The Duelist Guide | Darkest Dungeon 2 Binding Blade DLC

[@serenolopez-darwin1975]

After watching this video, "stance" is starting to not sound like a real word anymore...

[@Britishbrat]

Lol imagine how I felt

[@bogdansobolew2110]

The buff for increasing damage from Riposts on the Preparation skill adds up (50%, 100%, and so on). If you play through the Jester and his skill with the addition of an additional move, you can quickly do + 100% damage from Riposts.

[@Britishbrat]

Damn I didn't realize!

[@bogdansobolew2110]

@@Britishbrat Well, it turns out that this ability has a cooldown of 1 turn. So I use Meditation first, then Encore, then Preparation. She, standing in the second position, has a huge number of turns to absorb a lot of damage, and at the same time already has the first buff on Riposts. In the second and third turns, you'll just roll the Riposts. And then you just do another Preparation. It's a pretty hard-to-do scheme, but in general, when a fat enemy flies off from one riposte, it's fun)

[@chimre7874]

I really like her Wanderer Disengage Combo with Highwayman's Point Blank Shot. You swap the two around while you always garantue enemies in the front row.

[@LoganArcania]

Been figuring her out, had some ripostes hitting for 35 damage, beautiful stuff

[@Britishbrat]

It's crazy!!

[@wintermute1943]

Haha..... I'm sorry, I can't help but giggle whenever you say coup de grace. It's Coo-dee-grah! Love you man!

[@Britishbrat]

I barely know English, throwing French at me Was a terrible idea Red Hook 😂

[@ferro9926]

Instead of saying it right, get it more and more wrong as you say it again, for example, "cup of grass"​@@Britishbrat

[@Laezar1]

Actually no, if you pronounce it like that nobody will understand you, it's closer to "coo-deu-grass", the way he pronounced it would clearly stand out as wrong but would be understood, the way you are correcting would make things worse. Source : I'm french.

[@wintermute1943]

@@Laezar1 Ok, well take it up with the French-english dictionary I looked it up in. Cheers!

[@Laezar1]

@@wintermute1943 Damn you got lied to by the dictionnary, rough

[@Jopeth23]

She's a fun character to play, and having her requires a bit of thought. Once you get her proper skill, she can dish out a lot of damage. With that said, i wonder if she synergizes well with other "dance" heroes, like GR and Jester.

[@Britishbrat]

She's VERY good with them

[@Jopeth23]

Also, Intrepidé path increases the base damage some of her skills deal, making her your main damage dealer.

[@BenchongDy]

She has a pretty advanced skill requirement. Quite complicated to fit in a party.

[@Britishbrat]

I think she works with a lot of parties but she needs a lot of thought to find how

[@BenchongDy]

@@Britishbrat I noticed too that with the DLC, the Runaway got more interesting to use.

[@Britishbrat]

@@BenchongDy she didn't get any changes in this dlc 🤔

[@XonixDerps]

@@Britishbrat Prob means in combos with those 2 along with the enemies? o:

[@BenchongDy]

​@@XonixDerpsyou're right. She can support Raynauld with her burns, and is kind of affected with duelist mechanics since she's another 1-2/3-4 ranker.

[@MrZiva82]

In a game that is 90% rng (you need and can apply tactic and knowledge, but everything is still in percentages, items, skills, tokens, trinkets), you need to grasp on every single consistent thing that you can, i believe that is what will turn people down from her, as you said, with other character you click a thing and they do a thing (rng making the thing perform better or worse), but you need to jump through hoops far less while you hope the battle will end before you get crit back to back by an enemy with blind token and lose the run

[@Frubs97]

What do you think is tue best way to play her? Her best role? I myself am leaning towards the riposte wanderer in static teams, and a hybrid with more move friendly teams, with hybrid i mean using both stances(prep-fleche-faint-meditation-disingage as an instructrice to switch stances and then prep or fleche following your needs, than repeat). While the riposte wanderer usually set up with prep-feint-med, than look for what you need, the other 2 abilities i use are coupe de grace amd flick, so she becomes the go to token remover. But i'm still not sure so i would love to hear your opinion on what you think is the absolute best way to play her, with which strategy she shines the most?

[@ContessaDark]

I wonder if this class was inspired by the Dragon Duelist mode from DD1? Solid class, fun to have on a run and has a nice look.

[@ЯнРоманенко-д8г]

Maybe, but idea is hardly unique. Duelist is pretty old archetype in rpg-s and there were no similar characters in DD.

[@raisaulolopezlima2063]

please YT algorithm, receive this humble tribute!! I like DD, therefore, i like you, bud!

[@Britishbrat]

💚💚

[@nfoquest5738]

that 4th shrine is driving me crazy lol

[@Britishbrat]

It's pretty gnarly

[@okonkwojones]

She protec but she also attac

[@KingOfMadCows]

So if you have Jester and Instructrice Duelist, you can keep giving another character extra actions? You'll be able to stack up dots so fast, especially with the Plague Doctor.

[@Britishbrat]

They both have pretty hefty cooldown so it would only work once a fight probably

[@drdramatik]

Holy, she seems very strong. Currently can't buy the DLC but hope I can soon before she gets hard nerfed

[@valentimlindao4093]

You kind got to stick to one of her features. The one that fits better in your strategy.. .

[@jcg9721]

Nice video but from France and with no anger coup de grâce is pronounced coo (like in cool) the(with french accent) grass ( coo the grass) wich means last blow

[@Britishbrat]

Yeah I've been told a few hundred times now 😂😂

[@DMrRaa]

I dont know, man. Nothing one shots like the Baldwin's chop skill. I mean it crits for 60 +. Her ... seeing her puny 8 dmg hits and have to stack up dmg on her been missed and that is if she is targeted ... too much hustle for building one chop skill ... dont you think ?

[@Britishbrat]

My counter argument for this line of thinking is X is better than Y until you don't have X anymore. If you're not running leper then this argument doesn't really hold up. This girl can crit riposte for the mid twenties without much effort. Can stun. Can move enemies back and forth. Etc. Baldwin is waiting for someone to toss him a combo so you don't accidently wiff that huge smack down. They're both good, they don't really need to compete.

[@DMrRaa]

@@Britishbrat i understand that. What i was trying to say is that you dont need stun ( which she also needs someone to toss her a combo ) when you can just one shot ppl with say jester and Baldwin. And when you use Thick as a pet ... with the blood he eats bosses like there is no tomorrow. Maybe they need to nerf him a little bit, cuz anything else i am trying to play, although a bit more fun just doesnt come even close to the results he produces, and now with the new spiritualists he is even stronger

[@MonarchRigel]

i have a feeling the French will no be happy with your pronunciations. good luck.

[@Britishbrat]

I'm British, they're already mad at me

[@MonarchRigel]

touche @@Britishbrat

[@gamesmash9859]

Anyone else find it funny that all her moves have French names except "again"... because we already have a move called "encore" in the game?

[@Britishbrat]

I've never thought of this but it's hilarious now you point it out

[@clivi1039]

Yeah, try getting her achievement without punching a hole in your screen. Dead weight on most comps designed for the final bosses

[@Britishbrat]

This is absolutely not even close to true. Sahar has pulled so many of my teams lol

[@Talongakupo]

Smart way to farm comments by butchering all the french words on purpose lmao. Anyways love the video. Very informative. Thank you

[@Britishbrat]

Sure... On purpose! 🙃

[@mrD518]

coup de grâce is pronounced "Coo duh grah"

[@Britishbrat]

Yeah I know now haha

[@MG-lc5tv]

Best comp to include Duelist in?

[@Britishbrat]

Any dance comp

[@officegossip]

great tutorial but the typing in the back is super distracting lol

[@Britishbrat]

Just have to work with what I got lol

[@TwiCaCaX]

Omg i just found this!!!! Please pin this ans put in playlist i love these ❤

[@Britishbrat]

They're in a playlist with all my other guides!

[@sailor_seller]

talk about an overdesigned character, tried her a bit and frankly she seems like a Graverobber/Highwayman with extra steps apart from rare niche scenarios where you can get a bit of extra from her

[@JohnPaul-nb5iu]

So she's fun

[@mr.roguelike1661]

Я бы написал, как не использовать дуалиста, потому что есть разбойник, у которого навыки сильнее 😂

[@dilsoncamacho4100]

ouch the french