Darkest Dungeon

You are 86 weeks. It's a lot actually. The hardest part is surviving the first 20 weeks. I'm assuming you've already completed the game and are very familiar with it. But even if not, these tips will help you play the game for the first time.

STAGE 1 1-20 weeks.

The first 20 weeks need to be devoted to finances and PAIN . When this issue is closed, you will breathe a sigh of relief, since 50% of the work is done. To do this, you need to go to parties with the antique dealer for all 20 weeks and focus as much as possible on collecting money and portraits in LONG dungeons. Portraits are needed to build a bank in week 10 (from the add-on), which will give +5% on the deposit every week. If there are not enough portraits, then you need to exchange them for busts or something else. I had 260,000 money at the end of this stage. This means that now, starting from week 21, you will receive free money from 12,000 and more. From this moment on, the antique dealer can be removed from the roster. You will never run out of gold again - in the 30th week I already had 500,000. Close this issue once and for all and never think about gold again.

For the first 20 weeks, DO NOT TREAT ANYONE for illness or stress and do not train this garbage - consider it expendable. Only occasionally can you correct their skills, otherwise they come completely useless, for example, a vestal without healing It won’t be scary to spend 2000-3000 once. Just recruit new ones from the stagecoach to replace them. This way you will save a lot of money. But REMEMBER that you cannot lose more than 12 heroes (at the end 100% 2 die), so even 10. At this stage it is acceptable to lose 2-4, nothing bad will happen.
Then it will be much easier.

STAGE 2 20-50 week

At the first stage, it is advisable to already decide what final composition you will have, so that over the course of 20 weeks you can slowly assemble a detachment from the stagecoach.

After that, focus on upgrading your 16-man suicide squad. The guild and forge will gradually improve (just don’t focus on gold, and give priority to relics when there are not enough slots). You will still have 62 weeks free. That is, each hero will still be able to go a maximum of 15 times!!! And you only need 5 lvl for each. In fact, everything will end much earlier (at best by the 50th week). At this stage it is very difficult to lose heroes because you will be pumped up like a terminator into the green and yellow zones. But you still won’t go to the red zones (where the balance is already collapsing). Just kill the first stressors in the 3rd and 4th rows right away - easy wines.

In the forge and guild, do not upgrade the price reduction until you have fully upgraded them. On each campaign you will have enough money for each fighter to spend it full - an investment of 20 weeks, as I said, will not be in vain, just survive it.

In addition, as the stagecoach builds up, pumped-up heroes will arrive, which it makes sense to replace with your own if they are about the same level. Or if there are dead.

Go only to the Ruins and the Reserve with Long-Medium priority. In long ones you are given as many as 2 stops. After completing the task, take a break and relieve stress with camp skills. Don't touch the bosses, although you can try for some trinkets (I killed for the Vestal). Ideally, you need to collect 4 artifacts at -20 from stress for each hero and one for each class. For healing, for example, enhancing healing and -20% from stress. Musketeer hat for 25% damage and -20% stress. For the savage, there is a cool -25 stress hairpin that can be combined with a strong damage artifact. And so on. The main thing is to have at least one stress reliever - this is mega important in order to leave the dungeons clean and not be treated.

In long ones you buy 36 food, 24 torches and 4 shovels. The average contains 24 food, 16 torches and 3 shovels. This is not much, just don’t prioritize gold and precious stones, then you can bring everything to rebuild the estate.

In week 44 I already had 4 lvl 5 units. The forge and guild are pumped to the maximum.

Stage 3 - FINAL. Death squad for 4 dungeons in order

OPTION 1 - on traffic police

1. Crossbow (musketeer) - Heal - Bounty Hunter - Savage
2. Crossbow (musketeer) - Heal - Dog walker - Savage
3. Plague Doc - Heal - Bandit - Savage
4. Crossbow (musketeer) - Heal - Bounty Hunter - Savage

Total you need to download in the remaining time

4 Savages - DPS in the back rows.
4 Hila - preferably 4 occultists. But it's up to your discretion.
3 Crossbows - tags and DPS
2 BH - stun, marks and DPS
1 Dogman - to guard the 4th member in the 2nd dungeon
1 Bandit - for DPS in the 3rd dungeon with riposte
1 Plague Dock - for stun and poison in the 3rd dungeon.

OPTION 2 - for survivability and control

1. Vestal-Jester-Dogman-Crusader
2. Vestal-Dog-Lover-Warrior-Warrior
3. Plague Dock-Geek-Geek-Savage
4. Vestal-Occultist-Bandit-Crusader

Total you need to download in the remaining time

3 Vestals
2 Dog lovers
2 Crusaders
2 Warriors
2 Geek
1 Jester
1 Plague Dock
1 Savage
1 Bandit
1 Occultist

Which OPTION to choose is not particularly important. They differ in play style.

• The first option is designed to quickly kill enemies; it is very easy to play in stages 1 and 2. The composition destroys and breaks everything in the face of the savage, bh and crossbows/musketeers.
• The second option is suitable for a more leisurely and safe game, as it contains a lot of control against stress (jester, dog walker, crusader), and a lot of control over enemies in the form of stuns.

I kept a roster of 25, so if someone was late with pumping, I hired garbage to pump up my fighters.

During the first playthrough, you should already know what teams you will have, 16 characters will be enough if you don’t die, and you can leave the carriage without pumping.
I advise you to go through medium-sized dungeons in terms of duration, because from the quick ones you will bring little loot, but from the long ones you will not take everything away.
Treat stress at a rest stop; use a rest stop after completing a task. There you can also get rid of diseases using the grave thief skill; I had 2 of them in my team.
You don't have to go to the bosses at all.
I advise you to have a vestal in your team, it heals all positions at once, it is useful when several heroes are dying, there is no point in trying to replenish the health scale, sometimes 60hp is removed with one blow, but rarely .
In the darkest dungeon, dress everyone in things with the spiritual uplift skill.
The first time Wolf comes the same way at thirty weeks, the second time or later, or maybe he doesn’t come at all, he finished at week 57, there was no wait for him.
All other trophies are best done on the first playthrough

Also, a very big benefit from this “feature” with restarting the game is that when, after completing a mission, you get a critically unpleasant quirk or illness, you can also exit through the home button and re-enter, your heroes will receive other post-match quirks, repeat until obtaining a result that suits you.