Best Flagellant Builds For Each Path In Darkest Dungeon 2

Punish

1, 2, or 3

1 or 2

• Melee attack for 3-6 damage.
• Five percent crit chance.
• Inflicts three stacks of Blight on the target.
• The Flagellant takes damage equal to ten percent of his maximum HP.
• Combo bonus: Ignores up to 30 Blight Resistance.

• Increases minimum damage by one and maximum damage by two.
• Increases crit chance to ten percent.
• Inflicts an additional stack of Blight on the target.

Fester

Any

Any

• Must target an enemy corpse.
• Clears the targeted corpse.
• Any enemies adjacent to the target are each inflicted with three stacks of Blight.

• Inflicts an additional two stacks of Blight to each affected enemy.

Deathless

Any

N/A

• Must target a Hero other than the Flagellant.
• The Flagellant takes damage equal to twenty percent of his maximum HP.
• The targeted Hero recovers HP equal to twenty-five percent of their maximum.
• One-turn cooldown.

• Heals the target for an additional ten percent of their maximum HP.

Endure

Any

N/A

• Must target a Hero other than the Flagellant.
• The Flagellant gains two Stress.
• The targeted Hero loses two Stress.

• The targeted Hero loses one additional Stress.

Lash’s Gift

2, 3, or 4

N/A

• Must target a Hero other than the Flagellant.
• Can only be used if the Flagellant has less than half of his HP remaining.
• The Flagellant recovers HP equal to twenty-five percent of his maximum.
• The targeted Hero gains a Strength token, a Block token, and one Stress.
• Two-turn cooldown.

• Heals the Flagellant for an additional ten percent of his maximum HP.
• The targeted Hero gains a Block+ token instead of a regular Block token.
• Removes Daze and/or Stun from the targeted Hero.

Acid Rain

1 or 2

3 and 4

• Ranged attack for 2-3 damage against both targets.
• Five percent crit chance.
• Inflicts two stacks of Blight on each target.
• The Flagellant takes damage equal to ten percent of his maximum HP.
• Combo bonus: Ignores up to 30 Blight Resistance.

• Deals an additional point of damage to each target.
• Increases crit chance to ten percent.
• Inflicts an additional stack of Blight on each target.

More! MORE!

1 or 2

N/A

• The Flagellant gains two Taunt tokens.
• Until the end of his next turn, any time the Flagellant takes damage from any source, he gains a Pain token.
  • Like all tokens, he can have up to three Pain tokens at once.
• If the Flagellant is still alive at the end of his next turn, he heals himself for ten percent of his maximum HP for each Pain token.
• One-turn cooldown.

• The Flagellant heals for fifteen percent of his maximum HP per Pain token, instead of ten.

Suffer

Any

N/A

• Must target a Hero, other than the Flagellant, who has stacks of Bleed, Blight, and/or Burn.
• All Bleed, Blight, and/or Burn currently on the targeted Hero are transferred to the Flagellant.
• Increases the Flagellant’s Death Resistance by 10 for the next three rounds.
• One-turn cooldown.

• At the end fo the Flagellant’s next turn after using Suffer, he removes all stacks of Bleed, Blight, and/or Burn from himself.

Sepsis

1, 2

1, 2

• Melee attack for 4-8 damage.
• Five percent crit chance.
• Can only be used if the Flagellant has less than half of his HP remaining.
• Inflicts four stacks of Blight on the target.
• The Flagellant recovers HP equal to thirty-five percent of his maximum.
• Combo bonus: Ignores up to 30 Blight Resistance.
• Two-turn cooldown.
• Can only be used three times per battle.

• Deals two additional points of damage.
• Heals the Flagellant for fifty percent of his maximum HP instead of thirty-five.
• Inflicts two additional stacks of Blight on the target.

Undying

Any

N/A

• Must target a Hero other than the Flagellant.
• The Flagellant takes damage equal to ten percent of his maximum HP.
• The targeted Hero gains three stacks of Regen.
• One-turn cooldown.

• The targeted Hero gains two additional stacks of Regen.

Necrosis

2 or 3

All

• Melee attack for 3-6 damage to each enemy with Blight.
  • Can only be used if at least one enemy has Blight.
• Five percent crit chance.
• The Flagellant recovers HP equal to five percent of his maximum.
• One-turn cooldown.

• Increases minimum damage by one and maximum damage by two.

Wanderer

• Gain an additional Candle at the end of the run.

• Punish
• Acid Rain
• More! MORE!
• Lash’s Gift
• Sepsis

• Gilded Mind (any tier)
• Bouncer’s Belt (any tier)
• Mortal Ward
• Emancipation
• His Prison
• Vanished Vanity
• Dark Impulse (any except Stress)
• Wounding Words

Maniac

• Changes Punish:
  • Inflicts one fewer Stack of Blight.
  • Moves the target back one space.
  • Upgrade places a Combo token on the target.
• Changes Acid Rain:
  • Inflicts one stack of Weakness on each target instead of Blight.
  • Upgrade has a one-in-three chance to place a Combo token on each target.
• Changes Lash’s Gift:
  • Heals the Flagellant for only twenty percent of his maximum HP.
  • Transfers all negative tokens from the targeted Hero to the Flagellant instead of normal effects.
• Changes Sepsis:
  • Can be used if the Flagellant has any negative (blue) tokens, regardless of his HP total.
  • Transfers all the Flagellant’s negative tokens to the target instead of inflicting Blight.

• Punish
• Acid Rain
• Lash’s Gift
• Suffer
• Sepsis

• Gilded Mind (any tier)
• Bouncer’s Belt (any tier)
• Mortal Ward
• Dark Impulse (any except Debuff or Stress)
• Selfish Motivation

Exanimate

• Punish and Acid Rain both inflict two additional stacks of Blight if the Flagellant has less than half of his HP remaining.
• Changes Lash’s Gift:
  • Can only target the Flagellant.
  • Heals the Flagellant for only ten percent of his maximum HP.
  • Grants the Flagellant a Dodge token and a Crit token, and removes all negative tokens from him, instead of the Skill’s normal effects.
• Changes Sepsis:
  • Removes all stacks of Blight from the target.
  • Deals damage to the target equal to three-quarters of their remaining Blight damage.
  • Heals the Flagellant so that his HP is set at forty-five percent of its maximum.
  • Can be used one fewer time per battle.

• Punish
• Acid Rain
• More! MORE!
• Sepsis
• Endure

• Gilded Mind (any tier)
• Mortal Ward
• Emancipation
• His Prison
• Poison Ring
• Curing Cuppa
• Pulsing Heart
• Dark Impulse (any except Stress)
• Locked Jaw

Scourge

• Changes Sepsis:
  • Removes all stacks of Blight form the target unless they have a Combo token.
  • Deals damage to the target equal to half their remaining Blight damage.
  • No longer heals the Flagellant.
  • Can be used any number of times per battle, but still has a cooldown.
• Deathless heals both the Flagellant and the targeted Hero.
• Suffer also transfers Horror to the Flagellant, in addition to its other effects.
• Lash’s Gift removes Bleed, Blight, and/or Burn Flagellant, and inflicts Horror on him, instead of its normal effects.

• Punish
• Deathless
• Lash’s Gift
• Suffer
• Sepsis

• Protectorate (any tier)
• Gilded Mind (any tier)
• Mortal Ward
• Emancipation