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Dark Messiah Class

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A small note:
This is how I see Dark Messiah and my try to recreate his story in Darkest Dungeon's lore.

The Dark Messiah is a Void itself, but he doesn't knows that, Dark Messiah claim himself to be the Hand of God, the Vengeful One and he is immaterial. He doesn't have his own body so he always steals someone's body to grant a power to fight. Nobody knows why he fights and he doesn't want to tell why too, he says only that he got a mission and he can't fail it, if he fails it he will die. But how Void can die? Maybe the God himself grant him the power to control Void and if he fails he is going to lose it? Nobody knows, but he is here and he will help you, but don't rely on him too much, he doesn't trust humans at all.



Dark Messiah is very tough, he has low resistances to everything but death. He claims himself to be almost immortal due to his immaterial form. He uses stolen magic sword to fight. He is a melee fighter and very durable tank, he has a lot of hp, average damage and not that high speed and dodge stats. His optimal position is the first rank and most of the times he has nothing in his kit to reach enemies in backline. Dark Messiah has a lot of options to survive for a long period of time and protect his teammates... or, you can risk and get very strong benefits from it. Your playstyle changes completely when Messiah gets afflicted.




$ - Enemy

! - Teammate or Self

C - Self

X - Position from which your character can attack or interact.

$-$ or !-! - More than one target.

O - Position from which your character can't attack or interact.

Indestructible - X X X X _ C C C C - Messiah can became Indestructible for 3 rounds gaining a good bonus to every resist (besides death and move resistance) that rises with level of ability, this move can be used once per fight and doesn't spend your turn.

Destruction - O O O X _ $ $ O O - Your self-sustaining damage deal ability. Use it to deal slightly reduced damage and slightly heal yourself, also has an average chance to stun enemy, this attack also reduces your light level. This attack can CRIT.

Run - O X X X _ $-$-$-$ - You can scare your enemies with your voice and appearance. Doesn't deal any damage and affects whole enemy party. Applies debuff on enemy's ACC. Also it kills all corpses.

Gift from the Void - O O X X _ ! ! ! ! - this is high risk - high reward ability. Allows you to attack yourself or your teammate and puts target into Death's Door, but gives the target a bonus to DMG, Dodge and ACC. This ability can't miss.

Fortify - O O O X _ !-!-!-! - This is you core tank ability, use it to protect whole team at once, lasts 3 rounds. Increases Messiah's protection depending on how many heroes are affected by ability. Note that afflicted character can reject your guard.

Cleave - O O O X _ $-$-$ O - This is your simple zone attack. Reduces your damage by 50% but allows you to attack 3 enemies at once. This attack can CRIT although it reduces your crit chances.

Fair Fight - O O X X _ $ $ O O - Another attack ability, has increased damage, on impact marks you and your enemy, deals additional 30% damage against marked enemies. This attack can CRIT.




Dark Messiah doesn't have a virtue, he can get only afflicted. His affliction is called Mortal (Mortality) which makes him weaker, makes him able to die easily as human would do. When Messiah gets afflicted he loses his max health by 50% and deals 50% more damage, his Death Blow resistance reduces by 33%, speed and dodge are increased but protection is always less than 0% when hero is afflicted. You don't want your Messiah to get afflicted if you are using him as tank, and you must get him afflicted if you use him as damage dealing character to get maximum benifit from damage bonuses but be careful because he doesn't trust humans and maybe will try to kill your team first.




Hand of God - reduces stress of Dark Messiah by 100 points. Time spent: 4.

God's Will - Dark Messiah buffs DMG against Unholy and Edritch by 25% till next camp. Time spent: 3.

Fear the Void - prevents ambush, gives +20% chance to surpsise monsters and -20% chance to surprise party. +20% scout chance. Time spent: 4.

innocence - cures one disease and removes Mortality debuffs from one ally. Time spent: 2.

• Dark Prophecy [Common] - after first round makes Dark Messiah take 20% less stress damage. Increases chance to get crit attacked by 5% when not first rank.
  
  
• Ring of Rage [Uncommon] - when afflicted increases your damage by 10%, max health by 10% and reduces healing received by 20%
  
  
• Hands of Void [Rare] - when marked received healing is increased by 50%.
  
  
• Heart of the Old Friend [Very Rare] - using Dark Messiah's offensive skills have 20% chance to heal whole party by 7 points, also using Dark Messiah's offensive skills have 5% chance to deal 15 stress damage to whole party.
  
  
• The Amulet of Light [Crimson Court] - When marked increases your protection by 10%, when bleeding your protection is increased by 10% and when poisoned your protection is also increased by 10%.
  
  
• Freedom [Crimson Court] - When your hero is afflicted, SPD is increased by 4 and Dodge is increased by 6, but if your hero is unafflicted stress damage is increased by 15%.
  
  
• Giving me strenght to face them! [Set] - Increases crit chance by 5% and reduces incoming stress damage by 15%, doubles value if hero is afflicted
  
  
• God's Soul [Crystalline] - When attacked by Unholy or Eldritch protection is increased by 25%. Increases taking stress damage by 20%.

- Balance and bug fixes.
- New skins
- More localizations


For now there is none.


Most important changes are there for only current version, every update is listed in changelog.txt inside of mod's folder which you can find in steamapps/workshop

v 1.9

- Many balance changes. (changelog.txt has most of the changes if not all of them)
- Removed Power Beyond Containing trinket.


For more detailed information check changlelog.txt.


Caedwyn - for his big help.

JawZoned - check out his original skin, which I used to create this one.

RedDyeNo5[www.patreon.com] - for his trinket pack.

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