

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. Dinner Cart and Makeshift Dining Table - similarly as above, you should activate them only using the required item as otherwise there is a high chance for becoming illĬurio that you should be especially interested in is the Pile of Scrolls.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.Occult Scrawings and Piles of Bones - activate them only using the required items, "empty" activation is too risky.Stack of Books, opening which can have grave consequences after using torch (100 stress will immediately cause panic or a heart attack if the stress will reach 200).While traveling through Warrens you must especially avoid contact with: Torch: 100% chance for increasing character's stress by 100 pointsĢ6,7% chance for increasing stress by 25 pointsġ3.3% chance for depleting torch by 25 points
