I bought the game when it first released out of early access and bounced off it hard due to being a different beast from the first game. Finally gave it another shot this month and I'm actually beginning to appreciate it. I just cleared the second confession and it's been kind of fun learning about how best to handle token management which seems to be more of the point this time around. I do miss the management layer of the Hamlet, but I'm enjoying the individual runs.

I will say that it takes a bit to start a new run. Riding to the house to select a confession, going through the backstory segment, and then the Valley just to the inn where you can finally start the run proper is a bit much. It's probably better in Kingdoms but I want to get through the original story before delving too deeply in to that.

I think I still prefer the quasi-XCOM style of the first game overall, but I see what their going for here and I like it.

drawn by me

Ps for context. She got both deviant taste and love interest so only ever goes to the brothel and also banned for life from it.

Girl what did you do

For context: I just got the mission where you kill the Necromancer and has a reward Dismas would have got his Very Rare trinket, which is awesome, but he couldn't get into the expedition since he got a sickness, anyways, I took the Leper, Reynauld, the Antiquarian and the Vestal.

I managed to win some fights and even get some rare items such as Dismas's Head, weird but useful, but the disposition of the dungeon fucked my plan, since I was expecting the Necromancer to be on the south part of the dungeon I had to make the trip all the way up, which caused me to spend all my torches and half of the party got afflicted, I expected to AT LEAST one of them to get Virtuous since Dismas got it once before, but NONE of this mfs got like him.

During the fight I managed to get a crit with Leper and at the end of the first turn I managed to get Necro's health at half, which was awesome, but then everything went downhill.

Vestal started fucking around and spending her turns hitting her teammates, Reynauld was unable to hit the necromancer since he kept summoning his fucking skeletons, Leper was trying his best, but still, after getting afflicted he couldn't do shit, and finally the Antiquarian was the only one who could keep hitting the Necromancer until he got into 4th position.

Then it came the heart attacks. Reynauld survived the first one, but after reviving him and getting at the death's door again he didn't survive the second. Leper came after him, dying from the stress of his death. Vestal died after him. Finally Anti just died from a heart attack after all her teammates died. With the necromancer at only 30 HP left.

I fucking hate my luck.

I just lost around 30k in gems and items after this expedition.

First time fighting wulf. I was panicking slightly because of course when this event finally happens it while my man at arms and hound master are occupied. So my strategy was to kill him as fast as possible and face tanking all the bombs. Worked out! :D

I've been reading the character comics and I noticed it seems as some of the more tragic and traumatic backstories are accompanied by the stress symbol showing in something in the background (carved on the tree, the wheel of the coach, ecc...) Idk if it is a stretch on my part, what do you think?

I was trying to stack cash for interest and picked a defensive comp with almost no attack and suddenly this dude popped out of nowhere with all the loot I had. So I beat his buttocks.

I just started an only modded class run. i figured out that many are great, i few seems to be. A bit stronger than vanilla classes and 2-3 didnt click with me (sorry thorn, maybe Im to stupid to figure out your strenght)
I was curious what other people like

I had his event pop up a few weeks back but he's not spawning when sending 4 cursed heroes into a few dungeons. Does he dissappear after the week the event occurs? I read it as 'he's now on the loose so watch out until you clear the infestation.'

I only have the Countess left to defeat.

I bought darkest dungeons some time ago during the autumn sales due to a friend's recommendation.

I started playing on the "Darkest" difficulty because he said I would be able to overcome it (and Radiant difficulty would get me used to wrong stuff). I bought every DLC alongside the base game. My favorite heroes so far are Leper and Flagellant, but my strongest unit was a level 5 duelist which had been with me for most of my run. She always got the stuns when I needed them, the perfect counter attacks in the worst battles, and the clutch highrolls in tight situations.

I did my first "hard" dungeon today, I thought because it was a short dungeon it would go with no major casualties.

For my and my duelist misfortune, I found out that Drowned Thralls can blow up and deal massive damage to my whole party. My duelist (who was already at half HP) got thrown into death doors, and then got pummeled by a Pelagic Guardian dying on the spot from the hit.

It was the very last room in the dungeon, the very last fight that has to be fought. But her luck ran out, so did the blood in her veins.

I managed to play for almost 35 hours and 43 weeks without one of my characters dying, but everything comes to an end.

Here is a picture of my character in the cementery and my playtime. 💔

Some context, feel free to skip to the question below.
After a year of not playing I can back a couple weeks ago to finally finish the game and Cowardice has been a struggle while I get reacquainted. I nearly won last night but I did not realize where the spirit would spawn for my occultist and I didn't give him a move that could hit rank 4. I was almost able to brute force it after my crusader died to his spirit, (leper chewed through almost 350 hit points himself), but I ran out of luck and healing at the end. I'll also note I struggled with ranged damage that wasn't just demon pulling things to the front.

TLDR: I lost because I was dumb.

My questions:
Do we think this comp could be stronger? Any tips for running it? And generally what lair boss I should be gunning for? Is monarch worth the time spent farming?
From front to back

1. Leper (Monarch)
2. Crusader (Banneret)
3. Jester (Virtuoso)
4. Occultists (Ritualist)

If there's other comps people recommend I'd love to hear those too, preferably something a little faster. Farming stacks with leper does take time. Thanks!

I know most people's first answer would be "tattoo whatever you want it's your body", but it's not exactly what I'm asking.

The reason why I want to get an iron crown tattoo is because of how it symbolises stress. How seemingly inconsequential amounts creep into ones mind and pile up to the point where someone breaks under it and gains a life-altering affliction, which can be permanent (whether you give characters appropriate treatment or leave them to rot).

I have completed DD1, but haven't yet completed DD2, and from what I heard the iron crown has a much more occult symbolic ? I'm guessing the meaning of this symbol is different from what I originally thought, but I'm not quite sure what, and I'm very hesitant to get a tattoo of something that I don't know the full meaning of.

Could someone tell me (without spoiling too much, if possible) what the iron crown truly represents in the end ?

So, I picked up the game after the DLC came out. Didn’t play for about 4 months I think.
What the hell is this text flashing in the corner? Is it debugging leftovers? Why do we have this now after 11 years?
I should add that this is on Switch/Switch 2. Is there a way to disable this?

Seething Sigh, 0hp, no deathblow tokens left.

Hits my Duelist with 85 DBR and kills her.

Simultaneously hits FLAG with the shield and dies to the 2 dmg rebound.

Finally starting to understand the Occultist because I have hundreds of hours in this game and still can't manage this nonsense! I need an eldritch partner to help

Any recommendations for mod packs? I have played DD1 so much and wanna try getting back into it but the standard run is frustratingly boring. A mod pack that introduces new areas as well as new characters and some new mechanics would be perfect.

Week 39.

I seem to be getting sentimental past the noon of my life.

I haven't had the heart to eject the traveling merchants that set up shop in the town square. However noisome as they are when plying their trad locals and recruits both seem to appreciate their trinkets and yesterday I joined their ranks. A pendant made from a piece of worked crystal hanging from a sturdy rope dazzled me as I was crossing the square, uncomfortably close to their loud celebrations of one thing or the other. As I turned to see what shone so powerfully in my eyes I saw it in its display, innocently reflecting the Sun's light.

I immediately felt myself go lax, release a tension I hadn't realized I had been holding in my shoulders and took a deep breath. I even appreciated the foreign music somewhat after that. I bought the bauble on impulse and was pleased to learn they were holding a sizable sale as part of the celebration. The prices only stung today, rather than emptied one's purse.

There was a macabre note to it, as people took to clapping and stomping the ever present bloodsucking vermin to the tune of the drums and tambourines. I even joined once I had the chance to crush one.

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Which is why it is more the pity that I find myself needing to play the role of the disciplinarian. Bondeville, one of the hires that was pulled from the other side of the low, was causing a commotion arguing loudly and snapping his fingers in front of a townswoman while I happened to walk by. I scolded the man and apologized to the woman in my name. But as I brought him with and asked him to explain himself an unpleasant realization arrived. I had caught only the tail end of their conversation and while I believed the earlier segment could be one way or another, I had my suspicions. They turned out to be right and the woman was the one being rude and drawing first blood in the tongue lashing and my subordinate was only answering. Inwardly I was grimacing while I offered a middle of the ground solution and chiding him to be a better neighbor to my townsfolk while knowing I was doing so to a wrongly vexed man who risks life and limb in my employ. I want my hires to become a boon for the Hamlet in more ways than in its defense.

The team has gone on yet another foray and another succesful one at that – I gave them well-deserved time off separating the hale from the blood-sick.

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