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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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
I wanna see if I can figure it out on my own first
EsperBot
Sure, just...that's a really good resource that's there if you get genuinely stuck.
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
then anchorman has 50% prot until it hooks someone, so trying to focus it down before it starts healing the boss is useless
Neo Quinn
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
Overbringer
I need the biggest possible strategy guns how is this boss even in the same universe as possible to beat
Neo Quinn
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
Neo Quinn
I am aware that I got tilted, I've stopped playing for now
Overbringer
I dunno man
Neo Quinn
but what the fuck was that
Overbringer
Plague doctor is god tier in the Cove
Overbringer
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
Overbringer
The AI can’t deal with it
Neo Quinn
I'm not aware offhand of any ways to lower move resist
Overbringer
But I’ve never done it
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also it has 245% move resist
Neo Quinn
so that seems iffy
Overbringer
Yeah it requires shenanigans
Neo Quinn
OK reading more into things
Overbringer
Hmm what else
Neo Quinn
Anchorman heals to full when it hooks someone
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so ignore it until it grabs someone
Overbringer
Oh that important yeah
Neo Quinn
and it takes no turns while it has someone pinned
Neo Quinn
so it's immune to bleed/blight
Overbringer
The anchorman is functionally invincible u til he grabs someone
Overbringer
And the boss gets big defense buffs while someone is grabbed
Overbringer
So ignore the anchorman until he acts and THEN fall on him like a ton of bricks
Neo Quinn
so plague doctor would mainly be there to just spam Noxious Blast on the boss over and over
Overbringer
Yeah
Neo Quinn
Crusader over Leper because he has innate unholy
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unholy damage buff*
Neo Quinn
then I guess keep the highwayman and vestal
Overbringer
I’ve had good luck with the abomin
Overbringer
Ation
Neo Quinn
I've had pretty bad luck with the abomination, in general, but I may have just been using it in the wrong dungeons
Neo Quinn
like I had one, got him to level 6, he died, got a lucky event to revive him, then he died again almost instantly
Neo Quinn
so now my only abom in level 1
Overbringer
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
Overbringer
That is a problem
Overbringer
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
Neo Quinn
bringing a Houndmaster to fight The Flesh
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I have
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CLEARED the Warrens
Overbringer
One of the dlc classes has an attack that hits all enemies for blight damage
Overbringer
If you bring that AND the hound master?
Neo Quinn
fucking what flesh
Neo Quinn
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