Darkest Dungeon

Daughters of the Fours - Second




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Selfish stress healer with conditional dps capacities

Playstyle:

The most dynamic of them four who loves acting each turn to actually make her useful. Designed for those who likes dealing damage and supporting the team at same time with an unstop phasing. Her constant crits will provide a consistent source of stress healing, but she will prefer her own sanity instead of others.

She can provide additional damage by her own under certain circumstances and while she can connect her Crits. She also can provide global guard and self riposte when needed.

Her Kit is almost all offensive skills with support capacities, but since she lack raw power its potential remains hidden somehow.


Her Affliction changes her role to monstrous damage dealer at cost of the group sanity. Use her Affliction with caution.


Skill Celling:
Medium-easy (depends in how the player manage the stress)

Difficulty:
Her early lack of damage and weak stress heal makes her an oddly frontliner who evolves in her role while increasing levels.
Low level Second normally is played differently from max upgraded Second, which makes her role fluctuate quite a lot.

The potential of her skill is based entirely by her Crit Buff which could provide her more actions to provide the stress healing or additional dmg.
She's additionally a stress pool, managing the stress within allies and herself, trying to minimize the stress values while increasing others. This means she could potentially reaching her Affliction if the player is not careful enough, which could force her acting as a dps for the rest of the dungeon and even costing the group survivalist.


Second's Affliction: Descendant of War
  • CritChance decreased
  • DMG increased
  • Increase a lot the Stress Done (vs allies)
  • Move Rest increased
  • Can't be healed nor stress healed
  • Will most likely self heal
  • Stress bark at party's attacks (huge stress damage)
  • Highest stress resistance (few stress dmg sources could stress her > herself is one of those)


Skills:


Demoralize
Positions:
○ ○ ◉ ◉
Targets:
◉+◉ ○ ○
High Crit
Self stress heal / Buff: Increase the self stress heal (at lv4~5)
Transfers the Horror status from all allies to herself

Demoralize's Utility:
Depending in which lvl is this skill, the Demoralize can act as a dmg tool (1~3) or Stress healing skill.
The lowest level will act as a AoE dmg dealer without the self stress buff, which could provide the burst dmg against front targets. The lowest level are designed more for helping lower Daughter of the Second her lack of damage with this AoE dmg.
At high level Second has enough of dmg tools, so the possibility of using the higher levels will convert Demoralize in her best stress healing skill in her kit.


Impose Supremacy
Positions:
◉ ◉
Targets:
○ ○ ◉ ◉
High Crit / High HDmg
Self stress dmg high amount (150 stress dot/1r) if she fails killing her target
Transfers the Horror status from all allies to herself

Impose Supremacy:
Impose Supremacy converts her self stress into high dmg if its crit (or the RNG is good), meaning it could potentially 1shot backliners as long the player can handle its cost. Its crit chance is equally good as Demoralize at higher levels, meaning it could double or triple hit in one round.


Unlimited Blades
Positions:
◉ ◉ ◉
Targets:
◉ ◉ ◉ ◉
Starts the Duel:
Remove all actions from everyone except the target
Stealth ally group for 1 round
Adds self Riposte for 1 round
Self debuff Riposte DMG a huge amount
Adds the target a huge amount of actions
Each riposte hit will buff self HDMG and could self heal
Unlimited Blades's Utility:
Unlimited Blades is the risked skill in the Second's kit. It will start a dual within the Second and the target, who will start dealing dmg before Second could properly respond to those attacks. After several counters, Second will start dealing dmg (except while being Afflicted, which will provide an initial boost in her dmg) increasing exponentially to the point to could 1RoundKO the target if the Second can survive the Duel.


Verdict
Positions:
◉ ◉
Targets:
◉ ◉ ◉ ◉
High dmg
Self stress
Small -dmg if low stressed
Gives her Horror status to the target enemy
Verdict's Utility:
This powerful skill can reach any rank with high dmg at cost of considerate amount of stress. This skill is the low Crit chance version of the Impose Supremacy but with better targeting. This skill is a better pick than Impose Supremacy but with lower utility because the lack of Crit chance for more rounds.


Midline disruptor
Positions:
○ ○ ◉ ◉
Targets:
◉ ◉
Average everything
Debuff enemy party : stun rest. / Move Forward
Midline Disruptor's Utility:
Midline disruptor is the stunner synnergier. Its dmg and crit aren't that special in comparative of the rest of her kit, but the utility for CC with stunner is incomparable. Its only downside is its moving forward cost.


Shared desire
Positions:
◉ ◉ ◉ ◉
Targets:
Party (not self target)
Heals 0-1 & stress heals
Self stress + Self stress another amount (%chances)
Transfer to herself the target Horror status
Shared Desire's Utility:
The primary single stress healing for the rest of the group beside her Crit stress healing. Its cost looks kinda unfair if the RNG is bad, but the Second playstyle allows pooling stress without too much fear. This skill combined with other buff can become the strongest single stress healing skill in game.


Longilus's Wound
Positions:
◉ ◉
Targets:
○ ○
Average everything
RNG based dmg
Can't Crit
Gives her Horror status to the target enemy
Longilus's Wound's Utility:
Pretty straight forward. Can deals a fair (but RNG based)  amount of dmg. Its downside is the not existential capacity of dealing crits hit.

Crit Buff Effect:
Adds 1 additional action in her round
-stress dmg until the next round

Camping Skills:

Force the Affliction
Cost: 0
Effect:
Self +100 Stress

The Second's right hand
Cost: 3
Effect:
Gives item [The Second's right hand]:
Protect from stress damage for 1 round.

The Second's left hand
Cost: 3
Effect:
Gives item [The Second's left hand]:
Next attack will be CRIT.



Some combos examples:

Stress healing burst
(lvl5)
(lvl5)


Unlimited Blight


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