Is the Plague Doctor too good?

[Mithilius]

Wherever I go, when setting up a team I'm not really satisfied without a Plague Doctor. That backline stun is just too good to miss.

[No One]

Yes. Which functionally means the base game doesn't have anyone who uses blight damage.

[Chezz]

PD is love, PD is life. Love the PD, she will love you back.

[TSense]

ultra high blight on both important ranks at once, check
stun 2 on the important ranks at once, check
very high speed + heal that removes blight and bleed, check
can stack up your damage, check

Do want

[Norton 360 for Gamers]

It's a commonly known fact that the Plague Doctor is the best Darkest Dungeon waifu.

[Chezz]

Originally posted by Condescending Online Man:

It's a commonly known fact that the Plague Doctor is the best Darkest Dungeon waifu.

you da man

[Mithilius]

Originally posted by Condescending Online Man:

It's a commonly known fact that the Plague Doctor is the best Darkest Dungeon waifu.

You disgust me.

[Karinanima]

Originally posted by Condescending Online Man:

It's a commonly known fact that the Plague Doctor is the best Darkest Dungeon waifu.

That's a weird way of spelling Arbalest.

[LaserGuy]

Originally posted by Mithilius:

Wherever I go, when setting up a team I'm not really satisfied without a Plague Doctor. That backline stun is just too good to miss.

Pretty much. I generally consider teams of the form PD/Ves/X/Y to be among the most reliable in the game, where X and Y can be just about any class.

[Shucks]

Anime people are so weird.

Yeah plague doctors pretty sweet, so much utility for fights and essentially gives you a free 2 turns with that backline stun.

I didnt realize how useful they were in the beginning, now i wish i had more in my rotation.

[Opprobrium]

Crimson Court gave a bit of a nerf because many of the mobs are stun and blight resistant, and infestation means they spread into other areas

[Chezz]

Plague Doctor with Dazzling Mirror and Blasphemous Vial absolutely wrecks the Courtyard, stunlock everything for whole fights except the Supplicants which are the least threatening mobs there anyway.

[UR|Dialetheia]

Oh and to think that, way back when, she was considered underpowered by most :) It's good to see the community learn.

[No One]

Back when, the front two ranks would be annihilated immediately by AOE, and corpses didn't exist so the back two ranks would become the first two. Also, disorienting blast wasn't as stun, just a shuffle. Aside from her role as Queen of All Stuns, the PD is pretty terrible.

[Norton 360 for Gamers]

Originally posted by Mithilius:

Originally posted by Condescending Online Man:

It's a commonly known fact that the Plague Doctor is the best Darkest Dungeon waifu.

You disgust me.

Good.

[Tragically_Comedic]

I just started playing, and I have a Plague Doctor in my current party. To be honest, she's been pretty useless. None of her abilities have been helpful, and her one attack is a grenade that has to be used from the back ranks and only does 1 freaking damage. It inflicts plague or something, but that doesn't seem to do jack to any of the enemies. The only other things she does a slight buff and a heal that does basically nothing.