game es difficult". That is no difficult, that is cheesy and badly designed, in my opinion.

[@disasterjones5798]

@@gordo_daimon I can't speak to whether the game is rigged against you in that manner, but Shuffle mentioned in another video (can't remember which, sorry) that there's a backend roll happening with the speed that we don't see. Every character and enemy has a base speed that can be improved upon with trinkets or buffs, but at the beginning of the round there's an additional d8 stacked onto their speed. It's why sometimes your Leper will go before your HWM or your Occ before your GR; that backend roll was higher for Occ and Leper, and low for HWM and GR. When you think about it like dice, it feels less like it's out to get you, and more like a real bad night of rolls. I like to call it "Wil Wheatoning."

[@jadeamulet2339]

@@gordo_daimon that’s not the case whatsoever?? I don’t want to be rude but you kind of just made up something to be mad about. The game does not crit any more when you’re doing well or poorly, it’s always a flat rate increased only by the obvious things you know

[@gordo_daimon]

@@jadeamulet2339 If you say so. In my experience, it just feels like I explained. This game's works are wicked and every time it is out to get you, and if that is what the programmers intended, then they did an impeccable job. They managed to stress the characters AND the player.

[@J--Dubs]

I made so many mistakes in my first 2 attempts. These attempts were on Radiant and I was still getting thrashed. And this was because I didn’t understand how shovels worked. I thought that the green checkmark was to accept the use of the shovel that was in the center and the red ❌ was to attempt to get through the rubble without the shovel. Turns out, thats not how it works. You have to click on the shovel to use it and the green checkmark is actually to ignore the shovel! I was constantly running into 2-3 obstacles a week and that was adding something like 60 extra stress to my teams every time they went out. So yeah, those runs were trashed, but now I know how to use the shovels and I’m loving it.

[@gorgeouszan]

Completed my first year on Darkest with only two deaths so think I'm doing well. Biggest thing I had to learn that I think most people should is forget all you know about classic RPG Role types (Tank, Healer, Damage). That stuff doesn't really apply to this game in the traditional sense and if you get stuck in the mindset of things like Vestal is a Healer, Crusader is a Tank, etc you're going to be wasting a lot of these characters potential to overlap in significant ways and limit yourself from very valid team compositions.

[@acake6654]

crusader best healer

[@akoskovacs6830]

I finished the game once and had some unfinished journeys. What I learned as a new player is that each run (even if unfinished if it was long enough) has a lesson which teaches me how I can play better next time. Last run taught me how to play HWM and Jester. At the first, unfinished run, Jester was just a stress healer contributing nothing else to the team and heroes frequently died around him. Learnt the importance of bleeding and buffs along the way. In case of HWM at first I thought his main purpose is grapeshot and spammed it. Later learned about the usefulness of reposting and that pos 1 shot. Now I start to understand why Occultist didn't work for me until now (I used them as an alternative to Vestal with the same role). The more you play the easier it gets. I don't say I'm an expert, I'm not. But if someone new reads this, listing some lessons I had to learn the hard way: 1. Losing one important hero doesn't mean game over. Quit my first playthrough when Vvulf obliterated me and by retreating my lvl 6 Plague Doctor died. Instead of continuing I was like the losses are too heavy, let's finish playing this. 2. Quirk micromanagement is not super important unless for very importanirlooms t battles. For Champion bosses and for the DD I suggest checking if there is any phobia which makes your life harder because those missions have a real risk of killing your heroes. Risk should be minimized. 3. Heirlooms can be exchanged to one-another (at a bad rate). Upgrades should be prioritized. I started with going to missions, coming back to the hamlet then checking every building if I can upgrade anything. This attitude makes the really important upgrades happen much later in the game. Good weapons, aromors and skills are important. Having 3 place in the gambling hall to lose your trinkets is not. 4. Trinkets. Initially I assigned trinkets to specific characters. It shouldn't be the case. You have a perfect Vestal setup for your lvl5 Vestal but you go to a Veteran quest with a lvl 3 Vestal then as long as you are not afraid of a potential team wipe, just use the good Vestal trinkets. Swap them anytime you feel comfortable. 5. If a character seriously underperforms you are playing it wrong. Based on experience. Jester, HWM, MAA, Occultist. At first I thought they just all suck big time then learned how to play them. 6. Plan party based on the quest. Don't be big stupid like me, trying to defeat the hag with a Crusader-Leper frontline because I forgot about the cauldron's existence. 7. Last thing is being obstinate kills you. Usually you see 1-2 turns in advance if it's a fight where someone probably dies. Sometimes it's worth it, usually it doesn't. If you don't play on Stygian or Bloodmoon just back off and come back later. Retraining a lvl 6 bounty hunter from scratches is way harder than retaking one mission with a more optimized team. 8. Last thing (now really): use DLCs based on the fun you receive from them. I tried Crimson Court once and I am not planning to use an unmodded version of it ever again. Difficulty is fine. Invading other aspects of the game and forcing you with extreme aggression to focus on the DLC's storyline is a big no-no from me. If you like it or you wanna have the extra challenge, it's totally fine. For me I'd have loved it if it was just an additional area without curses (without anything forcing you to focus on it). Just exploring it, fighting bosses. The moment I realized bringing a Flagellant to the Ruins might be a good idea because 60% of the ruins are mosquitoes now ended that playthrough for me. I just felt it was bs.

[@ANGST.ARGENTINA]

I always got frustrated when losing a character before. Now I just enjoy betting if they are gonna make it or not in the first check AND get frustrated when I do spectacularly dum dum sh*t.

[@psmmajus]

I was playing for the first time without any dlc, zero hero deaths except money runs, quite relaxed (except the bird fucker fight), got money…and suddenly I see Volf…I panicked immediatly becouse I had not upgraded anyone to max gear before this. I won first try, no afflictions or deaths, my man at arms was put on deaths door 9 times becouse he kept getting critted. The most terryfying experience of my life

[@flagellantbestgirl]

6. You are watching ShuffleFM

[@Malacite]

#6 You're actually happy when The Collector or Shambler appear because they're just more sweet loot.

[@sonicletrol4501]

i always have ONE person that take a lot of stress while the other are fine

[@bluntlyhonest6803]

Learn from mistakes. RNGesus: not on my watch!

[@skorpionGF]

Can you do a movie about curios? Which one are best/worth taking a risk? I know this is on Wiki, but i would like to hear something about it from experienced gamer perspective.

[@ShuffleFM]

I'll see what I can do

[@bunnysupreme74]

Today my Hellion died at the Champion Swine Prince fight. I didn't have mark removal, just went all in on melting the boss down with Hellion, occultist, hound master, grave robber. Got my buffs from camping and the brew curio. Even remembered to use the dog treats😂 Swine prince hit me hard with those marked attacks, but I melted him down just as fast while my occultist healed. Right before he dies, he puts my Hellion to death door. Then my grave robber crits him for 60 or something and all that's left is Wilbur. Turns out Wilbur has a speed of 23 and just killed my Hellion instantly with a shriek 😂 That was one hell of a moment, but for some reason I didn't even feel that bad. I finished the boss fight, and I did everything I could. I thought maybe I should have self healed, but I don't think it would have made the difference. I guess I should have done it safer and just trained one or even two arbalast for this fight for mark removal. My Hellion fought and died well (even if ultimately, comically, from a pig shriek) and I don't know why I still feel weirdly satisfied and not that bothered by the loss. I've read up on other people losing heroes to Wilbur, and for some reason they also don't feel that bad. Just kinda cheesy that Wilbur is just so fast he can just lightly tap your heros into deathblow with his marks or shrieks😂 that joke achievement you get for dying to Wilbur is much more common than one would think 😅

[@djaccountisbfisbx3880]

Don’t matter how good I play, it’s always the wacky team combos I think are good and covered on all ends, but when I actually get into a dungeon it takes me 5 turns to end the first hallway fight

[@GalanOfTruth]

Going by this video I'm somehow playing extremely well. But I'm also extremely lucky and my only two losses were either planned for as a possibility or not significant. Loving this game so far even though I know hell is likely on the way.

[@kimmycat2977]

Nvr beaten this game, even on Radiant. I know I suck, but I keep cmg back to this game every few months. The lure of a winning run is irresistable.

[@ShuffleFM]

You'll get there, keep trying :) The enemy stats on radiant are the same as darkest so for an "easier" mode, it's still challenging.

[@nathancheema1091]

For me you know you are doing well when you have a good knowledge of all the enemy's quirks or capabilites. Having an idea of what every mob is capable of and prepping with the worst case scenario in mind can reduce pt losses. Also helps with effective pt formations in certain areas.

[@lautarogomezalfonso575]

Oh man this is actually helpfull I started playing the game like a month ago, and Im having so much fun, but none of my friends plays the game, and I was nervous about not being good at the game, and now I've seen this video and I know I'm doing things good, so yeah This video made me happy >:]

[@spoooooooooooooooook]

Ill never forget the first time I fought shambler and instead of finishing him off I chose to heal because he would bleed out. Turns out he stopped bleeding and wiped my whole team

[@jackoblllllllll]

I wish I was enjoying this game, but it just feels like a math test on a pretty paper

[@brandonadrian1848]

Thanks for the info man, was really helpful within my game.

[@goatsplitter]

#5 is the best thing. I really love playing with different party compositions on the low level short runs or the mid level ones. It's just fun.

[@CalamityCain]

Soooo, uh ... has anyone else managed to die in the prologue yet? I mean *really* died. Both Dismas and Reynauld. I'm not very good at the game, but I've had some good runs. I just need time off the game to come back and enjoy it again. Last time I tried I LOST TO THE FUGGIN' TUTORIAL BANDITS!! Sure, RNG was ridiculously not having my attempt to reconnect with DD, critting and one-hitting both Dis *and* Rey from Death's Door after they continued to miss a majority of their hits - still I laughed my ass off at failing to even reach the Hamlet. Didn't think it even possible. That's DD for ya xD

[@McFisticuffs]

Half of the fun of Darkest Dungeon is getting in way over your head. I don't remember all the random expeditions that went just fine, but I sure remember beating the champion Prophet after he put my entire team on death's door AND blighted them. my arbalest Yodit didn't make it. I had just given her a name and everything :'(

[@dalakhsarothal9624]

I can tell I'm playing well cuz I spend x4 time longer in the estate trying to figure this shit out than actually doing dungeons

[@PerditiousSooth]

First timer to this game as of about a week ago. Having a blast with it and enjoying your quality content as well!

[@anzack2551]

I'm glad that on my second playthrough, the biggest gap I had between my first deaths was Week 6 and Week 77. Even with modded classes and trinkets, I mostly tried to keep the difficulty the same as the original.

[@ShadeScarecrow]

In summary: I´m not good at Darkest Dungeon. Haven´t played in quite a while though and never all that much. Maybe I should give it another go.

[@darkube5006]

My personal well-oiled machine is Vestal | Jester | Leper(/Highwayman) | Leper. The Jester compensate all the Leper's downside(slowness, low accuracy and crits) with his battle balad as well as arguably being thebest stress healer in the game. The lepers in the front tanks most of the damage and their crits can one-shoot most of the regular enemies in the game. The vestal provides really good healing as well as stun which helps you control and stall. If you want more versatility and if you know you are going to get shuffled (eg. Shuffling Horror), you can put an Highwayman in 2nd place, it will do an excellent job as well.

[@Fightersword]

'Sorry for that lil filibuster there at the end' is my new favorite Shuff line.

[@DocH1405]

Fortune doesn’t favor the bold. It favors the prepared. (Something the narrator should say)

[@MYPSYAI]

My favorite character is the Bounty Hunter. So I started going Occultist, Houndmaster, BountyHunter, BountyHunter. This team is so good it kinda trivializes the game. Houndmaster just holds the Evidence of corruption and dedicated marker. Occultist is healer and uses his eldritch pull move to clean up. Bounty Hunters just sit there and whack stuff, and they can doublestack their marks with the Houndmaster to destroy protection. It seems like it's a waste of an action to mark, but the bountyhunter just crushes out 30-50 damage a swing, and you can shut down a boss in 2-3 turns. I was really surprised how well it all worked, they get so many crits they dont need stress healers, they just chop it out. Amazing.

[@xerxese5433]

I feel your a little scarred from that lepers death still

[@janosiadam]

You know you're having fun when the first encounter in the Weald has a Giant whose very first Treebranch Smackdown crits for 70.

[@ShuffleFM]

Classic

[@assiaisindegyara4905]

i omega underprepare for quests, so never waste. short missions i bring four food. 5 torches. 1 shovel. this is the crypt. obviously its dynamic with what area your going to.

[@jody4210]

Me: Hm I'm doing pretty well we should be able to finish this quest in good shape *2 rounds later* How quickly the tide turns...

[@ozzpeters63]

Hey I Appreciate your Darkest Dungeon content!

[@Shard37]

I ran the Long Arm of The Law grouping and learned that I need to have a secondary healer, arbalest CAN cut it. But ONLY if I delay hallway battles to stack heals before the next fight... :^)

[@jaqueton3212]

One good sing is that your death heroes died by stupid things, like today when my craving Vestal scored a deathblow in the first death's door check of my abomination. It was pure comedy.

[@disappointedturtle9578]

I am still new to this game and still on my 3rd run, as the first to i counted as failures cause way to many people died as i was getting the hang of things. Now my third run i am actually at a point where i am getting ready to finish off the last few bosses, dismas is still alive, my first ever flagelant is still alive, my musketeer carries fights as do my vestels. I am enjoying this game even though the number of dead crusaders, lepers and hellions i have make me kind of want to cry. So many died till i got the hang if things, i could not save my tanks.

[@tonycallme3667]

Watching this as my Musketeer got instantly warp to the death door by 3 spiders :

[@MrMusicguy97]

You got a big future at this! Subbed!

[@femmedracula]

My first trip into the Weald I got a fight with four gnashers and it was like your Highwayman x4 for the entire fight

[@Gozkiel]

You know you're doing well when you want to encounter enemies to get more loot.

[@aurenian8247]

The RNG is why I don't play the campaigns where you are time limited. I find it much more chill to just be able to wear the setbacks and come back again. It also allows me to spend the time to spoil my higher level heroes. Max equipment, max training, full treatment for negative quirks. I have a horrendous casualty rate for my level 0-2 characters as they just get the minimum resources needed until they prove themselves. But once they hit veteran they get the red carpet treatment. Although the disadvantage of taking my time is I often get distracted and play something else for a while. I think I've played about 200+ weeks so far but still haven't got anywhere near beating the game because I keep restarting when I forget where I'm at lol.

[@erosanji1694]

Hey ShuffleFM, glad you're still active with darkest dungeon. So, firstly i am one of the original backer like you lol (Dawn/Hellion -yeah my char is shit lol). Yet i've still haven't finished the game...(yeah..i know..i suck at it..) This summer tho i've decided with your help to erase this anomaly! I've been watching a lot of your video and making progress (i am at L3) but i feel like one of the tip i need (and couldn't find) is about roster composition. Now that i am set on finishing the game (i enjoy it too) i feel like the one thing that could really make me lose is that. So, out of the 29 places, i have : -3 crusaders (not sure if i need more or less tbh i feel reaching L3 that i might need 3 there is more unholy out there..) -2 PD (feel good about it don't think i need more) -1 Abo (don't really like the class but i lucked out with this one he's like a cove monster with every quirk against it..with his blight skill it feels useful). -2 Arbalest (wasn't keen on them at first but i begun to feel at L3 the strength of battlefield bandage and suppressing fire (fuck crit!)) -1 BH (that one i feel like i need more than one, at L3 the hook and stun and damage are really great) -2 GB (i don't feel i need more) -2 Hellion (one is focused bleed the other is a tank/crit with swan, not sure if i need that much) -2 HwM (this one sigh, i got 2 i barely bring them i am not sure i know how to play with them..I always get dodge even with a lot of accuracy..) -2 HdM (not sure i need that much, it's a nice unit tho but it feel really focused on for warrens and weald). -2 Jester (not sure again i know it's the best stress healer but i barely use them..) -1 Leper (ok, this one i feel i need more than one but i don't know which class i should cut off one) -1 MaA (same i feel reaching L3 that the guy is a must have and i should have more than one..) -2 Occultist (feels enough) -3 Vestal (maybe i need one less, at low level before my roster was full i felt i needed the 3 now..i feel i could go with one less). -1 Flagellant ( I am still learning to play with it, i don't feel confident having more) -2 ShB (I am farming Farmstead and their piercing armor skill is just..needed) -0 Antiquarian (man i don't have room for this shit lol) Sorry for the long post, sigh. I'd really need help for this, i looked for video but there is nothing about roster composition, team, classes explanation etc. Still, i feel roster is my biggest hurdle and the thing that making me suffer the most in the game. Thanks for the video and the help take care man!

[@ShuffleFM]

Your roster looks fine tbh. It has a solid balance of damage, frontline, and backline. I can give recommendations but it comes down to who you feel comfortable using. If you aren't running into issues with team building then I wouldn't worry about it :)

[@erosanji1694]

​@@ShuffleFM Ok, well, my only bother right now i am always struggling to find some people to put at place 2-3 (dps). front line is cool i'd even say i would be fine with one less; healer is short by 1 maybe (occultist) but dps, the thing is i don't use jester that much i only go with it on the farm, weald warrens and the courtyard. Because i only use him at Rank 3 with bleed (i don't like the moving around) and high way man, god i don't like him and don't use the ranged type because i always miss at critical moment and the melee one is a bit better but there is a bleed and a move forward and i don't like that. so you see there is 3 people i barely go with that's why i got the feeling i am missing dps. But i don't know if it's a good choice to reduce jester by 1 and no High way men and i have no idea what to replace them with.

[@BeamMonsterZeus]

I always have the experience of the hero I'm least experienced with coming out afflicted with the rest

[@airshow406]

Me hearing 2 and knowing all my runs end with 2-3 heroes afflicted and the rest on the edge: "how tf"

[@muhammaderza6179]

6. Your got the good trinkets for your fav heroes :D

[@PainRack]

You can CAMP while in the loot screen!!! Damn it, the amount of loot I lost....

[@lubomirsalgo7638]

Went into weald to fight champion hag in torchless. HWM, Jester, Vestal, Hellion. Fought shambler and survived, then I thought couple of hallway fights with Fungal Crawlers and was lucky to not lose 2 heroes. I retreated with 3 afflictions and 2 heroes close to deaths door. I think the weakest link in that team was HWM, he should have been replaced probably by BH in position 2, but he also did a lot of work on Shambler.

[@marcoasturias8520]

I´ve lost stygian like 5 times. Having a blast each time I boot the game and trying to go further each time!

[@arkfiya]

My first playthrough I beat the game on, and technically my second try at the game I didn't loose a unit until week 78 I was going HAM

[@disasterjones5798]

mecovery and its logical counterpart rechanics these should be actual words because they're fun to say

[@kamilslup7743]

"lots of loot means you are doing well" well not really cuz i had to retreat on the baron mission (flagellant died and everyone else was afflicted) and i still earned like 20K gold and 24 crests + 6 of every other heirloom tl:dr tons of loot doesn't always mean doing well

[@ShuffleFM]

CC missions are a special case, but I'd still say leaving with a lot of loot is still good. Makes you stronger in the long run.

[@kamilslup7743]

@@ShuffleFM that's why broke = use antiquarian

[@awepsalmgamin]

*consecutive virtues *all heroes are at death's door but never dies *crit crit crit *dodge dodge dodge

[@SunLovinSolaire]

I’m pretty early on still, I’m figuring things out cuz I’m trying now to look up SUPER specific guides. I went into a Dungeon with a dedicated Boss, and I ended with 0 provisions, but I still had to throw out some of my treasure, to pick up more specific treasure.

[@SunLovinSolaire]

So far my favorite combo’s thus far have been Flagellant + Cultist, and Graverobber + Plague Doctor.

[@vumerion5481]

One time i had a lot of fun playing the darkest dungeon really bad intentionnally. Like, i took a save with the bank and lot of gold, so i had not to care about, and i played at sending 0/1/2 level heroes in the darkest dungeon, and push the further possible. I killed maybe... i dunno... 30 heroes over time, but i learned a lot about affliction and death door. Like, one time, i send a crusader wich spent maybe five or six turns at death door.

[@Bison06]

I love doing a jester/flaggent combo its so easy removing stress that way just dumb stress on flaggent and remove it with jesters tune

[@quickflow2082]

Even when I get reked in the game buy a bad few choices. I am expecting this game to beat me down. It's a very dark game. It's not easy at all. But it is hugely rewarding when you finally start getting the ball rolling.

[@andrewbajoriunas5614]

Shuffle: talks about signs that you are playing well. Me watching the gameplay: WHY DIDN'T YOU CHANGE HELLION'S SKILLS TO ADRENALINE RUSH AFTER SHE GOT HEMOPHILIA?!

[@victuss1413]

You see the ending cutscene

[@solaris9476]

abt sign 4 when i`m bored i just take a noob party from... idk how that thing called, car with horses i take noob party (0-3lvl) and send them to third, or even five levels difficulty dungeons, just to watch and try how they gonna do it. If they survive i take hero which have massive exp boost in one raid :D

[@Darksideofthestars]

Just remember, Flagrant over powered

[@kronoscamron7412]

Wealth beyond measure : 1 torch

[@victorprati7908]

thnx for the back-patting :D

[@metinaydogdu2616]

Its veen long time since I actually played dd but your content is really enjoyable

[@pavelskvor319]

num. 5 = I builed team of 4 abominations lvl 0 to quest :-D No ambulance, so 3 heart attack was fatal 😀 lesson learned

[@pavelskvor319]

ps: It's like game of thrones, I start to like some hero and he die..

[@danielc.flores8356]

What should I do if I'm afraid of playing any medium level mission?

[@levidebacker1998]

Bring a second healer which supports your main healer (healing bandage arbalest or healing crusader). Flagellant is fine but most of his healing only happens once he is low hp.

[@zedre7633]

Medium missions are sometimes mote forgiving than short ones due to camping. If you get beat up in a single battle on a short venture you're boned, but on a medium one you can camp and heal/buff. Also don't be too stingy with camping, since battle buffs tend to last 4 battles sometimes early camping can be good.

[@levidebacker1998]

Also try to stall whenever possible in regular battles. What that means is you try to keep one weak enemy alive and try to heal up (or stress heal) your units before you kill the last enemy.

[@michawielgus9827]

medium level is the easiest tbf

[@matias1278]

6. You dont have highwayman in your roster

[@ShuffleFM]

D:

[@peterkallese6967]

Interesting.. I would have found that some milestones for doing well would be the progression of the important structures of the Hamlet, along with the general hero levels of your roster

[@trashmix2184]

not too far into the game, my highest level character is 3 (my boy dismas) and reynauld also lvl 3, the reason they've lived so long is because I retreat whenever my stress gets dangerously high and am about to have a heart attack

[@hariman7727]

I found that even with afflictions, as long as you could bring the team back, I could either recover those heroes or dismiss them and build up new heroes. The puppet theater was the biggest boon in stress Management because that let me let people rest over time instead of having to either treat them or dismiss them. If the entire team had about 60 stress at most on average and no afflictions, I could leave the team to rest and just use other teams for a month. I took a rather brute Force approach to darkest dungeon though, as I sometimes took entire teams into dungeons with little care to whether they survived or not. After a certain point, I stopped trying to protect my heroes as much just to be able to power through everything. I was doing best after a mid to 3/4 of the way through breaking point where I had a solid enough roster that I could manage dungeons easier and build up new characters with only time invested. I lost a lot of heroes on my way to victory. I probably would have lost blood moon runs multiple times just because of that. Edit: I learned about the factors in number five after a certain point. Always check skills, always check armor and weapons, always check trinkets, and also check traits. That's just the start of the list though.

[@dani-dll]

but did you torchless it?

[@thenatureking100]

This was helpful,ty.