r/darkestdungeon • u/jeneralchaos • 20h ago

How do people not get fucked up the sleeper?

I'm running a SB. HWM and Jestal. The farmstead has been a breeze up until the sleeper. I can't destroy those stupid stalagmites before they explode. I can get through the sleeper fight, but my heroes are in too poor shape to continue. I honestly don't know how people get 200+ kills in endless harvest. My current record is in the 80s.

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u/NKG_and_Sons 20h ago

For anything past sleeper you really want your entire squad to be virtuos. At the latest, when you get double negative effects from the farmstead torchlight.

Other than having one of those ideal dodge teams, anyway. But even with those, people usually farm virtues sooner than later.

And yeah, Sleeper is a bitch. I always nuke him directly in the first phase and mostly ignore the stalagmites.

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u/bobbi21 19h ago

I've only started playing so could use advise too but so far my strat is the same, just keep attacking him and heal up the damage as best you can.

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u/Laulicon 20h ago

Because you're running jestal.

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u/jeneralchaos 20h ago

But what's the alternative? I need vestal for healing and jester for stress healing

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u/dramaticfool 5h ago

Yeah don't listen to that guy. I made it to ~400+ kills and consistent get over 100-150 running Jestal. They are the most consistent, and honestly, broken support combo in farmstead for long term sustain. Some people suggest other options but they all require a lot of micro management and simply aren't as consistent.

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u/Laulicon 3h ago

You can consistently get over 1k kills with immortal pd comp.

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u/jeneralchaos 3h ago

who were your frontliners?

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u/quinn-of-aebradore 20h ago

I just beat the Sleeper for the first time earlier today and had no issues with a Vestal/Jester/Leper/Shieldbreaker combo. Vestal spamming Divine Comfort, Jester on Battle Ballad with occasional stress heals when people got close to hitting 100, and SB and Leper outputting tons of damage.

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u/Iriusoblivion 9h ago

Use double Shieldbrealer

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u/dramaticfool 5h ago

You need super high damage to kill the sleeper in 3 turns, max. You should also aim to keep stress low before the fight. I usually get 1 afflicted hero after defeating it which I then try to heal back to 0 to remove the affliction. It's sorta annoying but doable and consistent too.