A beginners guide on how to run Necro%, Hag%, Swine Prince% and all the others Bosses%

Here’s a beginners guide on how to run all the different bosses, like necro%, hag%, siren%, prophet% etc.. This guide also contains a lot of general tips that can help new runners. 

I’d like to thank all the different runners that helped me and gave me advice on some parts. Thanks guys :D

We (the community) are not 100% sure about certain specific things (like the use of the Plague Doctor for example), so I might update some stuff later on.

There’s probably some grammatical and spelling mistakes, as english is not my first language, i’m sorry about that. I’d like to thank Cryfor who corrected some spelling mistakes :D.

If you have any questions or doubts about something, don’t hesitate and join the Discord server, and  ask me or any other runners. We will gladly answer you :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8PBEwasag1GU56HoOHS_N28b3vdx9mWedUvv93z7Gs

All positive Quirk guide/Tierlist Negitive coming soon.

So I've split up the perks to what in my opinion are best for speedrunning this game. Some may apply to more than just necro but in that case I've noted it.


Must pick ups
-*Hot to the trot* ( +25% damage, 20+acc +5% crit on first round)
-*Natural* ( No trinkets +20% health +20% healthing +3 speed)
-*Luminous* ( +2 Speed +5 dodge)
-*Natural Swing* ( +5 Acc)
-*Quick Relexes* ( +2 speed)

Real good
-*Hater/Slayer quirks* (15%damage-15%stress/+10acc +6crit) (Unholy and Man for necro)
-*Early Riser* ( +2 speed above 75 light)
-*Evasive* ( +5 Dodge)
-*Natural Eye* (+5 Acc for range)
-*On Guard* ( +4 speed, +5 dodge on first round)
-*Quickdraw* ( +4 speed on first round)
-*Warrior of light* ( 10% damage when light above 75)
-*Tactician perks* ( +15% damage in area) (Ruins for necro)
-*Scythe Master* ( +15% vs Husk) (Courtyard only)
-*Husk Slayer* ( +10% acc vs Hus, +5% crit) (Courtyard only)

Benificial
-*Adventurer perks* ( -20% less stress in area)(Ruins for necro)
-*Deadly* ( +2% Crit)
-*Hard Noggin* ( +15% Stun resist)
-*Photomania* ( -20% Stress above 75 light)
-*Slugger* ( +10 Damage for melee)
-*Tough* ( +10% max health)
-*Hard Skinned* ( +10% Prot)
-*Unerring* (10% damage for Ranged)
-*Explorer/Scrounger perks* ( +10%/5% scounting chance in area) (Ruins for Necro)
-*Fated* ( 10% chance to hit a miss)
-*Fairweather fighter* ( +20% damage if above 99% health)
-*Daredevil* ( +15% dodge if under 25% health)

Nice but situational
-*Clutch hitter* ( +6% crit when above 50 health)
-*Eagle Eye* ( +5% Crit for ranged)
-*Last Grasp* (+1 speed below 50% health)
-*Lurker* ( +10% damage if below 26 light)
-*Night Owl* ( +2 speed if below 26 light)
-*Precise striker* ( +5% crit for melee)
-*Robust* ( +15 Disease resist)
-*Second wind* ( +10% damage when health below 50%)
-*Steady* ( -10% stress rec)
-*Stress faster* ( one less food while >50% stress)
-*Thick Blood* ( +10% Blight resist)
-*Unyielding* ( +10% deathblow resist)
-*Back Tracker* (No stress from walking back)
-*Balanced* ( +15% Move resist)
-*Fast Healer* ( +10% heal in camp)
-*Weapons Tinkerer* ( -20% Weapon cost)

Nice but no benifit
-*Clotter* ( Bleed resist)
-*Gifted* ( +20% healing received)
-*Hippocratic* ( +20% Healing skills)
-*Irrepressible* ( +5 Virtue chance)
-*Gothic* ( Occ heal +20% healing received)
-*Musical* ( Inspiring tune +25% stress heal)
-*Resilient* ( +10% stress healing received)
-*Skilled gambler* ( Money and trinkets from gambling)
-*Spiritual* (Vestal +25% healing rec)
-*Armour Tinkerer* ( -20% armour cost)
-*Healers Gift* ( +20% Healing skills in camp)
-*Meditator* ( Improved stress recovery in abby+camping)
-*Nymphomania* ( +20 stress heal in brothel)
-*Stout* ( +15% healthing while in camp)
-*Twilight Dreamer* ( Ignores stealth)

I hope people manage to find this somewhat useful. Feel free to add opinions about changes on discord.

Any% Speedrun Guide (update: now with MC route!)

So I finally sat down the past week and wrote a guide for the Any% category!
I hope this inspires more people to try out Any% and make this run less intimidating :)

Enjoy folks!

*update Jan 14th 2020: added Multi Client route.*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WYll7Z0CjqQ1pppENzt4ZkiWfiT_cE58xtwQCB9rky0

Beginner's Guide to Darkest Dungeon Speedrunning

Here is the YouTube tutorial playlist where you can find some video strategy guides for Darkest Dungeon
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2W7tmmTaVBni_GauOIK1WJUdZsBDYwWf&jct=1W-73svpw8uVA6_vBXDpCQD58JuBwg

Below are some other strategies that have been pulled together by the community. For more tips, join the discussion in the Pitch Black Dungeon Discord server: https://discord.gg/pitchblackdungeon

***Keyboard shortcuts for PC***
A	Move left in the dungeon
D	Move right in the dungeon
W	Open chests/enter doors/interact (must be enabled in settings)
Tab	Switch between map and inventory
Space	Collect all items at the end of a battle or from a chest
T	Use Torch
1-5	Use attack

***Scouting Controller Hack***
Have a controller sitting near your keyboard (must be enabled in settings). When viewing the map from a room, move the right analog stick in the direction of the next room to walk to. This will allow you to move even while scouting is going on


https://youtu.be/tfauqB72ZNs

Compendium of Tricks for Speedrunning DD

Hey everybody - since ppl often ask me what all the tricks I use do, I figured I would make a guide for it :)

The video can be found here:

https://youtu.be/JUMoyA1FjIE


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Scardycat
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What it does?

Progresses the game forward by 1 week, triggering all stress relieve actions, as well as purging of quirks/diseases in the hamlet.
Also the stagecoach will have a batch of new recruits and quests to embark on, as well as quest rewards will be rerolled.


How does it work?

Send one hero to the darkest dungeon, after you finished loading, immediately retreat from the mission and return to the hamlet.


What is it useful for?

First of all, it saves us doing a dungeon with a B-Team, while we have to destress/purge diseases on our A-team.
Progressing the weeks will in the beginning unlock all the buildings in the hamlet. We also use it to reroll
the recruits at the stagecoach, because in some categories (namely Any%, Baron% especially), we want a very specific party combination.
We also use it to reroll quest rewards, mainly boss quest rewards, as they always yield a very rare trinket,
and we want some of those very rare ones for (again) the Any%/Baron% category.

Runs it is used for:
All except: Necro% (and even there sometimes), some Misc categories like Old Road or Necromancer Pre-Release.

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Scardyboost
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What it does?

Same as Scardycat PLUS it will stack a quest xp buff for the next mission to the whole roster - excluding the person you use to perform the scardyboost.


How does it work?

Same as the scardycat - this time around it HAS to be a level 5 or 6 hero.


What is it useful for?

The actual hidden buff it provides is as stated a +100% quest xp base value stack on the next quest. It is linear, so that means for example:

a short apprentice mission yields 2xp

when you scardyboost 1x it yields 4xp

when you scardyboost 2x it yields 6xp

when you scardyboost 3x it yields 8xp
...

and so on

On radiant difficulty a hero needs 40xp to get from lvl 0 to level 6. So scardyboosting 20 times will then enable that character to level straight up to
lvl 6 with one short apprentice mission. On darkest and stygian it is 48xp from level 0 to 6, so 24 scardyboosts will be needed.
It is worth mentioning, that the character doing the scardyboost does NOT benefit from the buffs! since he is always entering the DD for boosting all others,
he doesnt stack the buff up.


Runs it is used for:
Roster%, Caretaker%, Any%

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Scardywarp
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What it does?

It essentially allows us to bring any hero into any dungeon we want, circumventing any restrictions. 


How does it work?

While on the "Embark" screen, when you hit the "Provision" button and the scene starts to transition to the Provision-Screen, quickly click on any other mission you want your party to actually go to.


What is it used for:

- sending a hero that has completed a quest in the darkest dungeon back in.
- sending higher level heroes into lower level missions 
- shard mercs going anywhere (with CoM DLC)
- going into the courtyard boss quests without invitations (with CC DLC)


Runs it is used in:
All tier 2 bosses, any%, baron%, miller%, sleeper%, caretaker%


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Virtue-Scam
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What it does?

When one of your heros gets his resolve checked upon reaching 100 stress, and gets afflicted, you can reroll that roll to have him become virtuos instead!


How does it work?

Since the game rolls most of the checks and dice for the whole turn at the beginning of it, and some of the stuff during the turn - we can abuse this. Resolve checks are rolled when they happen, so AFTER an attack or action gets somebody to have his resolve checked, you quit to the main menu. Upon reentering, the roll will happen again and therefore give you another chance to get the character a virtue.


Trivia: 
Because it was never meant to be done that way, some funny things can happen when scamming for a virtue.
You can (by chance):
Skip enemies turns
Skip damage from damage over time effects
Skip the whole resolve check (because the char this time around didnt get random stress from i.e. a crit attack against another party member)

Protip:
You can leave the game even before the animation for affliction/virtue plays. It is easier to determine after the initial roll, because when you come back into the game, it messes with the light shaders. You will see either the light gets tinted red if the reroll is an affliction, or golden for a virtue. That way you know much quicker if you need to reroll a resolve check or not!

Runs it is used in:
No specific ones, since it can be useful in almost any category.


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Talisman-Dupe
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What it does?

It provides us with a 4th Talisman of the Flame for the second quest in the darkest dungeon. These reduce the dmg and stressdmg of a boss attack significantly. Since we dont run any guard hero in our Any% party comp, it would be nice to have a 4th one ;)


How does it work?

Simply equip 2 level 0 heroes with a talisman, send them to the darkest dungeon, retreat - one of the chars dies and when you return to the hamlet youll find a 4th Talisman of the Flame in your inventory.
(we assume the game is coded that you always get up to 3 talismans back so you always have 3 to back into DD2. Since one of the two heroes we went in with gets killed off, the game gives us two talismans back, since they are essentially quest items that the game wants us to always have.)

This only works with Talisman of the Flame, All Champion Boss Trophies and the shieldbreaker trinkets from the nightmares.

Runs it is used in:
Any%, Caretaker%

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FPS-Unlock
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What it does?

Unlocking the FPS makes certain combat timings and animations faster, which will save a bunch of time over the course of a whole run!


How does it work?

If you have a NVIDIA graphics card, just go to your desktop NVIDIA Control Panel, find 3D-Settings, there you can set options on a program to program basis.
Find Vertical SYNC and disable it - done!

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Controller-Skip
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What it does?

It allows your party to leave a room, even while scouting is going on!

How does it work?

Have a controller with analog sticks connected to your PC. Move the RIGHT analog stick into the direction you want your party to leave the room.

Downpatching for Multi-Client

Hey folks, it's been a while :)


So steam disabled direct depot downloads via the steam console over a year ago. Since we need a specific build (Steam Build 24839, the one before Butcher's Circus) to use the Multi-Client glitch, we have to resort to a more complicated alternative for now. Please read every step of this guide carefully.


1. You need to aquire .NET Core from microsoft's website (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core), make sure to download the correct version for your operating system (Windows x64 for most users, but please check this).

2. Download the DepotDownloader tool from github (https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases) and extract its contents.

3. Open the folder containing "DepotDownloader.dll", type "cmd.exe" into the address bar of your file explorer and press enter to launch the command line from that location.

4. Now you can enter the commands to download the downpatched files for the version you need. Please note, that you need to use your steam accounts username and password in the command. Also the account used must have purchased Darkest Dungeon on Steam. 

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Base Game (part 1):
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dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 262060 -depot 262061 -manifest 3000664813989802002 -username <username> -password <password>

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Base Game (part 2):
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dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 262060 -depot 262062 -manifest 5214974784208782397  -username <username> -password <password>

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The Crimson Court DLC
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dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 262060 -depot 580102 -manifest 1913495779256641341  -username <username> -password <password>

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The Color of Madness DLC
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dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 262060 -depot 735732 -manifest 6983922685567156070  -username <username> -password <password>

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The Shieldbreaker DLC
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dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 262060 -depot 702542 -manifest 4293317018221017969  -username <username> -password <password>


5. After you finished downloading, you can find all files in your DepotDownloader folder under /depots/depotID/

Copy all of the contents of the depot folders into one folder, and you are done!

Necro% Open! The summons!

I thought it would be a good idea so more people are encouraged to play Open% with all the changes happened recently. So here is a link to all the backer hero's https://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Backer_heroes
And here are a link to all the Trinket's you can summon in
https://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com/Backer_trinkets

Most the current Hero's summoned in are Graverobbers.
Anyone else who knows far more about the summon's category feel free to update me so I can improve this guide!

Nombre	Autor
A beginners guide on how to run Necro%, Hag%, Swine Prince% and all the others Bosses%	Dysn 5 years ago
All positive Quirk guide/Tierlist Negitive coming soon.	Tricrow 6 years ago
Any% Speedrun Guide (update: now with MC route!)	Cryfor 5 years ago
Beginner's Guide to Darkest Dungeon Speedrunning	SkipMcLazy 6 years ago
Compendium of Tricks for Speedrunning DD	Cryfor 5 years ago
Downpatching for Multi-Client	Cryfor 4 years ago
Necro% Open! The summons!	Tricrow 6 years ago