Locations

[whoami]

in what order to pass locations in darkest dungeon? First is ruins and what next? and do I have to go through all the ruins first before moving to the next location or can I go through them at the same time?

[Purple]

At the start of the game, after the old road, you only have access to a second 'tutorial' mission in the Ruins, afterwards more areas will open up over the next few weeks. You can do any mission in any area that is available, no area needs to be completed (doing all the bosses at champ difficulty) in order to go into the darkest dungeon. However, you can't do bosses in an area until the bar on top of each area is filled up.

[Null]

There's no order to the game at all outside of Darkest Dungeon itself. Everything outside it is for leveling up and gathering trinkets. In theory, you could just run straight into Darkest Dungeon and fight your way to the final boss, but your odds of success would be astronomically low.

[whoami]

Thanks a lot)

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by Persephone:

There's no order to the game at all outside of Darkest Dungeon itself. Everything outside it is for leveling up and gathering trinkets. In theory, you could just run straight into Darkest Dungeon and fight your way to the final boss, but your odds of success would be astronomically low.

CC is all fixed maps too, much like DD itself, other than blood gathering missions and a repeatable trinket farming mission with a weak boss you get after the Countess.

[whoami]

In general, based on the comments, i can pass any location at any time? ( not counting the darkest dungeon.) It seems to me that in some locations the monsters are stronger. For example in ruins monsters easier, than in Bay. And yet, immediately after the opening of the Bay, I can go into it? Or do i need a trained team?

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by Mason:

in what order to pass locations in darkest dungeon? First is ruins and what next? and do I have to go through all the ruins first before moving to the next location or can I go through them at the same time?

There is no particular reason to finish locations in any particular order, and perversely, most of the Trophy trinkets are absolute junk, with only one god-tier among the bunch, Prophet's Eye. And Prophet's Eye is the only general ACC trinket, and even it only works in the back row. Still, if you get it, you should almost always put it on whoever you have in back.

The only other ACC trinket in the whole batch is Vvulf's Tassel, which only works against marked, so really isn't that great either.

Many of the rest are "best in class" for specialties you don't usually care much about, like Flesh's Heart for bleed resist, very nice for a healing Flagellant and not worth much for anyone else outside of CC missions, maybe, Hag's Ladle for blight boosting if you actually want that, and the only blighting characters you care about already have their own trinkets for it.

So other than (maybe) Prophet's Eye, there's no point in choosing regions solely based on killing the bosses in them.

The main reason to focus on specific regions is the Heirlooms you get, because finishing the blacksmith, guild and stagecoach is what you really want done as fast as possible, and this means mostly farming Weald and Warrens. I find myself neglecting ruins as a result at least until after that's done.

On the good side, Weald has two of the better trinkets, Fuseman's Matchstick (a nice ranged trinket) and Hag's Ladle (meh it's sometimes useful), and Warrens has Wilbur's Flag (okay on a healer you don't want stunned or some already dodgy hero like Jester/GR I suppose) and Flesh's Heart (FLA or I suppose someone in front on a Cove mission with those damn crabs).

In general, though, everywhere that isn't DD itself is just a trinket/heirloom farming area and bosses are very low priority.

[whoami]

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

Originally posted by Mason:

in what order to pass locations in darkest dungeon? First is ruins and what next? and do I have to go through all the ruins first before moving to the next location or can I go through them at the same time?

There is no particular reason to finish locations in any particular order, and perversely, most of the Trophy trinkets are absolute junk, with only one god-tier among the bunch, Prophet's Eye. And Prophet's Eye is the only general ACC trinket, and even it only works in the back row. Still, if you get it, you should almost always put it on whoever you have in back.

The only other ACC trinket in the whole batch is Vvulf's Tassel, which only works against marked, so really isn't that great either.

Many of the rest are "best in class" for specialties you don't usually care much about, like Flesh's Heart for bleed resist, very nice for a healing Flagellant and not worth much for anyone else outside of CC missions, maybe, Hag's Ladle for blight boosting if you actually want that, and the only blighting characters you care about already have their own trinkets for it.

So other than (maybe) Prophet's Eye, there's no point in choosing regions solely based on killing the bosses in them.

The main reason to focus on specific regions is the Heirlooms you get, because finishing the blacksmith, guild and stagecoach is what you really want done as fast as possible, and this means mostly farming Weald and Warrens. I find myself neglecting ruins as a result at least until after that's done.

On the good side, Weald has two of the better trinkets, Fuseman's Matchstick (a nice ranged trinket) and Hag's Ladle (meh it's sometimes useful), and Warrens has Wilbur's Flag (okay on a healer you don't want stunned or some already dodgy hero like Jester/GR I suppose) and Flesh's Heart (FLA or I suppose someone in front on a Cove mission with those damn crabs).

In general, though, everywhere that isn't DD itself is just a trinket/heirloom farming area and bosses are very low priority.

Very cool, detailed answer, now I know what I wanted. Thanks:3