The most fun things to do in CC: 1.die 2.get crimson curse 3.die again

Getting pagan talisman after the Fanatic fight is just the salt in the wound lol

Two things that were missing here that I should point out: - A transformed Manservant is definitely your highest priority. A full-team guard is his worst move, but after that he also gains a bleed skill with respectable damage (Choice Cut) and his new stress skill (Refined Palate, I think?) can stun. - A hero with Crimson Curse canNOT contract _any diseases whatsoever._ None at all. Nada.

A couple of things I didn't see you mentioning: 1. Your heroes will catch the crimson curse if they spend time in a facility with a hero who has the curse. I.e. if you have a hero who has the crimson curse, and another who doesn't have it e.g. in the sanitarium together, then the other is likely to catch the curse. I think this is important to note because you might get mighty screwed if half of your roster gets the curse like this, you might actually run out of blood or at least spend too much time doing the gathering missions and you increase your risk of meeting the fanatic 2. The Fanatic will only appear if you send two or more heroes with the curse on a mission at the same time, and if you meet him on a mission and run, the next fight will always be the fanatic, i.e. you can't run from him and must kill him or cancel the mission if you meet him once 3. You DON'T need to kill the Countess to beat Bloodmoon. If you kill the Heart of Darkness, then the Bloodmoon hero death and time limits will go away, even if you didn't complete the first Courtyard mission. This is why Bloodmoon is easier than Stygian, you get extra time and more allowed hero deaths essentially for free

me: * knows everything about CC* Shuffle: * uploads this * me, a CC enthusiast: Ah yes tell me more

Number 1 rule of fighting Fanatic : Don’t fight Fanatic

Ohhh,wasnt expecting one just about Crimson Court! Maybe the next one would be about farmstead? I at least would really like It,as the only thing i really do is to do jestal+Double Shieldbreaker lmao

Countess is no joke. Took my best SB to this fight with Fladaddy, MAA and Vestal. SB got popped in two or three turns (crit into DD into dying on frist turn from blight), leaving me without damaged, thankfully bleeds from Flag took her down. Never, at any point underestimate her, she's final boss of the DLC for a reason.

Everytime I fight a Crocidillian, he crits my healer to Death's Door and he/she dies to bleed the next turn. Every. Fucking. Time.

Pog, I just bought crimson court on the switch yesterday and literally said “I wish there was a shuffle video on this”

After playing through most of it, I can say this is the best addition out of all, maybe even topping Color of Madness. I know this has been said before by other players, but I, too, really like the never-before-seen interpretation of vampires. Bosses are especially cool and creepy.

Thank you for these darkest dungeon videos. At my job I can pretty much just wear headphones and do my thing so being able to listen to your videos all day makes work fly by. Thank you

If I remember correctly, I think I beat the countess by putting together a team that didn't care about move resist, and could always attack, heal, stun, or do something useful, no matter where they got pushed to. I still remember her being a beast to beat though.

That Apex crit never gets old :) Also, you can replace one the Heavy Boots with Crew Bell if you have it. There are also some class trinkets that have +35% move resist. Chipped Tooth for Flag for example.

Lost plague doctor to the 12 pounder yesterday. Still managed to beat it without any more losses, so at least it wasn't in vain. This is why we make sure our heroes' skills and equipment are properly upgraded before we take them on missions, kids.

Fun fact, this was the video that convinced me to reinstall DD after about a year. I've put around another 107 hours in it since. I love ur videos man please keep it up!

I was a fool and activated CC on my first playthrough. Let's just say I had to git gud.

New players: Buy the game with all DLC New players: Ah yes time to play the game for the first time The game: If you new don't enable cc New players: That sign won't stop me because I can't read

Just wanted to touch upon how Croc works, which is that after staying 1 entire turn in rank 2 or 3 it will use Submerge, then Apex. Disorienting Blast and Flashbang still reset the timer, even if they move Croc from 2 to 3 or vice versa. Since they have a Stun attached, imo they are the best way to deal with Croc.

Just lost houndmaster to Baron, I swear that guy has to be a pain in the ass everytime I fight him.

24:33 You can also save the first red key from the beginning of the quest to open red door #2 before fighting the baron. Probably safer this way, as you may not be in the position to backtrack a lot after the baron fight.

I remember being curious and going to the crimson court, not knowing what to expect. Was definitely not prepared.

Just got into the game because my friend were talking about the second one. So I been playing this and I love it. One of my favorites of all time and I appreciate this channel you provided. Lot of Help and Fun to watch. Thank you

I dont even play DD all that much, but I like hearing you talk about it so I subbed lol. Keep it up bro

Thank you! I have played almost exclusively without Crimson Court and it always felt really hard to get into.

Talk about a fucking timing xD I picked the game back up 2 days ago after a few years hiatus and the court is a bit of a pain (you kill one croc and suddenly there are mosquitos carrying Romanian malaria in all the dungeons). Was looking for the guide last night but there was nothing to be found, which was weird. Thanks for putting this together!

I just finished my first run of the game the other day and was watching this video while I was eating and...I did not know you could use items in battle. So, thanks for the enormous buff going into my bloodmoon run.

21:00 well no shit the baron should be the most fun, hes a entertainer he better be fun or i would have gotten a refund

Crimson court is a bleeder’s wet dream, ironic how the blood obsessiors are weakest to exsanguination. A main thing I had trouble getting over is crimson curse itself, getting annoyed whenever a valuable character was randomly afflicted with it just from drinking in the same bar as another. But then I went on a winery quest, and began to see it as more of a boon, status debuffs mean very little after all, and the buffs from feeding a craver far out weigh the negatives, especially with the plentiful supply you receive.

Bro I literally started my first CC game on Friday, and though you had a guide already but I couldn't find it. Perfect timing!

For guardian i usually take ARB, healer,hound/bh and SB. Puncture, mark and dumpster damage. Plus SB gives armor piercing to squad so that helps a lot.

My team for just running the Courtyard dungeons is Plague Doctor + Jester + Hound Master + Flagellant. Hasn't let me down yet.

~11:30 I run a similar team replacing Jester with the Houndmaster (Vest/HM/Flag/Hell) While you don't get as high stress resist or the Jester's fun button, but you do get more options against the crocodile with another source of healing, versatile attack range, a stun he can use if he gets pulled up

PD aint bad for stuns, but her Incision build really shines here as well! BV plus BH can make her a solid cleanup attacker towards the end

Thanks for the guide I was able to do all of the baron mission in one run

So I guess Crimson Court is widely considered to be Blighttown/Fume Knight of Darkest Dungeon

I've always used Vestal/Jester/Houndmaster/Flag for the Courtyard. Always loved it. For stress I use endure on the Flagellant to pile stress on him, then use the torches on those hallway things to relieve stress or just use Jester.

One of my favourite teams for Baron is CRU-HWM-HWM-CRU. Don't even bother healing, just riposte/lance and stun until it's dead. Last run I was able to continue and get the CC trinket after Baron too.

"one of the pictures my discord passes around" HAHAAAAAAA THAT WAS ME

Thank you for all your guides :)

“First off what is Crimson Court?” See you got that wrong the answer is a major fucking head ache lol jkjk keep up the good work. I always start CC after the base game

Countess strat worked perfectly. Many thanks!

Man, you aren't joking about not playing this on your first time! I'm inches away from restarting. I love Flagellant but I was NOT prepared for the curse.

A team that i liked to use, for the Vizcount and Countress Dungeons was Shield Breaker, Crusader, Grave Robber and Vestal I think this is a good team, because you can equip all damage trinkets on SB and Court Trinkets on GR for some juicy damage, The Crusader is a DMG/Stun/Stress Healer That helps to move GR back to rank 3, and Vestal just does Vestal Things And i didn't consider Jester because of bad luck, all my characters that have high dodge were the ones who get the most crits, and Jester is a fragile boi so… yeah

Huge Huge thank you for this and it made understanding it much easier to "wrap our heads around" Any chance you do a shorter one for the Farmstead DLC? Hope this gets the views and like's for all the work you put in. Nancy and I are very thankful for what this became :)

My team for Garden Guardian is Vestal - Jester - Man-at-Arms - Shieldbreaker. It's super safe: Man-at-Arms gets Heavy Boots & Stun Resist (e.g. Wilbur's Flag) and guards Shieldbreaker, Shieldbreaker kills arm and then body, Jestal for sustain. Still tedious, but you won't get stunned and pushed to the back all the time.

Here's a valuable team for apprentice missions that works well: Arbelast, abomination, flagellant, shield breaker I must put here though that its not a starting team its a team for if you haven't got the crimson dlc enabled until like week 100.

Its my first time playing crimson court, my 2nd playthorugh. Im going blood moon just for an extra challenge, this will really help to estrategize

Naming your Leper “Chad Thundercock.” Love it. Subbed.

I did the first two crimson court boss fights blind, but I was sick of the curse after I finally avenged the deaths of 4 heroes to the Fanatic. Fuck that boss. I ran the countess strat you mentioned.... and it was flawless. No one even got close to death and my Leper hit like a truck. I don't always want to min/max in a game like DD, but I was just over the crimson curse lmao. Awesome guide, I learned a lot from your videos recently as I got back into DD after not touching it since 2017. Thanks for everything you do, I look forward to learning about DD2 in the future!

thanks that was a really good guide

Baron spoilers- I just cleaved everything and went wild. It was fun. Definitely better ways to go about it. Was lucky to survive.

I love the flagellant mechanics. its unique.

a lot of info, man I got like half of it, well, gotta re watch it someday

one setup that has worked very well against the fanatic for me is (vestal, jester, flagyelent, leper) jester can buff and can keep bleed going from any position. leper can mark himself and protect (if he gets on then pyre you can leave him there for a VERY long time) vestal just heals whoever the fanatic hit and flagyelent do big bleed and self heals (he seems to be the one who actually takes damage as long as the leper is on the pyre) kinda just gotta hope he grabs the leper early on but if he isn't he can easily destroy the pyre to reset it.

Yesterday I had quite the peculiar Baron fight. In short, I made some very poor decisions on my side, and got nearly wiped, but my shieldbreaker absolutely clutched it, went virtuous, and nuked Baron in third act, almost singlehandedly winning me the fight. What I wrote wasn't much, but it was genuinely intense and I could write so much more about it, but it would never do it justice, so ill just leave it at that.

My last team was PD, Vestal, Abomination, and Flagellant. Did pretty well and make a joke of the crocodilian

This team I always run for courtyard is vest pos4 jester pos3 HIGH way man pos 2 Man at arms pos 1. Hwm only uses duelist advance and pbs. To shift between pos 1 and 2. M,a,a just reposts and guards either vestel or jester (which ever one is in the worse spot.) Jester uses Battle balard every odd numbered turn so I dont need to use accuracy trinkets and either one of the bleed attacks on a even numbered turn. Just to help out with damage. Can de stress if needed. The vestel does what ever she wants to or is needed. MOST OF THE TIME judgement is good enough for vestel self heal. (Don't bother if the to hit chance is below 90. You know how cruel dd luck can be.) But other than that just spam aoe heal and stun the chevelar. This has gotten me through all courtyard missions in 1 week every time. Yes I know this is the most stally and boring way to do it yes I advise spaming bolster with shard dust for all the main boss fights why. Cause it makes the game not half as difficult. Does that make this stratergy require color of madness? YES GET OFF MY BACK PLZ. This has been some guy on the internet writing a essay on a video game. Plz no grade it.

Never take a hero with Dipsomania to the courtyard btw. I learned that the hard way today when my Flagellant wasted three wine crates worth of firewood

Awesome video. "Apex Predator" is a reference to... apex predators

Damn this was only a day ago I just realized, found this randomly when looking for a guides lol

I made the misstake to do the first mission of that and not being able to complete it to early haha. Every event in town was the same after that :P

I ran vestal, crusader, highwayman and leper in "good bad and ugly" configuration

HM, PD, Flag and Hel for me. It just works. Though sometimes I pick Bountyhunter instead of PD in order to deal the croc. My biggest gripe is, that I try to beat these epic dungeons in 2 times, like retreat only once. It seems I waste too much resources and don't get much out of it. Wasting those shovels and blood vials and getting dem tier 1 trinkets.

fanatic is really easy if you have a dance team with dodgespam, I use GR, jes, anti, HWM and give jester speed trinkets, then solo on jester then cycle him back again with duelist advance and lunge so he can solo again, while spamming dodge with anti

Guide to the Crimson Court 1. start a new game 2. make sure the Crimson Court DLC box is unchecked 3. Enjoy your balanced and only slightly frustrating campaign

Best tip ever to don't use it on the first run ever...i did it guys and omfg...it was hellish even more than the normal game itself since the mosters of the court will appear in other dungeons too getting you in toughest fights...absolutely nuts. And the curse before you remove it is hard to deal as a new player because you don't know how to use it properly.

I find the viscount easier to fight than the baron as his attacks aren't very threatening and doesn't prevent you from healing

Dude this thumbnail looks *SICK*

Metamorphosis can hit you, and It gives you horror.

To be honest, PD/Jester/Occ/Leper is just all around good. Occ can heal safely because PD is there. PD can speed and damage buff Leper PD and Occ have stuns You can do purge and daemon's pull shenanigans Intimidate stacks with weakening curse. Jester obviously hits that battle ballad button buffing everyone's but specifically occ ridiculous crit. When all else fails SOLO ! FINALE

Thank u thank u thank u. Crimson curse has been f**king up my games.

im just about to fight baron, but had to make a team ready as most are too high. entire exploration i got zero firewood because of quirks/curse interacting with the curio before i can smash it

Me having like 10 modded characters farming CC trinkets

Im currently stuck on baron and he basically squad wiped me once killing a total of fojr of my characters😭😢

When I tried out crimson court I didn’t know good team comps and I ended up fighting the crocidillin and almost my whole team died except for my grave robber.

I've had very little problems with CC on everything but Crocodilian which until this video has always felt so stupidly overtuned to me, I didn't realise moving it was the solution, but the first 2 times I met it, it cleaned me up, had to run away, lost 2 of my best teams in 2 different Hamlets, and I when I thought I was gonna 1 week Baron it nearly killed another. I was probably just preparing wrong, and I hadn't cracked the code, but the damage numbers feel like how Brigand X pounder is meant to feel

It's fine to turn on CC if only the autosave in dungeon disable it once was I rather do the map again than losing my character

I would like to add just a little something about the flagellant : As you know he can get a ton of boons from high stress, since he have his own affliction that is more beneficial than detrimental most of the time, and also trinkets that give him even more power if he has high stress / is afflicted. So feeding him blood when it's not necessary to get extra stress that you have the control over is very useful I think. Just pop a bottle or two before a boss to get afflicted and voilà~

i just ran the first team you mentioned in the veteran CC, pd/jes/occ/lep, and i noticed that it's extremely vulnerable to surprise since you're depending on stuns and also for leper to take 1 or 2 enemies out before stun resist builds up too high. i lost a pd to 2 back to back buried blast crits. trying to find a team that can 1 week the crimson court. maybe i'll try that team again with -surprise chance, but also thinking about a tankier team with a bunch of stress relief like vestal/jester with dirk stab/crusader with holy lance/flag

thanks, was waiting for this!!

I started playing DD with all DLCs activated...this curse is a pain in the ass, so annoying Wish I had started without it

The fact that fanatic can potentially have a turn to kill a hero that only just came off the pyre, and you have no control over whether that happens or not is pretty unfair.

I re watched it now, so at what level should I start doing this missions? I'm guessing level 2 and having defeated like the second-third boss ¿?

wait so crimson court replaces town events??? I have it turned on for my first playthrough ever and i only get town events from clearing dungeons!

I absolutely hate this expansion's small monster but i feel obligated to play it cause the Trinket is good.

Do you not like the Coven Signet or the Fan? I think both of those are quite nice. I shall look at your trinket master teir list again. Edit: Nevermind, I have been playing with crimson court relics rework all this time. No, vanilla Fan is quite bad. The signet is okey though, also the tools are great for farming guardian.

I got the key before the boss.... Did I mess up by using it before going for Baron?

I'm doing a bloodmoon run and I just realized I made the mistake of leveling all of my characters to 3 before doing the first courtyard mission that is level 0 to 2's only, do I really have to dismiss 4 of my characters to get new ones to be able to progress? I was thinking of waiting for the town event that lets you go in a dungeon with any level, but I think that is blocked by the town is abuzz

Pagan talisman is a slightly worse book of sanity when your not fighting fanatic so if you get before the book it’s ok otherwise don’t bother

Anybody else feel like baron should be the second boss? He's way harder than viscount imo. Maybe I just had bad team comp.

could you do a guide on stalling and how it works

Ok this is gonna sound so nitpicky but since you said you weren't sure about some pronunciations, I should probably let you know that Chevalier is pronounced "Shuh-vah-lee-ay" I had an english teacher in middle school whose last name was Chevalier, and she was not particularly nice, but she made sure that everyone pronounced her name correctly, so that is my "Crimson Curse" to you 😂

If you enable the crimson court and don't enter it does your heroes still have a chance to get the crimson curse??

Just started a new file and the first mission was cc one after arriving the town and I did not have any other mission to choose😐

Dont knock tickle damage. I hate being tickled

I have a question for all the missions what’s the resolve level?

Should I activate the dlc halfway through a file or start fresh?

wouldn’t a mark strat (with -prot) against countess work?

I dont understand why RH didn’t nerf fanatic. He is too powerful and gives you nothing. There is a mod called roaming fanatic that changes his spawn mechanic. He will start spawning like thing from stars. But the last time i used it it didn’t work for me maybe because a bunch of other mods were installed as well.