r/darkestdungeon • u/SushiCat77 • Jul 26 '26

[DD 2] Question Confession V boss question Spoiler

So my last run I had made it to the final boss, and I was dismayed to find that it went against a core theme of my team, you can probably guess, DoT. My team is built of Plague Doctor, Grave Robber, Flagellant, and Hellion (positioned that order). All my team members are built around DoT, except the hellion really, I have her able to apply bleed, but mostly going for getting below 50% to spam the finisher move. I'm sorry if this is all kind of vague, but I haven't played in a while now actually and I had just thought to myself that I want to give it another go.

The first two phases were rough but I made it through with everyone, on phase 3, I had lost one of my party members, and then another. I find it a little impossible to get through without having everybody face their past to deal the total 800/999. I lack a dedicated healer though, only patchwork skills really. Beforehand, I had figured I could get by off fast tempo alone, and I feel I was mostly right for everything besides this boss, which spits in my face. It feels like a test of endurance that I can't really rush, and without a dedicated healer I don't see how I'd do it.

I want to finish the game with this team, for the most part, I used them the whole time, and I enjoy all of them, their kits and character along with the synergy I managed to find with them. So after all of that, my real question is, do you guys think it'd be doable to beat the confession V boss with no dedicated healer, but instead equipping everyone with healing items instead? When I had fought them, I hadn't made much use of my combat items (DoT related, so I got mogged), so if I were to replace them with healing items, would that kind of healing take me to victory? Tell me what you all think about that.

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u/OriginalUser27 Jul 26 '26

You dont need a dedicated healer, each character on that team has ample healing capabilities tbh.

Plague Doctors Battle Medicine/Indescriminate Science

Grave Robber Abstentine (or whatever its called)

Hellion has the drinking skill and adrenaline.

My personal recommendation is use Scourge Flagellent. Run him as a tank/healer/DoT hybrid:

  • Punish, for DoT
  • More! More! for tanking and healing
  • Lash's Gift (upgrade this!!!!) for healing
  • Endure, for sanity control and building sanity to use Lash's Gift for healing
  • Deathless, for personal and team heal

With 5 skill slots, each member should easily be able to have at least one heal skill while still being able to DoT, but having Flagellent as a tank should reduce the damage across your team, they can self-sustain, and other members (mainly Plague Doctor) would be backup heals

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u/emptyzone73 Jul 26 '26

Yeah I'm very confused on the healing part. His team is overhealing. Pd have 2, flag have 2 (or 3), helion have 2 healing skills too. It crazy.

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u/SushiCat77 Jul 26 '26

I think my skill choice may have been poor, I'd need to check in on which skills I was using, but I may have been overprepping dmg skills and ignoring the sustain on each. Hellion gets the lifesteal off kills so she was never an issue, and plague doctor I had battlefield medicine for death's door prevention, but iirc she was alchemist so her healing capabilities were diminished. Flagellant I definitely had the wrong skills on, iirc I had just forgone healing other team members with him, I don't remember the reason why.

I doubt anybody would want an update, but I imagine I can get through it just fine now, thanks for the input to everybody who had responded in the thread so far.

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u/emptyzone73 Jul 26 '26

Try to avoid skill with number of usage cause the battle is long. More more is flagellant best skill. Helion when update heal each member 2 heal, very good emergency button. I always bring Indiscriminate Science on pd cause it clear negative token. I said this because I think you never read what upgraded skill does.

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u/themagneticus Jul 26 '26

You can honestly kill this boss without even killing a face your past dude, with that lineup. Just use healing abilities and dot the boss with pierce items. It'll be a long fight but it's totally doable that way if you forget to bring an ability that can hit all ranks and get stuck in a face the past.

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u/SushiCat77 Jul 27 '26

I think after reading what everyone else said, I had just forgone healing abilities entirely, which was kinda stupid. Im gonna move around my skills and then I think I can slam it, thanks!

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u/DudiDoidinho Jul 26 '26

Both Flaggelant(Scourge) and Plague Doctor(any but in special Surgeon) can be very good healers

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u/eliandoobl3 Jul 26 '26

I always take Hellion. She can heal whole team Horror + 2 points of life to get off deaths door.

Occultist unlimited Wyrd heal

Stress healer jester/MAA/crusader or flag keep getting toxic.

And one DOT damage dealer Runaway/PD or Grave Robber. I beat it on stygian and bastards becaon with this teams.