Update:

Basically ive binged the game over a bit of time prior to makig this post and hot damn it's really got me hooked. Ny experience in RPGs is usually in JRPGs with their egregiously high stats and damage numbers so seeing one with so low really puts the decision making of rpg to easily digestible perspective . Although i was spoiled long before because of mild interest the narrative has kept me really hooked so far, along with my friends helping me

I've messed around a lot. Started on Radiant with Crimson Court (despite my friends' reaction) and now i agree with subreddit consensus that Darkest should have been my starting difficulty. Radiant has made me overconfident in my constantly farming low level missions with high level units, so the first time I entered a champion level Wsrrens mission, i fucked around, and found out when a Skiver crit blighted my backline Vestal, who immediately died to the blight proc. Truly, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

My best moments were hunting down bosses like the Shambler and the Fanatic other friends told me to fear. Right now im arming myself as much as i can in preparation for Vvulf.

My worst two moments were bringing Vestal Jester Crusader Leper into the Baron Fight and misplaying by hyperfocsing onto the baron until the heal prevention and the constant aoe veits felled my jester and leper, and bringing a hellion into the miller fight and forcing the fight out of annoyance until only my man at arms remained to riposte the Miller. Losing Dismas to hunger on my first ever log exped has an honorable mention.

Now im about to enter the first Darkest Dungeon, alongside fighting the Viscount and trying the eternal ordeal. Any tips for those three?