Quest for the Best Team: Part 5 - Blight Cleave | Darkest Dungeon 2

There needs to be a bleed team or burn team. Im too poor to afford patreon and im too autistic to talk to people on discord. But have been falling asleep to your videos recently. Keep em coming

Love these vids. Keep it going Shuff-at-arms!!!

I think it’s worth it to run lunge, since the blight res piercing buff only lasts for 1 turn(2 when mastered), when the buff expires lunge forward then shadowfade again. It actually works really well and deals pretty decent damage. I’m honestly surprised that lunge doesn’t deal +20% damage against blighted targets. Feel like that would fit in pretty well with Venomdrop.

Also this is a great instructional format. Do more. Do a bleed team next.

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Goog vid

I do a similar comp but GR is in 3rd and instead of MAA it's Runaway in 2nd.

Hi, been watching your vids for a while now, I do appreciate the gameplay put with the talking. Love your vids!

This is a blight team alright: A blight on my soul due to the lack of Hellion.

Good vid as always though Shuff

I love this idea, please make more videos like this 😊

I feel called out, a week or so ago I asked how to make a burn team in the discord😂

Love this series. Keep these videos coming!

Great video

liked the team, and the new format

This will be way more fun once PD gets a path rework. I'm guessing she and Occultist are next?

Who up cleaving they blight?

I like this format

this is the team i managed to kill all 5 bosses with. I think its by far the best combo and nothing really comes close until they nerf Plague Granade, More More, Venom Graverobber path or taunt in general lol.

Rank 3: *chuckles* im in danger!

POG!

Carcass Hellion could replace M@A on this team, just keep clicking T2T and BWAP to stress sponge.

Bruh I'm trying this shit tomorrow thanks shuff for showing me teams that are fun af, broooo I can't wait for the amazing new team comps with Abom YEEESSSS :33

Love this series and the format is better too!

Amazing vid! I do have a team request though: A team that consistently generates and utilizes combo well. I don't know if it's just me, but I struggle making good use of the mechanic and it's always felt clunky to set up. (bonus points if the team doesn't rely on DOTs for majority of it's damage)

I think Crusader rather than MaA makes this team a bit more comfortable, as he adds some more healing and can also contribute to the cleave damage

also starting with T1 flashing daggers allows for a T1 necrosis also - one of the teams big downsides is that the enemy all die at once, so they all get a lot of actions compared to teams that nuke one enemy at a time, so hitting necrosis T1 helps us a lot

Most likely the next hero we get is Abom, so blight gets even more options! Though I wish they put some more heroes with burn in. The current "burn team" (two of the members have only one ability that inflicts burn, that is actually supposed to be utility) loses the damage race so hard.

one of my favourite teams..I consistently play it with Scourge to have double taunt, double heal and still Sepsis/Necrosis are really powerful

Banneret Crusader, Intrepide Duelist, Rogue HWM, Bulwark MAA - I'm currently dominating a Grand Slam with this hyper aggressive dance team.

In rough speed order...
Duelist - Fleche.exe. Coup de Gras for reach if you need to finish off rank 4 or not move. I rarely use other buttons but Prep is fun when upgraded.
HWM - Duelist's Advance for the most part. Double-tap for damage burst, especially against <50% HP enemies. Point blank/Grapeshot for if you end up in rank 1.
MAA - Hold the line to fling himself back to the front. He's very tanky and always has taunt between Stand Fast & Retribution. Bolster for stress heal
Crusader - Holy Lance is your only real way to hurt rank 4. Zealous is good a back-line DOT cleave too. Pivot towards heal/stress heal at the end of the fight as needed. He can't hit rank 1 anyway.

Damage is massive through direct and riposte. Small bit of burn DOT from the Crusader. Tanking is covered by MAA, as are Stress heals. Healing from the Crusader, usually needs a trinket to boost. The dancing seems to often give positive relationship pips too, everyone seems to dance around the board like crazy but keep returning to the starting position. The team's strong, easy and just feels great to play.

My team for my first clear of the game were Scourge Flagellant , Chaplain Vestal , Warlock Occultist , and Alchemist Plague Doctor . The damage from Occultist and PD were off the charts , and the frontline was tanking , buffing and the hot from Vestal is super strong. I took the Rabbit pet to nuke the enemy backline asap, usually before they get a chance to play .

Flag is like anti Leper to me. Anytime Leper is on the Team he is the star of the show, everytime flag is on my team he is the star of the show

I've never been able to find a Flag team that I actually enjoy, might give this one a try.

this got me through grand slam last year when maa was op

As if this team needed to be any better, but Flagellant and Man-at-arms always has access to slapping Endure on for a road fight to siphon all of the stress onto one character while Man-at-arms heals it off.

Plague doctor, occultist, vestal and bonnie. All 4 healers which i actually had a fun run with this team.
I ran ritual , surgeon, bonk and arsonist.
I dare you to tell yt its good because it is

Oh wait, what if this team finds THE CANNON!!!! Shufffffffffffffff

Flag really do be edging death, no wonder she's frustrated with him.

Much nicer to see you build a team and show it in action vs talking over character selection alone. Thanks, Shuff!

Hi, Shuffle. Big Time Fan. Watching your YT Videos since you started your account. Been lurking around ever since but this is about to change. I got an idea for your "Quest for the Best Team"

I think you should focus on your next video about Team comps that are made specifically made for the Grand Slam since arugably the Gand Slam is the most prestigious Challenge in DD2.
So imo a team should be made to beat all bosses and in the best case... dont die...
So here it is:

Rank 1: Hellion Ravager
Wicked Hack, Iron Swan, Toe to Toe, Raucous Revelry; Wicked Hack first to upgrade
Rank 2: Crusader Agressor
Smite, Inspiring Cry, Reap, Bulwark of Faith, Holy Lance; Inspiring Cry first Upgrade
Rank 3: Runaway Arsonist
Firefly, Smokescreen, Run and Hide, Cauterize, Controlled Burn; Smokescreen first upgrade then Firefly then Cauterize
Rank 4: Plague Doctor Alchemist
Noxious Blast, Incision, Battlefield Medicine, Plague Grenade, Mag Rain; First upgrade Plague Grenade then Noxious Blast
Before the boss fight switch out Mag Rain for Indiscriminate Science if able to master at the last Inn before Mountain

At the first Inn Master Smokescreen and Plague Grenade

So here is my second team that finished the Grand Slam (The first Team was a Blight Team and you just focused on that in this Video)
This Team is made to Kill every single Enemy with either Burn, Blight or Execute Crusader.
The Focus is to delay the game as much as possible to your advantage. While the enemy is blind from Smokescreen and slowly burning and blight to death we Heal and Stressheal as much as possible.
Bonnie is the Key to all this since her Ability Cauteritze isnt Bound by a Health Restriction. You can literally spam the Ability because almost every fight, multiple Teammember Bleed nowadays.
Also this team focuses heavily on Barricaded Roadbattles since they are everywhere atm. Controlled Burn them down, Reap through them, And Combo Wicked Hack One Shot them.

The main Combo of the team is obviously Arsonist + Agressor but in your videos your Runaway was never in the back Ranks, I changed that for this team.
Hellion is the Single Target Killer. Combo Tokens are exclusively for her Mastered Wicked Hack.
Mastered Smokescreen (Combo&Vunerable) + Mastered Wicked Hack = Death
This team also heavily focuses on staying in their ranks even when shuffled. Run and Hide, Holy Lance, Toe to Toe are must haves.

ty for reading :)

A solid core four for the nodes and roads. I have actually run this team a few times with just a few alterations to the move sets and they just crush whatever is in front of them. I definitely prefer this format for what it’s worth Shuff, where you describe the team, put them together, and then launch into play opposed to talking over the set up screen.

the format is really nice, seeing gameplay of the build is a lot nicer

Necrosis doesn't heal 5% per use, it heals 5% per enemy hit, so it's usually 10-20%

showing the team in action is definitely better

Much better format, thx <3