NEW ⚠️ OBSESSION - Focused Fault (Act 3 Boss) - Updated Mechanics | Darkest Dungeon 2 | DD2 Guide 

Just lost a run to getting caught offguard by the change to how the fight works thanks for posting an updated guide on a new strat.

I still think the design of the boss is dubious. Having a first fight that can totally prevent you to win the second fight feel strange. It’s like if in the first zone, an ennemy could break the diligence and reduce your max number of heroes, it don’t feels right. I think I just don’t like preventing a situation, and rather adapt to it.

how are you supposed to figure this out on your own? I literally went there and died as soon as second phase started not knowing why

I just got to this boss last night. Decided to try each one blind on my first runs. Got waxed per usual but your guide is incredibly helpful. Good call on the grave robber

Focused fault, seething sigh, and dreaming general are my top 3 most tedious bosses

i dont know if its just my rng but i've lost 4 runs to this boss just this week, thx for the guide

Thanks for the video. That guy can be troublesome if you don’t know what is going on

This update felt even worst than the original at my opinion haha

Alternatively you can bring the powders that grant stealth (this auto removes the limerance token). Grave Robber and Runaway also have easy access to stealth skills which make them good options in this fight.

Thanks god I watched this video before I start to wait those eyes to disappear. Stealth works as well. If you don't have any taunt at hand. Still can't change the fact that doctor and man-at-arms are irreplaceable.

Thanks ! This boss obliterate me few times without understang why. And most of other guide was outdated. Thanks to you, I finaly beat it !

Nice one, you made it look easy. Did it on my second try with Vestal, Graverobber, Jester and Highwayman but it was much more hairy than yours! :)

I beat it with Hellion as my taunt, flag for dots, grave robber for poison, and occultist for curse debuffs and stars nuke skill critical

I liked the mechanic where they targeted their mirror position and you had to shuffle your sacrificial pawn- I mean tank around and kill them to take the tokens off if you messed up. But maybe that’s just me. This new one is far more tedious.

Almost gave up on this boss, thanks for the guide :)

Thank you. Now, I will not be caught off-guard with three marks on different characters.

I had a perfect setup going into this, what I wasn't prepared for was my MAA to be taking 40 plus damage each turn... I'm at a loss.

Unlike the first two bosses, there is no way to win against this boss without intel. The first encounter always guarantees a loss, which is a bad design.

First two moves of second phase boss was 2x 48 and 53 critical and my line parishes instantly fighting this boss with two heroes. Who was making this game was sick in the head. Golden DD1

Thank you for your video, i was strugling to beat the first and second boss, i manage to get the first boss but then the second one was realy hard because i didn't know the breathing mecanic, as soon as i understood it i beat him first try and then straight went for the act 3 that i beat first try thanks to your explainations about how the boss works, luckily i had a good team comp for the boss but noot the item to get the taunt on my tank so my character that burn got focused early and she died in the boss fight. at the end i just spammed blight with my doctor and applaying my combo every tunr with my furie so i could just perma heal every time my man at arms was reaching death doors. so i could just not lose at this point it was pretty fun knowing that you win 100% even when seeing the boss with almost full hp haha.

if i didn't hate the Resentment boss enough, they put this thing in the game. Absolutely loathe everything about this boss (aside from the design of the boss itself), the mechanics are so fucking annoying.

Someone should mention that you dont want your tank to have dodge tokens in phase one.

14 speed on 3 of my team, 10 speed on my leper. Started with 3 taunt tokens on my leper turn 1. Got 2 seen tokens on leper, then 1 seen token on occultist, with 1 taunt still on leper on turn 1. Entered phase 2 on round 3 with 6 seen tokens across 3 of my team. Fight is broken.

Funnily enough I had never lost to the old fight, but when they reworked it I could not beat it for the life of me. Thank you for the guude

Just beat this with Crusader, Flagellant, Grave Robber, and Plague Doctor, completely blind. Went to look up a video after, only survived because my Flagellant tanked like a dozen DD rolls after being the only one attacked in the second half. No idea how I would have done this otherwise lol

I was going for deathless and this guy ruined my run. Funny thing I beat it first try previously with the new mechanics. Guess i got lucky 😢 . Using taunt is a great tactic.

Thanks. I haven't unlock this combat item for taunting yet but I'll try to increase my MaA speed on my next try.

i lost like 8 runs to this damn boss

Gracias!! Me sirvió de mucho, lo maté a la primera. Fue buenas idea equipar al changuito que hace que ataquen al hombre de armas.

Thanks a lot *-*

Is this info up to date? I've seen the seen tokens removed by dodge (at least in the first phase). Also they are removable by stealth.

Aw. I wanted more Captain of Industry

Were there anymore changes to thsi fight? I just started a flawless run and have gotten through 1 and 2 and I got caught offguard with the second boss having the shield buff that prevents death

very good! Items?

So stupid, so either have taunt or suffer a huge time waste, because with a constant taunt character the fight is a basically a cakewalk. Very much busted game design.

Just beat this boss for the first time ever!!! Used Man At Arms, Runaway, Occultist and Plague Doctor. PD got seen first move, used defender to keep occ safe, runaway was seen. Set up chaotic offering the turn before focused fault came out. Burning stars with that trinket that give random buff or 1 stress hit. MAA had last stand, defender and retribution to keep all the flack, pd died first door check and orphan runaway helped with little burn and some dmg. Been stuck on this for so long and it felt so good watching that stupid eye sink into the abyss. Would HEAVY recommend occultist cuz he hits hard without needing crit or strength but can heavy benefit from it if he has one. GL to all y'all and thanks for reading all this :D

I was taking 74 damage crits to the team. If luck isn’t on your side you lose hours of your life :( not a fan of this boss.

Boss needs a fucking rework holy shit

Yeah this is just bad game design. There is ONE strategy and/or item to get, and if you don't do that, it's a mathematical wipe no matter what. That's not challenging, just bad game design.

i just got roasted by this boss, its seems like it is impossible to beat bosses in DDII going in blind, their mechanics are too cryptic and a lot of their statuses are not explained ingame at all

When I get it to smallest eye it evolves back to big one instead of dying, did they change it again? *UPD I've figured out how that works, you don't need to dot/aggro them, just focus with all heroes attacks one-by-one killing all 3 stages in one round so it does not grow back, easy

Taunt doesn't work any more

Most bullshit boss ever!

I really cannot stand these ignorant gimmick fights that are only winnable with certain strategies.