Your Crusader is your tank, your Highwayman is your Rogue, your Vestal is your healer, and your Plague Doctor is your crowd control and utility. Presuming your first two guys survived the tutorial, this is a pretty decent starting party, depending on what skills they start with and which you purchase for them. Your first two new recruits will probably be a Plague Doctor and a Vestal. In the second fight, the guy in front is too big to kill quickly and you don't have enough long range firepower to take out the guy in back, so have your Highwayman use his Grapeshot to hit them both while your Crusader just Smites away at the big guy (you can try stunning blow, but given the big guy's stun resistance, odds are against you).Īs soon as you hit town, go straight to the Stagecoach for more recruits. In the first fight, it's just one dude have your Highwayman use his Open Vein while the Crusader uses Smite or maybe the Stunning Blow. You'll have to take them through a couple fights vs. Your initial starting party is going to be a Crusader and a Highwayman. I plan for a full update with the release of the final dungeon. But if you run into a problem, read this over and it should help you figure it out.ĮDIT: This guide is not updated for the Houndmaster or Cove patches, but only covers the game as it was during the first month or two of Early Access. If this guide seems too long, don't freak out there's a lot to be said for just diving into this game, playing it blind, and letting the chaos happen. Because this guide may need to change, I'm not going to include a lot of fancy videos - it's a lot easier to edit text! It won't cover the late game (levels 4-6) because the game is still in Early Access and, while the level 1-3 content seems mostly finished, right now the level 4-6 content doesn't, so anything I write could still get significantly changed, so there's not much point in going into too much depth.

Read it and you'll understand how to keep and build a viable group of adventurers, get past all the early pitfalls, and understand the basic game systems. It started as a collection of basic tips and strategies, but at this point it's a fairly complete guide to the early game (levels 1-3 or so), and should answer most of your questions, perhaps even ones you didn't know you had.

This is an in-depth guide to help people learn to master Darkest Dungeon.

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