The boss fight is awful. You have to face 9 minions that immune stun, bleed, blight and move. If you kill the musician then your team would be gone. If you ignore the event and your town building lost upgrade. DO NOT INSTALL THE MOD.

such a boring boss

It was a little confusing at the start but damn, such a good addition

Nice visual presentation, cool unexpected reference to H. P. Lovecraft's work, and decent town event to accompany it.

And all of this just for a horrible, overtuned, boring, and overall disappointing gameplay loop that's impossible to figure out without the modmaker's insane ramblings on the steam page. Wholeheartedly downvoted.

How can I get the two trinkets if it is a one-time encounter???

I'm sorry, but this boss is insanely overtuned.
Basically, the fight is a stress-based one - except, every single attack also inflicts ~6-8 chip damage, meaning you can't just tank it.
Additionally, the Musician himself is a trap - if you kill him, he just murders your entire party without recourse.
You have to kill nine 60 HP 80% prot summons, all of whom deal ~6 damage on average, in addition to stress. The Musician himself gets two turns, and all his skills also inflict stress and damage.
That means the fight will inevitably end with all four members of the party afflicted as you try to chip down three extreme prot summons.
Attacking the Musician is out of the question, because a random crit could send him to zero and then he'll kill your party. Meaning you have to somehow tank stress, health, and damage nine summons with extreme prot over ~80 turns, all for some shitty trinkets. Definitely not recommended.

I almost never review things, but I felt like I needed to leave a PSA to anyone who finds this mod. DO NOT FUCKING DOWNLOAD THIS. The boss is broken and immortal, any team you send will just get wiped out with. Please don't waste your time with this shitty mod.

Hello author, i know you left DD modding since years but i still wanna ask something.

I missed the first event (week 40) and encountered him for the first time after week 70, probably because i have a lot of mods that triggers event.
I really wanna get the Astronomical Violin tho, is there any way i can get it?

Hoping that you will answer, unlike everyone here, i liked the difficulty. Amazing mod.

高防御就意味着要带穿甲，而音乐家给加伤害的debuff又太少，减防在破盾面前又没用，食之无味弃之可惜


只能算是个高压持久战，看阵容恢复能力够不够，不够就打不过，不存在靠音乐家的debuff操作局面

only can beat him two time?

A little difficult but still manageable. The point is to use two shield breaker to conquer the high defense, and DON'T LET HP OF MUSICIAN BE ZERO before the music finished, or it will be very troublesome.

he is fucking immortal. even kaze op characters can't defeat him

about 90% of my battles against this man the otherwordly fuckers dont even use the self debuff skill

This musician boss is SO FUCKING STUPID

If you are having trouble killing this boss, just bring a shield breaker. The "ignore prot" makes the fight trivial but still REALLY long

I've lost 3 characters that had about 9 ancestral items. If you wanted to create something that is original, there's other ways. Should've at least HINTED something on a type of item, like a lore note (THAT LITERALLY everyone else does tell you a remote idea of how it's supposed to be played, even the overstat vermintide plague monk did) and not expect everyone to eventually lose all their favorite characters to know how to defeat him. Thanks bro. Also damaging the hamlet besides losing characters and also fucking items. That's sweet.

This piece of shit killed 12 of my favorite characters and made me quit the game 😠

had to unsubscribe, if you make a gimmick fight that can only be done by trial and error and not by bruteforcing your way through, you shouldn't give a penality like 3 upgrades destroyed, because this only encourage people to google how to win against him, and not to try and get the fight done by themselves. Good idea of a boss, poor execution

It could be a great mod but I totally dislike that I have been obliged to do the quest.

"Be careful when the Musician appears, because ignoring him or losing against him will end in losing 3 random upgrades from your buildings!" ---> wrong imo

我的魅魔魅惑他之后 就卡档了...因为我其他三个人都死了，只剩下 魅魔 （succubus mod）所以....现在一直攻击 回合不会结束......

Just defeated the guy, amazing mod

there's a pretty major bug where damage dealt to the musician at 0 HP puts him at the negative so Keep Playing from the Windows doesn't bring him back up from 0 and he keeps spamming unfinished play

Like the concept but incredibly poorly balanced. The fight is nigh impossible if you just go in blind, but a little too easy if the workshop page is read(although that may be due to me showing up with HWM's CC set).

I think the main problem with it is the lack of foreshadowing, whether through the quest text being largely unhelpful or having no region for expected mechanics/types. All you can realistically gleam is they're gonna be human(which bites you in the ass, as Man Slayer Ring and the like are just baits), and that they deal with stress(quest text and the champion Cove enemy). I think all of this could be fixed by just setting level 1 and 3 variants, so you actually know what you're up against, and if you lose the first party, it's just low-levels with little investment.

so... motherfucker got 60 hp, if he gets to like 0 he gets the ability to pretty much AoE until healed, unless you kill 8 of the window, but you can't reduce his hp too low, so bringing anyone that deals high damage is a fuck you.

idk is that happends coz I have to many mods installed, but is it normal that his summons have 80% armor and 60hp? I've seen that they have 20% armor. Lost 5lvl squad just coz it was so unfair

I have to say, it's more difficult than I thought

Just a heads up, to anyone else fighting this boss-

If you get to the end, and think you've bugged the game out (while following the spoiler'd guide on how to beat him), you haven't. You just have to reduce the boss's HP to 0 at that point the old-fashioned way (should be really easy with his maximum of 80), which is then the trigger for the "Move" that closes the fight. So you don't have to worry about sabotaging yourself by hitting him at that point. Hope that helps!

Such a cool concept and fight! The more Lovecraft this game gets, the better :-D

I installed the mod on week 55. The musician will appear only on week 60 now?

another bullshit unfair modded bossfight

Hello, author. I am an ordinary player using the mod you made. I found that someone used the resources you shared for free to sell for a fee. He created a q group in China, the QQ group number is 882395913. This QQ group integrates the resources released by many mod authors for free, and posts on the forum, saying that it is his own work (V integration series), and paying to enjoy these resources, but after joining the Q group, I found that it is all your resources .

If you know what to expect and prepare accordingly (Vestal - claimants - grave robber - shieldbreaker + eventual armor piercing trinkets) it's pretty easy

I love this boss fight thematically for being based on one of my favorites stories from lovecrat mythos. My only question is: what should be the load order in this?. All the times I fought him it´s always the second fight, the one where the reward it´s the amorphous flute. I waited 40 weeks after that fight in different saves and the first mission never appeared. Aside from that, the boss fight itself is not that difficult if you know your way around parties composition and can be taken down with a lot party variations, making it a very fun fight. Love this mod!

太难了，死了六个传奇都没打过去，暂时取定了，不过这个boss做的我挺喜欢的

HTF Should i Know, what he kills my team if i try to kill him?
Usually i don't read mod's discription, just because i want to beat everything myself. And you just saying "Ah, yeah, whole yur team will die if you try to kill musician only." under the spoiler? hard boss is fun, but it should be fair fight. In DD you have a ton of variations, how to fix this (maybe he had high dodge and with every death of mobs this number begin to be lower, IDK).
But now i just lose 3 of my faworite guys for nothing. That's NOT what i want from this mod.

A little bit difficult...

Sorry man, I gotta unsubscribe from this. I've tried 3 different times with 3 different parties and cant get past the second phase of the fight cause the mirrors have such stupidly high prot and are immune to any status effects. Past the first phase of the fight seems to be bugged also, as the mirrors dont weaken themselves, even when you hit the boss. There doesn't seem to be a right party for this boss, as he not only stresses you out, he also hits hard and cant be hit back unless you want a Swine God on steroids.

I really want to like this mod, as i love the concept, but it needs some serious tuning and bugfixing before I try to use it again.

This mod is extremely punishing without giving hints as to what to do. The fight is extremely long if you to not bring armor pen with his summons having 80% prot. Seems too tedious of a fight and not enjoyable to play.

@LokiLaufey

Thank the lord! I will give it another go.

Hi everyone, sorry for not replying these days, I have been super busy and kinda left DD modding for a while, I know this mod has been too punishing for many players for a long time, so here's a little update that should make the battle less unfair while keeping it's difficulty.

*Now avoiding the Plot Quest won't destroy upgrades on the hamlet
*The summon enemy nows has lower stats overall
*All stress damage is lower

Really want to like this mod, as the concept for the boss fight is interesting. However, the baseline stat of 80% prot on the minions is far too high. And seeing as they are immune to DoTs, this makes the battle take 50+ turns when done correctly. While the damage is manageable, the stress is not. If you are still working on this mod and taking critic, please consider dropping the prot down. The action economy in this fight is horrendous, and only very specialized comps are able to clear it (and barely). I have had three savefiles ruined by this boss (as he destroys my hamlet after we lose), and I studied up for the last two runs against him. It did not matter, as I could not mitigate the +40 stress per turn the boss was dishing out.

As this boss rains hell on the hamlet if ignored, if you do not have a lvl 6 dodge comp ready when he shows, your game is essentially over.

Please consider some number adjustments, as the core concept is fun but its implementation is not enjoyable.

So now my run thats with a bunch of modded classes is screwed since I have no more money or lvl 5 and 6 heros to fight him since it takes forever to kill the minions in order to kill the musician. This is really frustrating since I wanted to try the mod even through failure. Please take note on people's feedback, mod creator, or at the very least tweak some things in order to properly fight this boss in the game, because as of now this fight is bullshit.

Went into the boss with a full group of Lvl 6 heros, all stacked with trinkets to help with +acc, +dmg, got the musician down to 0 hp (multiple times mind you) and he still didn't die, the minions he spawns seem to have multiple actions in a single round (even though it only shows one), constantly healing the musician whens he had 0 hp. Okay so first attempt failed, lets try again later? No, the boss didn't despawn and the progress on my buildings kept going down since the event doesn't go away. The whole mod seems bugged idk, I get that the minions at the start of the fight are almost invincible and slowly debuff themselves until they are vulnerable, then you kill them. But after like round 4 since I ignored them to kill the musician straight away (Basically like the COLLECTER fight) the debuffs are gone and they go right back to being invincible. It sucks to figure that out later since after round 5 or something he constantly goes into a STRONG AOE attack.

im totally gonna have to download this and comment just b/c of that review now Shyhalu, good luck in your future runs atleast!

Oh yeah my party got DESTROYED.

Oh boy that was one tough fight.. the first time I fought I think the fight bugged out on me (I had to reload a prior save and rebuild my team). Basically I stacked bleed on the musician, he reached 0 and continued taking bleed. When the windows healed him, his hp didn't go above 0. He then just continued to wreck my party with the Unfinished Play skill. His hp never went above 0 despite multiple healings, even after the bleed proc ended.

@LokiLaufey
HE KEEPS COMING BACK. im removing this mod because I lost to him once, (Bye Bye dismas :( ) and after i retreated he was still there.

@oskar.lloma That's not supposed to happen, it's the first time I heard about this bug.
I checked the code and each event has a cooldown of at least 7 weeks, and they shouln't appear if you don't have at least 4 heroes of Lvl5.

If you lost vs the boss he should not reapear just in the next week until he dies, I have no more lv5/6 heroes and he still makes lose building upgrades. 3 upgrades lost each try I did, I cannot upgrade my new heroes, simply it's game over.

I suppose it's a bug that he reapear each week (the event don't ends), if it is not, it should be changed. It's completly broken.
Wulf dissapears for a time if you lose and the game gives you a chance of redeem your fails, the musician not.

Until it will be repaired, the mod is uterly broken. Plz do something. This mod has ruin one of my main runs.

Sorry about my english.

What the heck, lost all my level 6 team and they trinkets, thx. freakin unbalance i don't recomand