After learning leper's lore i can see why people see him as the "Chad" of darkest dungeon.

Long live the Chad Leper

Another Strength is that in his first reflection battle his ability is quite literally The Chad Stride.

Each of these class guides are gonna say "another great teammate for ___ is Man-at-Arms" because Man-at-Arms is insanely good

Monarch would be great if instead of +2 speed they gave +80% debuff resist. Then the path would be useful.

I always take "Break" in "The Tangle" vs the 2x armor soldiers, i think thats the best place for that ability.

I wish monarch gave him 100% ignore/resist blind when fighting cosmic enemies. Then he could effectively get the full value when he’s in a cosmic fight.

i just started playing dd2, but my go to backline with leper is occultist. Demonic pull gives leper access to combo'd backline squishy enemies

I love his Simple Flower Trinket against Leviathan. As Poet is pretty difficult to move so if the Hand keeps using Batter against him he becomes night unkillable.

Woah, thank you so much for the pace of uploads! You rock!

Interesting. I find Break super useful in fights where enemies stack block and super block which makes my Chop hit about as hard as Break, except Chop would only take away one armor stack.

Cleansing Clasp is also a good trinket on him, is usually guaranteed to take off the blind as you usually always have > 25 baubles

maniac flag seems to go well as you can just sap all the blind tokens amongst others and just put them on enemies instead

Biggest tip Totally hidden mechanic means that Leper is guaranteed to get blind tokens any time you get crit or strength 😭

The best change from DD1 to this is the fact that he doesn't T pose anymore when hit, that was always so strange lol

In my last run i had a Tempest Leper with Cruel Intent and a combo based team and it was so much fun. Long live King Baldwin.

Don't know if you already covered this topic, but I would like to see a video where you talk about the gameplay differences between DD1 and DD2 and your opinion on them, such as campaign progression (such as 5 chapters instead of one big campaign and the carriage vs dungeon topic), characters and Hamlet/altar progression (difference between altar and Hamlet as permanent upgrades and how you unlock new abilities and upgrades for heroes) and core combat ( such as removal of dodge, acc and prot in exchange of tokens and combo, enemies deathblow resist and more corpses interactions) and maybe other stuff like trinkets and enemies combat design. You certainly see all the time people saying how bad DD2 is compared to the first game, but the truth is that it is a very different yet familiar structure and gameplay, and the combat feels weirdly much more complex and simple (or straight forward) at the same time. I really like the difference between the 2 games, and I don't think any is superior than the other, both are enjoyable with different but familiar structures and design, but I would like to see your opinion on it and see what people think of this topic

personally I think Leper should also ignore blind if he has a token of some sort, maybe this could be changed via a trinket, so a whole move/s isn't overbuffed. For example one trinket could allow Leper to ignore blind if he has a strength token, but the downside to this trinket is that strength no longer increases his damage by 50% (and maybe have a second upside that makes combo tokens increase his damage by 50% instead :/)

I've only just unlocked all his skills, Leper either seems to be quite mediocre or with the right items/buffs pretty damn strong (e.g. critting 50-60's on the regular) The trinket that gives +66% crit when you are blinded is pretty nuts on him, though most stained items are eh. Usually take stun or bleed resist.

actual tip not found in descriptions, you can use some items that target enemies to consume the blind instead of the blind removing item, way more useful. Also 2 weakness 1 vulnerable plus 2 taunt to self is not deadweight, he got corpse clear, he got a self heal to tank those taunts it's pretty good.

I'm late to commenting on this but just in case, Ruin+'s bleed doesn't get nullified by bodkin afaik, so you can use Ruin+ with bodkin just fine (it has a pretty good synergy since it'll nullify/reduce other incoming bleeds while giving you extra actions from Ruin+)

This is a good guide to have an idea of how to play Leper, my only small complain about this is that you do not have access to all the skills right away (unlike in DD1 where you can purchase them) You have to go through the hero shrine until you get the skills you want or need for the set up

I always use Jester with Leper in the group but nowadays i started using Vestal as well and Consecration of Light feels so good on him, giving him extra turns with Jester really makes Leper a great Chop spammer. Only downside is that i feel like my party is too heavily focused on him as a carry sometimes so if he gets CC-d or i can't reach the enemy, that kinda sucks. Great vid as always!

Hello Shuffle FM just wanted to tell you that the 3 Boss got reworked and your guide with the taunt no longer works. I think a new one would be great contend. Thank your for all the great videos. You made my return to playing DD way more fun, your altar of hope and the Hero best build guide was super helpful..

I use MAA's command to cure blindness and give attack to Leper, then use consecration of light for the attack and maybe crit.

I might be weird, but I prefer Poet path over Tempest, and for these reasons: 1) Poet can tank, self heal and stress heal incredibly effectively - I mean, you almost never attack (I don't count Intimidate), but he's close to immortal and the rest of the group can chill out and even the healers and stress healers can focus more on dmg. 2) You almost never lose a round by being stunned or moved, which is the most annoying thing. 3) He works better with any group, because he doesn't need that much support as Tempest. He does everything he needs himself - but I do recommend to group up with Nightsworn, because speedy Repartee makes him even better tank.

I always have the most fun with leper playing tempest and stacking up as much debuff resist as possible between trinkets and the slime pet. If you rarely have to worry about blindness tokens, he starts to feel like more than half of a character.

I literally had no idea 2 dazes caused stunned, now with this newfound knowledge, I can actually play the game.

one of m'y favorite teams so far is chopp lepper upfront, riposte man at arms, then maniac flagellant and guard vestal in the back

Occultist works pretty well with Leper for no other reason than pulling backline to the front and marking them all at once to just keep the chop machine going

One run i had a Lethal Feint Leper with Calibrating Censer so i would just have him miss one round, get crit and strength, and every time i readied up another chop, my mind would always provide the sound of a gun cocking as he lifts his arm up

In the early access if you give ruin leper an extra turn to cast ruin a second time you can keep the buff from the previous ruin making him keep the buff for 6 turns.

Be easy on the dude's low resists, he is a very sickly man

Maniac Flag with Lepper is funny, Flag’s punish when upgraded inflicts Combo or if you don’t want to upgrade it, Lashes gift eats Lepper’s blinds which you can then Sepsis onto an enemy.

I didn't realize the Monarch reduced damage for chop outside of cultist encounters. I really need to read these paths more carefully, I thought was low rolling every time

I'm very fond of using Occultist with Leper. Debuff and combo enemies, yank squishy backliners forward for Leper to chop.

I had a Leper the other day with a couple of +dmg quirks, cultist trinket that gives +dmg for each negative token, he was chopping for 80+ dmg. Such a chad.

I don’t know if I’m crazy, but it seems like chop/hew doesn’t consume the combo token if the leper manages to resist the blinding effect, or it could be that he wasn’t blinded when the attack lands. It’s a nice little thing to have even if the blinding chance are still quite high even with upgrades

Thank you for hovering over the tooltips.

Your videos have helped me so much. Quite grateful for the high quality content

Leper is one of the coolest looking characters. I wonder what happened to the Abomination. Such a fucking cool idea and so well done on DD1. Anyone would know and would mind replying?

I’ve found that the lure trinket (can’t remember what it’s called) works well with Poet Leper for tanking. It often procs for me when I click intimidate for triple taunt with withstand active. And he takes basically no damage while drawing most of the aggro.

One neat little pairing I found is Leper and Occultist. My favorite combo is demon's pull into chop.

I remember using Leper for the first time and thinking he was really bad compared to his DD1 version, but after putting him with a combo team (Runaway and Highwayman), he was a lot better and a lot of fun to use, despite the damage still being a bit underwhelming.

The Giga Chad of Darkest Dungeon has returned

Im using HWM with Tracking Shot and its pretty gud, but haven't tried any other heroes yet Monarch Leper is good but you need to carry him to the end, when he becomes an absolute beast Long live the king

ive been using poet leper/examinate flag/grave robber/alchemist pd as a big dot team while leper spams withstand and bash to tank, its been doing really well

Hoping for vestal soon, her bonk setup seems kinda crazy on paper

The Chad, the KING, THE MAN!

the legend of chad thundercock continues

Leper w/ MaA, Runaway, and Jester actually sounds really fun

I really like running Maniac Flagellant with him and just removing his Blind with Lash's Gift.

Good to see Leper is no longer "chop + solemnity" the character lol

Occultist I feel is also good with leper because he can mark enemies and also debuff them with weakness and the 50%more damage.

Make vids like this for every character right now please. Thanks I’ll wait

Leper clutch 80 dmg with chop is the most beatiful thing i've seen in this game

Had a fun run where i built around my jester largely, runaways smokebomb was a carry since i could ignore blinds and when i couldn't id just lasha's gift with flag, worked well enough but far from a meta build

Perfect time for me. Literally playing with Leper, Flag, Vestal, and Plague doctor. Maniac Flag to take away his blinds and stick them on enemies and Seraph Vestal to give him crit

So would flag be a strong teammate because with one of his paths he can take negative tokens from his teammates and then sepsis them onto others, plus he has stress heals, strong healing, and dots for strong dps support, plus taunt for when leper needs to heal

sraph vestal and any occultist make him a powerhouse

Wow i never realized movement resist was so bad in dd2. 30 seems to be the max across all characters without paths. I wouldn't actually call his bad because he upgrades later to normal move resist.

Why would you prefer to take Runaway over Plague Doctor? Asking out of curiosity I just started playing

Tank Leper is probably my favorite playstyle for him.

My current 'slap team' is Vestal, Dismas, Jester, Leper with Dismas opening 90% fights with upgraded riposte move. Love em, got me through act two no problem currently slapping away act 3 in first try, mid way through.

be aware Cruel intent (blind gives crit) is kinda bad on Tempest path because of the debuff resist, it feels like you only get a blind about half or a third of the time and then crit only 70% of those. If you got 2 alternative trinkets for 30-40% more damage it's going to be way more consistent with less need for marking enemies.

I love leper ngl, i think my highest hit with him was 79 crit i believe, so satisfying

Speaking of the Monarch path as “dead weight,” sure. But what’s to keep you from spending 32 relics just before the mountain region, assigning Monarch just when it’s most useful?

I love monarch leper, he's carried a few of my runs, and i completely disagree that he's dead weight in normal fights. He's still a great tank with health easily in the 40s or 50s with food, and the intimidate spam makes sure everyone is weakened and attacking him. Plus speed in cultist fights is great if you just know not to use slow trinkets on him

I owe my first clear of Denial to Leper. Got cultist trinket that gives 66% crit at the cost of constant blind. I had Jester on the team with Leper. 'nough said.

Hail to the king!

On blind I typically just pop Ruin for that turn. I typically run Vestal, Jester, Runaway, and Chad.

I just use the milk soaked linen for leper works like a charm

The team i run with leper is jester ocultist runaway and leper ocultist being able to get rid of corpses and get a backliner on front and putting a combo is perfect for leper

Leper likes the censer trinkets a lot imo

I like to pair leper with a maniac flagellant to steal debuffs as well as combo

Watching this made me realize how in the current state of the game tanks are not very efficient outside road fights. There are so many aoes and multi turns per round that even with taunt you can't really tank all hits. Yes you consolidate damage somewhat but then it pushes you to heal the tank more often forcing two players (healer and tank) to not deal damage as a result.

Fog before Sunrise

Seems like Monarch is a great commander.

Long live Baldwin IV the Leper King!!

I run from back to front grave robber, plauge doctor, highwayman, and leper

After 1.0 and changes to cultists break is now actually really good, you should try it Poet is spamming bash mpnarch still sucks

hay i notice that Leper might have this flesh eating sickness in germany we call it "Lepra". Miiiight be the cause of his non existent reistences....imean you can pull the flesh right off , poor guy

why is break a bad move? it seems like a great way to deal with armor. deal normal attack damage while removing all armor tokens, other options require a damage-less turn (like occ hex) or just doing partial damage to remove tokens one at a time.

Very good video and good insight. please make one for flag as well.

One time I got a trait where he loses all debuff tokens at the start of a turn if I have 25 relics

Great video as always and even greater with timestamps hahaha!

Just ran a GR - MAA - Flag - Leper combo just for fun but ended up killing all region bosses in one run ._. Currently at the mountain with this team but I have high hopes since this team turned antiquarian fight into a pillow slap from the pillagers. And there's extra mastery points i can't spend to add to that I just set up my leper so that there was no way he could get the blind token (about 98% debuff resist with the path and trinket choices, and more with reflection ofc) and oh, +10% extra crit chance. It's nice having a Leper slap a +/-50 DMG crit two turns in a row after Ruin

Honestly, my hot take is that there is never a reason to NOT have Solemnity. It's just SO good.

Long live the king

You dont need to clear his blind, its better bring people who give combo, especially if you get the trinket that gives you crit bonuses if youre blind.

First and foremost, friendship with Monarch ended, Tempest Old King's Court (Jestal-MAA-LEP) gang rise up. Man, that's upsetting, I always thought 100% damage bonus overrides the regular decrease. Why would you run a situational +25% when there's a constant +33%? Not to mention Lair Bosses ain't considered Cosmic. Genuinely hope that's an ovelooked coding error by RedHook and not the intended behaviour, cause the latter is Yellowhand levels of stupid Disagree a tiny bit with Intimidate, new Sluice is spooky enough to sometimes warrant an upgrade + Wharf Rats also go into stealth. Not saying prioritizing Intimidate upgrade over, say, Solemnity is better, but it has its place depending on who you run with Baldwin, mostly (usually should be either a Tracking shot, Hearthlight or Illuminate alongside him to remove the need for upgrading). Considering how Ruin's +DMG buff tooltip is misleading ATM and only works for 3 turns instead of 1 Battle (Red Hook pls either fix description or make it 1 use battle-long), the best way to use Encore on leper is after he's used his natural 3rd turn, assuming you popped Ruin as Leper's very first action. This way, Ruin has already come off cooldown, but Ruin's buff didn't expire yet and thus gets a 6 turn duration with a second use. Got some dummy big damage that way on Denial locks before they remade Infernal torch being 1 flame at all times and Lurker got useless as a perk Also, off-topic question: do you know what's the base scouting chance is and does Childish Shamblino put it into negative values? Been wondeing if getting Unabridged Edition evens it out or not

Been wanting to run cruel intentionally leper with duelist ignore blind skill. Seems more consistent than combo

I hope next video with Highwayman and You it will be just 10 second video with telling you to pick Sharpshoot and spam take aim with pistol shot lol.

Me running damage poet whenever i use leper

You forgot an amazing ATIQ trinket, that at the start of turn removes negative token

Can he resist his own blind? If yes how does it work? if i upgrade chop and give him 60%+ debuff resistance does this mean he can't blind himself?

What´s with the little skull icons over some of the characters at the bottom?

My man Shuff disrespecting Break, how could you? I've been hitting like the 20s on Break through Block+, something which the rest of Leper's kit can't do. I mean, with how much more prevalent Block has become on Cultist fights compared to before, it's really important to chew through quickly for fast kills.

I just put this on a background video and realised my comp was occ/run/maa/leper rit/ars/van/tem - trying to use strat withdrawal and dragonfly for some front rank marks and DoT

Ruin doesn't add up mathematically for me. So you lose 1 turn of dealing damage because you used ruin, which is equal to 100% of a dmg skill. And instead you get 3 turns +20% dmg which is in total 60% of extra dmg, which is less than the 100% if you'd just use a dmg skill instead. Did I miss something?