Once you’ve chosen your Skills, slot the Flagellant into the second rank of your party for the best possible Skill coverage. For your final slot, you’ll likely want to include either Deathless or Endure, depending on whether you need health or Stress healing more in your current setup. These are powerful self-healing Skills that also provide additional effects, buffs in the former case and damage in the latter. You’ll also want to use Lash’s Gift and Sepsis in nearly every situation.

In terms of Skills, Punish and Acid Rain are a great pair of attacking moves, providing full coverage of the enemy ranks while dishing out Blight in the process. Naturally, you’ll want to take the Scourge Path for the former and the Exanimate Path for the latter. He’s a flexible character, with different applications based on the Path you choose for him, but in general we’d recommend going in one of two directions: either a dedicated damage/debuff healer, or a risky all-out damage dealer. Now that we’ve covered all of his Skills and traits, let’s talk about how you can best use the Flagellant in your own runs. That’s a lot to take in, but the differences can be summarized as follows: Wanderer is the balanced, vanilla path Maniac shifts focus from inflicting Blight to inflicting other debuffs like Blind and Weak Exanimate boosts the power of your skills when your health is low and Scourge doubles down on moving damage and debuffs from the rest of your party onto you. Target: Deals 50% of remaining Blight on Target as DMG, and removes Blight unless Target has a Combo Token Target: Deals 75% of remaining Blight on Target as DMG, and removes Blight Requires Target Blight and Requires Self HP <50% Requires Self has Negative Token or Requires Self HP <50% Target: Steal Bleed, Blight, and Burn, Steal Horror Requires Target Bleed, Blight, or Burn, or Requires Target Horror Self: When Damaged: Pain (1 Turn), Taunt x2 If HP <50%: +2 Blight Dealt, +30% Blight RES Piercing when target has a Combo Token Self: Horror 1, Remove Bleed, Blight, and Burn Self: Heal 10%, Crit, Dodge, Remove all Negative Tokens, Remove Combo Token +30% Blight RES Piercing when target has a Combo Token

Flagellant in darkest dungeon