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Darkest Dungeon

Positive quirks

Discover all positive quirks in Darkest Dungeon, including effects like +15% Damage vs Beasts, +20% Healing received, and +2 SPD.

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Discover all positive quirks in Darkest Dungeon, including effects like +15% Damage vs Beasts, +20% Healing received, and +2 SPD.

Positive quirks are beneficial traits that heroes can acquire in Darkest Dungeon, offering a wide range of advantages that can significantly improve their performance in combat and exploration. These quirks can affect damage, accuracy, critical hit chance, resistances, speed, dodge, scouting, stress management, and even reduce the cost of upgrades.

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  • Quirks like 'Armor Tinkerer' and 'Weapon Tinkerer' reduce the gold cost for Blacksmith upgrades by 20%.
  • 'Back Tracker' removes stress penalties when moving backward.
  • 'Beast Hater' and 'Unholy Hater' provide damage bonuses and stress reduction against specific enemy types.
  • 'Clotter', 'Prismatic Coagulation', and 'Thick Blooded' increase Bleed and Blight resistances.
  • 'Clutch Hitter' grants a critical hit chance bonus when health is below 50%.
  • 'Corvid's Eye' offers improved accuracy and scouting chance.
  • 'Cove Tactician', 'Ruins Tactician', 'Warrens Tactician', and 'Weald Tactician' increase damage within their respective regions.
  • 'Daredevil' provides a dodge bonus when health is critically low.
  • 'Deadly' and 'Prismatic Force' offer general increases to critical hit chance and damage.
  • 'Early Riser' and 'Night Owl' provide speed bonuses based on the torchlight level.
  • 'Eldritch Hater' and 'Man Slayer' offer similar bonuses against Eldritch and Human enemies.
  • 'Evasive' and 'Luminous' increase dodge.
  • 'Fairweather Fighter' boosts damage when health is at maximum.
  • 'Fated' can turn a miss into a hit.
  • 'Gifted' and 'Hippocratic' improve healing received.
  • 'Gothic' specifically enhances Wyrd Reconstruction healing.
  • 'Hard Noggin' and 'Prismatic Solidity' improve stun resistance.
  • 'Hard Skinned' and 'Unyielding' increase protection and death blow resistance.
  • 'Healer's Gift' and 'Stout' improve camping healing skills.
  • 'Hot to Trot' offers significant bonuses on the first round of combat.
  • 'Husk Slayer' provides accuracy and critical hit bonuses against Husks.
  • 'Irrepressible' increases the chance of gaining a virtue.
  • 'Last Gasp' and 'Quickdraw' provide speed bonuses when health is low or on the first round.
  • 'Lurker' increases damage when the torchlight is low.
  • 'Meditator' improves stress recovery through meditation and camping.
  • 'Musical' enhances stress healing from Inspiring Tune.
  • 'Natural' provides substantial bonuses to max HP, healing received, and speed when no trinkets are equipped.
  • 'Natural Eye' and 'Natural Swing' offer accuracy bonuses for ranged and general attacks.
  • 'Nymphomania' increases stress healing from the Brothel.
  • 'On Guard' provides speed and dodge bonuses on the first round.
  • 'Photomania' reduces stress when the torchlight is high.
  • 'Precise Striker' improves critical hit chance for melee attacks.
  • 'Prismatic Calm' offers a significant stress reduction.
  • 'Prismatic Isolation' increases debuff resistance.
  • 'Prismatic Purity' improves blight resistance.
  • 'Prismatic Speed' and 'Quick Reflexes' increase speed.
  • 'Prismatic Stability' improves move resistance.
  • 'Resilient' and 'Steady' offer general stress healing and reduction.
  • 'Robust' and 'Corvid's Resilience' increase disease resistance.
  • 'Ruins Adventurer', 'Cove Adventurer', 'Warrens Adventurer', and 'Weald Adventurer' reduce stress received in their respective dungeons.
  • 'Scythe Master' increases damage against Husks.
  • 'Second Wind' boosts damage when health is low.
  • 'Skilled Gambler' improves outcomes at the Ancestor's Chance.
  • 'Slugger' increases damage for melee attacks.
  • 'Spiritual' enhances healing received from Divine Grace and Divine Comfort.
  • 'Stress Faster' reduces food consumption when stressed.
  • 'Twilight Dreamer' allows heroes to ignore stealth.
  • 'Unerring' increases damage for ranged attacks.
  • 'Warrior of Light' increases damage when the torch is high.

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