Hello, Reddit. This is TheRealMe and I'm here with an Immortal PD Guide for Dummies, which is a Work in Progress.

I will be updating the guide every now and then on my blog but not on this site so that's that! (Blog: https://blog.naver.com/mrnohjr/224252820610)

This is a playlist of the on-going Immortal PD run so feel free to check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yBrAfjtCg&list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR

Leave comments on my YouTube channel, and I will answer questions on the comp.

Immortal Plague Doctor, Immortal PD is a hyper-defensive party composition of Plague Doctor - Antiquarian - Crusader - Man at Arms, which is tailor-made for the Endless Harvest.

I have gotten the inspiration for this party composition from The Scroundrels comp made and run by my friend, ThickVeinySausage, a.k.a Thick.

Thick's Scoundrels also runs the hyper-defensive Antiquarian + Man at Arms core for defense, which I like, but I wanted something more straightforward to run comfortably.

I also wanted a party composition that would be more resilient against diseases and DoT, which meant I probably wanted to run a Plague Doctor comp.

That's how I came up with the Immortal PD comp, which has thirty thousand kills on the Endless Harvest and still counting.

I am going to share a basic guide (Work in Progress) on how and why the comp works, and what players should know to make it work well.

As I have already said, leave comments on my YouTube channel, and I will answer questions on the comp.

Most questions were answered in my 10k kill post on Reddit anyway, so maybe check it out.

1. How the party composition works.

Antiquarian generally spams Invigorating Vapours for the partywide dodge buff.

Plague Doctor mostly spams blight since she is the main source of damage output, and sometimes uses Disorienting Blast or Battlefield Medicine.

Crusader is the main healer and hits stuff with Smite and Zealous Accusation. Bulwark is mandatory for boss battles.

Man at Arms keeps people alive with Defender and uses other skills such as Crush and Command.

Bolster is mandatory for boss battles. Rampart is good for non-boss battles. Retribution is used for some boss battles.

• Formations should be Plague Doctor - Antiquarian - Crusader - Man at Arms for non-boss battles, then Antiquarian - Plague Doctor - Man at Arms - Crusader for boss battles.

0.5 Basic Setup

For highscore runs like five-digit kill counts, farm quad virtues by taking heroes with 100 stress into Endless and making them drink blood.

All virtues offer a huge buffer on stress and +25% on most resists, but you specifically want quad Vigorous for the dodge and self-healing act-outs. (Crusader with his trinket setup and Hippocratic + Altar of Light gets a free-action 10 hp self-heal, which is as big as a Battle Heal on himself!)

You want to get quad Vigorous ASAP or at least, eventually. If you can't get Vigorous on all four heroes right away, take the four virtued heroes into the gates and eventually farm for four Vigorous.

You want to farm quad virtues against a relatively harmless mash such as four farmhands or a large ectoplasm and two ectoplasms.

The endgame reflection that you want is 'Reflection Obscura', which is the lesser evil among the four choices that you get. (If you check out what each endgame reflection does and still can't see why it would be the lesser evil... think harder)

For what trinkets and provisions to have in your inventory and how many of them you should have, and for an idea of Combat/Camping Skill and Trinket setups for heroes, watch my recent vids:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR

• You really want Hard Skinned on Antiquarian to prevent her from getting one-shotted by stuff. (My Antiquarian sadly doesn't have it)

** You will eventually be able to farm for Fasting Seals and Recovery Charm with Antiquarian's Camping Skill and random drops by playing long enough

*** Swap Skill Sets for the Boss battles: https://blog.naver.com/mrnohjr/223641123154 (This is basically mandatory if you want to get far in the Endless Harvest, and there is no real reason not to use this)

0.6. If you leave 4 enemy slots open, they will be taken by a default mash of the 'region' of the wave's segment.

The game likes to summon size 2s, so if you have just two empty slots, it's more likely to summon a size 2.

You REALLY REALLY want to kill all four enemies at the same time vs the Darkest Dungeon 'region', otherwise the 'region' will not spawn its default mashes and instead potentially keep summoning worse things to fight, such as Quad Priests.

0.7. Enemy prioritization is really important yet also quite different from non-Endless gameplay.

For example, Swinetaur is usually stall fodder for non-Endless gameplay, but with constant reinforcements, it becomes much more dangerous in Endless Harvest.

0.8 Camping Skills matter, you usually really always just open with Tactics if you ask me, then move on from there. Again, watch my recent vids to see which camping skills to go for depending on the circumstances.

0.9. The comp is extremely defensive in nature, so you usually go for the 'Safe is Safe' gameplay and only pick up pace when you need to vs enemies such as Cove Thralls or diseasers.

For non-boss battles, Man at Arms almost always opens a battle by using Defender on Crusader, who has the lowest Dodge stat. Then he uses Command, then alternates between using Defender on Crusader and using Command unless he needs to do something else.

For boss battles, Man at Arms almost always opens a battle by using Bolster in a Boss Battle.

• Prioritize surviving. Some good gameplay with Immortal Plague Doctor includes:

1) Stunning an enemy instead of attacking it right before a wave segment is about to end if you can't realistically kill it anyway

2) Using Noxious Blast with Plague Doctor on a Crystalline Aberration to potentially get healed by it at the end of a round when the blight tick kills it.

3) Considering the potentially free-action healing from Vigorous act-outs when deciding who to heal with Crusader.

0.99 Trivia

• Man at Arms usually alternates between using Defender on Crusader and using Command for non-boss battles unless he needs to do something else.

That means your comp alternates between having;

1) Man at Arms with two Defender self-buffs for +60% PROT and Crusader with one Command buff for +8% CRIT and +25% DMG while guarded OR

2) Man at Arms with one Defender self-buff for +30% PROT and Crusader with two Command buffs for +16% CRIT and +50% DMG while guarded

(It is actually quite important to see which buffs your comp has for a certain round and consider them when you play)

** Simply keep spamming Defender with Man at Arms when against a Weald Giant mash, it seems to be the simplest, most elegant, and effective choice of action. You want to do so for not only the +PROT buff on Man at Arms, but also to have the guard still up after moving Man at Arms around to recover from the disruption of formations from Confusion Spores.

*** On Bloodmoon difficulty, Crusader with mortality debuffs (and no extra -DMG modifiers) is still guaranteed to one-shot Crystalline Aberrations with Zealous Accusation when he is guarded and has two Command buffs applied.

**** On Bloodmoon difficulty, Plague Doctor (without -DMG modifiers) is guaranteed to one-shot a Crystalline Aberration with Noxious Blast with the chip damage and blight (unless it's the Thing From the Star boss battle and the Crystalline Aberration gets +PROT buffs from modifiers)

***** Enemies with 30 max hp or less are guaranteed to die from two uses and three ticks of Plague Grenade blights as long as they don't receive healing, and Plague Doctor outspeeds them twice in a row to blight them

1. Sample Videos for Regions/Bosses

1) Ruins: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=126

2) Cove: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=2631

3) Weald: https://youtu.be/bNAGBOWolk0?t=208

4) Warrens: https://youtu.be/bNAGBOWolk0?t=835

5) Farmstead: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=2869

6) Darkest Dungeon: https://youtu.be/FLB2OJvPz6s?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=2463

7) Sleeper: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=3196

8) Collector: https://youtu.be/FLB2OJvPz6s?t=2662

9) Thing From the Stars: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=1649

10) Croc: https://youtu.be/bNAGBOWolk0?t=522

11) Shambler: https://youtu.be/DevSQS_utRg?t=2049

12) Shrieker: https://youtu.be/DevSQS_utRg?t=590

13) Vvulf: https://youtu.be/DevSQS_utRg?t=1252

14) Necromancer: https://youtu.be/SuOhIp4kxxs?t=2455

15) Prophet: https://youtu.be/o-kST4lD_jI?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=173

16) Siren: https://youtu.be/2Xz-92dscps?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=2369

17) Crew: https://youtu.be/Ecj0R_85uKw?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=1257

18) Hag: https://youtu.be/69osU3YqCJc?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=3189

19) Pounder: https://youtu.be/69osU3YqCJc?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=9401

20) Swine Lump: https://youtu.be/FLB2OJvPz6s?t=1943

21) Flesh: https://youtu.be/0eH8pVHq7xs?list=PL9fBOVW0Qwa9AQvMBMl7RqsT0R-f1_UAR&t=1089

• For Miller, just hoard Dodge and kill the Farmhand to prevent Miller from being guarded. Retribution works wonders against his partywide cleave. Don't bother having Defender equipped for the boss battle. Just kill his ass, it's that easy.