Darkest Dungeon II | 2023 Guide for Complete Beginners | Episode 2

hello everyone how's it going Dr incompetent here and let's resume our complete beginner's guide to darkest dungeon 2. now one of the things that's cool about when you purchase new items that can drop either for use in battle at the end or Stagecoach items or trinkets is that you get those for use in your next immediate run so what you're doing when you purchase what we did with the candles of Hope which was the only choice available this is basically unlocking the potential for new types of items to become available in our game so very much like in you know slay the Spire when you get new cards or something or new relics now they can drop now they're a part of your game and it's a new calculation that you get to work toward and it can create new Combos and builds now of what we got we can't install this pot and still Stagecoach item we can push Z to open the stagecoach just click down here we can't do this until we get to the end as we talked about this item right here we're gonna try it on paracelsus because her you know her knife looks serrated but I think that um they might imply that we have some other serrated trinket equipped a lot of the times trinkets will combo with each other so you just have to kind of keep an eye on that but I want to see if this actually does trigger and combat skills equip combat item oh no that's just normal this would be the last thing to equip which is the invigorating intoxicant and this would be like do we want to bring somebody um who's on death door do we want to help them out with this now I don't want to give this to paracelsus because paracelsus will probably be trying to heal them so instead we could just give this to Audrey and now we have all of our new stuff equipped all right and let's go ahead and make a March going forward on the map you can see there are no options for us we just have to go straight so I'm gonna go through this Village and hit all of these leaf fun times and here's the bridge a change in the air all right I'm gonna stop and yeah all that there is right now is the barricade and then okay let's go for it so we'll get into a little scrum right here but let's get the leaf pile quite double work all right so again we have a combo or a battle here but there's three lost souls I think the last time we fought two now if we hold alt over them I love that the narrator interacts with the fact that I did closer inspection on an enemy that's awesome so I just am holding all while having the mouse over this lost soul to take a look at him and remember again these do not have death door capabilities so these will die when we hit them to lethal and they are strong against the blight which changes some of our calculus with paracelsus and I'm going to do list Advance on this middle and I'll show you why in a moment all right and the guy's attacking us oh we got the blight which is a shame now the reason I attacked this one right here was because I'm gonna do flashing daggers this time uh with Audrey I haven't done it yet this is an AOE it's gonna hit both of them and I want to make sure that we are focusing on this one as well there we go reason I'm doing that is because they have a higher blight resistant they'll probably still work but I don't like the fact that they have that high wipe resist and remember the gold bar under the enemy's Health means that they still get to act so if we could kill this guy before he got to act that would be tremendous we can blind them the guy in the back but we're gonna kill him so fast that it's not necessarily that valuable so what I'm going to do is just try to put the light on the guy in the middle I can't hit this guy in the third position and he did resist it as we were afraid of and then there we go so that's what we're looking at is dismiss or perhaps barriston to finish that guy but he's gone now notice how um his let me see something really fast he did filthy mortality okay that's why so he did um filthy morsel this attack and it moves him forward and so that's why his bone pile was up in the front usually in the game this is an extreme annoyance where if there's a pile of the enemies remains taking up the position it means that you can't Target some of the enemies and it usually parties have a harder time hitting the third and fourth position so sometimes you have to actually just attack these to clear them out and that's why I was kind of confused like why is he was in the third position why is his body over here but no in the repost animation he was actually moving forward we just didn't get to see that happening really and so he moved up and did that so now we need to finish this guy now luckily for us barriston's Crush does hit positions one two and three so we can take a swing oh we've got that guy what one Health that's brutal at least he resisted the second stack of flight okay so he's been blinded by the flame and has an impressive one Health what I'm gonna do is not worry about this guy because pretty much everybody can hit him I'm gonna focus on hitting this lost soul in the third position with people who can actually hit back there Audrey's our specialist for at range combat now if I do Throne dagger it'll be guaranteed to do the most damage I could try poison dart and sneak something in there but they have that high blight resistance so I'm just going to do this now another reason I'm not going after this guy at the moment is because he's not on the turn order we can see dismiss paracelsus are going to get to act and then this guy acts and this guy's not even on the radar yet so I'm just gonna throw back there hoping for a crit of course all right so what we do at this point is um oh I guess I'll slice this guy finish him with dismiss now crits are fantastic nothing happened there but very often when you get a crit you will relieve people's stress or people might have a positive affiliation a relationship gain because of it nobody has any stress to relieve so that didn't happen but people usually feel great when you get crits and conversely they feel the opposite effect if crits are landed against your party all right so I want to hit this guy in the back all I can do with paracelsus is throw her blinding gas back here but if we get blind it's a big deal because this is a 50 chance right there to miss and then repost triggered and you know thankfully they did filthy morsel so they moved way up to the front which means we can hit them with a wider array of abilities and I'm gonna actually try to I'm gonna Rampart okay well we win with impunity oh did we get a Mastery point we did okay so this is part of a must be part of the tutorial just for doing that we got five Mastery points before we go into the Inn Mastery points are incredible what these as it says right here you invest these at the end there's a trainer at the end you can spend these on to upgrade your hero skills so for example blinding gas do list Advanced Throne dagger all of the abilities that we have right now with our characters we can actually Master them and they just become more powerful they become more efficient like they do more damage they have a higher crit chance they have more effects that they do things like that it's always a good idea and you can click on this to get the further point Mastery points are earned mostly through combat victories you don't normally get five for an easy battle like that but I think they're just want to demonstrate to us what these do so this is a huge windfall of Mastery points now just be it's important to note you can Master a skill once and that's it so you do it and it's mastered and there's no more upgrading it beyond that at least that I've seen in the game now if you die or if you start another run all of your Heroes skills will start out with no Mastery and you have to kind of remaster them but that's part of the roguelike is like choosing which skills for your combination for which part of the game you're going into do you want to have mastered did you think give you the best benefit and we're getting some rural riches some bobbles and some relics we'll take it all it was really easy for us it's great are you shaking I'm shaking in I'm afraid uh bariston is a little bit of a low Health but by the time we get to the Inn he's going to restore all that Health now they're telling us what bobbles are and this is very useful again the archive is so good if you're ever wondering eventually the game will explain everything to you and you can check this at any time so baubles are used to purchase trinkets Stagecoach items and repair the stagecoach so you don't buy in items or one-time consumable combat items you buy Trinkets and Stagecoach items with bobbles and they come in different forms in each region just you know for flavor but they spend the same however it is worth noting as it says right here they take up different Stacks in your inventory so if you sandbag them across different regions in the game then you're gonna be kind of bogged down with bobbles in your inventory so it's just a kind of inventory management game and then relics we got here which is this kind of like gold Square this is like basically just money dollars and it buys most supplies and you get them a lot so you can see uh if I push inventory at the bottom I have 58 relics five Mastery points and 20 bobbles I'm gonna go here and I'm just gonna break this leaf pile and oh my gosh we're going around to Ben and oops I didn't mean to do that okay and go over here and yikes we made it all right we're at the end my favorite place once again see so this is the torch and Crown and you get to different ends different areas and this is a different Inn Keeper and this Innkeeper actually looks like you might want to stay here he's got the candle to illuminate he's keeping his coin purse close but that's fine he's got a you know affable looking pipe he is weathered but everybody in this game is weathered now we got two candles just for doing that so pretty easy access to candles right there and we're going to click continue alright so now we have actual options at the end that we didn't have before we can end the Expedition which we don't want to do we can go to the provisioner all right and it's actually not badged but uh we haven't or wealth no longer has meaning indeed it ever did it did calm down dude no this guy The Innkeeper will sell you stuff and the color of the portrait helps you understand what kind of an item it is or the border of the Poltergeist so this radiant flame right here um this thing is free and you can get it right here and attach it to your Stagecoach and this is a choice that you want to make which is would you like to have a five percent increase in positive relationship chance a five percent boost to crit and lose your flame at a 25 less clip when you're traveling at the expense of 15 less candles of Hope found so it's the classic question of risk reward do you want to get more candles but have some less bonuses now I'm going to say I'm a very cautious and conservative player all right so I like this I liked playing at full Torchlight in the first game and I like this because positive relationships are so strong five percent crit boost is ridiculous and losing the flame less just makes you have to stress out a little bit less uh as you're going so I and I don't personally feel that 15 less chance to get candles of Hope uh is a staggering reduction so I like this however if you want to get more candles of Hope faster to level up your account and you don't feel that these positive benefits uh justify the loss to candles of Hope then don't take this but I'm Gonna Take It and then we can buy combat items okay which are these red bordered items and these are ones that you equip On Your Heroes and you can use in battle remember to free action and some of them are quite incredible bandages remove bleeding and heal you very very strong uh glimmer of hope we're gonna buy this immediately and I'll explain to you why if you recall um I'm gonna push escape and I'm going to click on paracelsus and let's see if I can find this conditions here we go you'll notice how in the conditions tab um this in gives -10 positive and minus 10 negative relationship chance it's pretty funny but look at this the hero goal for paracelsus is to use a glimmer of hope twice so we want to make sure we buy the glimmers of hope so we can use them and just get two candles and you want to check everybody's hero goals while you're in the end to see if there's a particular consumable item or thing that you need that you can get here land a killing blow on pillagers so we want to fight pillagers enter the tangles so if a tangle is a choice for us to go to we want to go there for baristan and visit the hoarder which is just something on the map that you'll recognize if you played the first game when you see his face right now this is fine and I'm going to just close this up and I'm going to look at the tool tip for the provisioner it says right here the provisioner offers a limited amount of supplies that can be purchased for relics or bobbles the selection varies each time you reach an in so right you don't know what you're going to get um now if you close the provisioner screen and open it back up within the same end it doesn't re-roll it or anything like that it's still the same stuff now what do we want we want that that's great and you can just learn what these different items are we definitely want these so I'm going to buy one for three or you can double click on them I need at least two I'm just gonna buy two for right now these are great glimmer of hope just because they give you 15 flame so if you're you know torch on your Stagecoach is going down you could just use these babies in combat free action to boost up your flame and it will help you you know potentially blind the enemy and all of the effects that you get for your flame level so I like these a good bit but I'm not going to go crazy and buy a ton they're pretty cheap as well now what do we not have so we don't have any anti-venom which could be very useful for removing blight we don't have any bandages for removing bleed very nice burn Salve for removing burn and healing we could also get a lot of them if we want to help people get de-stressed the smoke bomb uh blinds an enemy and this is something you can use the slime mold this is an in item you notice how the portrait is this kind of like green these are things you use at the Inn now the slime mold heals you but it has some other nasty potentially nasty or potentially positive effects uh in this the sense that you could get diseased or you could get um a quirk right and we don't really want a disease or a negative Quirk but it could work out this gives you burn resistance until the next in so if you use this for the whole run until you get to the next end you get a boost to burn resistance very useful if you know that that's going to be an issue now here's the whiskey flask two Targets get a positive pip of relationship the playing cards give you a 75 chance as a party to get a positive pip or a 25 chance to get a negative relationship for everybody these help you against disease and this uh let's see taunt so if you want to use the book of creative insults we already have one on ferriston it just gives him a five percent chance to take the hits which can be useful if you're trying to stay alive now we don't have enough Bobble points to buy the storage trunk which is super awesome it gives you more inventory slots on your Stagecoach but we do have enough to purchase some of these Trinkets and I usually don't buy trinkets uh unless I feel that it's insane it just makes you go faster at the expense of your health but I'm gonna save up for some Stagecoach stuff now what I am gonna buy I'm gonna buy bandage and I think it's worth it to buy more than one of a consumable because they stack and when you equip it on your hero they get the stack so you can you know have two to use in battle for example uh let's see do I want burn South I know I'm gonna have one two three yeah that's probably just enough for everybody to have one okay that's good now as far as in items go I want the whiskey and I'm gonna buy the whiskey uh with the rest of my money I'm just gonna spend all of my money now this is your choice what you want to buy or not buy um and I'm going to push Escape and you can right click on bariston for example and you can go over to uh relationships and you could see that everybody is it like just right in the middle nine out of 10 or 20 rather and we want to move up and get good relationships with everybody so to do that we could say all right let's use the whiskey flask so you basically click on the whiskey flask and then it says select two recipients and I select bariston and dismiss and they drink together and then they both get a relationship boost together and then I'm going to use another whiskey flask on Audrey and paracels and just boost them up just you know starting to work toward a gain in relationship now I'm going to go to the next tab on the bottom and in the bottom left of the HUD you'll see the kind of options for the in and these are arrows moving forward until it's time to leave the Inn I'm gonna go to the Mastery trainer and you could do these is the greatest teacher of all you can do these in any order so and you can go back to the provisioner or you can go to the Wainwright and back to the Mastery trainer at any time until you leave the end so don't worry about doing these in order so you can see right here we have five Mastery points to spend here's bariston's skills and we can switch between anybody the pool of Mastery points is shared between everyone so what I like to do is raise people's skills at least one skill for each person and I pick skills that I use the most to get the most benefit or if there's something that I know is really really good for helping me um in a pinch so I love dualist advance and if you Mouse over it you can see how it will improve it tells you on the top two bars underneath where it says melee and has the positional Pips in Gold it shows you what it will upgrade to so the damage goes from three to five to four to six the crit chance doubles it gives you another stack of repost it also gives you a stack of Dodge which is insane so it's like dismiss will get to retaliate or Counter-Strike three times and he'll get one fifty percent boost to dodge if he's attacked so it just makes this ability do more damage help dismiss with some survivability and get you more retaliation so I really really like this because I love this ability so I'm gonna um get to hold the mouse button down to choose this and then it's mastered and once the skill is mastered you'll see this little kind of Blue Mountain Triangle Man on the bottom to tell you you've done it now I'm going to switch to laundry and I'm going to upgrade uh poison dart with Audrey I love poison dart because I feel like damage over time is so strong in this game and this makes it so it it doubles how much damage per turn they take from the blight and it damages the initial point of damage they take from this and doubles the crit chance so I really enjoy this I'm gonna do that now for paracelsus uh I'm gonna actually come back to paracels it's gonna go to barriston what do I like with bariston I really like Rampart because it has some crowd control abilities and it helps me change position with dismiss because I want to do dualist Advance a lot so once dismiss gets into that first position he can't do dualist Advance again unless he moves so we don't have Point Blank shot yet unfortunately to just move dismiss back on his own so Rampart allows baristan to come back from that second position go into the first position and look at this when it upgrades it does more damage it also then will stun a Target that's been comboed so if there is a target that has combo it doesn't just Daze it stuns it'll take their entire turn which is phenomenal I like that quite a bit but bolster is also a very very strong choice to upgrade because this is one of our few stress relievers in this party composition and it's actually our only targeted stress reliever Audrey can do her own I think with her absinthe but as far as like not using an item this is it and this gives you it doubles it so you can reduce your stress by two and the stress of an ally by two and remove weak it also gives him a guard so it's very very strong remember that you do have to have five plus dress so I'm not going to take this right now because nobody is that stressed out and I don't anticipate that until you know by the time we get to the next Inn I think we'll be fine so I'm actually going to upgrade Rampart like that and now I'm going to go back to paracelsus and I have two Mastery points I think I'm going to spend two Mastery points on paracelsus because paracelsus is our kind of support character and if I upgrade to heal the heel changes basically at this point so that you heal more and it removes bleed blight and burn from paracelsus herself so it heals more on an ally and it helps both paracelsus and the Ally remove the damage over time so if you get swept by something or it's spreading around this is like a two for one it's incredibly good and just having extra healing is something that I enjoy you don't you don't need this until you need it as they say but might as well have some extra healing so I'm going to take that and then here are the choices between do you want a bigger noxious blast or a more powerful blinding gas and in my opinion both of these are fantastic but I like if we upgrade this you'll see that the blight goes to six damage per turn combined with the way that we took blight with Audrey this is just going to make us be able to put a ton of light on like a really hard enemy so that it is taking damage every turn to help us get through it faster so I personally like blight a lot there are certain enemies that are just strong against blight and will counter that but that's okay so this is how I decided to spend my five Mastery points you can of course spend them however you like now once you're done let's go to the wing right equation of my faith indeed and here we get to equip both the radiant flame if we choose and the pot and still there's no negative to the pot and still beyond the fact that it takes up a slot on our Stagecoach we don't need to repair the wheels or the armor because we're at full but notice just note the cost it's eight bubbles to repair a wheel or an armor now I'm gonna double click this and you see it goes right here the mountain will not be denied I bolted it all right and then I'm going to double click this and it says once equipped it cannot be removed during this Expedition so it is telling you hey you have to keep that on there now again I like having this on there so I'm gonna go with it with the strength of your convictions my convictions are strong and let's check out the Wainwright it's the only place where you can install or remove Stagecoach items indeed you can drag them or you can double click them and repair so we talked about that mastered skills each Hero has one upgrade level correct and you master it mastered skills can yield dramatic results spend your points wisely they're shared amongst the entire party yes we did have to talk about that and then the Mastery trainer is the only place where you can do this so you can only do this at the end she's there every time though um and I always spend the points I never really sandbag them I don't see the reason to okay so now we've done everything and it's time to go to select route so now we get into more of the roguelike element of the game where you get to choose which region you want to go into do you want to go into the sprawl or do you want to go into the tangle and there's different enemy types different threats different um environmental interactions with each choice but it's beyond just the fact that you know what enemies am I gonna fight in the tangle or the sprawl it's also you have to think about what is the reward for doing picking this and um what is the goal for this particular so this says right here um you can see this is civilization which means there's a hundred percent more hoarders there's a hundred percent more academic studies and caches so civilization means there's people here so you're going to find more people to interact with on the map the way is lit just means like you get more scouting and you get more assistance encounters which are the people on the side of the road so both of these are very good and then down here this is the goal no time to bleed so if we don't go to the field hospital we get three candles which is amazing so I don't think we'll need the field Hospital let's not go there now it says right here region choice you got to select which region each region has different enemies and challenges and your party may be better equipped to deal with one over the other so like for example when I was talking about the fact that I just loaded up on blight one of these choices might be better or worse against blight Undead usually are not affected as much by the blight so you might be like well the sprawl is going to have you know more enemies that I can hit with the blight that's something to consider but there's many pieces of the puzzle to making this decision that we have to consider reason Choice two regions have a condition and a goal the condition tells you what special game effects are in place for that time only the goal gives you an optional accomplishment to aim for if you successfully complete the goal you'll be given the reward once you arrive at the next end so as long as we make it to the next day and we get three candles plus the two candles for getting to the end so we get a windfall of candles now this is just part of the randomness of the game this condition and goal is different every time but the final thing is I want to remind us that we need to go to the tangle I believe it's bariston's Hero action so if we go here he will give us candles just for going to the tangle so that's there but also you see how we get 100 hoarders I'm pretty sure uh and we can go back to uh The End by just pushing escape and right clicking on baristan and let's just check his condition his hero goal is to tangle and if we also look over here at dismiss he wants to visit a hoarder so we have 100 chance double the chance of seeing more hoarders so we need these two so both of these are going to gain a benefit um now I don't I think pillagers might actually be more likely um in the sprawl but I can't recall and you'll just have to learn as you play what types of enemies are going to be in each region or you could just you know Google it if you wanted to but I like to just kind of figure it out on my own so everything tells me to take the tangle you know bariston gets a boost we might get dismissed and there's three candles so I like this quite a bit so I'll select it modern range resignation and death this land is truly barren it's fine okay and then you just select right here where it says rest the tangle and it says rest for the night and then Journey over from this point you can't go back to the provisioner or do anything else at the end you're just going to move ahead and we don't have anything else to do so I'm just going to say yes foreign and then from this screen it's a cool shot of your people kind of on the back porch of the Inn looking out there's your Stagecoach getting ready to go and you say embark all right so we got the hero goal right there so we got the two candles for bariston so now it's telling you outside of the valley the road becomes more complex to see what lies ahead open the mini map with M or you can click it over here map details it shows you the road ahead as best you know it right so a lot of it's not clear what's going to be there and this is very similar to the first game where you had to kind of like move around in the random dungeon to discover what will be and if you can scout you'll know what's going to be in the hallway what's going to be in the room and it gives you more information locations that you can visit are shown by icons if a location is scouted it'll tell you exactly what's there but if it's not scouted it has a question mark scouting your party has a base chance to scout each location when you enter a new region different Stagecoach items can help you Scout more reliably also look out for watchtowers which will reveal all remaining unscouted locations in that region indeed they will and Road objects every road even Road detritus can sometimes yield useful supplies crash through debris to find loot and this is what we've been doing crashing through the leaf piles now the the road detritus changes in this region so there's going to be like these piles of wood and items and things just whatever it is fear not the stage coaches built with strong stuff none of these will ever damage your Stagecoach if your Stagecoach gets damaged it's by a road hazard not by one of these War rewards only resignation fantastic all right so I'm going to click on this to just clear the goal and here's the map so here's where we are and we could choose to go middle right or left now if we go to the right you'll see that there's a hazard so we lose an armor then we'll get to a layer there's a cache there's a cache here's a candle we don't know there's a hospital so we know we need to avoid the hospital for the goal and Watchtower Oasis hero Shrine we want the hero Shrine always prioritized at least in my opinion you really really want hero shrines we'd love to Find Hoarders here's one so it looks like this left path is really doing great for us so I'm just gonna hang left um this is an oblivion tear loathing is something we haven't yet talked about um we don't want it so at least I don't right now and this again it's a risk reward thing and we'll see it and talk about it more when we get to it but I'm going to hang to the left we don't know what's here we'll get a cash of supplies which is awesome we don't know candle don't know uh then we'll get a hero Shrine which we want don't know now there is a rough wheel patch which stinks but we have to take that to get the hero Shrine so we'll lose our Wheels then we have this we gotta take the hoarder everybody gets you're gonna get loathing guaranteed past this point then we come here and we get the academics study instead of the creature Den and then we go here and we will be at the oblivions rampart where we're gonna have to fight cultists which are like kind of like a mini boss they're just tougher enemies think tentacles and then we go over here to the end all right I like that a good bit I'm going to close the goals and conditions and I'm going to leave the map up for us for right now I'm just gonna plow ahead okay close that and we're gonna go to the left so at that point you have a choice to make if you you can make it now uh oh yeah speaking of supplies let's equip all of our stuff we need to equip grimmers of hope so we can use these with paracelsus and let's go over here she's got this but this is pretty much garbage I don't want that um I'll give her Anti-Venom and then I'll give dismiss bandages and burn Salve right there all right now your people might react differently so you we have some stress now to the choices that you take for which path you choose I don't you know a lot of the times there's just random reactions that people are gonna have oh we got some stuff right there and uh paracelsus liked it so relieve the stress by hitting that pile of debris I take the path that I think is the most helpful what you're going to notice in this game is there are certain actions that you're going to do people just aren't going to like and you have to do it anyway because it's part of your plan and you just can't avoid you can't make everyone happy all of the time remember this game is about making the best of a bad situation so you're gonna have bad stuff and there's nothing you can do you just have to kind of deal with it now if it's prohibitively bad well then we might make a change but this is fine so look at this these are actually pillagers so what I said earlier about pillagers being in the sprawl they might be there but they're definitely here too so if she gets to killing blow on these pillagers we are gonna be in a spot where uh we give her hero condition we activate it and get some extra candles so I'm gonna go ahead duelist Advance remember we mastered this and I want to um focus on the crack shot usually the ones that do range damage are more damaging low blow oh we dodged it how about that and I'm the poison dart this guy give him the blight these guys are not good against the blight hit in the back there unfortunately against our good friend now you could see the crack shot has five health and is going to take four damage for two turns so I'm not gonna hit that individual because I want Audrey to get the kill shot so I'm just going to use my Rampart against this hatchetman in the front Bap him and he resisted being moved but he did get dazed so this will give me the opportunity I'm not going to use glimmer of hope even though there's a part of me is like I want to use this as fast as possible I want to use it when it's actually going to affect our flame so I'm just going to go ahead and put noxious blast on this friend all right and now it's the next round and paracelsus actually just gets to act again which is awesome so this guy's gonna get to go before Audrey which I don't like but I really want to try to get the hero rewards so I'm just gonna let that happen and I'm gonna throw another blast right here this guy is dead from the blight and I could just do nothing but might as well just lock in killing this guy all right and then we're going to go ahead and throw and Dagger right here death blow promising indeed and if I click on her you could see that she landed the killing blow on one out of two pillagers so it keeps track of that for you and now at this point let's just go ahead and bat this guy it's over one less obstacle in our path boom what did we get we got four relics two bobbles and a wolf's blood trinket alright so we saw this in the end and didn't buy it because you get these bad trinkets offered to you a lot we'll just take it I could have stalled right there and tried to get Audrey to kill shot but the chances weren't great that she would get to go again before him and because the blight would have just killed him anyway and that blight was from paracelsus so we're bashing through as many of these things as we can and looks like we found an assistance encounter oh it's an academic's cash so this is another location there are many other locations to visit in time you'll learn the advantages of each I saw the Torchlight and just thought assistance but no no look at this these are amazing click on this still lingers in some of these well-worn relics so check out what we get so this is from our benefactor so somebody is like financing or helping out our mission you just get relics bobbles medicinal herbs which are you know Fantastic Four of them an in item a stagecoach item and a trinket like all for free this is luxury gear for the stagecoach random hero gets every location gets minus one stress this is ridiculous I can't wait to get this on there just a de-stressor really fantastic take everything there remember we can't put that on until we get to the wing right you can push M to just check out where you are on the map here here's where we are there should be nothing until we get to the hoarder and the candle so paracelsus apparently got stressed out by that you can tell when that happens um because there will be like a blue or gold dialogue bubble that comes up and blue means negative reaction gold means like positive reaction just gives you a visual sense of like how people are responding and there's nothing you can do about that it's random so don't there's just I don't know I don't worry about it too quiet oops we missed that here hit that there is a display when you crash through something um ah darn we missed it again that tells you what you got here we go here's the hoarder we got the candle up there the hoarder carries a wide variety it's like a it's a basically a portable store some can only be found here and as they say some of these items you can't buy at the end so that's cool what do we want you will recognize this guy as I believe the groundskeeper or the caretaker from the previous game and look he's got a painting which is the portraits for one of the currency types from the first game and there's a one of the marble busts up there as well the statues so he's just been stealing from our estate presumably and has tried to sell them back to us for money so how Charming is that you want to buy any of this there's any of this look good that's not bad I'm looking at the list here and let's see what in items they have calming incense is pretty good now you do have to manage I'm at 12 out of 20 inventory so I don't want this to fill up I'll buy the incense this just gives two Targets minus two stress just in case that's an issue uh okay I'm fine with that thanks buddy and we will leave you're gonna click that in the upper left corner info View hold alt while driving to see the flame level Buffs debuff and Loathing effects so right now we have only one like the loathing abates were in denial we don't have any negative effects that are too bad right now and we're heading up to the hero Shrine something unknown is going to happen right here our flame is at 82. okay and we're breaking through debris oh she didn't like that just leave me by the roadside she says ouch okay and we find a battle that's what we found that's actually fine it's actually fine okay so Woodsman Widow and urchin no Pillager is here for us all right so in that case uh poison dart on The Woodsman I want to take this guy out as fast as possible now I am going to use a glimmer of hope you can see where 82 uh this will boost us up and you have to click it and then just click yourself and then it boosts our flame and we just need to use it one more time to get that I'm gonna do noxious blast right here crit so now this guy's taking 10 damage for five turns which is ridiculous he has used an ability which gave himself stealth and crit so he we can't hit him and now he's gonna do like you know 100 crit on this next attack so he's really annoying in that way but I still want to try to take down this guy I'm gonna duelist advance and I'm gonna just pump that guy oh she grabbed Audrey oh and stunned Audrey that's the shame all right I'm gonna try to Rampart the big boy he did not move or gets done sadly all right and he took a swing at bariston but remember we have guards who was only half damage I'm going to I actually don't need to necessarily dualist advanced again because I still have everything so I could just uh I'm gonna go ahead and we could slice this guy all right so he's in horrible shape not dead though there you go so he tried to do hunting Melody against dismiss but dismissed dodged and crit right back and he's got the combo ability so we we want to look for something that will trigger with combo and what we'll trigger with combo is rampart we could try to stun him or he's dead or that all right and it's hard to Target her she's so far back there but we can blind both of them in the back this guy by the way it's worth mentioning The Woodsman is so big he takes up two positions so he's positioned three and four uh well he's positions two and three I should say see how big his body is ticks up two spots and now I can just kind of shoot her and we got the combo which dazed her from the shot I'm gonna poison dart her she does not have good blight resistance so measured and steady in this point um I could use the glimmer of hope if I wanted to but I'm just going to ounce of prevention on the whole party just give everybody this buff of a resistance buff just something to do apparently paracelsus got spooked out and I'll just try to clear these remains there we go so we can move her closer she's gonna act she's been dazed she takes blight damage and she makes a grab again against Audrey oh and she got stunned again she's having a great day with that desperate grab all right so paracelsus is unfortunately taking some damage go ahead blind and we'll pistol shot it's over it does continue fine so we got some Bubbles and some relics nothing great but we finished nobody was seriously injured and the party is back in the correct order by the way some interesting information is on the bottom right the screen it tells you how far you are to the n42 leagues and how many regions you've visited so we've done two out of three that can be you know somewhat helpful to tell us how far away we are from the end but we see the Inn over here anyway and we're about to get into [Music] I don't know we just got into a fight and we're going to the hero shribe here we go flush through this and smack that and get that and hey look dismiss had a positive reaction and here's the hero shrine sure okay so at the hero Shrine it tells you right here shrines are where Heroes can revisit their memories and by confronting their past they unlock new skills each Shrine you have to choose one of your Heroes to advance the story if it's completed successfully you get a new skill and these are permanent unlocks so unlike the Mastery points you know and some of the consumables a lot of the stuff that you collect along the way these are permanent and go with your permanent progression like the candles of Hope the key though is that you have to do these successfully and sometimes they're like a puzzle or it's a strange battle you have to understand the sequencing of to get it correct to do it but usually you know they're not horrible sometimes you'll have to repeat it don't worry you'll just learn it and then do it next time now your choice is which one of these Heroes you want to upgrade I uh my favorite is dismissed because of this power and there are some abilities of dismiss that I missed from the first game that I want so I'm gonna do dismiss I like doing him first but you can do whomever you wish amen chapter one freedom all right Freedom let's learn this story defeat the guards to escape incarceration so we gotta fight these four jailers and we have a stack of Dodge we have a lunging cuff which we can do which will move us forward there are these blocks right here and we can put block on ourselves and and put combo now that being said we can also just stand back here and throw missiles from behind us and if they can't reach us then maybe this will be advantageous so let's just start throwing and chill this guy up front by throwing stuff at him and see if this will help us okay we dodged um oh wait I'm sorry I misread this I was wondering why I didn't do any damage because this doesn't do damage this puts [Music] um Dodge on you so you got to read more carefully don't be like me what this does is this removes this ability that they have which is this kind of like trumpet thing and I don't even see it on this list so we're gonna have to look at them to find what that special ability is it might just be a unique ability that you they only get in this encounter so instead I'm gonna just lunging cuff and I'm gonna just uh how many hit points did he have 13 even with a crit I couldn't kill this guy but I'll try to get this guy all right we put combo on them all right we did not Dodge and we got hit and he's inhaling so this inhale gives him he's ready to sound the unavoidable alarm so I think we have to um oops oh I can't do it because I'm this close so we need to do knee strike on this guy it'll combo him and we get one but the unavoidable alarm is gonna happen which is not good it will bring trouble but I'm out of position to do this so the only way um that I can deal with it is to try and move dismiss or try and attack that guy but he's too far back so I can move you know back here but he's going to get to use his horn so let's see how bad this is he stressed me out so what he did was he stressed me out right there and so now we know what happens when he plays the horn is that we get stressed so in the meantime we're gonna just move up punch that guy in the face and he's inhaling in the back this is the guy that we hit before unfortunately he moved so far back that we can't actually reach him so I want to like punch or do something but he's now back there so we need to move back so that we can throw a stone at the guy and disrupt his alarm you have to take the slope dismiss has a lot of Health actually so you can kind of stand in for this a bit we're gonna throw this here and he lost his horn we dodged because we have all this Dodge on us and I need to Lunge I'd love to be able to hit this guy but he's just too far back so I can't great we dodged ow that guy criticed but we did block a little bit of it all right great now he moved up to the front so we can start comboing uh try to finish that guy he's gone so he's gonna try to blow his horn but now he's in the third position so we can actually hit him with this and try to pray that we kill him and I think it's okay we're not in a position where stress is a problem so I'm just going to uh lunging cuff at this guy and he's almost gone so we took half damage and we do get to go before him and I can't do my combo which stinks because he's in the third position but we can finish him off and you see here um when that bar is split into two dismiss actually gets two rounds per turn now this guy is gonna you know stress us out which is annoying but our stress is fine it's at three so let's just punch this guy we can't hit him with this sadly and we don't have time to move back and throw a stone so I'm just going to keep lunging cuff with this guy all right and then all I can do is just this because of where he's at we'll get him eventually now he's up close enough uh that we can actually finally do our knee strike but it doesn't matter but we win so you know it was just a little bit of a trick just learning what does that do when do you need to use each ability and that's man free one nonetheless that stress however um apparently it's going to carry with us so uh Heroes begin with zero stress but they gain it and if they it goes too high here it says right here as stress mounts they will become irate and their chances for negative Affinity relationships increases so you want to keep this low so everyone's getting along and then if it fills all the way up you suffer a meltdown which means they suffer an immediate Affinity loss with all other Heroes and then their Heroes hit points drops too low so as it says here an ill-timed meltdown can end an expedition it can it's terrible you don't want it but the point-blank shot is tremendous and we get a Mastery point so what you're going to do and that's kind of indicative of all of these is you're going to get a set of abilities and there's going to be a certain party configuration and it's kind of like a puzzle just what do you need to do to win this and if you figure it out uh there really is an RNG or anything you're just going to beat it and get your ability so we got the point blank shot which is one of my favorite abilities and now we have it and we say onward if you want if you like disability notice that okay good distress they were explaining stress in that scenario from the past but you see his stress is zero it does not carry out of that situation that memory so that's phenomenal now if I go to dismiss if I right click on him and I go to combat skills Point Blank shot is right here so I can actually if I want like for example I don't want um you know tracking shot I can left click on that and then left click on point blank shot and turn it on so you can left click at any time to turn something off and then toggle these when you're not in combat to get the ability that you want are there trinkets that we want here um oh we I forgot we got this unwavering standard I like this a lot um this just basically gives each Hero on combat start a 33 chance to gain defense um or block and that Stacks with your Lantern so you can get like two stacks of it I believe you just don't want to have someone get it says if you miss if you're first in the turn order you get um weakened but barriston never goes first because he's so slow you could see his base speed is two so I'm gonna give the unwavering standard to bariston so he has a chance to boost us all up and then do I want anybody to have this I'm okay I really don't like taking the health hit so I'm just going to push Escape escape and we're gonna go forward we can look on the map where we are uh we are right here we're going to take a rough patch on the wheels which is unfortunate but there isn't anything we can do oh we're going to get to a study okay that's cool just try to hit as many of these as you can here's the rough patch right here it's unavoidable and it says right here rough roots during a rough patch you'll take one point of wheel damage if there's no wheel points to deduct and the party will be ambushed in an urgent Repair Battle will ensue urgent repair battles are rather annoying you want to avoid them uh it's just a fight but then during the fight randomly one of your people will have to take like lose a turn to go fix the wagon so it's annoying so we're going to go into study and it's a choice some people will want to like go into this basement and see what's here and other people will not so the grave robber is like um let's go in and actually in this case everybody wants it so paracelsus wants it and Audrey wants it but you want to look at what's the reward so remember you hold alt so if we do Audrey's option paracelsus's affiliation with um Audrey will increase we'll get food and a trinket if we do it with paracelsus Audrey's relationship with parent Celsius will go up and we'll get food and a positive quirk I'd rather have this one so I'm going to do the chance for a positive Quirk and plus one relationship and we got breacher we also got a negative one wealth is worthless without purpose so the academic study it says their deserted Laboratories uh the weird items and other Boons are available within so we got this weird item which is an in item tinned Delicacies and it's fantastic look at this it gives you 30 Max Health until the next in and a bunch of boosts to resist so we take that and we can use it next in however let's go to paracelsus she did get tagged with necrophobic which means um fear of cadavers and symbols of death gain on hit so if she hits a corpse she gets plus one stress so just don't do that but we got breacher which means oh this is terrible um that is unfortunate this is a positive quirk but it's a really strange one for paracelsus to get so she's going to move forward to the front position gain two stacks of taunt gain two stacks of strength and gain two stacks of block plus so she'll take 75 damage from a couple of hits and we're going to be doing this attack which is like up at the front a lot until we get to move her back so this this is less than favorable to get this and it's going to mess us up but we'll see if we can make it good somehow we want to go to the left to the hoarder so everybody was stressed except for dismiss about that but we want the hoarder all day all right okay now in this case paracelsus is up at the front we're fighting pillagers so we remember we want to get Audrey on this uh the flame is low enough that paracelsus can use the uh glimmer of hope to get to finish her hero objective and then let's go ahead and do this so poison dart uh I want to kill the fire mouth I hate the fire mouth she's not a Pillager but she's got to go all right so we can incision let's go ahead and first do a glimmer of hope though we did it and then we can incision right here I don't want to hit the dog because it has a 50 Dodge chance or I could move but instead of moving I'm gonna actually move dismiss and bariston forward and that should put paracelsis in the right position there we go we put the bleed on so the low blow happened we got a bleed and combo but we have all of this block happening and you know the 50 attack bonus is great all right I'm the Duelist Advance right here to move forward all right dismissed dodged and retaliated tremendous and this is why I hate that but it's gonna be okay actually um I'm gonna just use the burn Salve immediately to heal Audrey so she doesn't take the damage over time and then I'm gonna Rampart up this Pillager will not die yet necessarily so I want to do that there Watchdog so this means that um the dog is actually the mongrel is guarding so what this means is if I try to attack the Pillager crack shot the mongrel will take the attack instead so I'm gonna do incision and I'm gonna try to hit the dog the dog is of course gonna Dodge but we just had to do that and then um I'm gonna bandage paracelsus and I'm going to uh dis firemouth Pillager should die by the way it's a Pillager type so we'll see if that'll trigger Audrey uh her the Pillager isn't in her name but even the mongrel has Pillager so these are all Pilger types so let's hope that works I'm gonna duelist to advance and I'm gonna do this it'll hit the dogs who uses a Dodge but that's fine yeah and I'm gonna poison dart this dude almost got him great death blow let's see if that worked I'm going to right click on her and yep she got it so that damage over time triggered her hero goal we got two candles from that by the way paracelsus glimmer of hope tangle all we need is one more hoarder I believe and we get that all right so now all that's left is this dog I'm just gonna Rampart it we dazed it which is cool although it was last to act so anyway uh incision right here measured and steady it's over now at this point when you know you're gonna win you can attack to just try to win the fight or if you have any healing things that you want to do like bolstering or something like that you can do that but we don't need that on anyone now I might have to just do hold the line right here in the future to make sure we get paracelsus out of the way because just moving forward one doesn't do it because all that's going to happen is dismiss embarrassed and they're going to trade places with each other but not get to that first position all right got the hero goal there and we are right here we're gonna hit the second hoarder and finish all Hero goals how about that let's break as many of these as we can I'm going to dismiss this and I don't need that up here I'm gonna go over here take that oh boy I'm out of control oh here he is we got a candle and we found the quarter and is there anything that we want to buy let's take a look at the trinkets heartseeker is actually quite good a boost to crit minor hail draft um gives you a bunch of Health at the expensive crit it's not bad this is 10 damage uh but acting slower it's also not bad I'm Gonna Save my uh bobbles though I am however in this spot going to purchase some in items I I do like playing cards and so we'll try to use these next time and anything else that we want bear trap is pretty good I'm gonna keep all my money and just say thanks very much and Loathing so this is the explanation I was talking about evil is overtaking the world as shown by loathing higher loathing results in tougher conditions for the party loathing increases when traveling on Oblivion tier roots and when Crossing these blue locations you can reduce loathing by winning fights at special locations Road battles don't count choose resist layer or oblivion's Ingress locations to keep your Loathing in check so if your loading starts to build up then you're going to want to fire Target resist layer or oblivion's Ingress locations right now our okay so that hero goal is completed we did get a boost to our loathing and now you can Mouse over this and see we're getting 10 flame drain and 20 enemy Advantage chance when we start battle which is annoying so the loading is Whispering as they say and we're just going to go forward try to hit as many of these as we can and there it goes so I'm gonna look at the map we got the loathing up and Oblivion tears or tears driving through an oblivion tear will increase loathing by one point it's a terror okay so now we are up here and we have a bigger boost to Flame drain which our Lantern counteracts and the enemy Advantage chance so you know all right and inquiry a monument to a once prestigious career prestigious indeed academic study that's great all right so what do we want well both of these people want to go there and it's either a trinket or a combat item uh let's go ahead and get that trinket cadaver fearing unfortunately we got a negative quirk this gives you 10 damage per positive token and 10 damage per negative token so tokens are Buffs and debuffs so it's like for every positive buff you've got you do more damage but you take more whenever you're debuffed wow that's a interesting interesting consideration all right there's a battle here no problem what if it's all for nothing that's a grim thought get that thought out of your mind all right you know we should give it to paracelsus because paracelsus starts with three and one so this would be like you take ten percent more damage but you do 30 more plus your strength to do 80 percent more pretty sick all right in this case uh we're gonna poison dart and we're gonna go for the Widow because she stuns people battle advantages in some battles the entire party will benefit from a battle Advantage when present you'll see the advantage icon in the top left of the screen low flame makes battle advantages more likely so beware so um the enemies got the the advantage because of our loathing probably and this means that they are hail so they have like greater resistances than normal okay how about that and I'm gonna go ahead and use hold the line right here and just bring up barrist into the front oh look plus one relationship game little stressed but not bad tactical thinker what is tactical thinker it means oh five percent crit and at the round start there's a 15 chance that he just gets this like 75 Dodge that's quite strong all right I'm Gonna Do List Advance right here just try to take this guy down and she should be able to kill it just with a throne dagger she got it take a shot to the face and this will do it it's not Petty that was awesome take it all heck yeah all right so paracelsus is getting a little stressed but only three Pips that's not bad we got two relics right there it'll pop up in the upper right if you do get something from one of these pieces of debris and here comes the tentacles I told you cultists cultists emanate from the great evil at the mountain they appear at oblivion's Ingress and oblivion's Rampart locations to last location before and in is always a rampart they're always a tough fight but the rewards are equally valuable okay so here we go this is like kind of like our mini boss and yikes always interesting okay they did not start with an advantage thankfully so here's what we want to do you want to take out the altar and the herald if you can but these also need to go because they do a ton of damage so it's a bad spot to be in um I'm gonna go ahead and just do this right here they'll take half damage but we did put the bleed on all right uh let's see I'm going to poison dart the altar that was a good crit iCal end stressing out right here but remember if her stress gets her five or above we have barriston's bolster ability to help with that I am going to I'm going to hold the line and just move up all right hit both of us that's fine we resisted the bleed which is even better I'm gonna duelist Advance I'm going to just focus on this we've already got some good damage here let's try to take it down all right so they do this Nocturne commune and this means that they've pumped up and they've become stealth they are going to crit and they are blocking so it's really annoying that is putting a heel on luckily they put the heel on The Wrong Enemy okay that was very fortunate so this enemy had 100 crit chance and got to go before we got to go which was diabolical but dismissed dodged their Critical Strike and then retaliated so we got out of that really well um they have four hit points all right so what we want to do right here is just try and finish this off you can see though look they have um I'm gonna hold alt to go on this this evangelist has does have death resistance so can go to death store instead of dying which is unbelievably annoying I'm gonna poison dart right here I want to finish this thing off as soon as possible and I'm actually gonna pistol shot and this has a chance to die then on its turn this should die on its turn but we don't we're not guaranteed of that what I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna blinding gas because these guys don't actually attack they buff so blinding doesn't really help me I'm on the noxious blast right here there we go I just want to lock that in guaranteed that that thing dies all right so ouch but bariston blocked that pretty well Oh I thought it was gonna die I did I miscalculated how much how many hit points this thing had left oh well we did our best to try that and we're doing actually pretty well so at this point I'm gonna Rampart and I'm just gonna try to hit right here and Daze this enemy it resisted that the move but it did get dazed I'm going to uh dualist Advance right here I'm gonna focus on this this thing now should finally die eventually and I'm gonna poison dart right here try to put blight on oh we got it on that's great all right that's some damage it's unfortunate all right now uh paracelsus is getting really stressed it's okay though I'm gonna go ahead and noxious blast right here just see if we can kill this thing all right and paracelsus we don't need to Battlefield medicine anyone I'm just gonna noxious blast on uh right here again let's just block this try to lock this in and a poison dart right here oh I can't stealth okay uh I'm gonna throw a dagger here just try to kill got it okay great okay annoying and Point Blank shot time bam now we hit it hard it went to death's door but the light should finish it this is time for uh bolster by the way I'm going to um heal the fire right there with the burn South then the bolster right here you'll see that she reduces her stress enemy dies from the blight and now it's just us and this enemy disharmony that's annoying all right here we go so dismiss has bandages let's go ahead and bandage up I'm not gonna bandage right here because I'll show you in a moment but I'll bandage right there that's fine at least has been tended to pistol shot and noxious blast does not reach neither does incision but I'm gonna go ahead and Battlefield medicine on myself so this will heal paracelsus and remove both burning and bleeding and then let me Crush because it hits the third position right there almost got it poison dart okay it's over and let's see I'll just ounce of prevention buff everybody up Throne dagger got it another impediment cleared with impunity impunity so what do we get we got 25 flame we got a mastery we also got an unforgettable trinket and we have a stained item that you kind of combo with the unforgettable trinket if this is if you equip this to gain blight resist but if you're blighted you gain stress at the beginning of the turn you can then equip this and gain 50 damage at the exchange of 33 of your health so pretty swingy but cool take that and now we cleared that uh travel healing as the stagecoach drives you'll slowly heal hit points we talked about this if they're badly wounded try to avoid locations and drive to yep full inventory um if the stagecoach inventory becomes full You may wish to discard less important items drag the item off the inventory window or shift left click to get rid of it and they cannot be sold anywhere so throw away what you don't need so you can't sell your stuff so look at our inventory and it's not full but it's close if you look at the map here we are we're going to get to the end so we don't have to worry about anything let's just drive around wildly smashing into things and oh look we got some herbs and we got some whiskey remember our still has a chance to generate whiskey for us from where familiar so this is like a recap this is your travel log it tells you we got eight candles for reaching this we completed the no time to bleed requirement um we got a bunch of quirks and we completed all our objectives we say continue and so we get the candles here take three so we are rolling in candles which is amazing and now it's time for us to kind of like do our inactivity spend our Mastery points use our in items that we want to use try to heal people up if they're not at full try to reduce stress on people who still have stress and make a choice on where we're gonna want to go next and we'll get into that next time everyone I think this is a good place to end this second episode we covered a lot of content did a lot of stuff but we're really learning the game now doing all almost all of what the game has to offer in terms of making decisions about Battlefield locations and getting into the full breadth of what is going on in darkest dungeon 2. if you have any questions please post them in the comments below I hope you're finding this series to be helpful let me know if you want to see more of it thanks again for watching take care [Music]

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Length: 84min 59sec (5099 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 09 2023