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[DD] The Drowned Crew seems kind of... I dunno, unkillable?
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It summons a guy with massive dodge or proc every turn who immediately gives my front guy a status that makes the boss heal 32 health per round
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how the fuck do I fight that
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it's just sitting comfortably at max health at the end of every turn
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it takes me like three turns to kill one anchorman and it takes it half a turn to summon it back and as long as it's up not only is the boss unkillable but all previous damage to it is IMMEDIATELY undone
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and then my vestal hit deaths bloor and got bleed at the same time and died instantly
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fuck this fucking impossible fight
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oh and if I run away then my man at arms will die because he's immobilized
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am I about to lose my entire best team
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okay made it out with only one death
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jesus CHRIST
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I have no idea how to fight that boss
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and I get home only to IMMEDIATELY face a Vvulf attack
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Gillain has an untenable new negative condition, a new disease, AND 90 stress, so I guess I don't have an arbalest for the next week
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oh and I lost all my healing buff trinkets
Princess Emily
this game seems uhhh brutal
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IT IS
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holy christ
holy christ
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all four party members saw death's door
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but Vvulf is fucking dead
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OK what I need for the Drowned Crew is a melee-oriented party
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I couldn't kill the Anchormen because half my DPS was from Snipe
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lesse
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a Highwayman would be good, for Point Blank Shot
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hellion or leper for frontline
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houndmaster, perhaps? they can do frontline damage from back rows
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dunno what bleed resist looks like on the boss
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105%
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so not houndmaster
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but Blight resist is only 65%
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maybe a plague doctor? who else has good blight damage
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...actually the party I'm using RIGHT NOW could be good for it
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Leper, Highwayman, Grave Robber, Vestal
EsperBot
FYI, the darkest dungeon wiki page for each boss has a pretty good strategy section detailing good parties for fighting that boss
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I wanna see if I can figure it out on my own first
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Sure, just...that's a really good resource that's there if you get genuinely stuck.
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I'm running low on shit to spend gold on
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good heroes all maxed guild/blacksmith upgrades
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DROWNED CREW TAKE 2
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annnnd
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I am putting ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my MELEE SPEC TEAM
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into fighting the fucking anchormen
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and the boss is still permanently at 100% health
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this is impossible
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I killed it and got ONE ATTACK in before it got re-summoned
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I could empty the store of bandages and it wouldn't be enough because he's inflicting massive bleed every fucking turn
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why... is the anchorman suddenly healed back to full HP
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I did it 10 damage and it's back at full later in the same round
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this fight makes no fucking sense and I hate it
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"bring a powerful frontliner so that he can tank the anchors" every single turn he's dragged my vestal to the front of formation so that she can't heal
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and by the time I get her back we're all almost dead again
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apparently lepers can only self-heal in the front two positions for some nonsensical reason
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this is a nightmare
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and I'm in hell
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oh look the boss is recovering 30 HP per turn again
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highwayman is useless because when he gets locked in the front he can't attack the boss
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I can't keep my leper in the front two slots for half a turn so he's ALSO useless
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healer keeps getting dragged to the front so she's useless
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my entire team is useless
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and now my grave robber is locked in the one position where she can't blight the boss
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this is the worst thing in the entire game
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and then I got one bad turn and the boss healed all the damage I did
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I give up
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time to break free so I can flee in defeat again
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Wiki says the highwayman "breaks" this fight because he can do point blank shot while locked
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to do... 10 damage, out of the anchorman's 29 health
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meaning the boss will only gain about three trillion health before I can deal with the anchorman
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update: boss back at hull health
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escaped in defeat again
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I 100% don't understand how this fight is possible even reading the wiki
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all of its advice is basically what I was doing and I was 1000% outclassed with my max-upgraded max-level carefully-selected team
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then anchorman has 50% prot until it hooks someone, so trying to focus it down before it starts healing the boss is useless
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the boss has 50% prot after the anchorman hooks someone, so trying to ignore the anchorman and focus the boss is useless
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blazingfool
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I need the biggest possible strategy guns how is this boss even in the same universe as possible to beat
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I brought everything I could possibly think of against it and was effortlessly flattened, retreating barely alive with two people afflicted and the boss at full health
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I am aware that I got tilted, I've stopped playing for now
Villain
I dunno man
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but what the fuck was that
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Plague doctor is god tier in the Cove
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One gag strategy I’ve heard is that If you can get their move resist low enough that you can get the anchorman behind the boss
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The AI can’t deal with it
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I'm not aware offhand of any ways to lower move resist
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But I’ve never done it
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also it has 245% move resist
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so that seems iffy
Villain
Yeah it requires shenanigans
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OK reading more into things
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Hmm what else
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Anchorman heals to full when it hooks someone
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so ignore it until it grabs someone
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Oh that important yeah
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and it takes no turns while it has someone pinned
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so it's immune to bleed/blight
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The anchorman is functionally invincible u til he grabs someone
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And the boss gets big defense buffs while someone is grabbed
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So ignore the anchorman until he acts and THEN fall on him like a ton of bricks
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so plague doctor would mainly be there to just spam Noxious Blast on the boss over and over
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Yeah
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Crusader over Leper because he has innate unholy
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unholy damage buff*
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then I guess keep the highwayman and vestal
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I’ve had good luck with the abomin
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Ation
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I've had pretty bad luck with the abomination, in general, but I may have just been using it in the wrong dungeons
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like I had one, got him to level 6, he died, got a lucky event to revive him, then he died again almost instantly
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so now my only abom in level 1
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Maybe not then
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really my number one issue is that, since my main Vestal died and I had to flee, I lost all my healing relics
Villain
That is a problem
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Healing relics are kinda extremely important
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so, tasks for now
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level my plague doctor up a LOT
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upgrade the trinket merchant a lot
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find new healing trinkets
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regroup
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maybe fight a different boss in the meantime
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know what's a counter hard enoguh to be a joke though
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bringing a Houndmaster to fight The Flesh
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I have
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CLEARED the Warrens
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One of the dlc classes has an attack that hits all enemies for blight damage
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If you bring that AND the hound master?
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fucking what flesh
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my thought regarding the notion that the AI will sometimes pick a character and go out of their way to ruin their day is:
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- I'm not convinced it's true and not just confirmation bias
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- It is, however, to your benefit to behave as if it is
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FUCK
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bounty hunter dead
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Gibbering Prophet kill failed