Darkest Dungeon Mods: How to play The Cataphract!

hey everybody and welcome to another darkest dungeon mod overview my name is element 5 and tonight we're taking a look at the cataphract developed by s purple and an actual bird IRL in conjunction with help from clair de lune and muscarine the cataphract is pretty freakin awesome it is a super fun alternative healer that basically shuffles through your party and is most effective in either rank 4 or rank 1 it is a rank one dependent healer but can do a lot of damage from rank 4 and sort of jumping through the party now interestingly s purple based this class to be sort of a cousin to the Crusader a Byzantine Saracen Eastern style alternative night-in healer and according to the description the cataphract is a versatile healer who excels at quickly swapping between the fringes of combat capable of dealing respectable damage from the backline and spot healing while on the front the cataphract fills a valuable role in any party looking to take advantage of backline damage dealers without sacrificing frontline hardiness it goes much deeper than that 2's purple is known now for doing really really beautiful comic strips behind their characters and the cataphracts is no exception we get to see sort of the cataphract approaching what looks to be some sort of a temple and then quickly and dilating both guards accessing some sort of a magical artifact breaking it free and then freeing the horse which we will see in its animations that it rides now the cataphract used to have an older and different comic strip that told more of the story of the horse skull that we see the cataract holding in its hands which i think was more sort of centered around the the the Knights horse that had died in combat and then had a certain spell which sort of made the horse be sort of a spiritual companion in a certain respect nonetheless this is a really really fun and cool character and the concept is there the concept that this is a sort of Eastern style cousin to the Crusader that is based around the companionship of its dead horse which still has sort of a spirit energy catapulting it forward and back through the party is just pretty badass now may also be interesting to note that she is actually a female character and as mentioned in the description the cataphract works basically in any composition because of the way she moves around she's not religious and part of her design was that she would work well with an abomination to provide reliable healing which would not be an occultist of course that has changed a little bit with the colour of madness update the abomination religiosity changed there but nonetheless just a really really interesting alternative style of support class nothing too important to point out other than some decent HP in Dodge as well as a kind of an interesting speed value here when you consider that this is a shuffle rank dependent healer slash damage dealer speed if you're not aware you take your speed value plus a die roll eight and that determines which characters go first in combat enemies included healers do well with speed so that they can heal somebody before they get that death store bleed or dot tick that's gonna kill them so you know as a healer you know maybe buffing speed on this character is a worthy endeavor so typically when I think about bringing a cataphract to my group I'm taking into consideration that this is either gonna be doing healing or off healing or damage dealing so one of those and depending on how that works I'm basically going to be using both of its healing abilities or one of those healing abilities are neither and both healing abilities require being in position one so if I'm gonna have a conflict with a certain character shuffling this class out of position one that is something I need to take into consideration other than that you can really adapt this character's kit as you move through the dungeon to do different things and you can have a lot of fun with the shuffle let's just take a look at the first ability which is thrust thrust is usable in position one two or three and it targets enemies in position one two or three and it just moves the character forward doing a decent amount of damage again this can just help you get should you be shuffled out of position or need to get back up into position one to be able to land heels this will help you get their confidence surges as the enemy crumbles so next we have the cataphracts first healing ability warmth which is only usable in rank one this is ranked one dependent and it is a full group heal heal party one two three so if we just think about one two three if we compare that to say the level to heal of a vessel for example at party heal two to three well then one two three party heal is actually really comparable and I think in general you can kind of think of the vestal and cataphract with having very comparable healing outputs so then what follows is the second healing ability for the cataract banner of the east at level two again only usable in rank one this is a single target heal which is including self can cast on self heal two to six and then buff self plus twelve percent prot so this is kind of nice you're a frontline healer you are not only being able to do a single target heal which again is going to be comparable to healing to divine grace five to six a little bit more reliable than the two to six here but somewhat similar yet you're in the frontline and you're buffing your own survivability while you do it so then next in the kit is Wheeling disengaged wheeling disengage again only usable in Rank 1 targets all enemies at the same time and then pushes you back into rank for so shuffles you all the way back to that rank for spot will have a chance to debuff all enemies -9 accuracy and -3 speed next n is winnowing volley now winnowing volleys sort of interesting because it is usable in position to 3 or 4 so if you're not in position one will target all enemies and is a ranged attack that sends you back one so maybe you're in position three and you want to get into position for winnowing volley is a nice way to just get you back there and do a nice hit of AoE damage so next thing is pinned down pinned down is rank for dependent you can only use it a rank 4 and you can target any of the backline rank to 3 or 4 of the enemies this is a ranged attack that has a chance to debuff the target minus 8 dodge and buff self to speed so when this class is described as being a decent backline damage output pinned down is one of those reasons because it's actually pretty considerable snipe damage and of course you just have to make sure that you can get your character into rank 4 and of course if you I mean if you equip something like Wheeling disengage that's gonna get you there if you should be using pin down frequently but you're being shuffled in a position 3 for some reason you can add in winnowing folly to just send you back 1 and get you right back in a position to pin down continually onslaught destroy them so then last in the kit is in my opinion my favorite of the cataracts abilities which is onslaught now onslaught is a melee attack that is only usable in rank four it will target the backline enemies rank to three or four and it sends you all the way forward three to the frontline so typically when I think about playing the cataphract as a primary healer in my group I get a lot of damage output and healing efficiency if I use a build similar to this which essentially has you starting in rank four with onslaught hitting an enemy typically in the backline moving all the way up to the frontline and now you're in position to do your heels and to land thrusts blows if for some reason you should be pushed out of position one into position two or three then thrust is a nice way to sort of get you back into position one so you can use either of the heels here so just another example of a more damaging sort of aggressive kit that you could play with the cataphract would be to start in rank 4 and throw down shots with pinned down if you get knocked out of rank 4 then you can use winnowing volley to get yourself back there if for some reason you want to hit the backline really hard and shuffle things forward you could go from rank 4 to rank one with onslaught forward three and then if you want to get back into sniping position you could use a wheeling disengage set yourself back up now you've got a pretty awesome damage output hitting a lot of different targets shuffling from the front to back so in terms of the camping utility of the cataphract it's some kind of interesting stuff the stuff that we don't typically see which is kind of fun so that starts with Polish armor polished armor only time cost to one companion gets 10% proc so this is this is a nice way to sort of have a means to maybe you're in the backline and you're doing a lot of range play with a build like this or you're throwing down a bunch of pinned down or maybe there's a you know somebody's guarding in the party frequently and you want to just buff their prom that's a nice decent affordable way to do so next in line is men to banner men to banner is pretty cool you know again time costs for that's gonna be typically a third of your camping points but the entire party receives 15% healing for the next four battles so that's kind of cool I mean if you just really maybe with a champion game or you're taking a lot of damage for some reason it's just time to camp cool things down and really buff the output of a healing build like so then you know the entire party taking another 15% healing received is pretty awesome this again if you have for some reason a flag in your group or somebody that's doing heal over time abilities you could buff the party with you and received and then see the healing over time abilities take a lot harder on those characters as well so then what follows is nightmare this is essentially the cataphracts prevent nighttime ambush ability only a time costs three and comes with a minus 20% chance party surprise for four battles and 20% chance monsters surprise for four battles but at the cost of a coin flip of stressing each companion out plus 15 stress I find this to be a really affordable prevent nighttime ambush ability you know again the 15 stress might be a painful hit but what I really like about this too is you you get the added minus chance that your party surprise the add a chance a part of the monsters are surprised again if you're being surprised a lot in combat you're going to be likely shuffled out of position and that can be really problematic for a character that has rank dependent abilities thankfully of course you've got stuff in your kit to help you get back into those positions but again it can just set you kind of off-course so really I think I'm a fan of this camping utility and again this is just basically identical to the hounds watch utility prevent ambush of a hound master with just you know be the trade-off of one time cost point for a coin flip of 15 stress pretty cool so less than is war stories time cost three self only stress but all camp and - 15 stress conceptually I just love this idea I love the idea that the cataphract is telling a war story reliving something maybe traumatic or anxiety-producing but is sort of fascinating re sort of emboldened a sense of trust and strength within the group distressing all the other companions very very cool so in terms of equipping this character with trinkets typically again I would think about this being very similar to a vestal healer in a lot of respects in terms of the healing output and so therefore you could you know increase the output of the heals by using something like Junius head or maybe take into consideration the a position dependency of this class and the speed value here so maybe what you want to do is actually consider buffing the survivability and speed output of this class or if you're going for straight damage and you're doing a lot of range damage with pinned down you know winnowing volley or maybe you're doing a lot of back-and-forth with healing and you're doing thrust and onslaught with melee damage then you could shrink it accordingly as well with doing some some melee damage or range damage amplification of course it's also worth mentioning that in addition to the cataphract class mod you can also download the cataphract crimson court trinkets mod as well as the new Kraken Society color of madness trinkets the color of madness trinkets for all of us purples characters the cataphract including as well as the Slayer and the omen seeker and I'll have the link to this class and all of that in the information below the video as always if you have any questions about playing the cataphract please feel free to let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching we'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 16 2018