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Is the Shrieker Battle a little bit too much?
63 dodge.

4 Rounds to kill.

Pretty much maxed out ACC for my heros that rarely seems to be put in affect in battle.

You get the idea.
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I think it's one of those scripted battles you're not really meant to win, but if you do you get rewarded handsomely.
Originally posted by Mr. Carcosa:
I think it's one of those scripted battles you're not really meant to win, but if you do you get rewarded handsomely.
Saw someone on YouTube beat it (:I
Paranoia Apr 26, 2017 @ 5:23pm 
I am yet to get the Shrieker below third of the health when destroying the nest too, and those were some lucky Crits.
The most annoying part is that, since the Birdie gets 3 turns a round, Debuffs and Marks just melt off it. So the fight seems, to me, either be full luck based or one being on full time Mark/Debuff duty (and then it is luck based with only three Heroes to deal actual damage with).

But, since Shrieker is not required for anything sans an Achievement, I just enjoy the free Trapezes.
Originally posted by Paranoia:
I am yet to get the Shrieker below third of the health when destroying the nest too, and those were some lucky Crits.
The most annoying part is that, since the Birdie gets 3 turns a round, Debuffs and Marks just melt off it. So the fight seems, to me, either be full luck based or one being on full time Mark/Debuff duty (and then it is luck based with only three Heroes to deal actual damage with).

But, since Shrieker is not required for anything sans an Achievement, I just enjoy the free Trapezes.
If you beat the Shrieker and it's nest, you get 45,000 gold :demoneye:_:demoneye:
Xerkie Apr 26, 2017 @ 5:27pm 
I mean, Shrieker is entirely optional anywho.

It could be worth it if you lost an extremely crucial Expedition (You shouldnt be losing entire expeditions, either. Unless you're in The Darkest Dungeon, where you have an excuse.) and didn't manage to get your Trinkets back or they were extremely hard-to-get like Shuffling Horror Trinkets, as The Shrieker takes, I believe, eight Trinkets from the dead.

It might also be worth doing it if you're a completionist and want the achievment, but aside from those two things (Both of which don't harm your game in any way, shape, or form) there's really no reason to fight it.
Originally posted by Xerkie:
I mean, Shrieker is entirely optional anywho.
It might also be worth doing it if you're a completionist and want the achievment, but aside from those two things (Both of which don't harm your game in any way, shape, or form) there's really no reason to fight it.
I always try to do it for the money, because
1) It gives out a really nice trinket and
2) It gives a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money when it dies.
Kaz Apr 26, 2017 @ 6:20pm 
I dont have any trouble killing him even though I dont even mean to....I just mark him which helps
Drain Apr 26, 2017 @ 6:40pm 
You're not meant to kill the thing; just survive until it leaves. You do not need to do anything else. This is easy to do with a man at arms, a healer, and bandages/herbs. If you really want to cheese the fight, just bring 2 man at arms, have them cycle bolster/guard every round, and your party can shrug at the bird. But heroes that can remove bleeds are also useful because you could run out of bandages if you don't dodge enough.

This is the easiest boss in the game. If you're not trying to crack the nest, there's literally no challenge. But I didn't find that too hard either. Simply slot a robber, wolf, or hellion, who can all hit any slot, and they will crack the nest in no time. The trick is managing this with the bird attacking you. 1 man at arms spamming bolster is highly recommended. A guard is helpful if one hero gets too weak. The man at arms can be put in the back without consequence because he will not attack in the fight.
Xerkie Apr 26, 2017 @ 7:22pm 
Originally posted by Pixelated Breadstick:
Originally posted by Xerkie:
I mean, Shrieker is entirely optional anywho.
It might also be worth doing it if you're a completionist and want the achievment, but aside from those two things (Both of which don't harm your game in any way, shape, or form) there's really no reason to fight it.
I always try to do it for the money, because
1) It gives out a really nice trinket and
2) It gives a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money when it dies.
Meh, the money is mostly useless to me. I have a strategy where I develop and pump out gold extremely fast, the bumpiest road is usually the earlygame but you basically never encounter the Shrieker there. I have 3 Games (One is Darkest, two are Normal). The first one (my first game ever), I have constantly 100-200k Gold and constantly make everything back from every mission. The other one i'm only midgame with none of my buildings 100% complete, but I have 60k Gold already. If you play smart and use strats, there's no reason at ALL to fight the Shrieker for cash.
Dauntless Duelist Apr 26, 2017 @ 7:33pm 
Huh, shrieker could be cool for speedrunning then if it gives huge amounts of gold?
Xerkie Apr 26, 2017 @ 7:36pm 
Originally posted by Dauntless Duelist:
Huh, shrieker could be cool for speedrunning then if it gives huge amounts of gold?
Kinda, but the issue is he's COMPLETELY random and he can cause extreme stress, and is difficult to survive against without requiring some sort of stress treatment, and you'd have to have an extremely suited lineup anyways to fight him. In speedruns you'd have to have insane luck and the perfect time to execute the strat.
Dauntless Duelist Apr 26, 2017 @ 7:49pm 
Also, on the topic of speedrunning, are Darkest speedruns measured in real time or in game week counter? Or are there multiple different catagories that use each?
Originally posted by Dauntless Duelist:
Also, on the topic of speedrunning, are Darkest speedruns measured in real time or in game week counter? Or are there multiple different catagories that use each?

I doubt they'd count in game hours. There are probably people who memorize enemy attack patterns and their favorite positions and just run through everything without stopping.
redhookjohn  [developer] Apr 26, 2017 @ 8:25pm 
You can force spawn the Shrieker pretty easily, as it all it requires is for you to lose 8 trinkets with at least one of which being green. (which would result in a L1 boss fight). So if you wanted too, you could take a bunch of hapless folks fresh off the stage coach, give them a bunch of garbo trinkets with 1 green, and go purposefully wipe.

You didn't hear that from me though ;)
Jolly Rogers Apr 27, 2017 @ 12:48am 
Originally posted by redhookjohn:
You can force spawn the Shrieker pretty easily, as it all it requires is for you to lose 8 trinkets with at least one of which being green. (which would result in a L1 boss fight). So if you wanted too, you could take a bunch of hapless folks fresh off the stage coach, give them a bunch of garbo trinkets with 1 green, and go purposefully wipe.

You didn't hear that from me though ;)

And thus, the cementary grows bigger than ever all of sudden.
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