Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
#darkestdungeon #butcherscircus #PlagueDoctorForLife
Showcase one of teams named by Red Hook. This video shows 5 win matches.
The Hard Way is a ,,damage-stress" team, here are roles of characters:
1st: Crusader (damage trinkets) - damage dealer
2nd: Man at arms (stress trinket + accuracy trinket) - stress dealer
3rd: Vestal (stun trinket + accuracy trinket) - healer
4th: Plague doctor (stress trinket + accuracy trinket) - stress dealer
PROS:
1) Great stress output
2) Great healing potential
3) 2 disruptors
4) 2 stunners
CONS:
1) Marks are a menace
2) Stuns are a menace
3) Stress is a menace
4) Disruption is a menace
5) DoT is a menace
The Hard Way is a weird damage team with great strength of stress and little bit of DoT. You have 3 healers, 2 disruptors and 2 stunners. That’s it, no other advantages. This team is vulnerable against every possible team, no matter on player’s rank.
I tried to play a few strategies, like „support Crusader“, „full damage“, „the finishers“ and „full stress“. I tried both variantions of Man at arms (damager / stresser) and Plague doctor (stress / DoT), for both the stress variantion is much better choice.
My advice: Start with one of your stunners (Crusader / Vestal), next use Man at arms for buffing the team. Lastly Plague doctor for applying stress to the backline.
About score: One match against novice player. After his 2nd turn he just left the game. The match wasn’t even 1 minute long.
About team: Absolute. TRASH. I knew for a long time, this team would be way more difficult than the others and I wasn’t far from that. No great damage output (unless you’ll make Man at arms as damager - „Crush“ or „Rampart“ skill + Crusader), no pressure to the opponent and most importantly disruption will screw you. In first matches I tried to play „mix damage + DoT“ strategy, but that’s worthless. The best way for playing this team is FULL STRESS. DO NOT PLAY „MIX DAMAGE + DOT/STRESS“!
I got only these players and still it was just bad. I lost 4x - once against a champion player with a damage team and 3x against novice players. YES. NOVICE. PLAYERS. Two of them had a stress teams, the last one a mark team. This was humiliating. Luckily I have records of these defeats, so if someone’s interested, feel free to message me, maybe one day I will show you them.
I learned the hard way, that’s impossible to win some matches against harder opponents. Novices? Perhaps. Veteran-Darkests? NO WAY. Still I cannot understand, why the opponent in 4th match surrendered, when he had a chance for victory.
Still, this comp belongs to the bottomless dumpster.
NEVERMORE.
Rating: 1/5
Music: Uriah Heep - Hard way to learn
I don't claim any rights to the song. All rights belongs to the british hardrock band Uriah Heep!
#darkestdungeon #butcherscircus #PlagueDoctorForLife
Showcase one of teams named by Red Hook. This video shows 5 win matches.
The Hard Way is a ,,damage-stress" team, here are roles of characters:
1st: Crusader (damage trinkets) - damage dealer
2nd: Man at arms (stress trinket + accuracy trinket) - stress dealer
3rd: Vestal (stun trinket + accuracy trinket) - healer
4th: Plague doctor (stress trinket + accuracy trinket) - stress dealer
PROS:
1) Great stress output
2) Great healing potential
3) 2 disruptors
4) 2 stunners
CONS:
1) Marks are a menace
2) Stuns are a menace
3) Stress is a menace
4) Disruption is a menace
5) DoT is a menace
The Hard Way is a weird damage team with great strength of stress and little bit of DoT. You have 3 healers, 2 disruptors and 2 stunners. That’s it, no other advantages. This team is vulnerable against every possible team, no matter on player’s rank.
I tried to play a few strategies, like „support Crusader“, „full damage“, „the finishers“ and „full stress“. I tried both variantions of Man at arms (damager / stresser) and Plague doctor (stress / DoT), for both the stress variantion is much better choice.
My advice: Start with one of your stunners (Crusader / Vestal), next use Man at arms for buffing the team. Lastly Plague doctor for applying stress to the backline.
About score: One match against novice player. After his 2nd turn he just left the game. The match wasn’t even 1 minute long.
About team: Absolute. TRASH. I knew for a long time, this team would be way more difficult than the others and I wasn’t far from that. No great damage output (unless you’ll make Man at arms as damager - „Crush“ or „Rampart“ skill + Crusader), no pressure to the opponent and most importantly disruption will screw you. In first matches I tried to play „mix damage + DoT“ strategy, but that’s worthless. The best way for playing this team is FULL STRESS. DO NOT PLAY „MIX DAMAGE + DOT/STRESS“!
I got only these players and still it was just bad. I lost 4x - once against a champion player with a damage team and 3x against novice players. YES. NOVICE. PLAYERS. Two of them had a stress teams, the last one a mark team. This was humiliating. Luckily I have records of these defeats, so if someone’s interested, feel free to message me, maybe one day I will show you them.
I learned the hard way, that’s impossible to win some matches against harder opponents. Novices? Perhaps. Veteran-Darkests? NO WAY. Still I cannot understand, why the opponent in 4th match surrendered, when he had a chance for victory.
Still, this comp belongs to the bottomless dumpster.
NEVERMORE.
Rating: 1/5
Music: Uriah Heep - Hard way to learn
I don't claim any rights to the song. All rights belongs to the british hardrock band Uriah Heep!
