How to max damage?

[BackdireinEis]

I saw videos of guys doing 200k damage. My best is with the Leper 53 damage. How do I boost up my damage into insanity? :-)

[wilky]

200k? I don't know about that. The biggest crit I've ever seen was ~175 from a Leper, buffed by Emboldening Vapours + Revenge. I had a Jester use Finale for ~80 (non-crit) earlier, so that would have been about 120 on a crit.

I also just killed Brigand Vvulf (finally) and I brought a Bounty Hunter (+Houndmaster, who applied bleed) and I equipped both Crimson Court trinkets on the Bounty Hunter (who also gets a +dmg bonus against human enemies) and he crit Vvulf for 66 with Collect Bounty, after my Occultist had applied Mark. Poor Vvulf went down in like three turns. I can't believe the devs didn't give Vvulf any +prot with that big shield that he's carrying.

[BackdireinEis]

What are "Embolding Vapours + Revenge"?

[Bakoro]

Originally posted by BackdireinEis:

What are "Embolding Vapours + Revenge"?

Emboldening vapours is a Plague Doctor skill which buffs a target ally with a 25% dmg and like 4-5 speed buff at lvl 5, and revenge is a leper skill which gives him a lot of buffs for dmg, crit and accuracy, but also decreasing his defenses.

[BackdireinEis]

Just tried revenge. To the contrast: I had to take 50 damage by an enemy in the woods (that giant with the log as weapon). Painful experience. ;)

[BackdireinEis]

How long does Emboldening Vapours last? 3 or 4 rounds? Or the whole battle like revenge?

[ZarahNeander]

Originally posted by BackdireinEis:

How do I boost up my damage into insanity? :-)

By editing the game files aka cheating

[Bakoro]

Originally posted by BackdireinEis:

How long does Emboldening Vapours last? 3 or 4 rounds? Or the whole battle like revenge?

Emboldening vapours lasts the whole battle

Originally posted by BackdireinEis:

Just tried revenge. To the contrast: I had to take 50 damage by an enemy in the woods (that giant with the log as weapon). Painful experience. ;)

Those giants hit for a lot anyways, but still, revenge is a boss killing move, you usually do not want to press revenge on hallway battles, it has such a low tempo on hallways/room battle for it to be worth pressing.
Tho since bosses have quite a ton of HP you get super high value of revenge when you already swing at the boss for like 3 turns, and even more if your leper happens to crit

[Nicole7735]

Damage is calculated by base damage x crit multiplier (1.5x max damage if crit) x buff multiplier (any dmg buffs from trinkets, skills quirks etc) x debuff multiplier (caltrops). To get really really high damage you'll want to shard dust leper for revenge while using caltrops on a high hp enemy (final boss is pretty great for it).

[BackdireinEis]

Originally posted by Bakoro:

Originally posted by BackdireinEis:

What are "Embolding Vapours + Revenge"?

Emboldening vapours is a Plague Doctor skill which buffs a target ally with a 25% dmg and like 4-5 speed buff at lvl 5, and revenge is a leper skill which gives him a lot of buffs for dmg, crit and accuracy, but also decreasing his defenses.

Your advices are very good so far. Any other proposals?

[megansweden]

There are also quirks that buff damage, aim, crit. And camp skills. If you really want to go crazy with it, use Shard Dust to spam limited-use skills like Revenge on the Leper or the PD's buff vapors. Jester's Battle Ballad increases crit and stacks, and you can spam it indefinitely without Shard dust. For that matter, all of Jester's skills buff damage and crit on Finale, so if you have a long fight you can build him until you're ready and then let fly with Finale (I think the buffs stack up to 7 turns).

It's only worth it on a boss. Any other fight should be done long before you build up the damage. I've used Revenge exactly once, for the Countess, and I didn't bother with the Shard dust to refresh it. I wasn't trying to one-shot her.

[BackdireinEis]

Pardon, what is Shard Dust?

[megansweden]

If you have the Color of Madness DLC, and you have acquired some Shards, you can buy Shard Dust when you set up for a mission along with your other supplies. It refreshes the hero and resets their limited-use skills, but it has a big stress penalty and reduces virtue chance, so it's not something you want to make a habit of using.

[BackdireinEis]

Ah, ok. This is my first run. I play it without any DLC, though I own them.

[rodrigues966967274]

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[Bakoro]

Well if you want advices for the max dmg thing, I would say quirks and trinket itemazation is really important as well, since on one of my saves, I had a Bounty Hunter that was able to crit constantly for like 86 dmg by himself (I like to run BH with Ancestor’s Pen and Hunter’s Talon; tho if I don’t have Hunter’s Talon, I use a Focus Ring instead). Obviously this is a hyper dmg carry build, which usually you would build your party to play around him; tho Bounty Hunters usually are played as setup and on last rounds to finish off things