Drowned crew is example of bad boss design

[Anonym]

I can easily deal with any boss except this one. He is clearly cheating and breaking rules of the game. He actually has 3 moves instead 2. Even if he miss spawning of the anchorman he will spawn anyway. Anchorman getting full HP back when using his move which cannot be avoided is just bad. This one boss is reason why I wont support darkest dungeon 2.

[RopeDrink]

"I don't like 1% of X, therefore I won't support X2, despite the fact that next to nobody else has the problems I do -- it's the developer's fault and not my own."

Fun fact, but the reason the anchorman refreshes its HP is that non-anchored and anchored are treated as two different enemies. Unanchored has a lot of PROT and is meant to be ignored -- so if you were trying to kill it when it hadn't hooked someone, that was your fault. When someone is hooked, it loses all PROT and becomes very squishy - practically one-shottable by a lot of heroes.

There's multiple ways of dealing with this easy gimmick, but it seems you didn't try to find them. I would say Crew is the 4th easiest of the standard dungeon bosses, and if you can't handle it, then I'm not even sure if DD2 would be a game for you.

[No One]

salt thread is salty

[Raindream]

Stunning the anchorman works well, and blighting the crew will work against what heals it can get off you.

[mldb88]

Originally posted by Raindream:

Stunning the anchorman works well, and blighting the crew will work against what heals it can get off you.

Pretty much this. Hell I actually had to look up what the anchor mechanic does because even by the time I hit champion crew it was so irrelevant I didn’t really see what it was supposed to do

[unkn0wnx]

I don't really like the design, but I can't complain. In a hard game like this, any cheesable boss is welcomed (by me)! The anchor had no effect on virtuous heroes.

[gonzo]

Crusader is king.

[Mhblis]

I actually felt this was on of the bosses that had a better gimmick.

It makes you actually pay attention and see whats going on.

Compared to something like Hag and Necromancer which is just flat Dps.

[No One]

An example of genuine bad boss design is the garden guardian. Effective 1000 HP or so, almost immune to every non-damage mechanic, and it has exactly one attack it spams over and over and over and