How to jester

[Calculus]

I played this game a lot, probably 250-300h in total and i never understood, why so many people loves jester.
Yea, he stress heal a lot... and by a lot i mean 50% more than a crusader... but...
1. He is made of paper, so my healer instead of stunning/killing/debuffing/pulling enemies heals him
2. He doesn't have an attack to finish off 4th enemy, which also makes it combine poorly with vestal, who can't stun 4th enemy (why jestal is so popular, wth?)
3. He has to take 3rd slot because on 4th slot he can only play or sometimes use dirk (good combo with crusader... )
4. He doesn't have any stuns and his main dmg source is bleed, which deals a lot of damage, but is sometimes slow with buildup to kill backliners in 1st/2nd turn

In the end, every time i use him my team ends up above 20stress each and even comps without any stress healer outperform jester, who is considered to be strongest stress healer...
In the ened i take him only for boss fights, since there is time during these fights to build up finale dmg.

How to use him in any comp different than pd + jester + vestal + hellion... which is outperformed by a comp, where you just swap jester with crusader (for this sweet holy lance to kill both backliners on first turn)

[RopeDrink]

I genuinely can't think of a single time where I've itemized for any reason other than the usual acc, speed, stun, or maybe even bleed (beyond my old test-runs where I'd dabble with every known strat, including dodge, which I loathe).

I mean, I'm partial to debuffing the Prophet to death because I often don't bother with MAA or guard-skills too often, but it's not like I'd ever slot +debuff for it. You could ask the same of the Croc (given how move-skills are highly recommended), but I generally just dunk them with my one-shot Court group and then slap the Baron/Viscount/Countess upside the head.

[No One]

I mean I also usually win Baron but it's not 100% reliable with a non-dodge setup anyway, so you might as well minimize that RNG with a dodge setup.

[tserleg1471]

I find his stress healing really useful.

Defeault skills:
- Inspiring Tune. Obvious.
- Finale. Obvious.
- Dirk Stab. It allows you to advance.
- Slice Off. It allows you to hit without changing position.

Default gameplan:
- In the first rounds I hit stress dealers.
- I use Finale if I think that none of them will be alive once my Jester gets next turn.
- I use him to heal stress (and Vestal/OCC/etc heal life) while my tank and damage dealers stun remaining enemies. I try to finish them slowly and with stuns so Jester and healers have more time to work.

Definitively, Jester helps to run dungeons with way less stressed heroes. :)

[Calculus]

引用自 tserleg1471：

I find his stress healing really useful.

Defeault skills:
- Inspiring Tune. Obvious.
- Finale. Obvious.
- Dirk Stab. It allows you to advance.
- Slice Off. It allows you to hit without changing position.

Default gameplan:
- In the first rounds I hit stress dealers.
- I use Finale if I think that none of them will be alive once my Jester gets next turn.
- I use him to heal stress (and Vestal/OCC/etc heal life) while my tank and damage dealers stun remaining enemies. I try to finish them slowly and with stuns so Jester and healers have more time to work.

Definitively, Jester helps to run dungeons with way less stressed heroes. :)

I just use heroes, who are better at everything else than stress healing and end up with less stress than when using jester... that's the issue.
Crusader? Has holy lance and stun
HM? Has one of the best stuns in the game and can help killing 4th position
And i often use leaper/♥♥♥ so they can stress heal themselfes

Now i agree, jester is the best at stress healing... but most of the time i don't have any stress to heal, when using others and with jester, somehow i always end up using his stress healing.

[Alex Darkcrowne]

How to play Jester:
1. Use Battle Ballad on Round 1
2. Check if there's someone he can Bleed/Dirk Stab.
If yes, attack. If no, Battle Ballad again.
3. Stress heal when someone has high stress.

In all seriousness Battle Ballad is broken as hell. At level 5, it's 2 trinkets' worth of stats in a single buff.
Jester's also got one of the highest DODGE stats in the game, and Finale provides him with an emergency one-shot that can hit anywhere.

Honestly, he's probably one of the easiest heroes to play.