Guide for easy mode

[白嫖帝 :D]

I played 21 hours to finish the easy mode. Here are some tips that I would like to share:

1, Just like Darkest Dungeon, you want your enemies DEAD asap, especially those pesky healer or heavy damage dealer. That is easier said than done. you may build a party specialized for physical damage. Yet, I found stress party is extremely useful for normal battles:

Bride with warning shot that interrupts stance, which is very important!
Banshee that spawn -6 attack debuff to all enemies
Wraith that curse 2 enemies or using his ulti AOE
All the above combo with Dark Knight's No Tomorrow extremely well

All you can see, this party aims to stress the enemies to death before they can do much harm to your minions. As a result, you need to look for equipment that adds initiative, dread, accuracy and luck. Furthermore, you usually need to target the enemies with the lowest sanity so that a deadly chain events of heart attack can occur.

2, The bosses are HARD: the first boss, keymaster, I killed him with standard stress party.

For the second boss inventor, you need a party that deals heavy physical attack or AOE damage.
That's why I found: Bride X2, Dark Knight and Bone Golem to be very effective. The Bride X2 needs to buff themselves first and then you need to kill the machineries (those attacking you) fast and ignore the boss. Each dead machinery equals to 100 HP of the boss.

For the third boss, well that was hard.....I killed her with tons of Bone Golem....You will need a party that can deal physical damage to every position. Btw, the Iratus spell that adds 10 luck to all minions AND enemies are great in this battle because the fire elementals will blow themselves up very soon. You probably need to kill the boss before she kills you

3, The " ! " event are usually bad...try to avoid them...and the minions that can handle the event are limited to only 4....and that's why it is so bad...

4, The red sacrificial altars are good: a trash minion (4 item) in exchange for tons of useful items!

5, Save brains for unexpected losses and common parts for the final legendary one ( you will need 8 common-quality ones to craft 1 legendary. Other quality items may be a waste in the end.

6, The talent organ transplantation does NOT allow you to get the old item....

7, The Dakr Knight's ultimate skill ignore armor and blocks. His cleanse skill also erase executioner's deadly Mark and that's why he is so good.

[Sima Marlin]

Farm bone golems, bone golems and lost souls give you +2 armor and +2 ward buff as well as healing and self healing tank.

For damage, lich is king, his cloud with 5% kill chance doesn't seem much, but once you spam 3 up it starts to feel, also with lost soul wards his fire spell is gold.

Fill in what you want as third, I recommend the wraith for extra havoc, this is madness type of approach that works pretty well.


Edit 2 : Oh, if you just started, just get 2 x skeleton and 2 x bride, easy ride till 3 stage.

Also.... this is suggestion section, shouldn't this be on general forum matey?

[白嫖帝 :D]

Originally posted by Sima Marlin:

Farm bone golems, bone golems and lost souls give you +2 armor and +2 ward buff as well as healing and self healing tank.

For damage, lich is king, his cloud with 5% kill chance doesn't seem much, but once you spam 3 up it starts to feel, also with lost soul wards his fire spell is gold.

Fill in what you want as third, I recommend the wraith for extra havoc, this is madness type of approach that works pretty well.


Edit 2 : Oh, if you just started, just get 2 x skeleton and 2 x bride, easy ride till 3 stage.

Also.... this is suggestion section, shouldn't this be on general forum matey?

For the last part of your reply, frankly, I got confused, too~Anyway, I just finished normal mode with the above standard stress party. This time, the artifact, shackle of war, is a must because inspiration is sooooooo annoying. Stress party steamrolled normal battles, especially the third dungeon. Here are some more tips I would like to add

For the 3 boss battles, you will need the artifact that increases 20 HP when your minions have 4 uncommon parts and the consumable smoke bomb because you probably need to kill the boss before he kills you.

For the third boss, I also discovered a little trick: do NOT hit the pyromancer when her fire shield is on. The shield will be gone after 1 turn. Do something else such as Bride's self-buff (do NOT stack, sadly) or healing.

[Sima Marlin]

Found most broken combo so far.

Spirit in back row, after it banshee, another spirit and then knight.

Knight does nothing but spams stance to follow up attack every time someone buffs enemy.

As necro spells go ire 2 tier spell that gives +10 luck to everyone, give all minions + 2 int belts if you find them and wear light armor if you find it and +25 crit ring. Get the +1 armor + 1 ward buff and improved heal to spirits asap.

Strategy : skip turns till it's knight's turn, use stance, follow up with +10 luck buff to both teams-> knight does retaliation, follow with banshees shout ( hits all and you got high crit so chance for double morale debuff is huge), on 2 spot sprit spam the all hitting + initiave buff, back row spirit spams wards, heals and once you get 2-3 buffs to everyone uses ulti to STEAL ENEMY BUFFS TO GIVE YOU +20 ISH DREAD AND DAMAGE KEEPING YOUR CRIT STACKS.

When low on mana, leave one enemy up, buff allies ( banshee and spirit has skip type buff) and just spam mana recover on knight.

I end up with full hp teams, with +20 damage buffs, double wards 60-70% crits in end against ANYTHING else but gold golems ( that remove buffs often).


On perfect starts you got 2/4 of enemy team having hearth attack before they can even act ( if you can get 10 ini to all)

Currently entering hardest diff to test if this is as much of steam roll strat as well.

[白嫖帝 :D]

Originally posted by Sima Marlin:

Found most broken combo so far.

Spirit in back row, after it banshee, another spirit and then knight.

Knight does nothing but spams stance to follow up attack every time someone buffs enemy.

As necro spells go ire 2 tier spell that gives +10 luck to everyone, give all minions + 2 int belts if you find them and wear light armor if you find it and +25 crit ring. Get the +1 armor + 1 ward buff and improved heal to spirits asap.

Strategy : skip turns till it's knight's turn, use stance, follow up with +10 luck buff to both teams-> knight does retaliation, follow with banshees shout ( hits all and you got high crit so chance for double morale debuff is huge), on 2 spot sprit spam the all hitting + initiave buff, back row spirit spams wards, heals and once you get 2-3 buffs to everyone uses ulti to STEAL ENEMY BUFFS TO GIVE YOU +20 ISH DREAD AND DAMAGE KEEPING YOUR CRIT STACKS.

When low on mana, leave one enemy up, buff allies ( banshee and spirit has skip type buff) and just spam mana recover on knight.

I end up with full hp teams, with +20 damage buffs, double wards 60-70% crits in end against ANYTHING else but gold golems ( that remove buffs often).


On perfect starts you got 2/4 of enemy team having hearth attack before they can even act ( if you can get 10 ini to all)

Currently entering hardest diff to test if this is as much of steam roll strat as well.

The above startegy is interesting enough.....(I never like Lost Soul cos she buffs enemies XD), you finished normal mode with the above strategy, right?

Forgot to add:

When you fight the first boss with a stress party, try to induce cowardance and keep that enemy alive so that the keymaster can suffer 20% stress of his current sanity, which is much more than your team can do!!

[Sima Marlin]

That is actually really good advice, yeah finished themore pain diff with that combo, even the inventor was easy with it.

Golems are annoying tho, as only physical damage is the knight

[No One]

Originally posted by 純獸師 :D:

That is easier said than done

thank god

[MasterBLB]

Weird question, but what minion do you mean by 'spirit' @Sima Martlin? Wraith?

[One Man Army]

If you want to unlock most of the minions on easy mode very fast, then go with 4 mummies.
They are able to constantly crit,debuff (even when hit themselves) and cause insanities and use wrath a lot for the unlocks.

Best combo so far in the game is 2 Lost Souls in the back and 2 Golems at the front.
Mass buffs/debuffs then Ulti with Lost Souls and you are able to kill everything and delay to heal your party or refuel mana before the next fight.

Also wrong forum section.

[白嫖帝 :D]

Originally posted by MasterBLB:

Weird question, but what minion do you mean by 'spirit' @Sima Martlin? Wraith?

He means the minion Lost Soul.