The 5 Best Trios: Darkest Dungeon

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Best trio is three crusaders and then to round out the crusader trio, you add another crusader.

Im just wondering, why arent you picking up chests and supllies?

I’ve grown fond of Highwayman, Grave Robber, and Hellion (often with Vestal making ‘Gun and Roses’). Ranks 3 and 4 die as quickly as you’d like, a well timed combo of Point Blank Shot and Bleed Out crushes rank 1, you have access to decent bleeds, and being surprised doesn’t mean anything because all three do great damage in the process of repositioning.

It works great everywhere and sometimes feels like cheating.

Today I found out that, surprisingly, GR, PD and Leper make a great team!

GR lunges rank 3. PD stuns rank 4 (and rank 3 if it's not dead). Since the backline is stunned, that gives Leper enough time to Intimidate the last backline enemy, to slow him down.
Since the backline enemy is slowed down, it's almost guaranteed that GR will be fast enough to throw a poison dart in round 2 and kill it.

And since Intimidate marks Leper, it somewhat protects GR being in Rank 2 on the second round.

As long as you start GR in Rank 4, she will almost never interfere with Leper being in Rank 1.

i've found that crusader-jester-hwm-FL hero is another great setup; I usually use MMA but you could put anyone who doesn't care about shifting between rank 1 and 2. crusader is main healer and secondary dps, jester is stress healer and secondary dps, hwm is primary dps. I usually try to keep crusader and jester leapfrogging between rand 3 and 4 but its not an issue b/c hwm can hop around and reposition if crusader of jester gets into rank 2.

crusader and jester can take the enemy back line to task in 2 or 3 turns, hwm can take out the frontline with pointblank and duelist advance and can also redirect to the backline if necessary. The dmg across all enemy ranks is crazy and you can keep healing and stress pretty under control in the last few turns bc crusader will loose any backline targets and can only heal.

MMA works great in this team, mainly for for funneling dmg and throwing out stuns. getting riposte on him and hwm is great. I usually have him guarding hwm since he's a glass cannon, but i may guard no one or crusader if i need to throw out heals or want as many riposte procs as possible. This is my go-to team for long vetran missions and it even managed to stand up to Vvulf - though I did loose my Reynauld in that fight to bleed :(

HWM, crusader, occultist is the trio I think I've beaten the first level of the DD with every single time. I add either a Hellion or SB to rank one and just go to town.

The SB version is probably my favorite because of how easy it is for them to shuffle around the battlefield.

Plague Doctor and Flagellant: Great is the weapon that cuts on its own.

Houndmaster: Does my dog count for this?

Jestal and leper you can’t go wrong with though you struggle to hit the back you Murder the front without much risk

Do you use a mod to make your party walk faster?

I Think the best combo is campfire, torches and overconfidence.

I'm a big fan of the Jester, Houndmaster, Flagellant bleed cleave trio. The fourth slot can really be anyone but Hellion, Plague Doctor, or Bounty Hunter (with Molars equipped) stick out.

I did PD Houndmaster Flagellant Shieldbreaker

I use poison of PD the use impale of shieldbreaker then bleed with Houndmaster and Flagellant

it's fucking wonderful when I don't have to do anything but wait for the enemies turn so they can die. satisfying as fuck

Great content thanks, I just started playing after doing Battle Brothers and Urtuk and I'm really enjoying your guides, I had a sweet moving trio with crusader, shieldbreaker, Hwm and Graverobber, lots of fun

It always makes me giggle when I see Leper crit for something like 50. Like DAMMMMM

I appreciate hound master but i prefer bounty hunter. The stuns are so stronk and he has the execute at the end. You do need someone for the camp skill so i go with occultist for the heal and to protect from nighttime ambush or highwayman if you need extra damage in a pinch

One thing I've slept on greatly is how much I've been using Vestal as a crutch for bad gameplay. However, with proper gameplay Occultist / Crusader / Flagellant can be more effective and is much more rewarding. The single biggest reason I enjoy moving away from using Vestal in every comp is I can now use 2 backline DPS like PD / Arbalest.

I have the first team with lepar should I swap my arbalist with plague doctor

Antiquarian + MAA + Grave Robber. With guard me, retribution and shadow fade you force your enemies to attack into riposte. Ideally the 4th slot is another riposter.. also you can get huge dodge buffs with MAA camp skill and antiquarian buff.

Occultist - hound master - man at arms

Is the alternate title for this video "The 5 Best Polycules"?

video idea:
top 10 times ive spent 3 hours developing and researching a perfect team for the game to just double crit bleed me

You use Occultist a lot. You love Occultist. You make a great case for Occultist. But... There's no dedicated "Occultist and You" video!! Please bring all your Occultist knowledge and tips into an "and You" video for the dude.

GR+HVM+SB are absolutely insane: deals medium-high damage, SB and GR can break through armor, all three characters regularly crit, they have above average dodge, and they are resistant to shuffling. These mad lads destroy Ruins without any problems, most likely they also work well in the Weald and Cove.

The first party is also a boss eraser if you have PD Vapor buff your frontliner

I never used Occultist much in my first couple playthroughs because, you guessed it, he healed for 0 and applied a bleed at Death's Door. Now I'm digging him more though.

you should add "Chapters" [aka timestamps on the right of the screen]

LEPLER LEPLER LEPLER !

Tried Jestal SB trio this morning in Weald. My SB got crit by the giant for 56 and then one tapped by a mushroom dude. Everyone else was full HP basically.

None of these teams include Grave Robber? Who are you and what have you done to shuffle? :P

are there reliable comp's for ONLY RUNNING 3 heros?
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Best trio Crusader, Crusader, Crusader

You mentioned JestalBreaker for Endless Harvest, but have you done and actual video about Endless Harvest, Sleeper, Miller, and you? That might be worth doing before DD2

Those are some pretty strong trios, but i can't really get over the lack of 3 Lepers. 3 Lepers is a pretty strong foundation, and works well with most characters in the 4th slot, even when you'd usually want to add a Leper to that Trio to fully complete it and cover its few weakspots.

Make a early Shambler Hunting Guide, a lot of people skip Shambler in the early stages (when he is easier to deal with) and end up missing on those ancestral trinkets

Thanks for the content as always Shuffle

Not even recommending a team with GR as core smh fake fan.

not gonna lie

good trios

Would you consider that based on your videos and views on the importance of momentum, how op stun is and how healing is a reactive move that PD os the best healer in the game? 🤔

The series so far made me play better then never, week 36+ and my guild n blacksmith is almost 90% done, but I still have problem with long runs, I've already lost the doctor item 2 times due lack of healing or just not tanky enough, I'm getting mad at this point, I can beat most of bosses but I can't beat long runs

The only hero u need os leper

At first I thought this was a challenge of playing the game with only 3 heroes instead of 4 for eah mission.
Nevertheless I like Hellion, Flagellant and Houndmaster for their bleed synergy, especially the Hellion's +33%dmg vs. Bleeding and the flagellant's bleed debuff. The healing in this team is really good, it has stress heal, awesome camping skills, scouting and plays very well in torchless (houndmaster whistle and hell's hairpin). Lots of crits, lots of bleeds, outside of the ruins this team is an absolute blast to play! If you're lame you can throw in a plague doc, bounty hunter, jester or vestal in this mix, but this is one of the teams where 3 might be enough amd even better against shuffling enemies because hellion and flagellant can't be pushed to rank 4.

Hear me out, Anti-HM-MAA. Why them? Well...
Fat ripostes from Retribution's crits, Target Whistle's fat debuff and mark synergy with Hound's Rush and the funny dodge spam from Anti's Invigorating Vapours.

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It's surreal hearing you say "3 weeks til darkest dungeon 2."

Wait that’s all? Please make more! I need more DD trio videos!

I am a little shocked to see the "pumpkin spice latte" of team compositions given as a suggestion. I hope to someday advance my skills to the point where I don't bring Jestal everywhere, all the time, because they are my go to duo.