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Darkest Dungeon (2016)

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Rules:
- Brand New save profile
- Instantly attempt a grand slam
Thus locking us into Unusual Suspects (PD, GR, HWYman, MAA). (can technically swap for Duelist w DLC as she's part of the starting roster now).
- Which will be 6 runs in total (proven via the profile summary afterwards)
- These 6 runs are in this order: Prologue-Act1-to-5
- In the prologue to farm for more candles, technically I can unalive 3 characters for more candles (candles don't seem to be a major issue so far).
Can we essentially beat the game without grinding?

- P.S. I am using the ingame cheats after editing the ironcrown.dll files, purely to speed the game up, anyone who has played this game knows how incredibly slow this game is (unfortunately there seems to be tonnes of graphical errors).
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Originally I thought about this idea after seeing the concept of beating Hades 1st go, w no upgrades.
After googling, saw on reddit that Sivy17 successfully completed this challenge already.

Sooo until the stygian blazes become more interesting, this'll have to do!

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Notes:
- I'm now trying to play extremely cautiously, not running lair bosses utilising the crusader dlc questline trophy to my advantage for entering the mountain in act 2 is the current plan.
- Despite this, everyone being un-upgraded for the Act 1 Boss is actually still dangerous w I think 1 or 2 dd checks which I consider to be poor form, but for this run, it's currently making the dream work.
- Some very bad quirks on MAA and PD, shattered will reworks makes it a terrible negative quirk, so I did not give them any memories (not that I had the candles to anyways), giving us a breacher MAA, truly glorious, the act 2 run is currently set up very well!
- Candles allocation mainly for unlocking PD alchemist pathing for blight piercing and sergeant for MAA for the move resist and chance for DOT resisting (which unironically I like a lot, since DOTs have been a great reason for the multiple losses in previous runs)
- I'll have to think if diluting the trinket pool for venomdrop is the way I want to go w GR going forward
- I'm less interested in highwaymans sharpshot class (the damage increase for pistol shot is always tempting, however the restriction in not being able to use pistol shot for the back ranks after many attempts has been unacceptable), once double tap is unlocked and grave robber's dancing becomes more seamless, it may become a consideration for the differing paths to be used, at that time more candles will be available so a future problem I can set aside for now.
- We have had a great number of hero shrines to continue making grave robber have good moves to utilise.
- Next will be to get retribution for taunts and ripostes on MAA for act 3, the taunts w breacher now locked in, will be useful for act 3 anyways! Since I doubt we will unlock the combat item noisemaker, it seems unlikely, however I do want to unlock the healing salve, the combat item pool is already somewhat diluted, however having random garbage pop up more than the salves for each DOT is something I'm not sure about.
- I have high hopes for this run, having alright combat items but mainly good hero shrines coming our way and good quirks (next to lock will be GR deadly for that +15% crit), things looks good! However I am still unsure for how I'm tackling the act 2 boss, I still believe in destroying each lung and then attacking the main boss, I believe previous times I have rushed down the main boss have been more well prepared and I was simply lucky to not lose heroes previously.
- I am afraid for the sake of being less brazen in my tactics and erring on the side of caution may lead to the act 2 boss being a protracted fight, which may allow for a random crit and burn dot to bring me to 0 and dd check me, my playstyle has always been w protracted battles, but if I'm careful then I may have enough resources to combat this carefully, but first I want to see if I can even make it to the boss, I have died randomly before.

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