It took me a long time to get to this point, but finally, it was time to beat the game. The Heart Of Madness: The Darkest Dungeon The DLC all in all messes with the balance of the original game, and that's not always a bad thing this new challenge adds much more than it takes away. Overall, I appreciated the new take it presents on how to play. If you’re careful, and with a bit of luck, the Courtyard can put you in a very good position to tackle the endgame. Used strategically, this Curse is actually quite a blessing. However, the Crimson Curse also gives you the opportunity to have characters go into Bloodlust and get a major damage boost. If you let them go too long without feeding their addiction, your characters will waste away and eventually die. The Crimson Curse itself is generally a bad thing, and it can be hard in the early game to keep up with all of your characters who are jonesing for The Blood. By the end game, with these boosts, I found the challenge had departed somewhat from game much like the sanity from some of my adventurers.

The class-specific relics you can find in the Courtyard are quite strong though, and the new buildings that you can construct by using Blueprints and whole lot of Heirlooms provide class-specific bonuses as well. He’s a real pain to deal with as you’re first starting out. He’s a sort of combination DPS and healer who deals massive Bleed damage and only gets more powerful as his health gets lower. For one thing, the Flagellant is a bit overpowered. If I have one criticism, it’s that The Crimson Court makes the game somewhat harder in the early stages, but a lot easier by the end.

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