Nighttime Ambush chance is 33%, I forgot to mention it. Healing cap is 100% total, combined for healing done and received. It isn't 200%. Apologies!

Also, just another important stat to know. The Swine Chopper's Ball and Chain has a guarentee to stun your healer if one of your heroes is on Death's Door and is bleeding/blighted

For those wondering, the 5% to miss and 95% to hit is from tabletop RPG games where you play with a 20 sided die, 1 being a critical fail of your attack that always miss and 20 being a critical success that always hits. Many games still do that.

Look at the wiki? "Virtues, afflictions, and you" is a free video for you man.

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments or in the video: On a crit, any effects have a +20% chance of sticking, and any DOTs last for five rounds rather than three. This applies to heroes and enemies.

Y'know what isn't hidden? My love for you

11:45 This is also relevant for surprised monsters. Not eliminating threats + low speed can mean enemies going back to back on turn 2

Newish player (only 100 hours 😅), wanted to say thanks for all the content. I barely have free time to play at all, so being able to absorb knowledge from others really cuts down on my frustration. You’re a treasure. ❤️

even as a vet player i learned a couple things; had no idea that secret rooms spawned like that! i remember having the read the wiki or glean tips off wusubi's stat micromanagement like 3 years ago---really wish i had a guide like this when i started playing, so thanks a lot! this game has so many strategies to discover that're a bit hidden from newcomers, so always good to see the barrier for entry lowered a hidden mechanic i wish i knew sooner: the siren's song of desire targets your debuff resist (a stat often overlooked) and will ALWAYS target the one with the lowest debuff resist. also, does anyone remember if they still add a buff to enemies you killed while stunned? for ex. it used to be that if u stun pos 2 then kill that enemy while its still stunned, the next fight the pos 2 will have some form of stun resist.

You forgot to mention Crocodilians innate mark synergy on Vestals

I have an observation. Just try it if you want to. As soon as you open the door light up a torch real fast, then you will surprise the enemies! Try it! Just do it!

11:57 I assumed that this is why bosses attack once before the end of your turn and then once after. It already pisses me off when a unit gets on death's door and gets hit again before I can heal them (in general and regardless of deathblow)

Been playing this game since Beta and I had no idea that getting an afflicted hero's stress down to 0 removes the affliction...

This is super useful, thanks for making it! Although as far as formatting and readability goes, in the future it might be better to use dots instead of dashes to start each bullet. Mainly because with how so many of the bullets start with a number I keep reading it as a negative number.

Farmstead guide: Farm 4 virtues and try to go as far as you can. Someone who can remove diseases is mandatory, someone who can remove deaths door debuff has been rather useful and for the rest it is just hoping you do not get unlucky in 1 of the fights or get unlucky getting a boss which your party is bad against.

Hey shuffle thanks for this more advance and "hidden" guides, they really make you understand the game a lot more and be able to be even more strategic about your runs, plus the content is well written and easy to understand, thats very important, keep up the good work man, you're awesome

If you could explain more about some quirks that doesn't explain themselves it would be nice

Didn't know the boss spawning in the right/down room, I knew it would be in the farthest away room but thought it was random if two rooms were equally far

Is healing given vs. healing recieved additive or multiplicative? If it's additive, this means that Arbalest's Very Rare trinket's -50% to healing isn't nearly as bad anymore, but if it's multiplicative, you can get a juicy x4 healing if you really try.

I know this is irrelevant, but I love that second slot vestal at the beginning of the video.

Hey Shuffle, just wanted to thank you for making these kinds of videos. Makes me happy that people are still playing and discussing this game years after release. Also, I'm sure new players would find your videos incredibly helpful. Especially since the mechanics of the game can be a bit daunting for newcomers. Thanks again and I really hope you'd do some DD2 content when it comes out later!

Seeing this video now, what you said at 11:42 made me think that that isn't a thing in DD2, the other day the one big fanatic fatty got his 2 turns at the end of the round, first hit took my Warlock occultist to death's door with a crit, second deathblowed him, thanks game...

I didn't knew you can remove afflictions by 0 stress. I usually give up on them the moment they afflict. Something actually new

Fun fact: AI is learning when you play and champion enemies will start doing combos/tactics against your heroes. Yes, when Fungal artillery decides to spam your Higwayman with dodge debuff and then switch Rend the marked on him and other frontline hero then its this case.

0 light: exists My team: DO THE SHUFFLE

These videos are amazing because they are basically timeless.

Receiving 20 stress upon entering a dungeon that is 1 level higher - well, this is not quite so. My 2nd level heroes that had 12/14 of Resolve Experience, received 6 stress, while heroes that had 13/14 of Resolve Experience, received 3 stress by entering veteran dungeon. So I guess the fullness of the experience bar is taken into account as well.

One thing that would be good to know is if similarly to boss spawns, if quest objectives also have spawn rules? I typically hate the "activate/gather 3 blah" quests, but if there was some sorta formula to how they work I may be more willing to do them in the future.

I had the case of even-fartest bottom left-right situation tonight. The dungeon was laid out as some left corridors, then a somewhat big way down, then one room on the left, one room on the right. Nice info there! I'm getting back into this game, after playing once in 2016, finding the game a bit too grindy for my taste. Then I saw someone playing it on KZfaq which make me want to revisit it. I'm glad to see there is the "radiant" difficulty now. It makes it really more enjoyable! But finding out about some hidden mechanics is really useful, so I'm watching some videos to help in my playthrough. Thanks for doing this stuff. :)

Those tips on disease are actually very very helpful.

When it comes to boss spawns I must warn you guys - it doesn’t always work like presented in the video. Yesterday I was hunting Siren and my dungeon looked like that: Equal length of 4 rooms to the last one, both on left and right; both final rooms localysed to the maximum top, at the same level. I was pretty certain that the boss would be in the right end, but didn’t manage to scout the room, so - not taking anything for granted - I headed to the other end with hope of scouting. How supprising it was when I discovered that Siren’s been hiding in the left edge room (lucky me). Conclusion - when you face a map with equal length and height of final rooms, just take your time and scout, before camping and going all-in ;)

Oh nice, you did get around to doing the video idea. I have since 100%ed all but a few achievements, but still great info! Still didn't know some of this even after multiple runs.

So, I was wondering which has a higher crit chance. The single heal with 12% or the group heal with 5% per hero. Assuming the group heal hits everyone, you have a 18.5% chance to get at least 1 crit.

I hope he covers the hidden stats of inordinate exsanguination :Rapturous:

Hidden mechanic in regard to modded afflictions and virtues: Any custom overstress results have a FIXED chance, meaning they cannot be modified in any way.

Would the virtue chance apply inversely for a +5% chance for an over leveled hero in a dungeon? (i.e. Level 4 in a level 3 dungeon)

10:33 Woulda been useful to know! Had this occur in a Warrens boss run but thankfully I went down the middle and scouted it.

I don't think you can actually get both the boss room being the lowest and most right, is because if there are two rooms that are equally right, one has to be higher than the other, making the lowest a 100%. Its a foolproof formula for the boss room. Also, this is possibly one of the first times that I actually learned something new aka level 0-1 can't get diseased after the mission. Good work collecting all the obscure info.

I suspected there was something up with hit rate increasing after a miss. Still, missing slows down the game so much. It doesn't make it "harder" once you know what you're doing. You just take multiple extra turns to finish the fight and recover. Really wish there were a limited use for healing after a fight outside of battle. Stalling makes the game so damn slow and it feels more like a corny exploit than legitimate recovery option.

I didn't know that about holy water and diseases. I'll have to take extra holy water to try to counter it. Diseases are more of a nuisance than anything and I think it's worth the inventory slot.

What about Horror? It's a curious status effect and I heard somehwere that each hero has an innate 30% chance to resist but I have found barely any information on it. Yet I know you can resist it because I have seen heroes resist it.

Came here. Learned something new. Back to playing DD. See you next time. :)

Started playing Darkest Dungeon recently, your tutorials/guides are really helping me right now, keep them going : P

Hey Shuffle, just wanted to thank you man! Thanks to your in depth guides I started to enjoy the game a lot more! Keep up the good work and hopefully I will see more videos for Darkest Dungeon 2! :D

I still watch these videos from time to time. I played my first run and it took over 350 weeks to beat the final boss. Yes, first time with all DLC, including crimson court.

Never knew about the boss speed debuff! That's awesome to know! Great content buddy keep it up!

Sees the mechanic for bosses with multiple turns: oh thats why the swine god went before my Arb and crit my BH and Occ to death's door on the first turn. Nice player protection :')

You should do a video on the random buffs or penalties you can get from using a facility one week, then going on an expedition the next. As an example a character that uses the bar can get a debuff of -5 Dodge for the entirety of the dungeon.

Nice video! Continue with the good work dude :)

I think, healing received and healing skills buff, both cap at 100%...like the end value of healing cannot exceed 100% I think

I was searching for those informations long time! thanks!

long time playing the game and thx your videos i learn a couple things more 👍

Huh, for some reason I though crits ignore prot. Wonder when that misinformation wormed into my brain.

I'm convinced that the game rolls for a sadism lvl aka difficulty at ever start of a dungeon and bases all subsequent rolls off of that difficulty modifier. The game often notably has a bias towards certain status effects when going through it.

I was thinking about the accuracy thing, I have played this game for over 1k hours and not a single time have I missed a 95% attack

I got a boss room that had a shortcut. Removed 2 rooms that I would have had to go through if that shortcut did not exist.

So the bit I'm not clear on still: The 95 hit cap, is that only the visible hit cap (that is to say you hit 95 cap but then the game adds 5 so it's 100 actually) or do you in fact always have a chance to miss? It sounds like the former but I wasn't 100% sure.

Your disease resist actually does go up when you get a virtue

Wait what, is then something broke? My dismass died because this crow played 2 turns, it attacked it, and it bringed him to 0, and then Screamed and he died...

Ever since I started using virtuoso man for stress healing I haven’t gone back

what does -100% food consumed actually mean? Can I stack for -200% Food Consumed? with Blood Thirst Ring and the Fasting Seal. Im poor early game so Saving money on food looks good. Plus Antiquarian seems too weak as I struggle for damage Vestal + Highway_man + Man_at_Arms + Antiquarian. I do like to buy lots of torches to get more loot in darkness then I need lots of food for all the traveling. Everything is expensive especially when my heros get to lv3 then not want to make me money anymore as i struggle to get a solid team together. I try to get heros that are flexable in positions and some front row damage dealers with jester or vestal in the back. Also it sucks playing Jestal together with antiquarian.

excelent video buddy

Apparently I'm more informed than I thought, I actually knew most of this. Not all though, some interesting stuff.

So just to be clear, the +4 ACC buff per consecutive miss only occurs for the player and not the enemy? I don't wanna lose my OP dodge comps.

Great video, super informative!

are there any secret information about MINI bosses like the collector and the thing of the stars like how it affect them so they can spawn/where - is the difficulty/duration of the quest affect them - party status like someone is dead or is afflicted - can MULTIPLE of them spawn or is it limited to one - can collect items/boss/explore room/clear room quest affect him(basicly does a type of quest guarantee more his chances to spawn then others) - can he spawn in the crimson court (he can spawn in the endless waves as a boss that why i'm asking the question)

Regarding healing crits, group skills can crit on individual targets. In fact, I have never seen a group healing skill (4 targets) crit on all 4 of its targets. Ever. Not saying it's not possible, but it seems like there's definitely more going on with crits and healing than meets the eye.

Does the location of the dungeon affect the chance of getting diseases at ending screen? Cuz it feels like it do (Warrens, Weald).

I wish you'd color the topic different from it's contents for example: Diseases resist - 32 - (33 * Disease Resist) Level Up [...] the "diseases resist" and "level up" were kind of hard to see since they have the exact same color in the video. it took me a few seconds to notice that there was a second title

interesting didnt know most of these mechanics

I was wondering why my stress reset to 0 after hitting 200 while virtuous. Thought it was a glitch

Is crit calculate with accuracy or after accuracy calculation?

Love your videos. I watched through this one hoping to learn about the “fated” quirk, and how it relates to accuracy. My guess is that is does not proc on an enemy dodge, only a player miss. Meaning it would be a better quirk earlier in a run when a hero would have less base acc? But also what is the base chance to re-roll a miss?? If it’s only, say, 20% then at 95 acc fated would essentially be worth 1 accuracy, or 5 at 75 base. Am I thinking about this right? Please help.

Are you playing with a mod that makes all your damage rolls the lowest they can be?

is there an alledged 100% accuracy to hit, everything always says 95% accuracy and some people alledge on a hidden code that 95% means 100% and that there is no 5% chance on missing.... I don't know how difficult was for RH to just put 100% if that was true.

damn, such a good video

In terms of hidden mechanics, one you didn't cover: how does hunger works in dungeon? Is it me only, but I noticed it appear at certain corridors on dungeon. How is it generated, random?

Speed rolls a 1d8 and distributes it among the combatants right? Or can two people get the same roll

I WAS WONDERING WHY A BONE NOBLE WITH 9 SPEED WAS GOING BEFORE MY GRAVEROBBER WITH 13 SPEED THANKS THAT CLEARS IT UP

Is it possible to get 100% scouting chance?

Lol, knowledge that will make one better at the game? Lets hide it deep... This is Darkest Dungeon God damn it!

Is the consecutive miss accuracy buff applied per unit or party wide?

One quick question: speed roll is it done once per round for every monster or one roll for all monsters? Same goes for heroes ... ?

Can you enter a secret room if it hasn't been scouted?

75 chance to retreat MY ASS. Tell me that after i got my whole party wiped out in a champler fight i failed to retreat 3 times!

What about death blow chances ?

10:39 it's actually impossible for all the three conditions to come up at the same time. They would need to be at the same distance downwards and to the right so they would literally need to overlap completely... as in "be on the same space"

Nice

I got only one critique I got with this video, you mix "turn" and "round" at random.

Do you know the words "South" and "east"?

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Booo Epic games boooo

Dd1 sucks cause to many randomizer shit happens