The Pandora's Box of open communications with game developers has been flung wide open for years, and it never ceases to annoy me. the current 40), and the HWM's riposte damage needs to be tweaked lower.Įdit: The CRIT on the HWM's melee skills might also need to be lowered. The PROT buff on the Antiquarian's reverse guard needs to be way lowered (to the tune of 20~25 PROT at max level, vs. The riposte itself would be less gamebreaking if the HWM weren't almost invincible from the PROT buffs. All with a party loaded with Torch > 75 & +stress dmg trinkets.

Literally all you have to do (and basically what this guy did) was Duelist's Advance a random enemy, no thought required, while PROT buffing your HWM(s) and party healing with your vestal, and you make it out of what is supposed to be the toughest fight in the game with full health and without a single affliction. The main culprits are too high Riposte damage and too high PROT buff on Antiquarian's reverse guard.

In a balanced game the shambler should've stomped this party into the ground. Watch from the 5:06 mark for the full dungeon (champ medium weald), from the 17:45 mark for the shambler fight.Įxtremely suboptimal trinkets, and with an Antiquarian in the party.

Darkest dungeon highwayman afflicted