Crimson Court and You: Darkest Dungeon Guide

Ok this is gonna sound so nitpicky but since you said you weren't sure about some pronunciations, I should probably let you know that Chevalier is pronounced "Shuh-vah-lee-ay"

I had an english teacher in middle school whose last name was Chevalier, and she was not particularly nice, but she made sure that everyone pronounced her name correctly, so that is my "Crimson Curse" to you 😂

Never take a hero with Dipsomania to the courtyard btw. I learned that the hard way today when my Flagellant wasted three wine crates worth of firewood

Im currently stuck on baron and he basically squad wiped me once killing a total of fojr of my characters😭😢

Awesome video. "Apex Predator" is a reference to... apex predators

Something that I always found funny about CC is that you need invitations to go fight the bosses like: Let me beat the shit out of you. No you aint got no password buddy.

I've killed the god of pigs, a bone spammer, yo mamma (hag), yo aunt (siren), a beeg flesh, a disturbed blind madman, a gun with wheels, Barbosa's crew, and some indescribable things, I came without knocking the door and now I cant kill Notredame hunchback mosquito version because of magic piece of paper? Lol

Not that I have invitation crisis (usually I do the bosses in one go) but find it funny that you need an invitation to go and get slammed by 3 chevaliers for the lols like if it was a privilege.

And who the heck checks if I have the invitation? The boss? A random mosquito in the door? Mmhhhh yes, this invitation is gud, welcome to the shithole, lemme guide you where you left... here, you left just outside the fat guy with corpses hangin on the roof like spiderman, enjoy your stance :D

Also, can I falsify the invitation? Not that I need it, but can I? Are they gonna find out? What happens if I get caught? Are they gonna expell me? And if I resist? The more I think about it it gets more hilarious jaajajajajajaj.

The amount of times I've been subjected to stress, pulls, and cleaves from fuckin' wannabe Randy Orton here...

Crocodilian... suck my ass.

Crimson Court guide: don't play it

Make sure flagellant is enabled when you start a new save, but Not Crimson Court

Guide to the Crimson Court
1. start a new game
2. make sure the Crimson Court DLC box is unchecked
3. Enjoy your balanced and only slightly frustrating campaign

I did the first two crimson court boss fights blind, but I was sick of the curse after I finally avenged the deaths of 4 heroes to the Fanatic. Fuck that boss. I ran the countess strat you mentioned.... and it was flawless. No one even got close to death and my Leper hit like a truck. I don't always want to min/max in a game like DD, but I was just over the crimson curse lmao. Awesome guide, I learned a lot from your videos recently as I got back into DD after not touching it since 2017. Thanks for everything you do, I look forward to learning about DD2 in the future!

Countess isn't "a rather difficult fight", shes the hardest boss in the game and one of the worst boss designs Ive ever seen. Love letter is a stupid mechanic since the eggs just stay there if you dont pop but they give her prot, making them entirely debilitating if they ever hit an attacker, plus the fact man-at arms is slow as hell so you're at the mercy of rng for her to not use love letter before man-at-arms gets to move, and sway with me is the worst designed move in this game and that says a lot: it gives you stumble, blight AND gets you around 1/4 to an affliction with 25 or so stress. Her ai is borderline supernatural when it comes to picking a target to stun and her heal shouldnt exist.
Im genuinely wondering if red hook has ever played a game, because this looks like what a newbie developer would make in order to make a hard boss, not realising that hard bosses are good as long as they're fair.

Countess strat worked perfectly. Many thanks!

Man, you aren't joking about not playing this on your first time! I'm inches away from restarting. I love Flagellant but I was NOT prepared for the curse.

I don’t know if it’s supposed to work like this, but CoM has a “potion” that cures all disease… including the crimson curse. I was so annoyed that I spent all my shards on the supposedly useless thing, and then delighted to have the burden of getting blood/bringing blood eased.

yo the fanatic is the ONLY enemy that has even a chance of killing one of my guys just because running with one on the stake is an auto kill

he legit forces me to build my team around to taking care of him whenever he pops up.

great boss.

HM, PD, Flag and Hel for me. It just works. Though sometimes I pick Bountyhunter instead of PD in order to deal the croc.
My biggest gripe is, that I try to beat these epic dungeons in 2 times, like retreat only once. It seems I waste too much resources and don't get much out of it. Wasting those shovels and blood vials and getting dem tier 1 trinkets.

wait so crimson court replaces town events??? I have it turned on for my first playthrough ever and i only get town events from clearing dungeons!

I absolutely hate this expansion's small monster but i feel obligated to play it cause the Trinket is good.

Waifu vomits uncirc'd eldritch wang.

After playing through most of it, I can say this is the best addition out of all, maybe even topping Color of Madness.
I know this has been said before by other players, but I, too, really like the never-before-seen interpretation of vampires. Bosses are especially cool and creepy.

Naming your Leper “Chad Thundercock.” Love it. Subbed.

To be honest, PD/Jester/Occ/Leper is just all around good.

Occ can heal safely because PD is there.
PD can speed and damage buff Leper
PD and Occ have stuns
You can do purge and daemon's pull shenanigans
Intimidate stacks with weakening curse.
Jester obviously hits that battle ballad button buffing everyone's but specifically occ ridiculous crit.
When all else fails

SOLO !
FINALE

When I tried out crimson court I didn’t know good team comps and I ended up fighting the crocidillin and almost my whole team died except for my grave robber.

My team for just running the Courtyard dungeons is Plague Doctor + Jester + Hound Master + Flagellant. Hasn't let me down yet.

Pagan talisman is a slightly worse book of sanity when your not fighting fanatic so if you get before the book it’s ok otherwise don’t bother

Just got into the game because my friend were talking about the second one. So I been playing this and I love it. One of my favorites of all time and I appreciate this channel you provided. Lot of Help and Fun to watch. Thank you

one setup that has worked very well against the fanatic for me is (vestal, jester, flagyelent, leper) jester can buff and can keep bleed going from any position. leper can mark himself and protect (if he gets on then pyre you can leave him there for a VERY long time) vestal just heals whoever the fanatic hit and flagyelent do big bleed and self heals (he seems to be the one who actually takes damage as long as the leper is on the pyre) kinda just gotta hope he grabs the leper early on but if he isn't he can easily destroy the pyre to reset it.

My last team was PD, Vestal, Abomination, and Flagellant. Did pretty well and make a joke of the crocodilian

I have a question for all the missions what’s the resolve level?

The fact that fanatic can potentially have a turn to kill a hero that only just came off the pyre, and you have no control over whether that happens or not is pretty unfair.

I got the key before the boss.... Did I mess up by using it before going for Baron?

Chevalier. Shev-ah-lee-ey. Not trying to be an ass, I know French words can be difficult. Just a personal pet peeve.

Yeah I’m just gonna stick with the town being abuz

Here's a valuable team for apprentice missions that works well:
Arbelast, abomination, flagellant, shield breaker
I must put here though that its not a starting team its a team for if you haven't got the crimson dlc enabled until like week 100.

Sus

Baron spoilers—



I just cleaved everything and went wild. It was fun. Definitely better ways to go about it. Was lucky to survive.

I'm doing a bloodmoon run and I just realized I made the mistake of leveling all of my characters to 3 before doing the first courtyard mission that is level 0 to 2's only, do I really have to dismiss 4 of my characters to get new ones to be able to progress? I was thinking of waiting for the town event that lets you go in a dungeon with any level, but I think that is blocked by the town is abuzz

Crimson court is a bleeder’s wet dream, ironic how the blood obsessiors are weakest to exsanguination. A main thing I had trouble getting over is crimson curse itself, getting annoyed whenever a valuable character was randomly afflicted with it just from drinking in the same bar as another. But then I went on a winery quest, and began to see it as more of a boon, status debuffs mean very little after all, and the buffs from feeding a craver far out weigh the negatives, especially with the plentiful supply you receive.

Soon (TM)??? Do you play Escape From Tarkov??

I would like to add just a little something about the flagellant : As you know he can get a ton of boons from high stress, since he have his own affliction that is more beneficial than detrimental most of the time, and also trinkets that give him even more power if he has high stress / is afflicted. So feeding him blood when it's not necessary to get extra stress that you have the control over is very useful I think. Just pop a bottle or two before a boss to get afflicted and voilà~

I love the flagellant mechanics. its unique.

I've always used Vestal/Jester/Houndmaster/Flag for the Courtyard. Always loved it. For stress I use endure on the Flagellant to pile stress on him, then use the torches on those hallway things to relieve stress or just use Jester.

I started playing DD with all DLCs activated...this curse is a pain in the ass, so annoying
Wish I had started without it

The fact that your Flegellant is named Daddy is so based.

I remember being curious and going to the crimson court, not knowing what to expect. Was definitely not prepared.

If you enable the crimson court and don't enter it does your heroes still have a chance to get the crimson curse??

you need crimson court or your finished it comes with firewood you need it to camp you cant get that till you go to the courtyard
for new players you need to camp or your guys are gonna die left and right alot of new players are having hard time with stress
by the end of 1 dungeon your early crew its shot with almost full stress and not alot of players can afford to spend their gold
i have bought and used stuff to being down stress and it NEVER works till you go to the tavern or abbey fucking bullshit

I just finished my first run of the game the other day and was watching this video while I was eating and...I did not know you could use items in battle. So, thanks for the enormous buff going into my bloodmoon run.

Thanks for the guide I was able to do all of the baron mission in one run