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You didn't mention her hidden ability: being the cutest in the roster.

I feel like ‘Emboldening Vapours’ needs an extra effect, like remove daze/stun at base and remove weakness when mastered

Another maa and pd synergy i like to have fun with is when the fight is about to end, maa can just guard someone that needs to be healed so indiscriminate science gets a bonus 10/15% heal :)

Video idea (if you haven’t already): your favorite / least favorite parts of DD2, mechanics you were happily surprised by / disappointed with, things you wish they would have carried forward from DD1 / things you’re glad they left behind

I think magnesium rain is one among the most unstable and well balanced abilities of darkest dungeon 2. Just think about all the "on hit" trinket and abilities how broken they tend to be with something that hit all rank at once while also appling dot. Magnesium rain tend to be almost always in my kit exception made for some comps where corpse clear is fundamental or in the sprawl (P.s and bosses of course). It tends to be a huge starter move for dodge token clear.

Highly recommend locking in the Lethal Feint on PD if given the opportunity. Throw out a plague grenade or magnesium rain with it and you'll clear out dodges multiple while also getting some crit tokens for the next turn to make up for the initial damage loss or one really insane Indiscriminate Science heal. Basically gives PD Take Aim vs anything that dodges or blinds.

the speed token on emboldening vapours+ is deceptively good. there's the more obvious application where you give it to your damage dealers to guarantee they go first and hopefully kill an enemy before they get their turn off, but speed has stronger utility regarding deaths door. if one of your teammates is at death's door with a dot, PD can speed herself so that she'll always be able to rescue them before a death's door check (one of the biggest complaints of death in the first game!). alternatively, you can speed a teammate who has a healing item and leave PD's action for herself, especially if you suspect she'll become incapacitated (e.g. the enemy has moves that can pull her, daze her, stun her, etc.) or if she has to decide between doing what could be a fight-winning bit of damage or saving a teammate that will die next round. of course, speed can enable a teammate to do anything first, which can be HUGE for slow characters like MAA / vestal, and can afford them some extra room to get value, knowing they'll go before any enemy action next round (e.g. you EV vestal, she uses her strength this round to take out an enemy, she uses her speed next round to heal/guard/cleanse a teammate.) EV+ is almost like a mini-encore, and it's one of very few ways to reliably manipulate your team's turns: don't sleep on it!!

I love this videos - as a very average DD player I do often find myself confused by the more complex skills and must be missing out so much

The first path for PD ,surgeon, is one of the easiest to use healer that I feel most people enjoy enough to not change very often

Only Man at Arms left to go man, great job so far on these videos :D

Great video, Shuff! Thank you for your work! :)

Physician playstyle sounds appealing to me. The trinket that gives block through ounce of prevention sounds awesome to me.

I hope rh changes the pet that heals on corpse kill to affect corpse clearing, it would be helpful to mag rain giving pd some self sustain

So i should only use breacher pd. Got it

If 'cause of death' could benefit from strength tokens it would be awesome, maybe busted. Personally, I wish 'disorienting blast' would give combo instead of consume it on upgrade to make her a secondary marking hero.

I love using magnesium rain to get rid of dodge tokens in creature dens for example, helps a lot!

Most of the apply on hit trinkets are really fun on her because of plague grenade and mag rain. Fisherman's reel can be pretty ridiculous if you can get the required complements. Also, worth mentioning that if you're running alchemist, corrupting bile gland's downside is a lot less impactful.

I believe the Surgeon path adds the melee damage to cause of death as well, it adds the +25 percent to whatever amount of DOT the target has, the bigger the amount the bigger the benefit.

taking Physician to the Sprawl and chucking burn trinkets on her is definitely the way to go. They're actually so so easy to get it's kind of absurd.

With the existence of conservation I think emboldening bapors should be buffed a little

Locked jaw surgeon PD my beloved... But thanks for another banger guide on my favorite character shuff.

Locked Jaw + Surgeon + Text book= Ultimate PD

Indiscriminate Science has to be the strongest ability in the game bar none. That shit's cracked.

Mag rain used to be even more busted cuz enemies get dodge more often than block and mag rain pings those off very efficiently. Nowadays it’s less efficient, so that 1 damage would be a really nice add

Wake up Shuff drop new vid

Man, even after using PD an absolute bunch I completely missed that upgraded Battlefield Medicine cleansed DOTS on herself when she uses it

if there are 2 characters that make a team feel good its PD and MaA. PD more than anyone else tho i feel saves my a$$ from dying. Best heals in the game, Indiscriminate Science is OP. its always the first mastery point i spend

I think I dazed and stunned an enemy (charged abbysal artillery with dead ringer) and the daze just disappeared but Im not sure.

The og blight+healer Flaggellant kinda overtook the title

CoD just speeds up DoTs, but bosses with like 3 turns per round have their DoTs already moving at lightning speed to the point they might as well be instant damage

Love you Shuf♥

Does Cause of Death count as a ranged or a melee attack?

Didn’t you already do this for pd?

How to play the Plague Doctor: pick Alchemist path ---> equip noxious blast and plague grande ---> Profit 💰💰💰

Often I just can't bring myself to leave her out of the party. The healing is just too much of a crutch for a noob like me. Plus, with good trinket rng she can do ridiculous blight damage

Do you still go back and Play Darkest Dungeon 1?

Do you ever run default path for card heroes?

Wow... even with a path focused on disorienting blast, it's still not worth using huh?

Is that only my wandering why this game does not get a reward for music

Comparing emboldening vapours to MAA's command is funny and sad.