The Flagellant-wtf happened to him? Ya'll like it?

[M.O LILSLIMCAT]

Lowkey, this man was my favorite hero back in the day. I'm happy they brought him back but like what did he do to himself between games? First I don't know why they converted him from blight to bleed. I get hellion, Jester, and highway man all have bleed but this man was all BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

I might refrain from using him until some modders that agree turn him back into a blood bending human. Me personally, I don't vibe with him so far disconnected with the other hero's that he has legit become a zombie. I feel like the devs mind as well pulled with him what they did with the antiquarian and made him a rare surprise mini boss enemy type. That would have been far more interesting. Seeing the antiquarian randomly among the bandits made me wonder who else turned to the dark forces. Would have cried if the crusader was among the undead.

Instead we now have a cadaver just laid out in one of the inn chairs.

[glenn3e]

Well its Blight for the blight gord now. His Toxic ability when overstressed is pretty useful.

[misaki_pridet]

This was (and is) my fav hero as well.
But I think you're wrong on the zombie/cadaver part, his body is heavily mutilated but he's still a living human being.

[Chris]

I agree with you. Jester or Highwayman could have been a blight boy rather than bleed and it would have felt less jarring.

[HunterMag]

I haven't gotten much in to his lore yet, but I would say it's less "blight" than it is supposed to be decay, just classified as such for game sense..

He was about stripping/punishing his flesh for purity. Now he's almost at his end goal: only his blight remains, he can put his all in to his purification(in reality he's probably disease-ridden from all his wounds and his blood being on his weapons likely causes horrible maladies)

Maybe i'm off key since I've not hit him on a hero shrine yet, but just appearance/ability wise, that's what it feels like to me.

[Magni]

Originally posted by The Great Procrastinator:

This was (and is) my fav hero as well.
But I think you're wrong on the zombie/cadaver part, his body is heavily mutilated but he's still a living human being.

Well uh he's really at the brink. Like, he's giving death the middle finger at this point.
And Death is very much taking it PERSONALLY.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by M.O LILSLIMCAT:

...
Instead we now have a cadaver just laid out in one of the inn chairs.

And it's great.

[GoBoomYay]

My man ran out of blood after the first game, won't someone please get him a juice box ;_;

I gotta play around with him some more to figure out how to use him best, I didn't notice that his primary attack has self-damage and I killed him 3 fights into a run lol.

[M.O LILSLIMCAT]

Originally posted by Magni:

Originally posted by The Great Procrastinator:

This was (and is) my fav hero as well.
But I think you're wrong on the zombie/cadaver part, his body is heavily mutilated but he's still a living human being.

Well uh he's really at the brink. Like, he's giving death the middle finger at this point.
And Death is very much taking it PERSONALLY.

death was taking it so personally he legit showed up after a regular ass resistance encounter and killed everyone :')

[Maj. Crimes]

So how do you play him properly? Aside from the poision DOT it seems so much effort for so little in return. His stress juggling is ok, but since stress isnt such a big deal in DD2 i dont see a huge benefit. His healing ability is mediocre, i'd take a crit 0 healing Occultist any day. You just shuffle some HP around.

And his toxic ability when he gets stressed adds a poision token that does 2 damage on hit? Thats seems really underwhelming considering its not even guarenteed poision. Plus the stress hit one everyone else when he gets over the edge.

And the constant negative relationship with everyone else seems the final nail in the coffin.

It was my favorite class in DD1 and his design is awesome but he seems quite underwhelming. I'd sure like to be proven wrong by someone though.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Maj. Crimes:

So how do you play him properly? Aside from the poision DOT it seems so much effort for so little in return. His stress juggling is ok, but since stress isnt such a big deal in DD2 i dont see a huge benefit. His healing ability is mediocre, i'd take a crit 0 healing Occultist any day. You just shuffle some HP around.

And his toxic ability when he gets stressed adds a poision token that does 2 damage on hit? Thats seems really underwhelming considering its not even guarenteed poision. Plus the stress hit one everyone else when he gets over the edge.

And the constant negative relationship with everyone else seems the final nail in the coffin.

It was my favorite class in DD1 and his design is awesome but he seems quite underwhelming. I'd sure like to be proven wrong by someone though.

The HP shuffling scales pretty well with items that boost healing. I don't have all his skills yet but even just the acid rain has been handy.

[M.O LILSLIMCAT]

Originally posted by Maj. Crimes:

So how do you play him properly? Aside from the poision DOT it seems so much effort for so little in return. His stress juggling is ok, but since stress isnt such a big deal in DD2 i dont see a huge benefit. His healing ability is mediocre, i'd take a crit 0 healing Occultist any day. You just shuffle some HP around.

And his toxic ability when he gets stressed adds a poision token that does 2 damage on hit? Thats seems really underwhelming considering its not even guarenteed poision. Plus the stress hit one everyone else when he gets over the edge.

And the constant negative relationship with everyone else seems the final nail in the coffin.

It was my favorite class in DD1 and his design is awesome but he seems quite underwhelming. I'd sure like to be proven wrong by someone though.

He's pretty sacrificial indeed but his constant DOT blight application makes him pretty good when paired with other blight based hero's. Coming his starting DOT acid attack with his acid rain unlike any other class allows him to put down good blight anytime anywhere. Problem is like you said, he is probs killing himself while he does it. I think his best partners are jester because of his stress healing(mainly but also because hes a better damage dealer and does bleed instead of more blight) and plague doctor to safely heal him from any pain he causes himself while also doubling the blight applied. (Also because she can switch to bleed cause you gotta remember Flag is a one trick and you know....don't wanna take runaway into the spawl...)

[Huge Beard Guy]

Originally posted by M.O LILSLIMCAT:

The Flagellant... Ya'll like it?

Yip.

Originally posted by M.O LILSLIMCAT:

Lowkey, this man was my favorite hero back in the day.

No idea what "lowkey" means but same here, he was my favourite too.

[Chris]

https://www.nexusmods.com/darkestdungeon2/mods/134

[Magni]

Originally posted by M.O LILSLIMCAT:

Originally posted by Magni:

Well uh he's really at the brink. Like, he's giving death the middle finger at this point.
And Death is very much taking it PERSONALLY.

death was taking it so personally he legit showed up after a regular ass resistance encounter and killed everyone :')

Spoilers, man. Let people savour the surprise.

Yes. That can happen specifically if you have the Flag in your group. Also, her opening move ALWAYS goes for him and it's a doozy. (Read the debuff effects on it!) She's officially run out of patience with Damian's antics.

[The Face]

Literally fought off death, and is now festering from the inability to die