Bloodsuckers are tough! (Need Help!)

[Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret]

(please, the following post contain spoilers from the Crimson Curse, but I'm not requesting spoilers from the game. Thanks)

Hi, the Bloodsucker infestation (and the Viscount courtyard) are kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ At High infestation, the game is unplayable. Does anyone have the same problem? When I reached the champion dungeons, I'm loosing a character evey 2 missions.

Sycophant dodge and speed, plus the Chevalier damage is killing me! Do you have any advice? Thanks for the help


Editted: 25-Jan-2018

[LaserGuy]

They are definitely quite nasty, especially at Champion level. If you have a strong enough team, you're probably best off just going and killing the Viscount probably. Beyond that... Chevaliers are slow and stunnable, so this is probably a good method to employ against them. For Champion level, you basically want to build your parties around dealing with CC enemies rather than the local fauna. Have a Plague Doctor in the party with double stun trinkets, and you should be able to pin down Chevaliers and similar threats for 2-3 turns at a time.

[Chezz]

Originally posted by LaserGuy:

T Have a Plague Doctor in the party with double stun trinkets, and you should be able to pin down Chevaliers and similar threats for 2-3 turns at a time.

This.

Dazzling Mirror + Blasphemous Vial brings %Stun of PD to %200+, able to stunlock backrows of bloodsuckers for entire fights, not even exaggerating.

[Thaxlsyssilyaan]

Occultist damage debuff on chevalier help a lot, they become nearly harmless.

[Venom]

Also, Leper’s intimidate ability can be used on Chevaliers to reduce their damage and protection at the same time. And with sun ring+another accuracy/damage trinket, i found that the Leper is actually really good in the Courtyard.

If you find that one of your characters get focused down, you can always rely on Man-at-Arms to protect your characters. He can also give your guys dodge, accuracy, riposte while protecting your guys, and he even has a stun, so he is actually a very good choice in general.

Bringing a Grave Robber with dodge+offensive trinkets allows you to not worry about another character getting hit all the time. Especially if you use the toxin trickery.

So you have grave robber that is very hard to hit, Man-at-Arms with very high prot, and defend ability, Leper who is just tanky and is able to take hits all day, and the healer who is protected by the Man-at-Arms.

I think this kind of a team is very good at the Courtyard.

[Iron Ben]

Maybe the encounters % could be toned down a tad; just finished a Warrens vet/short run and out of the 5 fights in there, 4 were bloodsuckers...

I get that at high infestation levels you will definitely come accross them annoying gnats, but it's a bit much when they take over a whole dungeon...




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[local news]

the best way to beat CC is to run stun heavy tams through out. Vestal , PD , HM ,Hellion , MAA are the best characrters against bloodsuckers cos they have bad stun resists. U can stunlock the chevaliers for 3 turns easily if u have maxed out your stun skills.

[curry124242]

I have the same problem with bloodsuckers in lv5 dungeons.
I took the advice of bring a PD with (40%stun, 20% blight trinket) and dazzing mirror.
But when i face the first group of bloodsucker(4 Sycophants), my team nearly got destoryed.

My team was PD, jester, occulist. hellion.
Hellion miss the target all the time with +10acc trinket
PD is okay because she stuns two Sycophants.
Jester again always miss.
occulist is busy to heal other heros.

So, what is a better team for facing bloodsuckers enemies?
I am overwhelmed becuase i need to prepare for both bloodsucker and normal dungeon enemies.

[Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret]

I took several advice here for the bloodsuckers (except the most important, since I don't have a PD!). Long story short, I'm surviving. My team is focusing on exterminate this pest with stuns and Mercurial Salve combo. Now, I'm running short on gold, but that's a question for another post. Please keep the good tips comming!

[curry124242]

Originally posted by Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret:

I took several advice here for the bloodsuckers (except the most important, since I don't have a PD!). Long story short, I'm surviving. My team is focusing on exterminate this pest with stuns and Mercurial Salve combo. Now, I'm running short on gold, but that's a question for another post. Please keep the good tips comming!

can you give me a team comp example?
Thanks!

[Thaxlsyssilyaan]

Originally posted by curry124242:

can you give me a team comp example?
Thanks!

Vestal, Jester, Occultist, Flaggelent.

3 healer
2 stress healer
Occulist's damage debuff (use it on chevalier while other char kill the other bloodsucker)
2 bleed damaging character (very powerfull against those bloodsucker)

You can't really lose with such a comp

Use 1 accuracy trinket all the time, the second one is your choice, i tend to choose evade.

[3 Ducks In a Man Suit]

Originally posted by Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret:

(please, spoilers from the Crimson Curse)

Hi, the Bloodsucker infestation (and the Viscount courtyard) are kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ At High infestation, the game is unplayable. Does anyone have the same problem? When I reached the champion dungeons, I'm loosing a character evey 2 missions.

Sycophant dodge and speed, plus the Chevalier damage is killing me! Do you have any advice? Thanks for the help

TBH, I actually just beat the Viscount in a single go for the first time ever. Having the Crimson Curse is only a bad thing if you don't have enough blood.

If you don't have to worry about running out, then having the curse is objectively better and easier than not having it. Your guys are faster, they hit harder, and sometimes they randomly heal themselves/lower their stress.

As far as not taking too much damage, I strongly advise that you bring a Plague Doctor. Those guys are insanely useful in the Courtyard. The only bloodsuckers that aren't easy to stun multiple rounds in a row are the Supplicants, and I personally find them to be the least threatening. You want your PD to have both Blinding Gas and Disorienting Blast, and you should give them trinkets to increase their stun chance. The Dazzling Mirror is a really good one.

I usually try to kill Sycophants first, then Manservants, then the rest. I usually leave the Chevaliers for last, since they are easier to keep stunned.

[Strifeboy]

Yeah screw this crimson curse nonsense, i bought this game to play the main stuff with the dlc tacked on not 99% dlc creatures with a sprinkle or 2 of the stuff you want to fight. Whoever made it must of known how annoying this ♥♥♥♥ is for no reason.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret:

(please, spoilers from the Crimson Curse)

Hi, the Bloodsucker infestation (and the Viscount courtyard) are kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ At High infestation, the game is unplayable. Does anyone have the same problem? When I reached the champion dungeons, I'm loosing a character evey 2 missions.

Sycophant dodge and speed, plus the Chevalier damage is killing me! Do you have any advice? Thanks for the help

Whenever you defeat a CC boss, it resets infection back to normal. After the last one, the Curse becomes a curable disease like any other.

The Chevalier (or even worse two of those bastards) are priority targets, and they spawn in the back two rows. So have your own back row heavy hitters. Two damage debuffs from an Occultist and the Chevy becomes a weakling.

Also if you don't want to deal with CC content early, just don't turn it on, or if you do, don't actually go into the Courtyard until you want to deal with it (although the latter prevents you from getting other potentially beneficial Hamlet events).

[R.O.D.]

Originally posted by curry124242:

I have the same problem with bloodsuckers in lv5 dungeons.
I took the advice of bring a PD with (40%stun, 20% blight trinket) and dazzing mirror.
But when i face the first group of bloodsucker(4 Sycophants), my team nearly got destoryed.

My team was PD, jester, occulist. hellion.
Hellion miss the target all the time with +10acc trinket
PD is okay because she stuns two Sycophants.
Jester again always miss.
occulist is busy to heal other heros.

So, what is a better team for facing bloodsuckers enemies?
I am overwhelmed becuase i need to prepare for both bloodsucker and normal dungeon enemies.

My personal medicine to Bloodsuckers is the following:

PD/VES/MAA/CRUS
Cataphract/PD/MAA/CRUS
CRUS/CRUS/CRUS/CRUS
VES/PD/BH/MAA
Cataphract/PD/HM/MAA

[R.O.D.]

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

Originally posted by Glaros_odia_a_Gomeret:

(please, spoilers from the Crimson Curse)

Hi, the Bloodsucker infestation (and the Viscount courtyard) are kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ At High infestation, the game is unplayable. Does anyone have the same problem? When I reached the champion dungeons, I'm loosing a character evey 2 missions.

Sycophant dodge and speed, plus the Chevalier damage is killing me! Do you have any advice? Thanks for the help

Whenever you defeat a CC boss, it resets infection back to normal. After the last one, the Curse becomes a curable disease like any other.

The Chevalier (or even worse two of those bastards) are priority targets, and they spawn in the back two rows. So have your own back row heavy hitters. Two damage debuffs from an Occultist and the Chevy becomes a weakling.

Also if you don't want to deal with CC content early, just don't turn it on, or if you do, don't actually go into the Courtyard until you want to deal with it (although the latter prevents you from getting other potentially beneficial Hamlet events).

And also prevents Vvulf from showing up.