The crocodile is complete bs

[Zen]

The game keeps telling me that I should kill the mosquitos, fine, but I failed THREE time. The whole dungeon is easy but wtf the crocodile? He deals massive damages, has 100 hp, and I can't destroy the plants to fight him, seriousely wtf? ♥♥♥♥ this quest, it's not hard, it's dumb

[Null]

Originally posted by Nocturne:

Originally posted by Fz Dynelight:

Right click on the wood while in a room.

Oh ok. And I can't even play now because I don't have any heal :/

Welcome to Darkest Dungeon, where underpreparedness is the biggest killer.

[Matthew]

Well to be fair, it probably would have been better if the courtyard unlocked and gave you the quest a few weeks later than it currently does. A new player is going to see the quest and figure "well, I'm supposed to do this now" and the croc mini-boss IS more difficult than just about any of the other apprentice content.

Not saying the croc should get nerfed or anything, but throwing it at new players a couple weeks into the game is probably not the best way to introduce Darkest Dungeon. Even if the intention of the game is to screw over the player. At least give the new player a few weeks to adjust to how the game works before convincing them to sacrifice heroes to the croc God.

[charliechuckleberry]

Whoa, first of all, the croc is laughably easy to beat. I uploaded a video of me beating with a level 0-1 team on day 4.

I think you don't get THE POINT. Darkest Dungeon Developers designed it to be a "SURPRISE", and you should flee from that battle. Assuming you suck, and didn't come prepared.

In addition, you could just spawn a bunch of Overpowered BS Trinkets, everyone else does it:
(I just don't understand why players don't just tell the noob/whiners about it)

EDIT: while in town, click on your trinket inventory, hit enter, and type in the name of this trinket: Da powar

Tada, you have one of the most OP trinkets in the game. Don't feel bad, everyone does it. I've seen it in other youtubers videos often, while they are pretending to be good.

[Pseudok]

Originally posted by charliechuckleberry:

Don't feel bad, everyone does it. I've seen it in other youtubers videos often, while they are pretending to be good.

Making statements like that, you know that it's going to cause an uproar? I, for one, have never even once used these kickstarter trinkets, and only once I have summoned Cthulhu from the stagecoach just for the giggles.

So, definitely not everyone. I'm sure I'm not an exception.

[!?!]

If you claim that "everyone cheats", you have just disqualified yourself from making statements about difficulty.

[YukoValis]

One thing you can do is wait until the town event that removes restrictions. : ) Then bring so level 4-6's out there and kick the crocs behind.

[Geo]

Prepare your asses for some more of that croc, cause you've probz not seen the last of him.
It's not that hard of a fight, bring a hellion, flag, vestal & [whatever dps], I like arbalest
Keeping your health up isn't very hard with this setup, just bleed the thing to death.

[OIIAIOIIIAI]

Originally posted by Ghin:

Being unprepared for horrible things is one of the main themes of the game. There are worse things than crocodiles roaming the estate. Welcome to Darkest Dungeon.

Read this with the voice of Narrator

[Voodin]

At least you can prepare for the Croc.

That piece of ♥♥♥♥ Fanatic just pops up everywhere and is a pain in the ass with the wrong team.

[Lichlord9333]

The Croc is weak for CC and stun if you got any push/pull abilities with a stun you can easily manipulate his position to your advantage and stun him once he dives when he dives afterwards he does a powerfull attack that stun can prevent.

[jedsTNT]

Killed it in my first try too, with disorientad blast of the Plague Doctor pulling it to the front, lots of bleed with Highwayman and PD and finishing off with a Crimson Cursed Bloodlusted Crusader and HWM. But I imagine that someone who doesn't expect a boss so soon will be caught off guard and unprepared.

[Lichlord9333]

More a miniboss then a real boss you'l find out their are more of em lurking in the courtyard dungeon.

[0x6495ED]

The mission as a whole is incredible cheap as it breaks pattern completely, and is just straight up missinformation. It says it's a short, easy mission (it's not), with the goal to burn 3 thronging hives (okay, so it's a standard 3-curio mission, because that's how those missions are always described).

Enter the Crocodile (what you didn't sign up for a boss on an easy short mission?). It's unexpected, but so is also a instant party wipe, neither are fun. You can't break established forms and expect it to be fun, you have to setup for that ♥♥♥♥, it's game design 101.

[Enfild]

Beat him without much trouble, maybe entering uknown teritory you bring strong party, eh?
I dont really like that nothing hints about him, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell, you people make him seem like destroyer of the worlds of some sort. He is not that big of a problem

[THANKS OBAMA]

Once you know he's there he's fodder basically. But yeah the first time I encountered him he nearly wiped my party made up of Rey and Di so I just noped right out of there. I eventually deleted the save because of funding issues and way to many neg quirks stacking up, but now the Croc just gets torn to shreds by me using either the houndmaster or arbalest. Sometimes both :d.