It might sounds silly, but I enjoy the fact that Reynauld, a man who left his wife and son, synergizes really well with Bonnie, who lost her adoptive parents. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

We can finally recreate the red hook team, what a time to be alive

Crusader looks so damn cool in the DD2 Artstyle.

My favourite part of the pilfered wealth trinket is that when you use reap, Reynauld will say shit like "They won't miss these" when he ganks your relics

Considering how Crusader's backstory ended, him paired well Runaway is like a dark humour.

Plague Doctor with Magnesium Rain is also a nice synergy, especially with Aggressor. The burn enables Execution, and it also clears corpses, so the Crusader can hit the former backline.

A mighty sword arm anchored by holy purpose - a zealous warrior!

another fun Dismas pairing is gonna be that immobilize synergy. turn one take aim + immobilize, point blank twice (once on the immobilize turn and once on the following turn), dualist back to rank one and the immobilize is ready to use again

Very interesting to see a path change the targeting positions in regards to Banneret and Zealous Accusation, I think more paths need to do that.

At the weaknesses section you pointed that he has too many skills for only 5 slots, but I think this is a positive, having lots of good skills to choose from makes the character very interesting.

Finally now that my son is back I can buy Darkest Dungeon 2.

Shuffle speedrunning Crusader quest for all of us.

Reynauld and dismas, the bros against the horror of the world yet again

I just wanna say the details on his skill like the burning of paper and standard is just so good looking

Even tho banneret is a very soft overlap with wanderer vestal, I am very happy for the fact of having a good back rank option. Also, more in general, with all that debuff res to target it actually sounds as a very good partner for our king Baldwin.

Gotta do a run with him and Runaway tonight...this DLC is definitely going to add a lot of replay value for me. Seems like there are so many ways to fit this guy into a party.

Stopped playing this game a while ago because I wasn’t having fun with it, seeing crusader on top of all the QoL improvements we’ve seen is making me consider picking it back up

I wish agressor gave more damage, even if they had to balance it by removing some support

A DLC well done. The quest you are on to unlock Crusader, his skills, the trinkets, it's superb

20:04 Lmao What a Kleptomaniac theif he is

Hold up, gotta go put together The Wall comp now

backline reynauld + lunging audrey :)) I can see that crusader can help grave robber more than yellowhand highwayman. Anh he have holy lance to reach rank 4.

Man's got kleptomania the trinket.

I like using him with Occultist. Occ is faster and can use daemon's pull to pull a rank 3 or 4 annoying enemy close and give it a combo token. Then the Crusaders Smite can do 50% extra dmg and finish him off usually.

Day one guide? By the CRUSADE, YES!

Omnipeasant is a really cool dude indeed! Went to his streams for some time, he is a delight

The goat back at it again with another banger

Banneret Zealot sounds fun against the General.

YES, HELL YEAH!

I want BH as a regular hero so badly...

Dismas and Reynauld are back baby. Play *the boys are back in town* in background

I can't believe they finally brought my boy back. I was utterly shook when the game left early access and Reynauld wasn't there.. this DLC is amazing

I was having a lot of fun with crusader and runaway, because smokescreen is just an instant 100% damage smite.

17:56 Damn, that is almost an exact copy of Conjoin on my Doll Master class mod. Now I gotta rework it probably:(

bro the dlc released a few minutes ago, speedrun guide making any %

Now i can play this!

I made a team like this : Alchemist Plague Doctor - Banneret Crusader - Vanguard Man-at-Arms - Ravager Helion. Lots of heals, lots of stress Heals, lots of dots (blight from PD and fire from Crusader), lots of protection and guard tokens and a bit of direct damage (with the Helion). A nightmare for foes back ranks. A static team that can moves : Usually, once back ranks are cleaned, Crusader switch position with M-a-A, and Smite front ranks. one of the most resilient and toughest team I ever played.

Just snorted at "ceiling spaghetti"

I was trying to get crusader's story but I got a good setup for him already, which is: Alch, Banneret, Rogue and Vanguard. He stress heals and deals decent amount of backline damage with Alch and he occasionally gets mark alongside rogue, which ends up paying off with a heal on Vanguard or a stun from disorienting blast. It seems like a strong comp but there might be more to it.

Templer path's armor is black... you know what that means 40k Bois *FOR THE EMPEROR*

Something I thought could be surprisingly good as a combo was bannaret crus with surgeon pd, that would free the front two slots for some more heavy dmg like ravager hellion or sharpshooter hwm, even something more interesting like front rank dodge like gr or tanky aspirant occ, just fun comp ideas

Aww, he's back. Crusader and Runaway shold be a great pair!

I will now be calling abyssal artillery ceiling spaghetti from now on

So I got the Crusader and he immediately became hateful towards the Vestal and the Occultist probably because Dismas (and Barristan) died during the rescue mission. I also presume that him starting off with kleptomaniac on his first run is completely intentional too. 😅

I am kind of dissapointed with the last two moves, I was kind of hoping for a howling end or coup de grace type attack where its really unique and maybe guarentees a combo but honestly they feels like such throwaway moves. Its cool to have Reynauld back but I definitely feel like there is a lot left to be desired. like Holy Lance not changing up for paths is kind of a bummer, fire is really cool tho. I'm not saying he's weak, he's definetely strong, I just don't feel like he's as fun as he could have been... sucks that stunning blow doesn't have daze either. Reap is such a strange move, I think it has potential to be such a cool move but it feels weird to have a healing reduction attack on basekit. Reap feels like it gets outclassed by zealous accusation tbh. I'm thinking maybe reap should have the combo tokens on its move and when he uses reap on enemies with combo token something cool happens like maybe bleed or some sort of buff so he keeps spamming reap like a real farmer. Idk I feel like Duelist stole the show from Crusader for this DLC.

I had a team synergy mostly debuff from PD and Runaway and my Crusader with dmg buff vs 🔥 target and he was dishing out some craaaazy dmg lol required lots of setup tho but fun synergy nonetheless

New path system seems really neat

💜

Omg how did I miss that we got Reynauld finally!!! I gotta run install the game back now!

THE BOYS ARE BACK WE'RE REDEEMING THE WORLD WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥

Omg lol ceiling spaghetti is one of my favorite moves in the game 😅

The leper doesnt have an executioner’s sword, his sword is broken!

Bless

damn u work fast

DEUS VULT! I guess it fits with the whole "questing knight." thing crusader has going on, but why do you have to unlock this guy when you just start with duelist?

I must say that i would like to like the white with black skin but that's Teutonic order insygnia and i am Polish and that means i must have at least a bit of contempt for those bastards.

Amorous Dismas and Reynauld here we come

Dude I want to watch this so bad but I don't want it to be spoiled it for me.

I wished you show what you mean in the video more often so I can see the application. As somebody who is more a physical learner it’s a bit harder to grasp what you’re trying to say and apply it actively. I have to keep repeating segments to breakdown and digest what you mean. Feels like I need more effort to digest what you’re telling me than figuring it out myself. Although reading the comments, this is a me problem from what I gathered. Other than that, video is pretty good.

Damn, Shuffle. Were you lying in ambush to get the guide so fast?^^

I just got him in my party for the first time and he immediately gets a negative relationship with my leper that weakens him on chop 😭

Just ran a team with Vestal/Crusader/Duelist/Man-at-Arms, and Crusader is surprinsingly efficient at being a semi-tank if needs be, a support stress-manager and a quite suprising heavy stomper : a holy lance crit is no joke. Very fun to play.

Quick question: why is aggressor the damage focused path but then looses the damage bonus on Smite doesn’t that make him have less damage potential ?

Only negative is the Banneret's broken sword, it looks so awkward

Deus Shuff

I declare NAY I have not gotten the dlc but my boy crusader deserves to be unspoild so i vill figure him out on my own Then i returnr

The issue with crusader is that it's fighting for a position with Master at arms, who outclasses everyone in terms of support.

Very cool, kind of wished there was a new skill that's set up orientated to do a very big strike like highwayman in the aggressor path instead of just having a extra dot.

Isn't it a bit early to do a guide on Crusader and Duelest? The dlc just came out today

POG!!!

Build advice would've been useful, what skills to pick depending on what you want to do, given that you don't want to try to do everything.

anyone else loose candles during this update?

I'm disappointed he's a support. In DD1 holy lance crusader could do some big damage.

Crusaders back? Holy shit I care about DD2 now

Wtf were the testers doing that they let his paths go through like this? His Aggressor path is an abomination

mom 16:31

Shuff why are you making a guide for this goober. We only care about Duelist here

THIS GAME IS ONLY ONE THING----ABSOLUTLY PURE LUCK BAESED RANDOM RNG SHIT...nothigfnto do withe the great DD1-----DD2 is like a warm beer..NOBODY WNATS IT..only idiots take ist