If you’re on arsonist, there’s that trinket that heals you when you resist burn/bleed/blight and so that can be a free heal at the start of her turn

She is also great support for Leper in two of her moves where she can mark enemies to provide the token for chop or use heartlight to remove his blind.

3:28 I would also argue that Stealth in general kind of sucks for the player in DD2. Many enemies (especially the most dangerous ones) have cleaves, while they are far less powerful and more rare on player characters. Because of this, Stealth always feels way stronger on enemies than it does on your heroes.

Hear me out: they add Reynauld as a (holy) fire damage tank

Shuffle is like, a doctor es Darkest Dungeon. He is gonna write a thesis about the grave robber one day.

Her and the grave robber are both my fav characters in the game it’s frustrating that they’re both in a bad spot

4:14 a hidden benefit from it is the removal of dodge, in the creature area fight you can get 4 spiders with dodge and it really shows off its strength.

Idk why but Runaway's clothes and outfit makes me think of the hobbits, she kinda has that sort of design going for her.

9:42, this here makes me want a class (either a new one or a revised one) that changes a bunch of her skills based on hope (torch). It's fitting for her because she's new to the series and so is hope (though torch itself isn't). She is also uses fire, like hope. Now imagine if her name was Hope and not Bonnie lol.

Hellion with upgraded smoke is just mean. So much damage, and Runaway can even pull enemies to her to cut in half. Plus Hellion paths can have a lot of self bleed which is a very convenient heal dump target for cauterize.

It really sucks that there are no other consistent burn related characters, Plague doctor and vestal are kind of there but its too low to factor enough as there are cooldowns to consider. I kind of wish characters had more burn related moves to have a burn team. The fact that Dismas using a gun with gunpowder or some sort of fire/spark has no burn related moves is criminal.

The only problem I really have with runaway is she is essentially dead weight in the sprawl but if she's on the team youre heavily incentivized to go to the sprawl so you can get good trinkets for her, so you basically have to hope for bounty hunter on the way in or its gonna be a rough time

Hearthlight is also great at team wide dodge removal (which is less important since the patch that changed cultist fights to be more block heavy than dodge heavy, but still worth considering)

MaA now being able to yell at things so hard they catch on fire is almost as hilarious as him yelling things to death was back in the day before the Bellow nerf in DD1. Another good candidate for Firestarter is of course the PD. Supercharged Magnesium Rain, and then incinerate the backline with Blinding Gas/Plague Grenade. Also a decent way to make Backdraft work.

I really liked orphan path but that thing with dragonfly interaction when on position 2 is just sick!

Backdraft applies *remaining* Fire DoT to a target behind. If you hit once with Searing at base Path, you apply Fire 3 for 3 rnds. So next turn, assuming the enemy went before you, it's on Fire 3 for 2, so (6÷2 =) 3 dmg if you didn't apply mastery. But if you hit the guy your Highwayman attacked with your Firestarter, then Riposted, after it procced your Controlled Burn, the round after you Seared it? That's [3(3F×3rnds)+(3F×2rnds)]/2=17 Fire dmg. 33 Fire if you were smart and gave Backdraft Mastery, *to the enemy behind the one you wanted to have all that DoT*. It's like doubling your DoT dmg, every 2 rnds.

Wow Shuff, I can't believe you forgot to mention the REAL best source of burn, *Malediction*

Runaway's probably my favorite character, been runing backline orphan and gunning for the sprawl with lane 3 surgeon pd with cod to absolutely melt through encounters (usually swap her out for bh if i can when visiting the sprawl just so she doesnt get hard coumtered especially by librarian). I also lile using firestarter on pd's mag rain and run the trinket that increases burn damage but reduces duration on pd to basically have a 9 damage party cleave which has been really helpful at times

Something I've found fun is to run firestarter, and use it on plague doctor with magnesium rain. And then you put the "apply on hit: burn" trinket on the plague doctor as well. Huge burn nuke for all 4 ranks

Something to add with fire starter, it works really well on reposte, getting it on dismas or maa gets a lot of a value

Thanks for sharing that controlled burn isn’t affected by paths. It was annoying to test on survivor

Runaway can synergize with parties that tend to bleed themselves. Occultist heal and Ravager Hellion give easy ways to drop in cauterize.

Gamerant is correct, dance characters are awful and so is Runway. Just kidding. Shuffle thank you so much for breaking my dance phobia, I would've never had discovered Jester's true potential without your helpful guides in DD1.

If either Run and Hide or Hearthlight cured allies of burn then this god would be extremely viable. In the current state unless you get Librarian's items she's a B- tier hero.

I tried to put the occultist into the most op team you mentioned instead of jester, and his burn killed him in the first region. Got runaway and she was very fun. Could use fire starter on man at arms or pd to add it to their whole enemy aoe attacks. And smokescreen+ is so op. Also controlled burn is so good against bosses

I'd love to see this video revisited now that the Crusader is live and can provide consistent burn support. Been meaning to try a burn centric team. Maybe Vestal, Plague Doctor, Runaway, Crusader? Vestal to help keep the party alive and toss out consecreations, Plague Doctor for Mag Rain and heals, Runaway to pile on the burn and cash it in, Crusader to tank with some burn as well. Thoughts?

11:05 i think survivor is meant to be used in synergy with occultist... Maybe

Heartlight also removes dodge token from the enemy team.

Im shooketh that shuff didn't mention maa as a good teammate for her, like in every other vid lol

Nerfing a trinket (pile of ash) for a single player game just feels like a bad choice on Red Hook's part. If a character is an auto-pick, maybe nerf a skill or something. But a trinket? There's no guarantee you'll even see it. Tweak down the spawn rate of the trinket and let the thing be awesome when you do find it. That seems more fun, which is the goal, right?

PD can output pretty good burn if she gets the right trinkets. Trying to figure out a comp with them where it works, not so easy.....

Everytime put Runaway in a team I tend to use Flagellant in pos 2 with Maniac and upgrade Punish as the firs thing.

Is it normal that anytime i enter battle with the runaway, i hear : "Smokescreen everyday ay ay" in my head ? Or am i infected by memes ?

Can I use Control Burn at the Roots in the General fight to remove one stack of the debuff per turn?

imo shes only good as a backline as either orphan or arsonist, I prefer orphan. Firefly, Firestarter, Cauterize, Smokescreen, then either ransack or run and hide for movement. Your run her with heroes that can hit multiple times cause the effect of firestarter lasts for 3 turn not 3 hits. So things like magneium rain from plague doctor, riposte from HWM or MAA, anamneis from occultist, bellow from MAA also count and proc the effect (hes my go to target for this ability). Its not good to stack characters to abuse this as it has a 2 turn CD and 2 uses per battle. MAA is good in almost any composition tho so you usually have something to use it on.

Finally!! The meme character, now I can properly troll my runs with her lol

How timely, I was just starting to unlock all of Runaway's skills for Act V.

hearthlight removes dodge tokens on enemys I think Ive found it to be pretty useful

Will you re-do Arsonist now that Crusader exists in the game and cares about burn?

Does the new backdraft get effected by the arsonist damage decrease?

Just waiting for another hero to release that complements her better. Hopefully she gets buffed before that, though.

Orphan in rank 1 using fire starter into crit into backdraft was pretty fun. Ass ,but fun. Why did they have to nerf it, man.Other moves deal too little dmg

Do you have a quirk tier list for DD2?

Leper and Man-At-Arms pair best with Runaway. Smokescreen combo means Leper's blind doesn't matter and Chop will always hit while also blinding the enemy; amazing if you're Tempest or Monarch and building damage trinkets for massive chops. With Man-At-Arms you combo with Firestarter. Firestarter triggers with every move that targets enemies; this means if you Firestarter Man-At-Arms then Bellow he sets the entire enemy team on fire plus the status effects of his Bellow. Works great with Retribution was well as Burn DoTs will apply on enemies with every Riposte attack.

I wanted to like her but the paths kind of sucks. She seems to be meant to play 2nd and 3rd row on average with orphan but contradicts firefly being niche back but not working forward with the pull? Then orphan/arsonist 4th row for all the burn bombardment yet having to go to the front for the powerful skill.... i think she needs a rework/patch up

Why does she always runaway from me 😔

If I liked playing with fire for fun, I probably wouldn't like playing with a wooden toy for fun.

Firestarter usage on pd is just too broken

leper best character

I still think that using her is shooting yourself in a leg

Am I the only one who read "Bum" instead of "Burn" at first on the list of her strengths? 😂😂

Team JESTER !!! plz

Oh, oh! I know this one! The answer is: don't.

lez go

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This is the first guide that I consider actually kinda bad. I've no bias for any character, but Runaway is consistently underrated by many of the people who make guides on DD2 at the moment. And quite frankly I don't really know why as she's not that difficult to grasp. Look at the wiki: burn resist is the least common of all resistances in the game. It occurs primarily in 1 region, which can be actively avoided. With Arsonist, which clearly is her best path, she effectively guarantees fire to apply except maybe a 7% on some especially resistant enemies. It also feels that way: she just applies it unless you're stupid unlucky. If you were to aggregate resistances in comparison to e.g. blight, fire resistance is the rarest by far. Dragonfly is probably the most underrated ability in the entire game. It deals practically no damage, but enough to strip armor tokens, and applies 2x 4 burn. Since it applies damage it works with all "on hit" tokens - making her very versatile when it comes to trinkets. Jester + double Firefly is one of the strongest openers in the game. It strips the Evangalists of their armor tokens and puts them on deaths door with just a single hit from e.g. the MAA. It also works really well against the footsoldiers in the Sprawl, which will not only have their armor tokens stripped, but also have a nice dot applied that will kill them after death's door. Also works against many other common setups with tokens, like the double carrion eater. It also generates mark tokens, which are of course quite a bit better in DD2 than DD1. You do NOT want her constantly in the front rows, especially not with Arsonist. Following this advice will actually get her killed really easily, especially when you get an unlucky fire dot on yourself. She can START in the front, but she should never STAY there. Using things like Ransack, which is a really mediocre skill to begin with, to get her back to the front row is absolute trash advice. What do you hope to achieve doing that? Firefly again? Use her shitty melee options almost any other frontliner has better options for? She doesn't benefit from doing either as these abilities are too slow to use somewhere in the middle of the fight - those units in the front two rows are already dying to the dot as is. If you want to make Runaway work you need to accept what she does best: deal a large amount of slow damage. So get her to OPEN the fight and focus on the TANKIER enemies. Don't go around using her shitty melee abilities with minimal disruption just so you can get more slow damage in when it won't amount to anything anyway.

That's a pretty lame design for a class. I know this game is supposed to have flawed heros, but power hobo is pretty meh in comparison to basically any other class.

Why can no one say 'heartiest sucks'

Shes one of the weakest chracters IMO.