Leper and You: Darkest Dungeon Guide 

A couple of corrections: 1) I forgot about healing armlet because my file didn't have one. It's alright but I don't usually run it. 2) Withstand doesn't scale with resists. Those start at 30, but prot climbs from 20. Got it mixed up D:

You say Leper cannot reach backline targets, however any backline targets become Frontline a turn after a Leper attacks

There isn't much in this game that feels better than a leper crit

I used to have a gifted hippocratic leper, it was funny seeing him crit heal for 24.

"Leper is good at killing bosses" Little did he know that Leper is a Boss itself

Finally you cover the best hero. The man, the miss, the legend!

I cant believe you didn't even include the best team comp, A single leper and nothing else! Just look at Chad!

I'm pretty sure that at some point intimidate used to do no damage. It was a massive game changer buff for leper.

Leper occultist front line is a mainstay in a lot of my teams. They can just straight up bully the enemy front line with damages and stuns. Occultist can also pull people forward for big damage.

Leper seems so simple but I never feel like I use him to his full extent

I will never forget how in my first ever fight against Vvulf my leper got virtuous pretty early on, and he tore down everything in his path lol. The fact that Vvulf can guard his men is what gave the leper the opportunity to hit the boss at times, so thanks for that big guy

I actually found the revenge move quite effective in the big regular battles (when you meet a full stack of mobs with no trash units like the skeleton rubble). Yes, it takes one turn, but it also ensures all the next hits will be guaranteed death to everything in front of Leper whether they have prot or not. I think, in serious battles, it's better than suddenly lose tempo because of a miss or a low roll hit.

Fun fact: if you use withstand in veteran cove battles with leper, those giant humanoid lobster things literally can't do anything to him, since all their moves either stun or bleed and do pretty low damage already, the buffs in prot and resistance cancel these out and the marked draws its attention, leper can a joke of those enemies.

I have one leper in my current run that started with “Natural Swing” accuracy trait and then got the “Fated” miss to hit trait and I feel blessed whenever I see him. I usually don’t spend the money on locking in quirks but those have been worth it. I don’t bother using accuracy trinkets and just stack him with Crescendo Box and Barristan’s Head for maximum tanking.

I think my first leper was a warrior of light undead hater He sure knew how to overkill skeletons

I remember panicking when my leper was shuffled into the back because of suprised during full torch, but the enemy pushed my other heroes to the back so my leper came back to the front anyways lol

trying to listen to your advice but the emotional wound left by watching you open an ancient artifact without a key at 6:30 was too painful

RIP Johnny McSwing, my Leper with luminous, 5 crit, 5 ACC quirks. Those 5 crits 0 DD were too much.

One of my favorite leper comp is leper leper occultist and jester, the damage and the stalling power are both high, occultist can pull problematic backlines while the jester spam battle balad or inspiring tunes.

Fun watch, we have grown to like Leper more then when we first started. He has overtaken the Man of Arms as our favorite position 1 beefy tank.

I'm happy you shouted out intimidate on leper, I've always seen that as a must pick for him. Being able to land a speed debuff AND increase your own speed is great to end fights quickly. It basically means you prevent a backline unit from doing anything and most likely dying to the other heroes, and now leper has a good chance to move before the frontline, effectively eliminating 2 threats with 1 move.

I had a leper save a run where my healer died, highwayman was bleeding at deaths doorstep and crusader was going insane in the back rank. He went virtuous, broke out of the chains the sunken crew put him in and then crushed the crew

So in my DD game when I was experimenting with Leper I came across Intimidate and put it on him to help with the backline. As I used it I was like "this seems really really good." I'm naturally a player who likes to stall and Intimidate is just so good at that. I kind of see it as a better version of Occultist's weakening curse.

Gifted is much more valuable than hyppo on leper, it's super hard to heal him with anything but Redeem (and to some extend food), even his solemnity is

My first Leper came with Hippocratic. 100% it's amazing. It lets him focus more on damage - 1 Hippocratic Solemnity is basically worth the same healing as 2 non-Hippo Solemnity-s, since he doesn't get hit again while waiting for the second Solemnity. Frees up his action economy superbly.

Favorite class in the game, easily the one of the strongest classes with the right trinkets.

Purge's value is honestly just that aspect of disruption since it pushes frontliners in the worst possible spot for them and is a primer for Lep's ACC. Bralwer, Cutthroat, Bone Rabble, Bone Soldier, Bone Bulwark, Fungal Scratcher, (I'm sure I'm forgetting others, and this applies to a good number of modded enemies) are all forced to use recovery moves because of this, and it doesn't skimp on the damage unlike other abilities that move targets. So between Purge doing decent damage, setting him up for later rounds, displacing frontliners, and clearing corpses (which is a minor benefit, but hey, it's something), it brings some good overall value. While the ACC buff doesn't scale, that's fine. Neither do trinkets, and if it went up to 10 ACC it would be kind of broken since that's effectively a damaging move with utility that gives you as much ACC as a Focus Ring. At that point, you'd just give him only damage trinkets and always lead with purge (or I would anyway.)

I really dont like leper, but I love him with a crusader in 2, man at arms in 3 and vestal in 4. It's always been a very fun way to run him.

This video made me give another chance to the Leper, thanks Shuffle, keep up the great work!

Your videos have helped me a lot in my playthrough. I appreciate the thorough analysis you do.

Leper is the enbodiment of sludge metal. Slow but hard hitting

One of the few heros who can run Ethereal Crucifix without having to worry about the -max hp penalty. Edit: Immunity Mask is best used against bosses that can stun, especially if you're doing intimidate shenanigans.

THE KING IS HERE

"We are going to make this short for my sanity and your viewing experience" 1. What sanity? 2. I literally watched all your vids like 4 times man what do you mean. Make longer vids so I can quench my thirst.

I brought a leper to fight the swine god and I got 3 back to back 56 damage crits. It was beautiful

27:35 IMO PD + Occ is the best stationary backline. Damage, Dot, Stuns, Pulls, Marks, Heals, Buffs, Debuffs.Debunks. Edit: Before Flag came out Leper was the my front row in my team I call the Money Tank. PD/Occ/Anti/Lep Blinding Gas with PD. (Grenedier) Abyssal Artillery with Occ. (Artillery) Protecc Meh with Anti. (Technician) Withstand or Intimidate with Lep. (Shields and Main Canon) It shines in the cove, but struggles against most of the champion level mini bosses, so get your money at veteran or below. Flag conveniently fills in basically all the holes in this team. Rain of sorrows + Abyssal Artillery + Grenades/Gas is GODLY.

So, a Leper build I had thought of a while ago uses Chop, Solemnity, Revenge, and Purge/Intimidate, and the team he ran with was an Abomination, an Occultist, and a Jester. The Occultist had Wyrd Reconstruction, Daemon's Pull, Vulnerability Hex, and Eldritch Artillery, while the Jester was the buffer and stress healer of the group, because the Abomination's Transform ability really starts building up that stress while it's active, so stress healing is kinda necessary. A very fun team that had some good control and damage that I highly recommend trying out on a run.

I got the game on sale on steam. I've consumed an unhealthy amount of your content. I appreciate it. 👌🏿

Hey yo BIG SHUFF Fantastic guide man 👍. Keep up the good work

A good purge team is the wall; Vestal, Man at Arms, Crusader, Leper. get all the prot then just annihilate the front line.

Thank you!

I got to this game so late but im glad this stuff is here because whoo boy this game has been slapping me around mainly because I do dumb things like max out the the stress facility's first lmao. Is a big help.

Idk why but my lepers never missed. Even once Without accuracy trinkets ._.

purge is surprisingly one of leper's strongest moves, the damage penalty is not an issue as leper monstruous damage allows him to hit as hard or harder than smite of crusader, infact both have the same accuracy too wich makes it a desirable move if you want a leper early game without acc trinkets yet, the move effect also allows to disrupt enemy formations very efectively, allowing you to make however you sent to the back basically skip a turn to do a shitty move or place backliners in an ackward position to be bullied by your other guys that couldnt reach them before, cleans corpses wich means you dont even need to crit to avoid them just killing them works, and due to all the previous stuff is more likely leper would kill with purge anyways, and on top of all that it gives 5+ accuracy wich it may not seem like much but they actually do feel, is a nice opening move to set up chop or hew to obliterate the enemies the rest of the fight, is a must have move to me for leper in non boss dungeons, in boss encounters i change it for revenge, i highly recomend it for anyone that wants to try leper but is put off by the accuracy of chop and hew.

I’m hyped I rolled slugger on my level 0 leper

One time I had a leper with 50% crit chance. Man at arms+ trinkets= more chance to crit than to not crit.

Quick draw charm is great for Hewing the hell out of a frontline. At resolve level 4 you can get 33% crit chance for the first turn, and since you hit 2 targets...

I dont like how filthyrobots "how good is the leper" is based off a self imposed challenge and people use that video to discredit leper as a whole. Ty for making this much needed video.

Can you please make a video on hellion next. She's my favorite character but I'm pretty sure I'm not building my teams right around her or just building her in general

Your DD 1 content will never end?

Leper is the definition of " just because it's simple doesn't make it any less effective"

Intimidate coupled with occ weakening curse to reduce damage can make certain bosses utterly useless against you. DOT can be cancelled if need be with PD and use jester to buff your team to enable Leper big chops. Oh and don't forget to use emboldening vapours for extra insane damage.This combo is really really fun to play and can make enemies especially bigger ones and bosses hit for constant zero's

wow, this is great! I wasn't a fan of Leper before but now I'm looking forward to trying him out, especially Intimidate. Thanks for the info!

Petrified Amulet cost me a Clotter Leper with Flagellant backup. He bled out even with Flesh's Heart...

All i know is Leper with Focus Ring is one thing, Leper without focus ring is another thing entirely. I used to not like Leper at all, because I prefer flexible/versatile and dancing party comps, but can't argue with his huge crits when he's set up for properly.

Can't hit backline targets when the frontline targets are already dead and there is no backline! Leper is love. Leper is life.

My first hero I chose from the chariot was a leper. I instantly fell in love with his damage and hp, even at level 0. I got him all the way to level 6, with maxed everything, and even if the game told me not to keep heroes close to my heart, I just couldn't let myself lose him. To protect him from dying at all cost, I locked in a quirk that made him 10% more resistant to fatal blow. I equipped two trinket that boosted his fatal blow resistance. Even tho I should have been at 95% resistance, I think it capped at 89, or it was a bug. But I wasn't afraid of getting him in battle with his immortal loadout. The village got attacked by a bandit gang. Quest level 6, my actual first level 6 quest. I was too afraid to go into the darkest dungeon. But I prepare myself enough, and get in the bandit quest. It goes really well, until I get to bandit chief, with his bomb supply. He begins by marking my Leper with a beam... and now it will do some damage, but I had faith in my leper resistance. So I don't mind, and take my turns, until the bandit turn comes again. He drops the first bomb of the fight, which also happened to crit, and dealt 68 damage. My leper had only 70 hp. So it was basically a one shot. Before I can even play, he summons smaller bandits, that plays immediately, and one attack from him makes my Leper bleed, as well as leaving him at 0 hp. Then my leper turn starts, as he instantly dies from the bleed proc. My mind just crumbled into pieces. My very first hero I picked, I spent lot of money on equipment, unlocked and maxed all his skills, put on him all the trinkets that could have save him from fatal blow, as well as locking a quirk to make him more resistant to fatal blow. And he got obliterated in one single turn. I killed the motherfucker. And then I was shattered... I gave my leper everything so he could survive, I thought he was invincible, but a critical hit came so fast, out of nowhere... My sad story.

I actually like running focus ring and then beserk mask with my leper then taking a jester for ballad and usually he goes first hits for like 20 damage then I use ballad and he hits for 45 crit so all and all I really really enjoy playing with leper becuase he hits hard harder then an able body person

If the highest accuracy it can have is 95 You know he strong AF to compensate

It's pretty nice when you run leper/occult and turn 2 the rank 3-4 boss has over -80percent damage...

I did the second boss with a leper build crimson curse and he got a 20% damage for the dungeon so I thought "izi time" well, I had well trouble bringing him to the front cause of the wood, and had to heal with vestal, the thing is that I had a jester, that did so much battle ballad, so I thought "why not solo and then finale", well, he critted for 70 damage, so that was nice, leper was carring the team before though

I had a hippocratic leper and trinket that gave him 40% more healing. 2 turns and he regained 32 hp, with 16 hp each turn.

Leper may not be able to hit backline enemies but often the frontline enemies cant hit from backline so Purge and you neutralise 1 while bringing backline into melee range. As someone who likes taking battles slow with movement, stuns and heals Leper is great at inconveniencing the enemies big damage hitters (depending on the zone)

Purge build ? I call that playing baseball : have occultist pull a backliner, then purge them into the backline again. Purge solves most of his weaknesses in one move really, shoves a frontliner to the back, buffs accuracy, clear corpses, and it's a fairly high accuracy move. Also, whenever leper crits he gets buffed with accuracy, so crit is not just good for damage.

So i've been using a trincket that makes him heal a little more and last will testament, and now I got the tin flute, just for the acc that they give, I suppose that they are considered good at least thats what I think

i find it funny reading in the wiki about "preferred heroes" for courtyard bosses not a single one promotes leper but i finished all 3 bosses using leper at pos 1

What's up yall, it's Shmeckle, don't mind my cats Reverb and Highnote

QUAD LEPER BABY!!!!!!!

Jestal works well with highwayman and leper.

Leper is my homeboy

I don't like intimidate, it locks you to position 1 (something I prefer to let for hellion for example, or a post-lunge graverobber), and I find it a narrow move. Meanwhile, I think leper is one of the strongest front line classes of the game.

We at the Jacob's corporation believe that all the accuracy In the world don't mean a great deal if you don't got the power to back it up

I did a team on the Farmstead today that was Man-At-Arms (with the shield that gives bonus prot in rank 4) > Vestal > Houndmaster > Leper. Used revenge, and then used MaA to guard/command Leper. Was pretty effective, except for a couple things. For instance, while the hp sustainability was great, the stress sustainability was not and the poor MaA got super close to afflicting. Also the dumb stealth horse enemy did a full party shuffle, which ended up putting the Leper into rank 4 even despite him having 100% move resist because of my trinket setup which I thought was super BS. Aside from those two things, was pretty fun. Although it was the first Apprentice level tutorial mission for the Farmstead so I'm not sure if that comp will remain viable the further I go into that questline, especially since I'm concerned about the stress management aspect of it. But yeah, MaA guard can be a way to mitigate revenge, is the point of this whole story.

11:50 is fake news btw. easy mistake to make but the protection actually starts at 20% at rank 1. still not exactly the most important thing to be spending your gold upgrading but it's worth bearing in mind.

Pray for the attack buff.

If leper really needs to focus on healing just take off the mask for a hallway fight

You should make a stalling guide

my lepper killed a prophet by destroying everything until the boss was at the front line.

Haha Chop goes brr: The Guide

nice

Wait I noticed you didn’t cover Healing Armlet I think unless I wasn’t paying attention

What about ROT SQUAD with 4 LEPERS? You just say something at the end of video, but no details…did you do another video about it? If yes, can you please tell me where I can find it or the name of it? Thank you for your wonderful videos

I just wish I could beat a deathless bloodmoon run. I'm so unlucky.

Those who cry about leper should also call crusader sh*t then cause he cant reach back line. His skill can if u place him at pos 3 but a dedicated dmg dealer of pos 3 out shines him. Leper does his job in dis game, shield breaker too. Can use them in any dungeon

yay

I wanna do rot squad but I can’t get enough Lepers 😂😭

why not finish wounded rank 1 enemy with Purge?

@6:35 Why did you not turn off the light for better loot? :D

Leper Strength: Is Leper Leper Weakness: Hard to see with the mask ain't it?

Ima slap you if you going to skip another drop....omg he did it again!!! AGGGHH TAKE THE LOOT

Wasn't leper's accuracy issues originally worse and got patched to buff him?

Shuffle, will you be doing an Abomination guide?

Going through your videos after a couple years without touching DD and man, some heroes get so much shit because they don't do everything in the game, Leper with accuracy and backline damage, Grave Robber for being squishy and so on Team-building games is supposed to have you build it as a team, you have literally 3 other slots to accomodate Leper's ridiculous damage with shuffling corrections (Dirk Stab/Finale, GR with stealth and lunge, antiquarians move that make her go back) and things like battle ballad to fix his accuracy while you can practically forget about dealing with the frontline BECAUSE you have Leper

Why dont you get the fight-loots?

lel the shoof

leper is god

"He will decimate them in a couple of turns" Good to know he can do 10% of a bosses hp in two turns.

How did you speed up your game? Is it a mod?

Isn’t it incredible that even in the meta of a video game, Lepers are just a hated people 🤷

Lock fated in then give your leper rabies and stuff so it procs all the time.