Darkest Dungeon: Plague Doctor Darkest Dungeon Guide

Last update: 20 April 2023

Plague Doctor is a very interesting class without an exactly specified role. His attacks are based mostly on the negative effects such as Bleeding and Blight, which impair the enemies and slowly damage them. The PD has got also some healing and buffing skills but they are not as strong as other classes' skills. Although his offensive skills also come with some negative effects against the enemies, they're too weak to kill them within a short time. Because of that, the PD works best as a support, also because of his ability of removing the negative effects from his teammates.

Plague Doctor is the best in the 3rd row, where she can hurl her deadly grenades from. Thanks to Noxious Blast, she can poison the 1st or the 2nd target and thanks to Plague Grenade she can do that to the 3rd and the 4th target simultaneously. Both grenades deal massive damage starting with the 1st level - 4 points per turn that goes up to reach 6 per turn. This effect is, of course, stack-able, thanks to which the enemy can take the astronomical 18 points per turn! In the case that Plague Doctor encounters an enemy resistant to Blight, she can perform Incision, which apart from high damage (and a high chance for a critical hit), imposes the bleeding effect on the enemy.

Blinding Gas is just as important an ability and it provides you with a high chance of stunning two targets at the enemy's back (rows 3 and 4). In combination with Hellion's Bellow, this provides you with an opportunity to stun the entire party within one turn - this is why both of the classes cooperate well. If necessary, she can also stun and pull to the front one opponent, using Disorienting Blast.

Plague Doctor also has strong supporting abilities. She is the only class in the game that can remove poisoning and bleeding from another target (while in combat) and additionally heal several Health Points - all of this thanks to Battlefield Medicine. If it is necessary to deal more damage, you can perform Emboldening Vapours, which increases the target's speed and damage dealt.

Plague Doctor is a character that harmonizes well with several other classes - Hellion among others (this enables you to stun the entire enemy party), or Hound Master (who causes Bleeding in targets, while she is poisoning them). This works well against monsters with high resistance, but she does not do well in situations where you need to deal high damage quickly, or when enemies have high resistances.

Statistics

Level	Health	Dodge	Protection	Speed	Accuracy	Critical	Damage
1	22	5	0	7	+0	2,5%	4-7
2	26	10	0	7	+0	3%	5-8
3	30	15	0	8	+0	3,5%	6-10
4	34	20	0	8	+0	4%	6-11
5	38	25	0	9	+0	4,5%	7-13

Resistances

Stun	Blight	Disease	Deadly Blow	Move	Bleed	Debuff	Trap
20%	60%	50%	67%	20%	20%	50%	20%

Tips:

The best position for him would be the third. From there, he can use the Incision skill, which is his only ability which does not have any negative modifiers to damage.

Although abilities Noxious Blast, Plague Grenade and Blinding Gas have very low base damage, they can impose highly annoying negative effects on targets. The best targets for these skills are the bosses and tougher enemies.

Plague Doctor has got one of the best skills for crowd control- Disorienting Blast. It can move the enemy from the 2nd, 3rd or 4th position to the other, random one.

His only healing skill, the Battlefield Medicine, may not restore many HPs but it may remove some negative effects (Bleed or Blight) from your party member. It may be useful in the longer battles.

Merits	Flaws
+ Abilities to inflict and to remove the negative effects. + Decent crowd control. + Very high DoT damage (Blight and Bleed) + Ability to increase damage dealt to opponents + Perfect against resistant opponents and bosses + Very high base speed +Excellent synergy with Hellion and Hound Master	- Poor base damage. - She does not work against opponents with high resistances - Low chance of critical hit - Very uneven resistances

Fighting skills

Name	Icon	Type	Pozycja	Target
Noxious Blast				Type: ranged ACC base: 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 115 DMG mod: -80 / -80 / -80 / -80 / -80% CRIT mod: 2 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 4% Blight: (100 / 110 / 119 / 129 / 139% base) Obrazenia zarazy: 4 / 4 / 5 / 5 / 6 pts. / round
Plague Grenade				Type: ranged ACC base: 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 115 DMG mod: -90 / -90 / -90 / -90 / -90% KRYT mod: 0 / 0 / 1 / 2 / 2% Zaraza: (100 / 110 / 119 / 129 / 139% bazowe) Blight DMG: 4 / 4 / 5 / 5 / 6 pkt. / round (3 rundy)
Blinding Gas				Type: ranged ACC base: 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 115 DMG mod: -100 / -100 / -100 / -100 / -100% Stun: (100 / 110 / 119 / 129 / 139% base)
Incision				Type: melee ACC base: 85 / 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 CRIT mod: 5 / 6 / 6 / 6 / 7% Bleeding: (100 / 110 / 119 / 129 / 139% bazowe) Bleed DMG: 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 3 pkt. / 3 rounds
Battlefield Medicine			1 companion	Type: healing Ulecz: 1-1 / 1-2 / 2-2 / 2-3 / 3-3 Hero: remove bleeding / blight On companion: remove bleeding / blight
Emboldening Vapours			1 companion	Type: buff Increase DMG: +25 / +27 / +29 / +31 / +33% Increase SPEED: +3 / +4 / +5 / +6 / +7
Disorienting Blast				Type: ranged ACC base: 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 115 DMG mod: -100 / -100 / -100 / -100 / -100% Stun: (100 / 110 / 119 / 129 / 139% base) Shuffle

Camping abilities

Name	Icon	Cost czasu	Target	Effect
Encourage		2	1 companion	Reduce stress by 15
Wound Care		2	1 companion	Heal 15% Removes target bleeding Removes target blight
Pep Talk		2	1 companion	+15% Stress Resist (4 combats)
Experimental Vapors		4	1 companion	+50% heal on target +33% healing received on target
Leeches		2	1 companion	Heal 15% Remove target blight Remove target disease
Preventative Medicine		1	Hero	Remove disease +20% disease resistance
Self-Medicate		3	Hero	-10 stress on self +20% heal on self Remove blight on self Remove bleed on self +10 ACC on self