It’s always good to have more “elastic” heroes that can always do something no matter the placement. Enemies will use movement attacks that could change party positioning and render some of your heroes useless until you rearrange them which will take precious turns. At certain positions you can make a different attack and on another you may not be able to attack at all. They should then reach level 3 and you can send them to higher dungeons.Ībilities are position specific. Try to level up heroes to 1 or 2 and then go for the boss. Level 3 heroes will refuse to go to level 1 dungeons (with exception being the Radiant difficulty which raises level cap by one). Level 3 dungeons are no joke so throwing unprepared heroes can only get them killed.īe aware that you can’t max up your heroes and only then go for the boss. Those are the ones that you want to start focusing on and trying to keep alive the best you can. They will have bad ones but they could be minor and not a nuisance compared with the good ones. New abilities, armor and weapons aren’t cheap and at this level you can see how good are your heroes in terms of quirks. I usually do not upgrade heroes that are less than level 3. Don’t waste gold for upgrading too soon.It’s better to just make space for fresh blood. You have to pay for everything and having a hero with really bad quirks or diseases or heavily stressed is extremely expensive to treat. Now, the latter may seem strange but it’s actually important for managing your gold.

At the beginning of the game there’s nothing bad at taking everyone that comes to you because you’ll probably either lose those heroes or send them back. That’s why you have the Stage Coach and its upgrades for more heroes every week. The sooner you’ll understand that a lot of them will probably not leave a dungeon the better. This guide is targeted for new players or players with very little experience.Īs I mentioned in my review (check it out here), heroes can easily die from all sorts of things and they are flawed. And since the game isn’t exactly easy, with minimum information given to you then it might be a good idea to learn a few things to better prepare yourself for the journey. With sequel in development it could be a great time to check out Darkest Dungeon before its successor is released.

Darkest dungeon beginner tips