However, if the correct tools are available, it can be incredibly helpful. The Eerie Coral is a fairly innocuous curio which most Cove explorers are likely to walk past without a second thought. However, it carries a 60% chance to incur bleed, and, worst of all, there’s a 20% chance that interacting with a Dmaned Fountain will give a hero the Crimson Curse, which is a veritable death sentence in certain situations. On the positive side, using holy water on it will heal 30 stress, and interacting with it offers a small chance to produce random loot. Introduced in the outrageously unforgiving Crimson Court DLC, the Damned Fountain may only be encountered in the expansion’s eponymous location, and, though it can be a major help, it can also be a tremendous hindrance. However, using a skeleton key on this curio will afford the player a total of four heirlooms, which are instrumental in building up the player’s estate. Simply touching it has a 70% chance of awarding the player two heirlooms, though it also carries a 30% chance of inflicting bight or bleed. Though it carries a small amount of risk should players find themselves without any skeleton keys, it’s a curio with which players should almost always interact. 7 Best: Heirloom Chestįound within every dungeon save for the Darkest Dungeon itself, the Heirloom Chest is one of the most common curios for players to encounter.

No matter how you slice it, this thing is, more often than not, better left alone. Plus, interacting with the Fish Idol without using any items will result in either a -25 damage debuff, a -10 accuracy debuff, or a -12 dodge debuff. Using holy water on this curio will result in a +18 damage buff, but such an item may well be in short supply. The Fish Idol may have some definite upsides, but there’s no doubt that it was designed to be a beginners trap for those taking their first tentative steps into the Cove. Unfortunately, it’s only found in the ruins, though it does show up fairly frequently and can be a huge help in difficult encounters and boss fights. Touching it will imbue a hero with +20 damage until the next camp, and using holy water on it will increase that to +30. Though it looks fairly sinister and has likely scared away plenty of new players, the Altar of Light is an awesome curio which should be interacted with at every opportunity. Crafty players may be able to make use of this if they’ve specced their team with stress resistance in mind, but it’s otherwise a massive liability. However, there’s also a 50% chance that it will add fifty stress to a character. On the positive side, it offers a 25% chance to purge any negative quirk from a hero, as well as a 25% chance to instill either the Warrens Explorer our Warrens Scrounger quirk. 10 Run-Ending: Sacrificial Stoneįound exclusively within the Warrens, the Sacrificial Stone is always a huge gamble and the bane of most conservatively-minded players.

Some can save a botched journey, while others can tank a guaranteed win. Though RNG plays a large part in players’ success, knowing what the game’s various curio encounters can do will hugely impact the outcome of most runs. By no means for the faint of hearts, Darkest Dungeon asks players to make crushing decisions and risk it all in the name of salvation. Developed by indie outfit Red Hook Studios, Darkest Dungeon is a viciously difficult RPG that features a bleak, relentlessly oppressive atmosphere only matched in its intensity by the horrific Lovecraftian nightmares which stalk every corner of its antediluvian tombs.

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