SLOWLY... GENTLY... THIS IS HOW A LIFE IS TAKEN
the game got a lot easier once i realised that i should be treating my adventurers like x-com recruits
NEW CLASS WHEN
>>323227532
Merchant when the game drops
Why is this game so stressful.
>tfw crit 16 resist
what the fuck is the deal with the Cove? Are you not supposed to take actual level ~1's in there even on level 1 missions? It seems so hard
>love training new recruits
>fucking hate playing the highest level stuff
Why does my brain do this
Favorite narrator line?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki3I92PkN1g&index=13&list=PLy1RoYlej6xWqRRci7K_OuQWa-7UgG0uo
>>323228576
>no one ever scouts
>step in trap
MIND THAT SUCH MISSTEPS ARE THE EXCEPTION AND NOT THE RULE
fuck you Wayne June
>>323228190
Last I checked, everything in there just did insanely high damage. You've got the little trash mermen stabbing your guys for 15-16 damage at level 1. Have fun on medium missions, there are giant crabs that spam inflict bleed that ticks for 18 damage a turn, and the crabs themselves have like 80% defense
Honestly though it's the same shit as everywhere else, just stack your party with stuns and crap and enjoy monsters getting one turn every 5 rounds.
>>323228204
>I'm very drunk
>wandering through the cove
>bring no torches
>decide to break in new recruits lead by my head highwayman
>crit after crit i slay the enemy
>"atriflingvictorybutavictorynontheless.jpg"
>100% of room battles
>one room left and every one had decent health
>polish off my bottle of wine and wander the final halls
>the collector appears
>two collected vestles and a collected highwayman
>jaw drops as the highway man slays my vestle in the back and the collector drives the others to madness
>press the assault for two more turns dodging deaths door twice
>finally decide to run
>stress of running gives my head highwayman a heart attack
The loot was great but holy fuck i got diddled hard
>>323228204
Highest level stuff is where the rng is actually ridiculous, because crits hit you for more health than your characters can possibly have unless you've got 50%+ protection. That's when the game really gets stressful, difficulties in early levels are just because people don't understand the game fully yet so some stuff seems like bullshit. Endgame, everything IS bullshit and a character dying is the loss of at least 5-6 hours of investment.
Curious is the trapmaker's art
>>323228910
yeah, it seems like they ran out of "it's strong in this way but vulnerable to this" gimmicks so they just made them rape you in the ass in every way all the time
>>323229329
HIS EFFICACY UNWITNESSED BY HIS OWN EYES
>>323229375
They are less resistant to debuff, move and stun.
any good mods for this game like classes, extensions or overhauls?
Been playing for a while now and looking to spice things up
THERE CAN BE NO HOPE IN THIS HELL
>>323227270
>on my way to necro to slap his shit
>take two pala frontrow because FOR THE CAUSE
>shamblers realic appers
>why the fuck not i was ginna fight a boss anyway
>it fucking one shot my PD
>i didn't even know it could do that
>my best palas die
>wasted 4K on supply items
Remember kids, shamblers don't do drugs
>>323228576
DAZED, REELING, ABOUT TO BREAK
>>323229278
I wouldn't care that much if the leveling system wasn't frustrating as shit, with faggots simply REFUSING to go on a mission if they're too high level. You had a guy miss a mission because his eyeballs were melting out of his head? Too bad, now you have to risk sending him in with a group of chucklefucks because his buddies won't slum with him because they have a whopping 1 mission more experience over him.
Of course there are a dozen ways to handle this, like giving overleveled heroes 0 xp for the mission, or penalizing the xp for the whole party, or them demanding a higher payment for carrying the party, or, if you're gonna go "muh difficulty", scaling them, their equipment and their skills down to the level of the content they're in, or even all of that combined, but fuck that let's go more damage more stress. Higher numbers = more difficult, right? Playing the harder missions is the equivalent of setting the difficulty setting to "super duper hard" in a bethesda game.
>>323230103
>>why the fuck not i was ginna fight a boss anyway
REMIND YOURSELF THAT OVERCONFIDENCE IS A SLOW AND INSIDIOUS KILLER
AHH MADNESS, OUR OLD FRIEND
>>323230546
Siren is fucking bullshit
>tried a new party set up
>Jester Grave robber Occultist Bounty hunter
>Jester and GR can move around like it's nothing, specially the Jester
>Occultist's utility is too good compared to Vestals
>BH can hit from anywhere as long as you don't put him on the 1st position
>Everyone has dodge and crit trinkets
>GR lunges/Daggers, Jester debuffs enemy pulls himself forward, Occultist marks a big enemy/pulls someone from the back, BH deals extra damage to marked enemies/pulls one from the back
>GR shadowsteps back, Jester deals a Finale, Occultist heals/marks/debuffs, BH deals extra damage to stunned enemy
>Rinse and repeat
The only issue I have with this setup is that it's a big damage dealer for single enemies, so there's no AOE, I've been thinking of doing some small changes to alleviate this, but overall it's really good, especially against bosses.
>you'll never create unbeatable bonds with your brothers and Sisters-in-arms
>you'll never slowly lose your mind as you face unspeakable, unknowable horrors
>you'll never not break in the face of such creatures
HUDDLED TOGETHER
>>323228576
>yfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydIR7qH4Tg&index=34&list=PLy1RoYlej6xWqRRci7K_OuQWa-7UgG0uo
>>323230546
>I KNEW IT
I just can't
>>323230856
>>Occultist's utility is too good compared to Vestals
I seriously can't understand using Vestal over Occultist unless you only have one Occultist. Sure RNG *can* get you, but in the likely event that it doesn't he's just straight up better. The only situation I can see Vestal being better than Occultist in is if you have multiple people getting put on Death's Door every round, in which case you're probably fucked anyway
>>323230893
FURTIVE AND VULNERABLE
>>323231456
RATS IN A MAZE
I wish the hamlet had more depth to it.
Perhaps allowing you to build special buildings to specialize in certain stuff at the expense of others, or allow more flavor/themes to your run.
Perhaps a building that lets you get higher tier religious classes or buffs/improvements for religious classes, at the expense of other stuff like no more aboms and occultists.
Some more thought into the upgrades instead of linear progression.
>>323230736
>first time fighting her
>'oh i bet she can like stun and pull someone every turn or something'
>buff hellion to +60% DMG with hellion/MaA/ebin 0 heal bleed man campfire skills before the fight
>mfw she converts the hellion
DAZED
REELING
>>323231789
CASES ASIDE LIKE A SPENT TORCH
>>323230893
>that bow skeleton
you SMART
>>323231450
Of course, and If anything starts going wrong, just use bandages, it's a small price to pay for high single target heals. Sometimes I have to bring a Vestal instead, and as long as she has a +heal trinket, you can heal most of things with a party heal, but you lose most utility and the synergy with the BH.
>>323231450
Vestal has a +33% heal relic, putting him over occ as a pure healbot. She also stuns, has great campfire skills for crusader railgun parties, has aoe heal to counter spread damage and is more reliable in those do-or-die situations
Eg. Two of your guys get put to deaths door by the Prophet's nuke, you can save both instead of (probably) one
That said no reason not to take both, esp with a guy that can take advantage of mark (if you dont mind losing PD slot)
>>323230045
fuck that guy
It's a 1 turn kill on my level one guys if my comp allows it
3-4 damage, 19 stress, and dodge?
FUCK
>>323227153
>be me
>fight Brigand 8
>cannon gets off lucky shot
>arbelest down
>keep slamming the back line with Occultist tentacles left and right
>game refuses to move onto the next characters turn
>game literally throws a temper tantrum when it thought it beat you but you're about to win
Seriously I tried exiting out, coming back in, and the only way I win is if I use my occultists back tentacles to kill the back line every time but the game won't go on if I do that.
>>323232670
>be me
Who else are you going to be?
>>323231450
Vestal is a different kind of offensive. She can remove -15 dodge and do a light nuke, she can stun someone and torch up etc
>>323233062
Does anyone use her mace bash?
>>323233263
A very terrible skill, because she's a terrible 1/2. Her other skill she can use in 1-2 is also bad
>>323232826
>be you
>nitpick peoples dumb posts
>>323233498
Im glad my last one died then. Time to pile on the Occultists
>>323233612
But there's nothing impossible about that cube.
>>323233662
>occultists were a meme until a couple days ago
I mean vestals do have a use, if you dont have anyone in your line up to use the occultists marked target it might be better to bring a vestal for example.
>bounty hunter goes on a stressful mission in the weald
>comes out a ruins-phobe
How the fuck does this even happen
>>323227153
oh man, sure can't wait for all those darkest dungeon memes to show up
>level 2 hag
>INTO THE POT IT GOES
>has 42 hp left
>no way im gonna make it before she kills me BG and Occult
>48 cirt form my Abom
LITERALLY BEST CLASS
>>323233834
look closely
>>323236445
Yeah, Don't see it.
What's a good frontline that isn't bounty hunter or crusader? All I use are those. I look at man at arms and I can't decide what would be a good skill set up, and I don't know how to play with a LepMISSer
>>323233062
Occultist can remove 20 dodge and mark also.
>>323236706
A highwayman with point blank shot
>>323236706
Hellion, maa.
>>323236706
Grab a Hellion, Crusader is the most reliable, BH isn't really frontline per se, Leper sucks.
>>323230546
here have a bigger resolution webm, if I knew that webm was going to get reposted I would have made it less eye straining
>>323236706
I like leper. Stack accuracy. I usually keep a couple of campfire skills in the party to buff his acc even more; it turns him into a murdermachine for those long missions.
They're frustrating starting out, which I think gives players a much worse impression of the class than it deserves, but once you've got some acc trinkets and upgraded skills they just start wading through shit.
>>323237398
what is even going on in this game
>>323237412
>>323237210
Leper is fine, He can chew through the enemies 1/2 like paper, can stress heal, can heal if needed and destroy corpses This setup is only weak to size 2 monster though
>>323237613
paranoia
>>323237412
>>323237656
Here we go with the leper fanboys, I thought we told you already why he's shit compared to the frontline classes.
iron swan is a fucking godsend
>>323238000
>buff Hellion with damage and crits
>Iron swan my way through bosses
Only thing that can compete is 4 hound masters
>>323237613
>here guys, time to eat
>I DON'T TRUST YOUR FOOD
>-5
>I FUCKING KNEW IT
>dies of heart attack
>everyone gets stressed out
>>323239004
lmao
What's a good setup with Bounty Hunter?
Nice meme
>>323241108
Occultist for marks, Arbalest to also capitalize on marks, other rank 1/2'er of your choice
>>323241386
Take a houndmaster for marks instead
that prot debuff is god-tier
>>323241108
>>323241386
>>323241678
Occultist and Hound master have the best marks, just let the BH take advantage of marks and stuns, his pull is pretty good as well.
You can get away with 2 Hound masters and an Occultist, but I'd go for a tanky class, a Hellion would fit nicely or a MAA for stun and buffs.
When I mark an enemy and then use a skill that exploit marks like Collect Bounty, will the mark go away?
>>323243269
nope, marks have a set turn duration
>>323242062
>his pull
I like his flashbang more, since it shuffles so it functions as a pull and it stuns
>>323243890
What exactly does Shuffle do? Just put an enemy on a random position?
>>323244414
More or less. The nice thing about it is that if you hit an enemy in the back, they have nowhere to go but forward. It acts like a 2 space pull that also stuns them; it's fantastic for dealing with the shitty caster types that like to hang back.
>>323241108
Occultist/Arbalest/Bounty hunter/Hondmaster
Have houndmaster have his mark, his stun, and maybe his single target nuke. If not his nuke, take 2 of your choice skills. He doesn't really need his self heal because occultist, nor does he need the stress heal really.. So prot buff and single target nuke or multi target bleed are good choices
>>323244582
>>323243890
True, it's good for when the enemy is in the 4th position, but what if they are in the third, they could get moved back if there's a corpse, meaning that you need to plan for that corpse. And even then it could just move him to the 3rd position, If there's nothing in the 4th then using it in the 3th is a nice move. But, come hither deals damage first of all, that's usually enough to let another hero finish it off, plus the pull it's always a 2 move forward, there's no randomness in that, and its accuracy is higher. Then there's uppercut, which stuns, deals damage and has the same accuracy than the flashbang, which is worse than the pull, but it does without random factor, move the enemy 2 backwards, which is not hard to hit since the front enemies don't have the dodge the back file enemies do.
Taking all of that into account
Come hither>Uppercut>Flashbang
Also, come hither works better with parties that move through positions since it has the bigger range.
Anyone find a way to abuse the jesters stress heal yet
>>323247712
You mean control the battle with stuns and DoTs while healing stress with Jester, Houndmaster, or Crusader? Abom and Leper for self stress.
>>323247712
>tfw your enemy dodges your finale
thats the worst
>>323237656
It's not that the Leper is horrible and absolutely useless it's just that he's worse than anyone else you could put there
>>323241386
>>323244964
>Arbalest
When will this meme end?
>>323244964
Fuck Arbalest get two Bounty Hunters.
>>323248778
Scales well with Occ
>>323248449
Once you acc cap him, he trucks enemies
>1st time using Jester
>solo skill seems pretty good
>motherfucker power slides straight to the front lines
Easily my 3rd favorite class.
>>323249474
>Occultist
When will this meme end?
>Leper gets shit for having leprosy
>Abomination gets shit for being a monster
>Leper, despite understanding the Abomination's hardships, refuses to work with him
>Absolution skill implies that the Abomination is, to a certain degree, religious
Why is this allowed?
>>323250752
My Abomination has the God Fearing quirk and they still wont hang out with him
>>323250752
Leper is religious, but Abomination is still a beast in the eyes of the god lovers.
Every thread until you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1aWnpcboco
>>323227532
Would play the shit out of an exorcist.
>>323227532
Guy reminds me of Dudley from SF
>>323250752
some cunt that designed the abom threw that retarded shit in there from the kickstarter
>>323251341
It would've been so much better if you could team them up but they take much more stress damage from transformation and refuse to use party skills on him.
>>323251053
BITCH FRENZY
>>323231450
Vestal works better for dealing with lots of spread out damage. She also makes a better healer if you equip bonus healing items, such as her class rare and very rare item, which pushes her heals to be higher than the Occultist on average.
I like the Occultist for his mark and damage debuff, but I find the Vestal's stun to be more effective overall. The Occultist pairs very well with Bounty Hunters, Houndmasters, and Arbalasts, but the risk of suffering too many low heals in a row is too dangerous for my tastes.
