Darkest Dungeon® II

Darkest Dungeon® II

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Obsession Refocused

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Mountain boss rework pack
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Obsession Refocused

Rework of the act 3 boss fight to make it more dynamic by adding a cool new twist to the seen token system.


This is the first of my "Mountain boss rework pack", more will come in the next few days.

What does the mod actually do?

Read on if you want to get spoiled on the new mechanics:


First and foremost, I reworked the "seen" token to not be permanent! It now gets consumed by the enemy attacks like combo tokens (1 gets removed if the hero has more than 1). So now you don't lose immediately if your healer gets seen!

However, I was aware this change would make phase 2 too easy if I left it unchanged, so now here is my attempt to re-balance the boss fight to make it still challenging with this new mechanic:

- Phase 1 enemies have 50% more health and do more damage, however they also consume the "seen" tokens with their big damage attacks. Since they consume the tokens, they can use the abilities to add them more than once per round, this also means that they are not guaranteed to grow every turn so you can get lucky if you leave them alive in the small form, that's why I did the hp increase to balance this out.
- Now phase 1 is not a setup for the real boss, it's a serious fight and it also highlights the mechanics that will come on phase 2.
- Also, careful of the corpses of the eyes, they don't like staying dead!
- The boss has a small health and resistances boost.
- The seen token buffs in phase two stack a lot less (from +100% dmg per token to +50% and from +100% crit at max tokens to +20%). This is not supposed to be a damage race.
- Phase 2 Suppress attack is back to how it was at the first release of the boss fight because why not I think it was cooler back then. So expect a more consistent use of crowd control by the boss and a lot less burst damage overall.
- Phase 2 will add more seen token on crit, like it does on bastard's beacon, behold skill also adds 1 more random debuff.
- Finally, phase 1 eyes buff themselves when they attack like they did in the original version of early access. This is also because I like phase 1 and want to make it cooler again.


This mod is compatible with the Bastard's Beacon for a truly terrifying boss fight.

Hope you enjoy, please don't forget ot comment your feedback and experience, would love to know how you found the fight.

Mountain boss rework pack

Find all the other Mountain boss reworks I did in this collection: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3322577259
You can download each of them as standalone or all toghether, they don't affect one another in any way.
3 Comments
GibbsyBoy 25 Jan @ 6:01pm 
yeah the obsession boss absolutely SUCKED thank you for your rework
simone.barbaro  [author] 1 Dec, 2024 @ 3:32am 
Thanks for the comment. I think the current version of the boss is pretty good but I had started working on this mod long ago when the boss was still very annoying.

This final version is an hybrid between my original mod I put on nexus and the new version of the boss.

I am happy you enjoyed it Doomstench
Doomstench 23 Nov, 2024 @ 5:57pm 
Oh my god. This is so much more enjoyable than the vanilla fight. I hadn't seen this boss since release and I knew they reworked it several times. But I fought against the patched version a couple of times and it's still SO OBNOXIOUS.

Had such a more pleasant experience with this mod installed. Cheers~