apprentice level shambler darkest dungeon

MaA and HWM are both very good on him with Riposte, since Shambler always does AoE attacks against the party, so you can Riposte him every turn.

Used mass AoE spam to clear them out fairly quickly. Lep/Crus just use Hew/Zealous to kill the minions and get an odd hit on Shambler, Antiquarian blighted him every turn, and Vestal healed/attacked as needed. Not really an ideal Shambler party at all, but works okay if the shuffle isn't too bad. First party was something like Ant/Ves/Lep/Crus. Both times on Apprentice level dungeons with level 2 heroes with 3/3/3. just somethin to think about.I've beaten him twice on my new NG+ plus save. It's just mathematically a better idea to fight an apprentice shambler with level 2 heroes than fight a champion one with level 6 heroes.ĮDIT: also a level 2 houndmaster with a cudgel trinket for stunning equipped has an 85% chance to stun an apprentice shambler while a similarly equipped level 5-6 houndmaster only has a 60% chance to stun a champion shambler. so your blight does 15 damage at level 2 compared to 18 at level 5 BUT WAIT the shambler only has 77 hp in apprentice dungeons. at level 5 plague grenade does 6 blight for 3 turns.

that is not DOUBLE the damage, but the shambler in champion dungeons has DOUBLE the health. at level 2 a houndmaster does 5-8 damage, at level 5 they do 7-13. So apprentice is 77 hp compared to 162 and 2% crit on it's attacks compared to 7%.Īlso just look at hero damage. you might do less damage but the big difference is that the shambler and it's tentacles that spawn have much much lower hp and crit chance on their attacks compared to their champion counterparts. I've always fought them in apprentice dungeons.

Apprentice level shambler darkest dungeon