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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
Villain
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
Villain
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
Villain
The AI can’t deal with it
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I'm not aware offhand of any ways to lower move resist
Villain
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
Villain
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
Villain
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
Villain
I’ve had good luck with the abomin
Villain
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
Villain
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
Villain
One of the dlc classes has an attack that hits all enemies for blight damage
Villain
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