A few people have mentioned the trinket choices which is worth talking about. I show both strong and weak trinkets through the video. The point of recommending the strong ones is because bosses drop orange trinkets even at apprentice, so this helps new players know what to look for in drops. The other is that stronger trinkets are more diverse in stat allocation, so players can see what they bring (like focus ring) and understand that accuracy and crit are both desirable stats. I also speak of the stats on some of the trinkets specifically and why they are good. The term beginner is referring to new players as well, not teams you need to run at week 5. This is why I cover the starter team the game gives the player, in case they can't put together one of the others quickly. These teams work early game and late game and they are easy for new players to use and understand. I appreciate the well-stated disagreement, so please continue to do so if you feel the need to. My videos are always focused on discussion and community input
I somehow managed to kill the fanatic with 4 antiquarians. I was also 1 turn away from beating the shrieker with only a single antiquarian, but hey, 9 deaths door checks is probably a few too many anyway.
Apparently, in Darkest Dungeon 2, we won't be able to have copies of the same hero in the team. I suppose they did this because quad leper was too strong.
Shoutout to Arbalest, Vestal, Houndmaster, Bounty Hunter or "Huntsman Corps". Extremely simple to play and especially effective for nuking single targets.
If you were gonna use an OCC in that team id stick the houndmaster in rank 3 and the occ in rank 2 so you get the stun, occ can use his mark from rank 2 anyway, and keeping a stun on hand is nice as the occ is basically support in this comp@@Azuto
When you get done vanilla, def check out class and enemy mods. People have done a wonderful job. Black Reliquary mod is in development. Basically a whole new DD game
I have 700+ hours in this game and one of the things i like the most about DD is the variety of team comps, the different play styles, this videos was very interesting, great job :D
11:45 I would normally prioritize Darts over her normal Throwing Daggers, even if I have PD in the party; they can stack blight for massive DoT and then she'd still benefit from the buff against blighted enemies.
Literally bought the Ancestral Collection for $5.99 on PSN last night and holy shit is this game overwhelming to learn. Been binging your videos all morning Shuffle! Usually I'd be like, "meh this cost less than what I'd spend going through a drive thru so no biggie if I don't play it" but I sincerely want to learn and understand this game for whatever reason. Probably the game play + aesthetics speak to me
I just like to adapt with anything i'll get as long as the quirks are good. I love how balanced this game is around you not being stuck if you're good with resource management
Such a powerful video, really appreciated the in-depth explanation for each hero build and the synergies that each team has. I wish the title was 10 beginner teams, I would have loved to see more!
Always give the Plague Doctor the Battlefield Medicine skill, ever since that first ghoul I have really begun to appreciate the medical expert. That bleeding is no joke and I run out of bandages way way too quickly in higher level ruins or warrens.
I bought this on Steam maybe a little over a year ago, played through a few game weeks, and then it just got too overwhelming. I planned on trying again but I just got distracted by other games instead. Well in the last few days I've picked it back up again. Today I stumbled across you channel while looking for some tips and holy hell have your videos helped! I greatly appreciate all these tutorials you've put together, so thanks a ton! I'm really having a blast with this game now.
Great video! Typically I always run a comp with 'Vestal + Jester' or 'Vestal + Crusader' for the reliable heal/stress heals. I end up finishing the dungeon with 0 stress most of the time, but lots of fun ideas here that I haven't tried
Man don't know why I haven't ever been recommended u but ur an amazing wealth of knowledge. Me an the wife love playing some dd once kids are asleep now maybe we can do more then just losing hard again an again. Thank u sir
33:33 Guard Dog lasting one turn. A more accurate way to put this, is that guard dog last two actions **on the person you're guarding.** aka guardee (like employee) So if youre Guarder (Houndmaster) goes before your guardee, than the guard last one less turn than displayed. The reason why this kicks so hard, is that whoever is on deaths door is definitely going to do after your HM. So when the Guardee needs it most, it vanishes; and they're left to be knocked back to Deaths door and possibly killed.
You know you've spent too much time in Darkest Dungeon when you've named, most, if not all of your recruits. When you're newer you pick a favorite and lose that named recruit one too many times until you eventually get good enough to start naming them again.
I have been playing the game for a while but I’m very bad at team building games as a whole. That being said, between early and mid game, I go from doing ok to getting absolutely destroyed. This video helped me break that barrier today. Hopefully I can continue learning.
With dancing in mind, I have not yet made a full dance team. I am however a lot more comfortable with giving every character at least some form of dance move, so that they are not left bereft of options. Which is why the musketeer gets their sidearm, the crusader gets holy lance, the man at arms gets his shield bash and so on. On occasion I lose focus and half my team is scrambled, and yet they can keep fighting without major issues. On that note, Holy Lance is a fantastic skill. Forward movement, good damage and additional reach? Excellent stuff.
So many of your videos I find adding to a private playlist just in case I need to find them again later, lol. I know a little bit of team comp, enough to get 2 bosses in on Radiant (though I've stumbled a few times), and these videos really help out. So far I love my Plaguedoctor and brought her on so many early missions that she was rank 4 before I had a rank 3. Definitely need to get that flask from the Necromancer. Oh also! I've been dealing with losing quirks I like whenever my characters get new ones. Only after watching this video do I see that you can lock quirks in, lol.
Great, GR and hellion is my favorite combo and it is good to see a guide with both of them. I'm a somewhat new player (I know my priorities in town, but items? not good with them) and certainly will try some of those groups. Good work man, thanks.
Shuffle: Here's a video about beginner's teams. Also Shuffle: Use these Ancestral and DLC trinkets! :D Jokes aside nice video! I'm coming back to DD once again and I'll might even beat the game this time.
Again, I'm late to the party 😅 The help that I've received from this channel has made me understand this game. It's my favorite game atm & I would've never played a game like this. Shout-out to Sig Ed games for making an edition that I had to buy & this channel for helping me get started.
I played DD1 for over 300 hours and now after beating DD2 multiple times with about 200 hours (including early access) I'm going back to DD1 and it feels like a very different game mechanically so this guide is quite helpful
My favorite parties: For ruins: Crusader -> Crusader -> Vestal -> MAA/Helion/Leper (Ironically Vestal here is mostly for campfire buff) For warrens: Plague Doctor -> Occultist -> Bounty Hunter -> Bounty Hunter (i'm thinking about switching positions of occultist and second bounty hunter, but this party already works good) For weald: Musketeer -> Houndmaster -> Highwayman -> Highwayman (normally it bursts down everybody extremely fast; if I need healing during combat the damaged person will be protected by houndmaster (who can heal himself) and then Musketeer will stack heal on houndmaster or wounded character; also it helps that Musketeer can remove mark) For cove: MAA -> Highwayman -> Grave Robber -> Antiquarian (very luck dependent on Highwayman not getting hit before high enough Dodge will be stacked; should be improved somehow...)
@@frds_skce thank you :) I changed my setup a bit though since I wrote that post. For Ruins - Helion is MVP, now I'm sure about that, best option for 1st position. For Warrens - I replaced Bounty Hunter in position 2 with Houndmaster (mostly because I need 2 leveled up houndmasters to deal with Unstable Flesh, but an extra stun and being able to attack all 4 positions is also handy). For Weald - I replaced Musketeer with Occultist. While clearing mark is nice, Occultist offers just such great utility and a lot of damage against Eldrich... But clearing mark... Very tough choice... For Cove I have biggest change. I really dont't like my party being luck-dependent. So now I have Musketeer -> GraveRobber -> MAA -> Antiquarian. MAA here activates riposte and soak damage. Musketeer can do damage and offer nice campfire buff (speed), but very importantly her heal is strong in such slower dodge party because she have enough time to stack her heal buff and because her heal buffs Antiquarian heals. Grave Robber is MVP in Cove because of her ability to ignore armour.
And heres another tip. Always remeber to double check the map you selected after going back between embark and the hamlet. I took a full bleed team to face the necromancer in the ruins. The place filled with skeleton. Thank got he can bleed. Also used my campfire on a curio by accident. So no camp boss fight. I survived. But barely.
hmm, what I really don't like about all of these beginner teams is that you show them at max level and with end-game items, that skews what a normal beginner will see and has access to, so the teams are never really comparable to what one has access to. But they are a starting point I guess. Edit: the last team is pretty accessible
Sometimes I like to run jester without any of his movement skills. The two other attacks that keep him where he is, plus obviously the buff and stress remover. It lets you still do jester things, without worrying about movement and all that or building up to finale. USUALLY i run jester exactly as you have here, but sometimes I like a static jester, too. Depends on the party comp. I used to have such a hard time with jester but have recently come around to really groking his setup.
4th team is almost screaming "Take me to the Warrens!". I wonder if there is a way to replace the Flagg if I'm playing vanilla? Amazing guide btw, love it!
As someone who comes from DD2. The amount of stuns in DD1 is sick. I wish we had guaranteed stuns in DD2 outside the bounty hunter. Hopefully they make the vestal a stunner if she's a new class on dd2.
For the arb I actually like the one that attacks a random target it’s only a ten percent less damage in exhaghe for being able to use it in front and being able to hit the front when the back line is dead and no one else needs healing
The starter Crusader has Kleptomaniac and if you don’t get rid of that trait if he survives a long time, he will take items over time for himself and prevent you from using them. It’s almost always better too swap him for another hero.
@@ddkong021223 maybe because he and dismas are the only ones that came with us , maybe because they saved us from an ambush , OR MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ICONIC DUO OF THIS GAME
I find highwayman in 4 to be better, Vestal being in 2 to begin with isn't usually a big deal. I find myself opening with a stun from Vestal anyway, also gives highwayman more options to either double tap the backliner he hit with duelist advance or open vein/wicked slice an enemy up front.
I just got Darkest Dungeon a few weeks ago, and I've had the most success with Hellion, Highwayman, Occultist, and Vestal, swapping out Vestal or Occultist for Antiquarian if I need some extra money. Bleed and enemy party shuffle. Also have used Bounty Hunter, Occultist, Arbalest, and Vestal for Ruins and Cove.
i gotta say, ur previous video helped so fricking much ... + this one aswell is doing wonders .... even tho im playing in the pussiest difficulty, i was trying to play medium and harder lvls without even knowing that i shoud've upgrade the skills + the weapons n armours ..... so fucking dumb on my part jeez christ
For the second team, I prefer the Four Horseman, at least for the Cove. Having the ability to cure bleed almost trivialises Uca crabs. Abomination and Hellion have their own heals that can supplement Battlefield Medicine, so healing isn't too much of an issue. Edit: I guess since this is beginner teams, you won't be encountering Uca crabs, but I still prefer that team.
thanks for your vids and tips. I decided to name my characters starting out just "redshirts" like from star trek because they dont survive or i end up getting rid of them from bad traits...lol...I hope DD 2 will come to console soon as im on xbox.
I’ve been playing this for years, but every time I watch one of your vids or Baertaffy I feel like I learn a little more. I’ve since stopped making dance teams with Grave Robber, and I’m now thinking on the side of Pick to the Face. Just as little bit of my growth :)
I bought this game recently, didn't know how difficult it was. I rage quit within the first 10 hours and now binging youtube guides. so painfully hard :(
You can use these hero combinations from the start of the game. The trinket choices are to show what stats are good and what to look for as you progress
Just started this game a couple days ago and I fell in love with Flagellant-1, Occultist-2, Jester-3 and Plage doc-4 can’t really remember the name of the skills tho sorry. Edit: screw it I’ll try Flagellant had both his heals the bleed on hit and remove bleed from team mate Occultist had stab, heal, mark and pull Jester had stab, both bleeds and stress heal Plage doc had grenade, heal, back line stun and front line blight.
lmao I got super lucky apparently. I'm just getting started and Blasphemous Vial was the one I recently got from a boss. Can't remember if it was Hag or Siren.
@@ShuffleFM I keep wanting to but I always get sidetracked or move over to another game and restart when I come back after a few months. Its the struggle with big time sink games. I'm excited for DD2 though it looks at least on the surface to be a bit less daunting to progress into.
Should I stick to one team right from the beginning and fill my barracks around it? Or should I develop multiple teams for different dungeons, bosses, etc?
Just wanted to make a note to you, I was listening along quite well then at like 5:15 thhe music picked up quite a bit and I was struggling to pay attention. You may want to keep that in mind and reduce the volume of background music so it doesn't command the attention of your listener and compete with you. Thank you for your helpful information. I'm not quite a beginner but I'm looking stuff up to fill in the blanks of what I may not have gotten intuitively while playing before and I'm already seeing some good points.
The fact that they created a whole d4mn turned based rpg without any magical class FOCKING SUCKS! And I know, it's a low fantasy/Eldrich/Lovecraftian type of setting. But if you have healers, occultism, and witch doctors, you should also be able to have wizzards, mages and warlocks(WoW style) in this game. Y'all might not agree with me, but to people who play magical classes in RPGs, this game dropped the ball *H A R D* !!!
I want to ask serious question. About riposte. I'm not totally sure but looks like highwayman doesn't get morale damage from tempting goblet IF HE KILLS skeleton with riposte. Please tell me if it's totally true because it's like awesome.
@@ShuffleFM Yeah I've got some of those fortunately, but a lot of what you featured seemed to include DLC trinkets. But thank you for the video! I learned from it.
so i know this came out around a year ago, but would u mind making a QoL mod review for this game? trying to install some stuff but theres a lot of unique classes, bosses, etc. to sift thru. i just want some basic vanilla-friendly stuff
Hello, for the grave robber and other, i don't have the dlc crimson court , what can I replace the item with? and very good video, i'm new in the game!
![Darkest Dungeon - New Players' Guide - Tips for Absolute Beginners! [No Spoilers]](/img/n.gif)
A few people have mentioned the trinket choices which is worth talking about. I show both strong and weak trinkets through the video. The point of recommending the strong ones is because bosses drop orange trinkets even at apprentice, so this helps new players know what to look for in drops. The other is that stronger trinkets are more diverse in stat allocation, so players can see what they bring (like focus ring) and understand that accuracy and crit are both desirable stats. I also speak of the stats on some of the trinkets specifically and why they are good.
The term beginner is referring to new players as well, not teams you need to run at week 5. This is why I cover the starter team the game gives the player, in case they can't put together one of the others quickly. These teams work early game and late game and they are easy for new players to use and understand.
I appreciate the well-stated disagreement, so please continue to do so if you feel the need to. My videos are always focused on discussion and community input
And about the music in the video...I am digging that Jazz in the background, do u have the name of the artist?
Llp😊p I'll😊😊😊 of course you are the consul
5 PRO Teams
1) Quad Leper
2) Quad Occultist
3) Quad Antiquarian
4) One Flagellant
5) Dismas and Reynauld
Ehm ... LAST CRUSADE?!?!!???!?
Disappointed that Trouble wasn't shown
I somehow managed to kill the fanatic with 4 antiquarians.
I was also 1 turn away from beating the shrieker with only a single antiquarian, but hey, 9 deaths door checks is probably a few too many anyway.
Apparently, in Darkest Dungeon 2, we won't be able to have copies of the same hero in the team. I suppose they did this because quad leper was too strong.
@@-_-5470 That's casual gaming
Me who already completed the game and has over 350 hours on it: OH BOY 5 BEGINNER TEAMS I NEED THAT!!!
Lmao! Amazing
I feel this on a spiritual level
I'm here for it too, haven't touched the game since beta xD
Here I am 2 years later 😂😂😂
Shuffle: I wouldn't recommend stunning all four enemies at once
Also shuffle 30 seconds later: stuns all four enemies at once
Shoutout to Arbalest, Vestal, Houndmaster, Bounty Hunter or "Huntsman Corps". Extremely simple to play and especially effective for nuking single targets.
If you put the occultist in vestal place, you will get a "4 mark skill party"
If you were gonna use an OCC in that team id stick the houndmaster in rank 3 and the occ in rank 2 so you get the stun, occ can use his mark from rank 2 anyway, and keeping a stun on hand is nice as the occ is basically support in this comp@@Azuto
This dude is still replying to suggestions a year later, subbed as soon as I saw it.
Thank you!
@@ShuffleFMI wonder if he’s still responding another year later
Finally got DD because of the steam sale and your videos are a complete godsend! Thanks for these so much
Me too mans a legend
bruddah we together
Its a free in epic
Got it free lol
But steam is best
Me too, dismas and reynauld already died :(
When you get done vanilla, def check out class and enemy mods. People have done a wonderful job. Black Reliquary mod is in development. Basically a whole new DD game
If anyone wants a list :)
Team 1:
Plageu Doctor, Highway, Vestal, Crusader
PD: Noxious Blast, Plague Grenade, Concusion Grenade, Battlefield Medicine
Crusader: Smite, Stunning Blow, Holy Lance, Encourage
Highway: Pistol Shot, Point Blank Shot, Duelist Advance, Open Vein
Vestal: Stock Build
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Team 2:
Grave Robber, Vestal, Abomination, Hellion
GR: Pick, Lunge, Fade, Throw Dagger
Hellion: Wicked Hack, Iron Swan, Yaah, If it Bleeds
Abom: --
Vestal:
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Team 3:
Arbalest, Jester, Bounty Hunter, Occultist
Occultist: Sac, Vulnerability Hex, Wyrd Recon, Hands from the Abyss
BH: Collect, Mark, Flashbang, Finish Him
Jester: Dirk STab, Slice Off, Finale, Battle Ballad
Arbalest: Snipe, Suppressing Fire, Battle Bandage, Flare
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Team 4:
PD, BH, Houndmaster, Flagellant
Flagellant: Punish, Rain, Exsanguinate, Reclaim
Houndmaster: Rush, Harry, Guard Dog, Blackjack
BH: Collect, Mark, Flashbang, Finish Him
PD: Noxious Blast, Plague Grenade, Concusion Grenade, Battlefield Medicine
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Team 5:
Highwayman, Antiquarian, Vestal, Hellion
Hellion: Bleed Out, Iron Swan, Yaah, If it Bleeds
Vestal: Stock Build
Antiquarian: Fest. Vapours, Flashpow., Fort. Vapours, Protect me!
Highway: Pistol Shot, Point Blank Shot, Duelist Advance, Open Vein
I have 700+ hours in this game and one of the things i like the most about DD is the variety of team comps, the different play styles, this videos was very interesting, great job :D
Bro How you do not became insane? This game is a fucking RNG joke lol
Average Usual Suspects Fan
Average Red Hook Enjoyer
Average Reynauld and Dismas Gigachad
11:45 I would normally prioritize Darts over her normal Throwing Daggers, even if I have PD in the party; they can stack blight for massive DoT and then she'd still benefit from the buff against blighted enemies.
Do you normally itemize a a Grave Robber with +blight chance?
Just do damage with daggers, that's it
Literally bought the Ancestral Collection for $5.99 on PSN last night and holy shit is this game overwhelming to learn. Been binging your videos all morning Shuffle! Usually I'd be like, "meh this cost less than what I'd spend going through a drive thru so no biggie if I don't play it" but I sincerely want to learn and understand this game for whatever reason. Probably the game play + aesthetics speak to me
Glad you stuck with it! It feels overwhelming at first but really rewarding when you start seeing the payoff
I just like to adapt with anything i'll get as long as the quirks are good. I love how balanced this game is around you not being stuck if you're good with resource management
Thank you ive spent 55 weeks in game and i just have been strugling a lot of runing away and your videos really help.
Such a powerful video, really appreciated the in-depth explanation for each hero build and the synergies that each team has. I wish the title was 10 beginner teams, I would have loved to see more!
Always give the Plague Doctor the Battlefield Medicine skill, ever since that first ghoul I have really begun to appreciate the medical expert. That bleeding is no joke and I run out of bandages way way too quickly in higher level ruins or warrens.
Me when atrial 10 bleed per turn pinch
@@thanoid2373always take bandages in Cove
I bought this on Steam maybe a little over a year ago, played through a few game weeks, and then it just got too overwhelming. I planned on trying again but I just got distracted by other games instead. Well in the last few days I've picked it back up again. Today I stumbled across you channel while looking for some tips and holy hell have your videos helped! I greatly appreciate all these tutorials you've put together, so thanks a ton! I'm really having a blast with this game now.
Glad you gave the game another try :)
Getting back into this game after having picked it up and only put like 3 hours into it on release, loving this channel!
Great video! Typically I always run a comp with 'Vestal + Jester' or 'Vestal + Crusader' for the reliable heal/stress heals. I end up finishing the dungeon with 0 stress most of the time, but lots of fun ideas here that I haven't tried
Man don't know why I haven't ever been recommended u but ur an amazing wealth of knowledge. Me an the wife love playing some dd once kids are asleep now maybe we can do more then just losing hard again an again. Thank u sir
Glad you enjoy the videos, good luck with your next estate :)
33:33 Guard Dog lasting one turn.
A more accurate way to put this, is that guard dog last two actions **on the person you're guarding.** aka guardee (like employee)
So if youre Guarder (Houndmaster) goes before your guardee, than the guard last one less turn than displayed.
The reason why this kicks so hard, is that whoever is on deaths door is definitely going to do after your HM. So when the Guardee needs it most, it vanishes; and they're left to be knocked back to Deaths door and possibly killed.
My lack of understanding for HM's guard again on display lmao
Im late to this game but thanks for these guides man id be lost without these
You: explaining how putting HWM in Rank 3 to start benefits the team
Me: losing my shit at "Dismiss"
You know you've spent too much time in Darkest Dungeon when you've named, most, if not all of your recruits. When you're newer you pick a favorite and lose that named recruit one too many times until you eventually get good enough to start naming them again.
I like Darkest Dungeon. I like smooth jazz. You have a new sub.
I have been playing the game for a while but I’m very bad at team building games as a whole. That being said, between early and mid game, I go from doing ok to getting absolutely destroyed. This video helped me break that barrier today. Hopefully I can continue learning.
The difficulty jumps are hard so don't get discouraged! I'm glad this helped you :)
With dancing in mind, I have not yet made a full dance team. I am however a lot more comfortable with giving every character at least some form of dance move, so that they are not left bereft of options. Which is why the musketeer gets their sidearm, the crusader gets holy lance, the man at arms gets his shield bash and so on. On occasion I lose focus and half my team is scrambled, and yet they can keep fighting without major issues.
On that note, Holy Lance is a fantastic skill. Forward movement, good damage and additional reach? Excellent stuff.
So many of your videos I find adding to a private playlist just in case I need to find them again later, lol. I know a little bit of team comp, enough to get 2 bosses in on Radiant (though I've stumbled a few times), and these videos really help out. So far I love my Plaguedoctor and brought her on so many early missions that she was rank 4 before I had a rank 3. Definitely need to get that flask from the Necromancer.
Oh also! I've been dealing with losing quirks I like whenever my characters get new ones. Only after watching this video do I see that you can lock quirks in, lol.
i love how the music u chose is like the polar opposite to the vibe of darkest dungeon
Way back before I started using game music :P
I really like the crimson hand. Used it predominently on most of my playthroughs and it has never let me down
I like how one of your jesters is named after a legendary Italian guitar player.
Glad you recognized it. The man is incredible.
Great, GR and hellion is my favorite combo and it is good to see a guide with both of them. I'm a somewhat new player (I know my priorities in town, but items? not good with them) and certainly will try some of those groups. Good work man, thanks.
Finally some background music
Came for the guide. Stayed for the easy listening.
I love the jazz in the background. Feels like a whole other game;D
Thank so much, as a noob can't wait to try these out, make plenty of mistakes and just gain experience on how to play.
Great attitude to have :)
Me as a beginner seeing that some of these teams don't have a dedicated healer: * nervous sweating *
I’m gonna say this once: Vestal is the Bestal
Shuffle: Here's a video about beginner's teams.
Also Shuffle: Use these Ancestral and DLC trinkets! :D
Jokes aside nice video! I'm coming back to DD once again and I'll might even beat the game this time.
Again, I'm late to the party 😅 The help that I've received from this channel has made me understand this game. It's my favorite game atm & I would've never played a game like this. Shout-out to Sig Ed games for making an edition that I had to buy & this channel for helping me get started.
Best DD tutors on TH-cam.
I played DD1 for over 300 hours and now after beating DD2 multiple times with about 200 hours (including early access) I'm going back to DD1 and it feels like a very different game mechanically so this guide is quite helpful
I just beat the game & still learning new stuff. Thank u for these infomations, much appreciated
Omg I never realized how useful stun is , it's saved me a couple times since I watched this video, man stun teams r op against inchoate fleah
Pharasma? You are a man of culture, I see.
My favorite parties:
For ruins: Crusader -> Crusader -> Vestal -> MAA/Helion/Leper (Ironically Vestal here is mostly for campfire buff)
For warrens: Plague Doctor -> Occultist -> Bounty Hunter -> Bounty Hunter (i'm thinking about switching positions of occultist and second bounty hunter, but this party already works good)
For weald: Musketeer -> Houndmaster -> Highwayman -> Highwayman (normally it bursts down everybody extremely fast; if I need healing during combat the damaged person will be protected by houndmaster (who can heal himself) and then Musketeer will stack heal on houndmaster or wounded character; also it helps that Musketeer can remove mark)
For cove: MAA -> Highwayman -> Grave Robber -> Antiquarian (very luck dependent on Highwayman not getting hit before high enough Dodge will be stacked; should be improved somehow...)
Those are pretty reasonable builds, although i believe we could still improve it
@@frds_skce thank you :)
I changed my setup a bit though since I wrote that post.
For Ruins - Helion is MVP, now I'm sure about that, best option for 1st position.
For Warrens - I replaced Bounty Hunter in position 2 with Houndmaster (mostly because I need 2 leveled up houndmasters to deal with Unstable Flesh, but an extra stun and being able to attack all 4 positions is also handy).
For Weald - I replaced Musketeer with Occultist. While clearing mark is nice, Occultist offers just such great utility and a lot of damage against Eldrich... But clearing mark... Very tough choice...
For Cove I have biggest change. I really dont't like my party being luck-dependent. So now I have Musketeer -> GraveRobber -> MAA -> Antiquarian. MAA here activates riposte and soak damage. Musketeer can do damage and offer nice campfire buff (speed), but very importantly her heal is strong in such slower dodge party because she have enough time to stack her heal buff and because her heal buffs Antiquarian heals. Grave Robber is MVP in Cove because of her ability to ignore armour.
Darkest Dungeon is the only game that made me do 10 emotions in 5 seconds, im not even at the darkest dungeon yet
amazing video! now i *need* a top 5 veteran teams >:)
And heres another tip. Always remeber to double check the map you selected after going back between embark and the hamlet. I took a full bleed team to face the necromancer in the ruins. The place filled with skeleton. Thank got he can bleed. Also used my campfire on a curio by accident. So no camp boss fight. I survived. But barely.
I like how Zealous Accusation isn’t even unlocked lmao
I wonder how strong a ton of plague docs and a tank would do , but I'm to afraid to NOT run a vistle healer in my party every single run xD
1:00 I see you have a Doctor House and a Doctor DOOM. A tip of the hat, my good sir
hmm, what I really don't like about all of these beginner teams is that you show them at max level and with end-game items, that skews what a normal beginner will see and has access to, so the teams are never really comparable to what one has access to.
But they are a starting point I guess.
Edit: the last team is pretty accessible
Sometimes I like to run jester without any of his movement skills. The two other attacks that keep him where he is, plus obviously the buff and stress remover. It lets you still do jester things, without worrying about movement and all that or building up to finale. USUALLY i run jester exactly as you have here, but sometimes I like a static jester, too. Depends on the party comp. I used to have such a hard time with jester but have recently come around to really groking his setup.
4th team is almost screaming "Take me to the Warrens!". I wonder if there is a way to replace the Flagg if I'm playing vanilla? Amazing guide btw, love it!
Hellion :)
As someone who comes from DD2. The amount of stuns in DD1 is sick. I wish we had guaranteed stuns in DD2 outside the bounty hunter. Hopefully they make the vestal a stunner if she's a new class on dd2.
One of the best things about torchless Hellion is Hell's Hairpin. This trinket is downright broken, tbh.
For the arb I actually like the one that attacks a random target it’s only a ten percent less damage in exhaghe for being able to use it in front and being able to hit the front when the back line is dead and no one else needs healing
The starter Crusader has Kleptomaniac and if you don’t get rid of that trait if he survives a long time, he will take items over time for himself and prevent you from using them. It’s almost always better too swap him for another hero.
but somehow people grow some feelings on him, and use him till the end.
There is some achievement if you save them till the end, but I don't care about achievements
@@ddkong021223 maybe because he and dismas are the only ones that came with us , maybe because they saved us from an ambush , OR MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ICONIC DUO OF THIS GAME
@@JI_Qm No need to be loud, i use them to kill the heart too.
@@ddkong021223 mb , i guess loud = funny only works when you have +1mil subs from random kids on yt
4 Occultist to the Cove and everyone has sacrifical stab, wyrd reconstruction, daemons pull and abysall artillety.
For some reason it just works.
Thank you, first time here and just wanna comment to boost the algorithm
I find highwayman in 4 to be better, Vestal being in 2 to begin with isn't usually a big deal. I find myself opening with a stun from Vestal anyway, also gives highwayman more options to either double tap the backliner he hit with duelist advance or open vein/wicked slice an enemy up front.
I just got Darkest Dungeon a few weeks ago, and I've had the most success with Hellion, Highwayman, Occultist, and Vestal, swapping out Vestal or Occultist for Antiquarian if I need some extra money. Bleed and enemy party shuffle.
Also have used Bounty Hunter, Occultist, Arbalest, and Vestal for Ruins and Cove.
Bro really named his antiquarian "E-Girl"
Viewer requested name I promise :P
Good video so far. I've just started this game, and dont feel balance between dmg/utilities. Thank you for the guide
i gotta say, ur previous video helped so fricking much ... + this one aswell is doing wonders .... even tho im playing in the pussiest difficulty, i was trying to play medium and harder lvls without even knowing that i shoud've upgrade the skills + the weapons n armours ..... so fucking dumb on my part jeez christ
That anti and highway man synergy is absolutely disgusting
Bro is like: "protect me🗿"
For the second team, I prefer the Four Horseman, at least for the Cove. Having the ability to cure bleed almost trivialises Uca crabs. Abomination and Hellion have their own heals that can supplement Battlefield Medicine, so healing isn't too much of an issue.
Edit: I guess since this is beginner teams, you won't be encountering Uca crabs, but I still prefer that team.
Great video thank you. Thw only thing that its a little enoying is the loud music in background.
thanks for your vids and tips. I decided to name my characters starting out just "redshirts" like from star trek because they dont survive or i end up getting rid of them from bad traits...lol...I hope DD 2 will come to console soon as im on xbox.
I’ve been playing this for years, but every time I watch one of your vids or Baertaffy I feel like I learn a little more. I’ve since stopped making dance teams with Grave Robber, and I’m now thinking on the side of Pick to the Face. Just as little bit of my growth :)
Thank you a lot for this guide!!!
19:45 Virago has prot for some reason.
I bet it cause her skin is so encrusted with fungus.
Pro tip: One Leper is literally all you need
I bought this game recently, didn't know how difficult it was. I rage quit within the first 10 hours and now binging youtube guides. so painfully hard :(
You'll get there! :)
I usually use crusader, man at arms, bounty hunter and vestal and it works good for me
A beginner team video that show all levelled party members. But what do you do when you START and are not levelled and don't have any trinkets?
You can use these hero combinations from the start of the game. The trinket choices are to show what stats are good and what to look for as you progress
Doesn't last team's vestal only have half the moves chosen in the position shown?
I've already got 30 hours since the steam sales and I've experienced tremendous loss in just a few days :'(
Just started this game a couple days ago and I fell in love with Flagellant-1, Occultist-2, Jester-3 and Plage doc-4 can’t really remember the name of the skills tho sorry.
Edit: screw it I’ll try
Flagellant had both his heals the bleed on hit and remove bleed from team mate
Occultist had stab, heal, mark and pull
Jester had stab, both bleeds and stress heal
Plage doc had grenade, heal, back line stun and front line blight.
lmao I got super lucky apparently. I'm just getting started and Blasphemous Vial was the one I recently got from a boss. Can't remember if it was Hag or Siren.
Good, bad and ugly goes hard tbh
I’m having trouble with front line occultist being too squishy, any tips?
I've never actually gotten a team to level 6 despite having 40 hours in DD, I keep restarting instead of pushing for the progression
You're allowed to enjoy the game however you want :)
@@ShuffleFM I keep wanting to but I always get sidetracked or move over to another game and restart when I come back after a few months. Its the struggle with big time sink games. I'm excited for DD2 though it looks at least on the surface to be a bit less daunting to progress into.
I always restart because either Dismas or reynauld die on me I’m trying to go for achievement
These are still viable without those trinkets right? I’m like very early game (week 9)
Should I stick to one team right from the beginning and fill my barracks around it? Or should I develop multiple teams for different dungeons, bosses, etc?
Definitely make multiple teams if you can
Best team comp:
Back: nobody
2nd to back: nobody
2nd to front: nobody
Front: leper gigachad
so scared to get this game everybody says it's not forgiving ☠️
Just wanted to make a note to you, I was listening along quite well then at like 5:15 thhe music picked up quite a bit and I was struggling to pay attention. You may want to keep that in mind and reduce the volume of background music so it doesn't command the attention of your listener and compete with you. Thank you for your helpful information. I'm not quite a beginner but I'm looking stuff up to fill in the blanks of what I may not have gotten intuitively while playing before and I'm already seeing some good points.
The fact that they created a whole d4mn turned based rpg without any magical class FOCKING SUCKS!
And I know, it's a low fantasy/Eldrich/Lovecraftian type of setting. But if you have healers, occultism, and witch doctors, you should also be able to have wizzards, mages and warlocks(WoW style) in this game.
Y'all might not agree with me, but to people who play magical classes in RPGs, this game dropped the ball *H A R D* !!!
I want to ask serious question. About riposte. I'm not totally sure but looks like highwayman doesn't get morale damage from tempting goblet IF HE KILLS skeleton with riposte. Please tell me if it's totally true because it's like awesome.
It's true! A riposte kill stops all negative effects that aren't direct damage and crit hit stress.
How do you see the team names like 'red hook' ? I don't see names pop up when shuffling characters around like you see at time 1:00 mins.
Nevermind I got it. It is only some teams that have unique names
What I learned from this is that I need to buy DLC to get the best trinkets.
Nah, some of the best trinkets are vanilla. Focus ring, class trinkets, feather crystal, lots of stuff.
@@ShuffleFM Yeah I've got some of those fortunately, but a lot of what you featured seemed to include DLC trinkets. But thank you for the video! I learned from it.
Kind of crazy seeing videos on this game after so many years of owning it, is this prehype for the darkest 2?
A lot of people are getting into it before the sequel, it's great
so i know this came out around a year ago, but would u mind making a QoL mod review for this game? trying to install some stuff but theres a lot of unique classes, bosses, etc. to sift thru. i just want some basic vanilla-friendly stuff
Here you are :) th-cam.com/video/eI5JBK8ohxY/w-d-xo.html
@@ShuffleFM ah i see! thank you good sir
ı recently bought the game and spend 4 hours for just nothıng but now ı will use those tips ın my next try.
whats the soundtrack name thats playing for your video?
What about Quad Leper?
Hello, for the grave robber and other, i don't have the dlc crimson court , what can I replace the item with? and very good video, i'm new in the game!
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