5% chance... Awesome, I so glad fighting random encounter Collector and random encounter Shambler in a single run is so rare. Awesome. I'm such a lucky boi. I miss my plague doctor.

I didn't know 0 light had a chance to spawn the shambler. I've been on so many 0 light antiquarian runs...thank you RNJesus.

I've seen BOOOOOOOOOOM! multiple times, though my party always dodge it every, single, time. I have never seen that attack hit. Ever.

Of note: when fighting The Crew, if you have a hero who has become virtuous, put them in position 1, as they will be immune to the anchor.

"Extremely low chance to replace a random encounter if torch is at 0" Try two in a row. Yup. Meet shambler, get destroyed, run for dear life with 4 afflicted heroes, flee from de mission, start a different mission, shambler is in the first fucking corridor.

For those who didn't know, there is also another way to essentially break the Drowned Crew apart from shuffling the Anchorman: You can stack virtue change increasing trinkets on a hero and let the stress build up on purpose. If the hero becomes virtuous and you move him to the front row in the boss fight, the said hero will deflect the anchor attacks and cannot be bound by them. This means that you can flail on the Crew while the Anchorman fruitlessly tries to heave the virtuous hero. Of course this requires some good RNG and the ability to keep the hero in front despite the shuffles, but It's pretty neat when it works.

I fought the Shambler in the beginning. It was my 3rd Dungeon and I fought him. Was pretty mad when I actually summoned him.

I'll never forget the first time I hit Wilbur... Lost my whole party. Never again! I carry that swines flag as a trophy now.

Literally summoned the Shambler during my first 90 minutes of the game, but somehow (probably by the grace of our lord RNGesus) was able to beat it. My team composition was: Houndmaster | Plague Doctor | Highwayman | Hellion Didn't lost a single one of them (only Highwayman reached at Death's Door). I guess I was extremely lucky.

Just a tip for the Swine. If you kill Wilbur he gets his free move as said in the video. This free move completely ignores DoT that would normally kill the Swine, DoT applies on his turn while his enraged attack just counts as some sort of counter-attack/riposte move. RIP Arbalest, I should have just waited one more turn.

"when the butt acts it will use undulating invasion"

This is some great stuff mate! I came here just looking for The Siren and ended up watching the whole thing.

Thanks for the time stamps. You have no idea how helpful that is for the average viewer.

I didn't know that was a butt... I didn't know... I didn't want to know.... why?!?!

imo the best way to kill the prophet and get all of his pews is to take two occultists and give them debuff trinckets. 2-3 turns in he will have -100% damage, making the fight almost impossible to lose. The only down sides are that it makes the fight much longer and his aoe blight can still kill you if you ignore it.

Necromancer - Bring blight and corpse clearing units. Prophet - Guarding units and units with high dodge are viable. Swine - Mark and Stun clearing units are important. Flesh - AoE units especially with DoT skills are effective. Hag - Use Marking, long-ranged units and those with high dodge. 8 Pounder - Use armor piercing units and long-ranged units. Siren - Bring Holy Water and make a shuffling party (Party that moves alot). Crew - Equip Movement resist for the back and Virtue Chance for the front.

"Me must keep our courage up despite this bleakness." "Me must."

Prophet strat I used that worked nicely. Bring a man at arms, a healer and two good damage dealers who can hit the back rank. (plague doctor and grave robber are my faves as they can stack blights on him) Every turn, have them attack the prophet while the Man at arms uses bolster every turn. The prophet's rubble of ruin CAN miss and it's a huge setback for him if it does. With good dodge, you've just near eliminated the prophet's biggest trump card. Without that, most of his other attacks are pretty harmless. Keep your party healed and keep up the damage and you got the old fool.

One thing you didn't mention about the flesh boss is that the bone zephyr cannot be used in position 4, so whenever you have bones in position 4 it will just pass its turn.

for everyone that doesnt trust his point on the swine prince tip of not hittin wilbur here i say this-enetered this boss fight will full health all squad got swine to half health still all 4 remaining close to full health,then with plag doc i poisoned wilbur-in 3 turns all members died each time he stunned and dealt at least 10 dmg to each and everyone of my heroes...fcking ragequit

This guide was very helpful, glad its around.

Against the flesh, i would really recommend having 2 occultist in position 3 and 4. They have an ability called Abyssal artillery or something, that hits the 2 in behind. This deals increased damage to ELDRITCH type enemies. Stack some ELDRITCH killing trinkets, and each abbyssal assault can deal 15ish points of damage, time that by 2 since you hit it twice because of AOE, then its 30ish dmg a turn. Double that number again because you have 2 occultists: 60 damage a turn. Also their heal is nice when stuck in a bad spot

Very good video! I’d love to see a updated version including all the new bosses and possible character meta and composition, and also the boss loot! Good presentation!

The match man has another rattack: Hot shot. It's an attack that deals low damage, nothing more. It only does this when the pounder is dead

12:44 deep sea nami really let herself go

1 room away from the Flesh boss, I decided to camp, i knew there was a fight in the path to the boss, and what do you know? IT'S THE FREAKING COLLECTOR I had an antiquarian with really good healing trinkets with a vestel, so i barely managed to outheal them surprised the antiquarian didn't die though, but it was totally worth the loot

I still remember my first pounder fight. I figured that the guy with the fuse was a priority, so I killed him continuously until the pounder was very low. Then I didn't kill him once and the cannon missed (not sure if missfire or just normal miss), so I thought it wasn't as dangerous as I thought and went full greed, dropping it to less than 10 hp and ignoring the brigadiers. Needless to say, it instantly dropped my entire party to death's door with a highroll, and two of them instantly died to blanked fire. Never again.

Tip for any boss that doesn’t rely on mobs for its damage output that will make it incredibly easy for you: bring the occultist and use weakening curse. Since usually it’s only the boss that’s attacking you, you can basically gimp his entire damage output by spamming weakening curse and then just shuttle him down with the rest of your party. It’s actually hilarious watching the prophet’s rubble do like 3 damage every time it hits because you’ve been weakening his ass off the whole time.

Wilbur can also be targeted by Disorienting Blast for a shuffle to the front. If the Pounder is destroyed but the Matchman is still alive, he will use Hot Shot, a low-damage party-wide attack that's only really a threat if you have someone on Death's Door.

Houndmaster anihilates the prophet. simply put him in position 3 and use its guard ability. After triggering two times, the dodge is almost guaranteed and your healer can bring the other guys back from deaths door. Before Shambler, shuffle your party manually to have a chance to counter the initial shuffle. The collector should always be the primary target since he will often respawn his guys. Its a damage race. Heroes like the Leper are very good against the Siren. When he gets charmed, there is a good chance he uses solemnity or withstand, simply healing him or reducing stress, which is actually good for you. Vestal is the best healer gainst all bosses since most have area of effect dmg. Crew or prophet can be defeated with the occultist as well. On the prophet, he might be even better since his mark synergyses excellent with houndmaster hounds rush and grave robbers dagger. They also deal single target dmg. Darkest dungeon area is complete garbage and a disgrace to the game. Its a pure rng fest, mostly depending if your heroes hit heroic or not. After dungeon one, the enemys are vastly overpowered, and i havent figured out any strategy or combo that helps. I ended up alt f4ing out of the game every time someone died. Fun level was lower than 0.

Regarding the Collector, if you have a stun that can hit position 1 on the first turn, use it - the Collector has middling Stun resistance for a boss, and only one action per turn. If you're lucky and/or happened to stack Stun Chance trinkets, it's worth fishing for a second stun in a row, allowing the rest of your team to wail on the poor sod.

All of the cove hints are massive. Thank you.

It is important of note that the siren will mainly target the party member with the lowest rebuff resist, so if you bring an antiquarian it has the potential to make the fight a joke.

Since this video, I believe the Siren’s song of desire was changed. It can no longer be resisted by stacking debuff resistance. It’s instead, a random chance (70%). That said, she still prefers to target the hero with the lowest debuff resistance. (After first charmed hero comes back she’ll target the second lowest debuff resistance hero) Makes the antiquarian actually good for this boss since she has naturally the lowest debuff resistance of all classes and low damage output. Also, one of her camping skills boosts debuff resistance for one party member.

This may be obvious, but it caught me by surprise: if the Hag kills your other heroes and there's one in the pot, that hero will NOT be released from the pot - instead, the hero will die and you will fail the quest.

First time encountered the Swine Prince, won it on my first try, killed wilbur and i didn't know it was ill-advised to kill him first instead of the Prince...i didn't find it difficult but my second playthrough (first playthrough quit half way because almost all of my heroes is cursed by the crimson curse, with no blood in inventory) was life changing...

Hell yeah, I dam agree with you, I tooked the shot once from the canon, I never ever let the fuse man live again every time I see him pop out

Fsr I've always had great luck with the Siren. I swear, whenever she took one of my heroes, that hero would never actually damage the rest of the party. My nearly-dead Vestal just healed herself twice and then returned to my team, and another time my Hellion was stolen, proceeded to buff herself twice, and then came back. IIRC a Man-At-Arms also just self-buffed when he was stolen away, as well. That's true loyalty right there

My champion Reynauld died to the Swine God, but as usual, Dismas domed his ass with point blank and won the fight. Dismas hit Deaths Door like 4 times since he kept getting marked, and Reynauld actually died from the double mark attack from Wilbur after taking a crit obliterate. I accepted that he was gone, only to get the revive event and came right back. He wasn’t about to leave Dismas like that after he went down swinging. That’s typically how Dismas dies in my DD2 runs, he’s the last alive and goes down swinging as his friends die around him.

Thanks for this video! I've been too cowardly to go after any of the bosses after losing a lot of good people against the Brigand 10 Pounder because my luck with stuns and RNG is terrible. This showed up in my reccommended videos, I watched it, and I feel better about fighting some bosses.

i just recently started playing darkest dungeon and i've chosen to try to finish the game, for the first time, with no more heroes mod enabled and i gotta say watching this video has me absolutely terrified. Thank you.

In case anyone is looking at this in 2019, the Antiquarian is extremely good for the Prophet fight. While her blight isn't good enough to justify using a turn on it, her dodge buff gets so great at higher levels that she trivializes the fight, making it so that more often than not Heroes just dodge the Rubble of Rain attack and basically ignore the fight's main gimmick

Once I was ambushed by Shambler it mowed down my whole party. I said fuck it and deleted the game. No regrets

Omg, no wonder I've thought the Swine was the hardest boss in the game for such a long time ahaha, focused Wilbur from turn one, he died around turn 3 with taking both of my backline down with him. But even in psycho mode he couldn't get through my Flaggelant-Man at arms front line, since they just full healed every turn. Chipped him down over like 20 minutes ahaha.

Good audio, videoquality and explanation!!!

Here is a story that I got about The Shambler that happened today with me Jan 5, 2021: I was in the red/hard quest dificulty in the middle of a mission where I had those 3 objectives that need to be activated, I had found 2 of them close to spawn lucky me and in the other side of the map I found a Shambler altar, so I thought ''well is not a boss run and the map is almost done +i got a camping to buff my party what could go wrong?'' I did the camping go fully buffed and after a long ass fight I killed the damn thing, my party was FUCKED in stress and hp but I thought ''well I just need to find a fight where I can stun enemies and keep healing'' guess what? cause The Shambler makes light goes to instantly 0 and I had no torches left I was walking in the darkness... and fuck me I hate this part, MY FIRST FUKING COMBAT ENCOUNTER WAS ANOTHER SHAMBLER(random fight cause light was 0%), at this point you are like thinking ''oh your entire party died, didn't it? The funny thing is... I manage to kill Shambler number 2, multiple characters on death's door stress skyrocketing to the point of 1 more hit could kill anyone a real miracle my characters didn't die, that moment I realized ''I ain't a noob anymore I killed 2 Lovecraftian space devils in a row'' man I was a combination of proud and fear cause I may have won but words can't explain how much FUCKED my party was, them like an answer to my praying happened right next to the Shambler number 2 in the same corridor objective number 3 was standing I was so darn happy and the moment I finished the main objective I said ''fuck the other rooms and loot I am out'' LMFAO. So here is the lesson kids: don't walk in darkness you may be thinking ''but we get more loot'' and for that I say: ''well in a short mission yeah that may be a good thing to do, but medium to large maps you get so much stuff you don't even have inventory space for it so don't walk on darkness for those''. Welp this was my story I hope you liked I only need to re-kill 1 more boss before having nothing to do besides heading the actual darkest dungeon... welp wish me luck, I know I am gonna need it lol.

I once had 3 suicide money runs, and all 3 of them ended with me abondening them due to the collector, since it was 3 times at the very end, so my characters were to battred, but now that I can beat him he does not spawn, and the 2 times he did spawn while I'm ready he dropped one head, and its the protection head, I want the heal head, give it to a vestal with a sacred scroll and its 83% stronger party wide heal, shits op, get a jest with a bright tomburine and the increased stress is neglectable

Your tips make the Collector and the Shambler sound easy breezy!

awesome dude, all this info in 1 place. probably in my top 5 games of the last 10 year, in fact it definitely is.

"when the butt acts..."

I had my 3rd collector pop up on the last tile before I scouted the last empty room to end my quest, with 1 hero dead. He healed faster than I could focus it down

Has anyone else noticed that practically EVERY boss we fight in the entire game is caused by the ancestor?! This includes the DLC! The guys one hell of a bastard, not cleaning up his own messy mistakes.

A few pointers not covered here. 1) Against the Siren consider taking an antiquarian, the AI of the encounter means the siren will often target mind control at lower health characters assuming their threat to be greater. The antiquarian has low health AND is virtually harmless to you. 2) In all cases the boss is in the room that is at the end of the farthest path from your spawn location. Use this to your advantage to head straight to the boss and use your camp to get powerful buffs for the encounter. 3) As a general rule don't use Lepers except against the cannon. You should literally only have one Leper on your roster, ever, specifically FOR the fights he's good on and should not be used at basically any other time. To make this game easy it is important to know that reinforcements will not be called unless there is only a single size one enemy remaining. As a general rule stress is harder to recover than health and stress dealers and high damage dealers generally occupy ranks 3 and 4. So your strategy should be to dispense with ranks 3 and 4 as quickly as possible then keep stunning and slowly damaging ranks 1 and 2 giving you rounds to recover health and stress. The Leper does not fulfill this strategy at all, he can only hit ranks 1 and 2 and worse, he hits them very hard (assuming he hits at all, as he has low accuracy) meaning they don't last as long reducing your recovery phase. He has no stuns, no party support or ability to move himself forward with abilities should he be shuffled and he only moves forward one rank when forced to move. The crusader at least can holy lance out of ranks 3 and 4, has a stress heal (that is also a non zero health heal and can therefore save death's door checks) and a stun making him a C- class to the Leper's F (Leper is the only F tier class). The video used Lepers against the Necromancer and Prophet but his complete inability to project damage beyond rank 2 means he's often wasting turns bashing skeletons or pews which extends the fight and greatly increases the chance you will lose characters. Man at Arms (A tier) is the frontliner of choice almost always as he can guard against the prophet's collapsing ceiling and the prot he gains in doing so makes the damage trivial and he can attack and stun rank 3 normally. If you're thinking of using movement skills and/or accuracy buff skills to make the Leper more effective remember opportunity costs are involved, because you are using a movement skill to pull a priority target to the Leper you are not doing something else that will be more efficient in terms of damage dealt and you're adding in further RNG as the move skill can be resisted even if it hits. Furthermore, priority targets will almost always act before the ponderously slow Leper and many priority targets if dragged into the front ranks will use ability that move them backward before the Leper can swing and miss them. Just leave the Lepers at home folks or better yet, on the stage coach. 4) The swine can be very quickly dispatched by a group of Bounty Hunter, Houndmaster, Occultist, Arbalest. Give the Occultist a quickdraw pendant so he goes first in the first round of every encounter then mark the swine, now use all your +damage vs. marked skills which conveniently have +dmg vs. human and beast (which the swine is) and your very high crit chance from the arbalest and he will generally drop by the end of round 2. Multiple critical hits (assuming you used proper camping skills) in excess of 70 damage are the order of the day not the exception, the boss won't last under that assault.

I swear that damn Shambler spawns when I'm running a less than optimal team. After my first, unexpected run in...not today Satan!

once fought a shambler and a collector on my way to fight the necromancer, was interesting to say the least

"The Crew is an Unholy type enemy" The Last Crusade/Holier than Thou: Unholy, you say?

So many interesting bosses, with such a wide array of abilities, yet Quadsader is the answer to all of them.

One more information about the marksman on the second weald boss. If the cannon has been taken down, he will use a 4 targets AoE attack that deals low damage. So if you have multiple heroes at death's door and need to choose between the knife thug and him, choose him. I lost 2 heroes tjat way (I didn't know what he could do and I underestimate him, thinking the bleed or the 2 front targets AoE from the knife thug was more dangerous...)

Its worth noting if you pull the collector into position 3 and have one of the heads at position 4 the vestal and MAA will buff the head in position 4 instead of the collector.

A tip for players using modded games: If looking to destroy a Brigand Pounder, do not bring the Cannoneer. His self buff ability "Light the Fuse" which increases damage by 300-350% will activate the Brigand as if the fuseman lived to use his ability. This is likely a result of a coding issue, as the aforementioned ability goes by the ID "light_fuse" which is also used by the fuseman. Use a Arbalest or Musketeer for this encounter, as believe me, it doesn't feel good losing half your party to a bug.

Great tips, no nonsense. Thank you.

fought the god swine with two ocultists in back... it was kina a joke when i debuffed him to -180 damage

On my first try against the Swine Prince, I killed Wilbur, and then won without any deaths. That just goes to show that AoE healing is stupidly strong

Just as an FYI about The Collector, he can use other moves in position 1. He will generally use Collect Call, but I have seen him use his Show Collection ability multiple times as his first action.

Things of note The Collector's Lifesteal has a high crit chance. Collected Highwaymen should be killed ASAP as they are equally if not more dangerous as the Collector Also the Shambler does not actually surprise on the 1st round, it shuffles. The "Surprised!" display serves solely for game mechanic purposes to ensure the party shuffle on round 1. Your party can still act with their normal speed based initiative on the 1st round despite being shuffled, unlike normal ambush or enemy surprises. Stunning the Shambler on the 1st round or any round where there are no Shambler Tentacle add present, is a huge factor in beating the encounter as it allows you to front load a large amount of damage onto it before you have to deal with Tentacles. Additional tips Siren - The Siren has a very high preference for using Song of Desire on the hero with the lowest debuff resist. As result, Leper+Antiquarian (in positions 1 and 2 respectively) can render the party virtually immune to Song of Desire through the Lepers Bloody Shroud+AQ's Strange Powders with holy waters used on the other 2 party members. Use any normal choice for positions 3 and 4 you would generally take to the Cove (Position 3 Occultist and Position 4 Plague Doctor are the best for the cove in general), but ensure the AQ is setup for speed so that she goes first, ideally before enemies, to ensure she can maintain the guard buff. On the Siren fight Do NOT give a holy water to the AQ, as you want her to always be the target of Song of Desire. Simply use the AQ ability Protect Me to force the Leper to guard the AQ. With Bloody Shroud and Strange Powder buffs active it is impossible for her to steal the Leper, and the other party members will have higher debuff resists than the AQ, thus preventing them from being targeted in the first place. Worst case scenario, the Siren charms the Antiquarian before she can refresh the guard, but this still leaves the actual damage dealers of the party unmolested without giving the enemy side an actual threat through Song of Desire. This combo also works well in the fights leading up to the boss as Cove enemies in the front rows generally attack the front 2 rows while enemies in the back attack the back 2 rows.

I have a nice cheese against the Prophet. You need two Cultists with two debuff-strengthening trinkets. Then just debuff the bosses' attack until he deals 0 damage. Then just keep debuffing him again and again. Only works later in the game, since you probably won't have many debuff trinkets early in the game.

He didn't say it in the video but in The Flesh fight, Maws of Life can hit both two people in the front at once and Undulating Invasion can hit both two people in the back at once.

8 Brigand are one of the easiest bosses. There is a safe but slow way to kill it. Bring a plague doctor, vestal, hound master and a damage dealer. PD double stun on back, blackjack on the first mob. Next turn plague grenade and make sure you kill the matchman. Spare free hits to the cannon. It may take 30 turns but it works on every difficulty. With proper trinkets you can "safely" double-stun mobs.

My first (and only so far) battle with the shambler earned me quite the achievements... got my first heart attack Death there, my Bounty Hunter survived 5 (I guess...) hits while at death's door, killed the shambler, and then died from a tentacle, getting me my first TPK.

The Collector's easy to prepare for: You just need to be able to hit rank 4 hard, and optionally stun the heads. If your party can't do that then it's going to struggle in basically any dungeon whether or not you encounter the Collector.

its funny seeing all of these comments about the time they fought the shambler. like, bro, the altar says something along the lines of "only put a torch in me if you want your team to die" or something.

First time I fought a Champion Flesh, round one, I got undulating invasion twice, both of which scored crits and hit both back ranks each time, instantly putting both on death's door. Then my front liner got hit with a crit Maws of Life twice, putting him on death's door. But I take it from this that the odds of the two-target critical undulating invasion is actually pretty unlikely. Maybe I'll give it another go.

Song of desire is a debuff based ability, so bring an antiquarian (worst debuff resist in the game) to the fight so she takes a worthless hero of her side.

Got too say throwing back to this well doing out lets play of the game has been fairly helpful in general

I found that the collectors life steal crits all the damn time.

The Collector's Lifesteal ability does not heal for damage done; the reason I know is because a miss will still cause the self-heal to occur. It's guaranteed no matter how much damage is actually dealt.

The collector made me panic so hard and I had to retreat cuz I was playing so dumb, glad to see that mechanically it's so freakin easy

I finish the fight wit the brigrand pounder n come here to watch this. The pounder n prophet r 2 most diffcult fight in the game especially at champion level. It was so brutal a fight i almost cry after i beat the thig. Only through sheer luck that i managed to score 3 crit in a row to kill the fuse man. When it alsmot die it summon a big bandit. Luckily it was already at death door at the time so I tried to finish it. Good god. All the fights became so hard at champion. Not to mention u have to crawl to the boss room through numerous random fights. This game is just so damn brutal. N I LOVE IT!

This is fantastic

love this Boss guide, i was wondering could you do a very detailed Class guide. that has gameplay of each class in combat using all their Abilities & showing which ones are the best.

The stat that I use against the prophet: Arblast/Grave Robber/Highway man/Bounty hunter Bounty hunter marks the prophet and two turns later, champion prophet dies from heavy burst damage.

For the drowned crew, if the hero in front is virtuous, he will be completely immune to heave to, and break any chain that they have on themselves.

Great Video but one thing. You said there are penalties for extending combat. But in the scenario you mentioned with the collected Man at Arms and the Collected Vestal there are no penalties. Penalties only applie if the enemy only occupies one position. As long as there are two small enemies or one large enemy occupying space 1 and 2 you can extend the combat for as long as you like without penalties as long as you do not skip turns. Just moving around does not count as a skipped turn so you never have to attack and can heal up. And I know this does not work on the collector anymore but still, very useful to know. Can be used very abusevly in the Darkest Dungeon 1.

so, party leaving without killing wilbur is canon now

Swine God can also be killed by running a riposte team and then you kill Wilbert. I also remember I killed the Hag in 2 turns, just gonna say Hellion is op af. 10:33, This made me have vietnam flashbacks. 19:56, It will alwayse suprize your party, even if it doesn't suprize you. (this hit different)

A very helpful Darkest Dungeon guide. Thans very much for making this.

One correction, The Collector can use Show Collection in the first spot (he once did it to me as his first action, which was a wonderful surprise).

"The swine is a slow unit", attacks 3 times while only 2 charaters from my party attacked; my favorite crusader is dead.

Hey question for everyone who reads this: this game drops tomorrow on the switch and I’ve been very intrigued by it, however I’ve heard some negative things about it that have kind of swayed me. I love RPGs and strategy games that really require you to plan and think. So my question is what about this game appeals to you directly? What do you find fun about it? And how much do you get screwed over by RNG?

This video is kinda old. Here's some tips. Necromancer: skills that can hit the back+marks. On Veteran+ difficulty skills that remove stealth (arbalest, vestal, antiquarian). Occultist has a very good stun with proper trinkets. Swine: bring arbalest with rallying flare and a healer. Note that flare clears team's stuns and marks but not if arb is marked. You can use guard or flagellant's suffer on her if you're a coward like me.

How True man defeats Cannon boss: Take 3 antiquarians, stack that sweet dodge 5 buff, never hit fuseman. Profit.

The champion level weald boss 12 pounder is a nightmare. The guy that lights the fuse is nearly impossible to kill with a single blow (unlike the previous level dungeons) and thus you need to have marks and/or two heroes to attack the guy. Nothing is for certain though since he has a huge dodge bonus and the canon itself has serious firepower if it does not missfire. I was brought to the brink of death after a canon attack (due to misses on the fuseman) and then a blanket fire wiped my level 5 squad clean. Not a single person rolled a save so i could retreat.

in the prophet fight, bring an arbalist with signal flare. signal flare clears marks and stuns. when he uses Calamitus prognostication use signal flare to clear it. I went through the fight with low overall damage taken

The collector appeared during my current run, I was not at all prepared for him, knew he was a special enemy, I had only defeated the Apprentice Necromancer, and I was using a fresh team. I managed to beat him without anyone dying

If your pos 1 gets a virtue against the Crew, the anchormans abillities will always fail, so if you get a virtue in the dungeon let that guy take pos 1.

As a point of note, if you have a hero who's Virtuous then they're immune to Heave to of The Crew and I think the Charm spell of The Siren.

to make things easy for the prophet use this tactic a hound master in the back a high dodge or around 30 dodge highwayman and a lep and you will hit a dps tank equilibrium as long as you have a occultist in slot 3

Very detailed boss guide. Thanks for the info!

very informative video! Hope this saves some of my heroes in the future.

This video is so underrated