Melee damage soloist is my new favorite path in the game. I call him "just hit stuff" jester. I press solo turn 1 then spam fade and wit+ with a sprinkling of harvest when needed. Simple and effective.
Just a note at the end: Mezzo bleeding on allies is not affected by A Favorite Toy and I don't think it'll be affected by Severed Finger's Duration Received debuff.
Hey Shuff good video but this character looks far too complicated. It'd be better to just let the new players figure it out for themselves and instead get to work on that 10 hour Hellion muscle review
I started having a much better time with Jester once I realized that stress heal could be left out, a third utility or a second attack gives him so many more options.
Lost a pd on deaths door to a bleed last night. Had finished 3 confessions with her. I turned the game off... dismes can hit deaths door 40 times with 3 dots and poor pd dies first roll. Rough
It happens. One of the main reasons why dots on deaths door are so dangerous. If someone is low health and has a dot heal them if you can. Sometimes it’s just not worth the risk of letting stay low on health.
@@Samhain23 i thought for sure he would survive his first dB roll. That pd killed death twice the shambler librarian and the general. Only to fall on the general in the first zone. My mistake bringing her back there too soon. Iv lost characters on trying to get my trophy too soon before.
@ElevenDollarCheese junia is great on a fire team. Fire fighters i think it's called. Give it a shot. Iv hit in the upper 50s with backsdraft. Then again with pd cause of death. It's so awesome. That'll teach those bosses to bring adds. Have any team builds you enjoy the most? Iv been asking around for fun compositions. Another is bannerret crusader nightsworn grave robber antagonist duelist and rogue highwaymen. Everyone lunges first turn and you grab the crocodile pet which nets you 3% increase in damage on every move. Longer fights you can easily get up to 50% bonus damage in addition to trinkets. Duelist dodge tanks. Dance like you mean it. The crits and crusader will keep stress down. Plus most battles you can kill 3rd enemy in first turn. It's my favorite. Doesn't have a cool name though. I'd pick "fancy footwork" if I could.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read the Dodge component of Busker's Haul differently. My understanding is that it gives Dodge to any hero he targets, not (necessarily) himself. This makes it more powerful on Virtuoso since he's using lots of support songs and the new Encore targets all of his allies (you have about a 50% chance of getting at least one additional Dodge token across a full team per use). So even though each normal song (Inspiring Tune, Battle Ballad, and Play Out) only gives an ally a 10% chance to dodge an attack, if that's all he's doing and he's hitting Encore, there can be some respectable (albeit very unreliable) value. Also it lets all non-Wanderer Battle Ballads push an ally forward 2 instead of just 1. Does that make it worth a trinket slot? Probably not late-game, but it's better than nothing.
My favorite way to run jester right now after playing for just a couple weeks is PD and jester dancing back and forth in the back, and Highway and Leper dancing in the front.
Working on the Grand Slam achievement with a wonky team of Alchemist PD, New Soloist Jester, Deadeye GR, and Maniac Flagellant. 4/5 Done just need act 2, wish me luck! Going to be hard to hit the lungs, not get bodied, and have my dreams shattered yet again! Edit: We did it. EZ
I tried hat today actually, ran Internezzo, Banneret, Rogue and Bulwark. Use play out on turn 1 on MAA, also got the Seamen's boots from the shroud and just spam hold the line, works well with hatchling crocodilian
New strategy. Run the blood producer pet. Give blood to intermezzo jester. Set up double DMG finale. Get vuln on target prior. Slam the blood. Finale for 100+ DMG. Win game.
I questioned why intermezzo’s finale has the double damage and not the soloist… but then I imagined that 2 finales in a row with them doing double damage is too busted lmao
So I just discovered this game and while im struggling liking the stagecoach idea I do really enjoy the first game- question any chance for new content on the older game? Right now i have a roster of low lvl characters and it seems on the map screen there’s no way to rerun earlier stages of the ruins as an example?
I love this game and im new to it aswell but i struggle in act 2 ( the one after the first boss) and I have almost all candles for my most of the roster does anyone have any tips or wanna hop in a party chat and give me advice ?
hi i finished this game- despair only a few times once recently once last year. was getting back into it, but already feeling burn out. a few times i took risks or made a simple mistake and it resulted in a party wipe. its pretty crushing as i feel this game needs you to plan methodically if you try to rush back in you probably regret it. as a result... questioning if i want to bother maybe no... like its pretty demanding no joke. sigh
The jester rework really made all the glue eaters come out of the wood work huh? I know people will complain about virtually anything but crying that you don’t have your broken path is so pathetic lmao
@@jackplisken4738 you’re literally crying that one of the worst designs was made fun and dynamic, you do better instead of being a doomed about your game getting improved lol
Yea man, Jester is just so team dependant, you need specific teams to spam razor's wit and fade to black. "You need to consider who he is buffing" a: every team has a danage dealer more or less (Hellion, Lepar, highwayman) unless you are doing dot, b: the jester can just spam combo even if you dont have a valid target for ballad or play out. I get you dislike the jester since the first game but Jesus dude, youre reaching so hard you might snap
I've said multiple times I like jester in this game. The rest of this comment reads like you made it 3 minutes into hate watching this video and decided to tell everyone you love spamming wit and fade 😜
@@ShuffleFM i mean, if you complain about a character being hard to use you should expect a response that's just "then use this simpler use". Youre still reaching quite far so not sure what the "😜" is about
I didn't realize calmly explaining a character (again you didn't actually watch the vid, I can tell) means I'm complaining. The only thing reaching is you, trying to make me something I'm not. Might be time to log off for a bit friend because every time your name appears in my comments you're mad lmao
@@ShuffleFM look at you doing what you are accusing me off: I assure you I am quite calm, Im just stating that I think the way you expressed somethings was off but I guess you know better, reading text is a famously reliable way to gauge someone's feelings. And dont go "why are you passive aggressive then" that should be the expected response to "well by reading this text I can perfectly gauge how you feel"
Leper chop is another skill that gives blind without cooldown :)
Melee damage soloist is my new favorite path in the game. I call him "just hit stuff" jester. I press solo turn 1 then spam fade and wit+ with a sprinkling of harvest when needed. Simple and effective.
What are some good teammates with Soloist?
Just a note at the end: Mezzo bleeding on allies is not affected by A Favorite Toy and I don't think it'll be affected by Severed Finger's Duration Received debuff.
Oh yeah, forgot about that
@21:03 Leper taking the spotlight in Jester’s guide 😂.
Hey Shuff good video but this character looks far too complicated. It'd be better to just let the new players figure it out for themselves and instead get to work on that 10 hour Hellion muscle review
He liked the comment 😳 10 hour Hellion muscle review confirmed?🤔
@xxrapidfirexx08 this guy makes Hellion jokes every DD2 video. Inside joke. 😂
I started having a much better time with Jester once I realized that stress heal could be left out, a third utility or a second attack gives him so many more options.
I ran virtuoso Jester until the rework, then I swapped in Banneret Crusader because I could NOT figure out how to play Jester anymore.
Thanks for this
me too,i was running virtuoso with finale,now ive switched him to occultist warlock,and fck stress.
Lost a pd on deaths door to a bleed last night. Had finished 3 confessions with her. I turned the game off... dismes can hit deaths door 40 times with 3 dots and poor pd dies first roll. Rough
It happens. One of the main reasons why dots on deaths door are so dangerous. If someone is low health and has a dot heal them if you can. Sometimes it’s just not worth the risk of letting stay low on health.
i really feel you on this one
@@Samhain23 i thought for sure he would survive his first dB roll. That pd killed death twice the shambler librarian and the general. Only to fall on the general in the first zone. My mistake bringing her back there too soon. Iv lost characters on trying to get my trophy too soon before.
I couldn't imagine. I lost Junia to the blight I forgot about the goddamn Denial locks throwing out and freaked. I'll never get past Resentment.
@ElevenDollarCheese junia is great on a fire team. Fire fighters i think it's called. Give it a shot. Iv hit in the upper 50s with backsdraft. Then again with pd cause of death. It's so awesome. That'll teach those bosses to bring adds. Have any team builds you enjoy the most? Iv been asking around for fun compositions. Another is bannerret crusader nightsworn grave robber antagonist duelist and rogue highwaymen. Everyone lunges first turn and you grab the crocodile pet which nets you 3% increase in damage on every move. Longer fights you can easily get up to 50% bonus damage in addition to trinkets. Duelist dodge tanks. Dance like you mean it. The crits and crusader will keep stress down. Plus most battles you can kill 3rd enemy in first turn. It's my favorite. Doesn't have a cool name though. I'd pick "fancy footwork" if I could.
Battle Ballad
Battle Ballad
Battle Ballad
Wait wrong game
What if his name was Sylvester the Jester
My Jester is always named Chester.
I always name him that
Rip Bennington @@ehoffart529
What if instead of Jester, he was called Freakster. And instead of playing tunes on his lute, he would play with other people’s “lutes”.
@kvngcrouton364 careful with Freakster. He might get caught up in the Diddy allegations.
I'm super loving these new DD2 guides (Randomly hoping there's one for Bounty Hunter)
The update is now on console. Time for console players to revisit this and the man at arms guides.
Correction he does not have a reworked guide for man at arms yet. Maybe that can be the next video.
Love this kind of content, I am new player and going in depth really helps understand the game. Thank you Shuffle!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read the Dodge component of Busker's Haul differently. My understanding is that it gives Dodge to any hero he targets, not (necessarily) himself. This makes it more powerful on Virtuoso since he's using lots of support songs and the new Encore targets all of his allies (you have about a 50% chance of getting at least one additional Dodge token across a full team per use). So even though each normal song (Inspiring Tune, Battle Ballad, and Play Out) only gives an ally a 10% chance to dodge an attack, if that's all he's doing and he's hitting Encore, there can be some respectable (albeit very unreliable) value.
Also it lets all non-Wanderer Battle Ballads push an ally forward 2 instead of just 1. Does that make it worth a trinket slot? Probably not late-game, but it's better than nothing.
I think you're right. I hate tooltips lol
@@ShuffleFM I tested it on an Intermezzo grand slam (Intermezzo - Surgeon - Yellowhand - Ravager) and it does in fact give dodge to his target.
My favorite way to run jester right now after playing for just a couple weeks is PD and jester dancing back and forth in the back, and Highway and Leper dancing in the front.
Greeting my good fellow, I must admit that the quality of this video is quite astonishing!
Jester has always been one of my favorite characters but Soloist Jester might be my actual number 1 now. The path is so strong
What are some good teammates with Soloist?
I've been trying to get a Crusader Grand Slam for a while now and haven't been getting very far, so would love to see one of these for Crusader.
Working on the Grand Slam achievement with a wonky team of Alchemist PD, New Soloist Jester, Deadeye GR, and Maniac Flagellant. 4/5 Done just need act 2, wish me luck!
Going to be hard to hit the lungs, not get bodied, and have my dreams shattered yet again!
Edit: We did it. EZ
‘Gratz!
13:38 I wonder how fun it would be to set up virtuoso play out with bulwark MAA
If you stand fast but get hit you could still probably try for the hold the line stun
I tried hat today actually, ran Internezzo, Banneret, Rogue and Bulwark. Use play out on turn 1 on MAA, also got the Seamen's boots from the shroud and just spam hold the line, works well with hatchling crocodilian
New strategy. Run the blood producer pet. Give blood to intermezzo jester. Set up double DMG finale. Get vuln on target prior. Slam the blood. Finale for 100+ DMG. Win game.
i fw you shuffle you keep it real
I think it's worth mentioning how useful play out (mastered) is vs exemplar.
Hey. Is there any interplay between Intermezzo Jester and ravager hellion: specifically to make her bleed to otrigger her bonus dmg with bloodlust?
Good Job!
This video came out at the same time balatro mobile came out, what a great day this is
I questioned why intermezzo’s finale has the double damage and not the soloist… but then I imagined that 2 finales in a row with them doing double damage is too busted lmao
Mcstab makes his grand returned
So I just discovered this game and while im struggling liking the stagecoach idea I do really enjoy the first game- question any chance for new content on the older game? Right now i have a roster of low lvl characters and it seems on the map screen there’s no way to rerun earlier stages of the ruins as an example?
I highly doubt anything new will come to dd1 besides mods
The fool by fleshgod apocalypse starts playing
I liked old jester better Icl. Spamming that deadly finale back in those days felt great.
I love this game and im new to it aswell but i struggle in act 2 ( the one after the first boss) and I have almost all candles for my most of the roster does anyone have any tips or wanna hop in a party chat and give me advice ?
Virtuoso seems like the worst now? With strong relationships and late game trinkets it's really easy to have lots of positive tokens at all times.
Good relationships are pretty easy to get on normal torch but a crapshoot on a ton of Infernal flames
Did I miss something? What update?
Console hasn't gotten this yet :)
As of yesterday console now has the update.
Did they rework EVERYBODY? I played DD2 when it first came out on PC but not for long what the hell happened
almost yeah. they will have reworked everyone probably after the next rework patch drops.
Everyone’s paths are ether have been reworked or will be, largely for the better
hi i finished this game- despair only a few times once recently once last year. was getting back into it, but already feeling burn out. a few times i took risks or made a simple mistake and it resulted in a party wipe. its pretty crushing as i feel this game needs you to plan methodically if you try to rush back in you probably regret it. as a result... questioning if i want to bother maybe no... like its pretty demanding no joke. sigh
why he ourple
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Then you won’t be able to get kingdoms when it comes out nor any of the other eventual reworks.
You'll miss out on Kingdoms and the second DLC then.
The jester rework really made all the glue eaters come out of the wood work huh?
I know people will complain about virtually anything but crying that you don’t have your broken path is so pathetic lmao
@@doctordice2doctordice210 Toxic , do better
@@jackplisken4738 you’re literally crying that one of the worst designs was made fun and dynamic, you do better instead of being a doomed about your game getting improved lol
Yea man, Jester is just so team dependant, you need specific teams to spam razor's wit and fade to black.
"You need to consider who he is buffing" a: every team has a danage dealer more or less (Hellion, Lepar, highwayman) unless you are doing dot, b: the jester can just spam combo even if you dont have a valid target for ballad or play out.
I get you dislike the jester since the first game but Jesus dude, youre reaching so hard you might snap
I've said multiple times I like jester in this game. The rest of this comment reads like you made it 3 minutes into hate watching this video and decided to tell everyone you love spamming wit and fade 😜
@@ShuffleFM i mean, if you complain about a character being hard to use you should expect a response that's just "then use this simpler use".
Youre still reaching quite far so not sure what the "😜" is about
I didn't realize calmly explaining a character (again you didn't actually watch the vid, I can tell) means I'm complaining. The only thing reaching is you, trying to make me something I'm not. Might be time to log off for a bit friend because every time your name appears in my comments you're mad lmao
@@ShuffleFM look at you doing what you are accusing me off: I assure you I am quite calm, Im just stating that I think the way you expressed somethings was off but I guess you know better, reading text is a famously reliable way to gauge someone's feelings.
And dont go "why are you passive aggressive then" that should be the expected response to "well by reading this text I can perfectly gauge how you feel"
@@memoryofsalem4474 did you watch the video though