Disease (DIS): Similar to Quirks, a disease can be a persistent effect which applies negative status effects or debuffs to the hero.

Debuff (DBFF): A hero that has been affected with the debuff effect lowers one more of their stats or resistances.

Some monsters can move multiple characters at once. This generally affects a character's ability to use certain skills.

Move (MOVE): The MOVE debuff pushes or pulls a hero into a different position, changing party positions.

Characters still take damage from DOT or other affects caused by their turn order. Stun affects skill, item, and movement actions.

Stun (STUN): A stunned character loses their ability to take an action next turn.

The current list of debuff effects are listed below: These debuffs reduce the effectiveness of a character in combat, and put them at a disadvantage. It is caused by fire damage attacks and skills.ĭebuff effects in Darkest Dungeon 2 are negative states that can affect both Heroes and Enemies.

Burn (BURN): Burn is another damage over time status effect similar to BLD and BLGHT that reduces HP at the beginning of the hero's turn.

It is usually caused by poisonous attacks from opponents.

Blight (BLGHT): Blight is a damage over time status effect similar to bleed that reduces HP at the beginning of the hero's turn.

Bleed (BLD): Bleed is a damage over time status effect that reduces HP at the beginning of the hero's turn.

The following damage types deal damage over time. For example, bleed resistance determines how likely they are to receive bleed from bleed enemy attacks. Each of these Damages have their own set of resistance stats that correspond to each effect.

Many SKILLS or COMBAT ITEMS can cure DOTs. DOTs cause damage at the beginning of the combatant's turn until they expire or are cured.

Gained Mastery Points are shown at the end screen after Victory.ĭamage over Time Damage is a stat that measures how affected Heroes are to these lasting effects. These points are used to upgrades the Heroes' Skills to make them stronger. Mastery Points are gained through Battles, Hero Shrines, Lairs battles, Completed tasks and missions. A character that is too low on health and reaches a vitality of 0 will find themselves on Death's Door. Any further damage has a chance to kill the hero depending on their DEATHBLOW RESISTANCE! Players must then use a helpful Combat Item or a healing skill to restore some of the hero's HP before the Heroes are finished off during Combat.

Health is the main stat used by each character. It determines a characters vitality and will be the determining factor on whether a character or Hero dies in Combat.

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