Dark Messiah Class

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A small note:
This is how I see Dark Messiah and my try to recreate his story in Darkest Dungeon’s lore.

The Dark Messiah is a Void itself, but he doesn’t knows that, Dark Messiah claim himself to be the Hand of God, the Vengeful One and he is immaterial. He doesn’t have his own body so he always steals someone’s body to grant a power to fight. Nobody knows why he fights and he doesn’t want to tell why too, he says only that he got a mission and he can’t fail it, if he fails it he will die. But how Void can die? Maybe the God himself grant him the power to control Void and if he fails he is going to lose it? Nobody knows, but he is here and he will help you, but don’t rely on him too much, he doesn’t trust humans at all.

Dark Messiah is very tough, he has low resistances to everything but death. He claims himself to be almost immortal due to his immaterial form. He uses stolen magic sword to fight. He is a melee fighter and very durable tank, he has a lot of hp, average damage and not that high speed and dodge stats. His optimal position is the first rank and most of the times he has nothing in his kit to reach enemies in backline. Dark Messiah has a lot of options to survive for a long period of time and protect his teammates… or, you can risk and get very strong benefits from it. Your playstyle changes completely when Messiah gets afflicted.

$ – Enemy

! – Teammate or Self

C – Self

X – Position from which your character can attack or interact.

$-$ or !-! – More than one target.

O – Position from which your character can’t attack or interact.

Indestructible – X X X X _ C C C C – Messiah can became Indestructible for 3 rounds gaining a good bonus to every resist that rises with level of ability, this move can be used once per fight and doesn’t spend your turn.

Destruction – O O O X _ $ $ O O – Your self-sustaining damage deal ability. Use it to deal slightly reduced damage and slightly heal yourself, also has an average chance to stun enemy, this attack also reduces your light level. This attack can CRIT.

Run – O X X X _ $-$-$-$ – You can scary your enemies with your voice and appearance. Does tremendously reduced damage and affects whole enemy party. Applies debuff on enemy’s ACC. Also it kills all corpses.

Gift from the Void – O O X X _ ! ! ! ! – this is high risk – high reward ability. Allows you to attack yourself or your teammate and puts target into Death’s Door, but gives the target a bonus to DMG, Dodge and ACC. This ability can’t miss.

Fortify – O O O X _ !-!-!-! – This is you core tank ability, use it to protect whole team at once, lasts 3 rounds. Increases Messiah’s protection depending on how many heroes are affected by ability. Note that afflicted character can reject your guard.

Cleave – O O O X _ $-$-$ O – This is your simple zone attack. Reduces your damage by 50% but allows you to attack 3 enemies at once. This attack can CRIT.

Fair Fight – O O X X _ $ $ O O – Another attack ability, has increased damage, on impact marks you and your enemy, deals additional n-% damage against marked enemies. This attack can CRIT.

Dark Messiah doesn’t have a virtue, he can get only afflicted. His affliction is called Mortal (Mortality) which makes him weaker, makes him able to die easily as human would do. When Messiah gets afflicted he loses his max health by 50% and deals 100% more damage with also some stats like PROT and SPD decreased, also his Death Blow resistance reduces by 33% and some stas like CRIT and ACC are increased greatly. You don’t want your Messiah to get afflicted if you are using him as tank, and you must get him afflicted if you use him as damage dealing character to get maximum benifit from damage bonuses but be careful because he doesn’t trust humans and maybe will try to kill your team first.

Hand of God – reduces stress of Dark Messiah by 100 points. Time spent: 3.

God’s Will – Dark Messiah buffs DMG against Unholy and Edritch by 25% till next camp. Time spent: 3.

Fear the Void – prevents ambush, gives +20% chance to surpsise monsters and -20% chance to surprise party. +20% scout chance. Time spent: 2.

innocence – cures one disease and removes Mortality debuffs from one ally. Time spent: 2. Can be used 2 times per one camp.

• Dark Prophecy [Common] – after first round makes Dark Messiah take 20% less stress damage. Increases chance to get crit attacked by 5% when not first rank.
• Ring of Rage [Uncommon] – when afflicted increases your damage by 10%, max health by 10% and reduces healing received by 20%
• Hands of Void [Rare] – when marked received healing is increased by 50%.
• Heart of the Old Friend [Very Rare] – using Dark Messiah’s offensive skills have 20% chance to heal whole party by 7 points, also using Dark Messiah’s offensive skills have 5% chance to deal 15 stress damage to whole party.
• The Amulet of Light [Crimson Court] – When marked increases your protection by 10%, when bleeding your protection is increased by 10% and when poisoned your protection is also increased by 10%.
• Freedom [Crimson Court] – When your hp is above 60% of max health your ACC is increased by 5, SPD is increased by 8 and Dodge is increased by 10, but if your hp is lower than 60% your stun resistance is reduced by 20%.
• Giving me strenght to face them! [Set] – Increases crit chance by 5% and reduces incoming stress damage by 30%
• God’s Soul [Crystalline] – When attacked by Unholy or Eldritch protection is increased by 50%. Increases taking stress damage by 20%.
• Power Beyond Containing [Crystalline] – Increases stun chance by 50%. Using offensive skill has 10% to kill all Eldritch monsters and another 10% to kill all Undead Monsters. If hero dies whole party gain stun and 20 damage.

– Balance and bug fixes.
– New skins
– More localizations

For now there is none.

Most important changes are there for only current version, every update is listed in changelog.txt inside of mod’s folder which you can find in steamapps/workshop

v 1.8

– Fixed Crimson Court trinkets being spawned on regular dungeons, now they should spawn only on courtyard.
– New face and weapon, REMAKE BY YSTRICA FOREVER. (Inventory icons will be changed later and more color variations will be added soon)

For more detailed information check changlelog.txt.

Caedwyn – for his big help.

JawZoned – check out his original skin, which I used to create this one.

RedDyeNo5[www.patreon.com] – for his trinket pack.

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