Hero Class

Occultist

The Occultist is a hero in Darkest Dungeon.

HealerDebuffer

Featured in comps

A Mark Comp B Blight Spam S Anti-Hag A Abomination Core

Recommended for

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Ancestor's Signet Ring S

+10% ACC · +10% PROT

Martyr's Seal S

+60% DMG (dd) · +14% CRT (dd)

Ancestor's Pen S

+10% DMG (on melee) · +8% CRT (on melee)

Sun Cloak S

+5% PROT (torcha: 75) · +10 DOD (torcha: 75)

Class-locked

Eldritch Killing Incense

Combat Skills

A lifetime of scholarly inquest into ancient and forbidden lore has opened the Occultist's mind to the powers of the void. Debilitating curses and maddeningly impossible support skills are his specialty. The void, however, is an unpredictable power, and consequently skills effectiveness can vary dramatically, and usually come at a cost of light, or stress.

— Guild

Note: New Occultists will always come with the Wyrd Reconstruction skill.

(All buffs and debuffs last for 3 rounds unless otherwise specified.)

Sacrifical Stab#

Range: Melee
Rank
Target
Damage: +0%
Accuracy: 80
Crit: 9%

Effect+15% DMG vs Eldritch

Abyssal Artillery#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -33%
Accuracy: 85
Crit: 0%

Effect+15% DMG vs Eldritch

Weakening Curse#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -75%
Accuracy: 95
Crit: 5%

Effect-10% DMG (100% base)
-10% PROT (100% base)
(3 rds)

Wyrd Reconstruction#

Rank
Target
Heal: 0-13

EffectBleed (60% base)
1 pt/rd for 3 rds

Vulnerability Hex#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -90%
Accuracy: 95
Crit: 5%

EffectMark Target (3 rds)
-15 DODGE (100% base, 3 rds)

Hands from the Abyss#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -50%
Accuracy: 90
Crit: 9%

EffectTorch -5
Stun (110% base)

Daemon's Pull#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -50%
Accuracy: 90
Crit: 5%

EffectPull 2 (100% base)
Clear all Corpses

Camping Skills

At rest, the Occultist will attempt communion with the dark and impossible forces of the void in an effort to strengthen himself and the party. Such efforts are frequently taxing, however, exacting a toll in darkness and stress.

— Survivalist

Camping skills are special skills heroes can use while they are camping. They take a certain number of "respite" points to use, and can only be used once per camp (unless the skill says otherwise). Most heroes have three shared camping skills and all heroes have 4 unique camping skills (with the Flagellant being the exception, having only unique camping skills). Only 4 of these can be equipped at one time. Any Buffs or lasting effects given from a camping skill lasts for 4 battles.

All of the Occultist's rites and rituals during camp will cause stress — if not to himself, then the others who are unnerved by it. But with effects that buff damage, heal a great amount of his own stress, prevent the Night-Time Ambush, and even remove mortality debuffs, they may be worth the risk.

Equipment

Scholarly robes, better suited to the library than the harsh realities of adventuring, are all the Occultist has brought with him. His rituals and chants require deft movements of hand and finger, so better he be unencumbered that he may channel the power of his morbid fetish: the polished skull of a dead man.

— Blacksmith

Equipment upgrades are all bought at the Blacksmith:

Skull
Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Level 4			Level 5
	Battered Skull			Bleached Skull			Fine Skull			Scholar's Skull			The Mentor's Skull
	DMG base:	4-7		DMG base:	5-8		DMG base:	6-10		DMG base:	6-11		DMG base:	7-13
	CRT base:	6.0%		CRT base:	7.0%		CRT base:	8.0%		CRT base:	9.0%		CRT base:	10.0%
	SPD base:	6		SPD base:	6		SPD base:	7		SPD base:	7		SPD base:	8
Robes
Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Level 4			Level 5
	Tattered Robes			Scholar's Robes			Academic's Robes			Antiquarian Robes			Dark Inquisition
	DODGE base:	10		DODGE base:	15		DODGE base:	20		DODGE base:	25		DODGE base:	30
	HP base:	19		HP base:	23		HP base:	27		HP base:	31		HP base:	35

Each Hero has Trinkets unique to them that only they can equip. The Occultist has seven; 2 common, 2 Crimson Court and 1 uncommon, rare and very rare. In the base game, his lower level trinkets are incense and his high level trinkets are cauldrons. The Crimson Court DLC adds a vial of sand and tentacle idol, likely both symbols of the pact he struck.

Name	Rarity	Class	Effect
Eldritch Killing Incense	Common	Occultist	+6% CRIT vs Eldritch +15% DMG vs Eldritch
Evasion Incense	Common	Occultist	+8 DODGE -1 SPD
Cursed Incense	Uncommon	Occultist	+40% Debuff Skill Chance +20% Move Skill Chance -10% MAX HP
Sacrifical Cauldron	Rare	Occultist	+20% DMG +10% Stress
Demon's Cauldron	Very Rare	Occultist	+30% Stun Skill Chance +40% Debuff Skill Chance +3% CRIT -10% Virtue Chance +15% Stress

Each hero has a unique trinket set consisting of two hero-exclusive trinkets, and a hero who equips both will gain an additional set bonus. Most heroes' set trinkets can only be found in the Crimson CourtCourtyard and have the rarity Crimson Court. Each set trinket is unique and limited to one copy in the inventory. The Shieldbreaker Shieldbreaker's set trinkets can only be obtained by completing her nightmare encounters and do not interact with Crimson Court The Crimson Court in any way.

Image	Name	Class	Effect	Set Effect	Quote	Notes
	Crimson CourtBlood Pact	Occultist	+4 SPD if Torch below 60 +25% DMG if Torch below 60 -25% Bleed Skill Chance -10% MAX HP	+15 DODGE	"The bargain is struck!"
	Crimson CourtVial of Sand	Occultist	+20% Debuff Skill Chance +20% Stun Skill Chance +20% Move Skill Chance +20% Stun Resist	+15 DODGE	"The bargain is struck!"

Color of Madness The Color of Madness DLC introduces trinkets with a new rarity, Crystalline, which must be purchased by spending Crystal Shards at the Jeweler in the Nomad Wagon. There are both generic crystalline trinkets as well as one exclusive crystalline trinket for each hero.

Image	Name	Rarity	Class	Shard Cost	Effect	Notes
	Color of MadnessPetrified Skull	Crystalline	Occultist	25 Shards	+40% PROT When Attacked By Husk -20% Healing Received +30% PROT When Attacked By Eldritch +15% MAX HP

District

Crimson Court The Crimson Court DLC adds Districts to the Hamlet, some of which confer passive benefits to heroes.

Districts
Name and Image	Effects	Costs
Crimson CourtAthenaeum	Antiquarian, Occultist, and Plague Doctor receive: +15% Blight Skill Chance +15% Debuff Skill Chance Interacting with Knowledge Curios heals 15 Stress. Knowledge Curios are Stack of Books, Bookshelf, Pile of Scrolls, Alchemy Table, Occult Scrawlings, Eerie Coral, Bas-Relief, Bloodflowers, Pile of Strange Bones, Throbbing Coccoons, Throbbing Hive The Stress heal only works for the three classes mentioned, and will not replace negative Stress effects from Knowledge Curios, such as the "The Hero Reads a Most Unsettling Passage..." event from A Stack Of Books.	2500 (1000)
		110
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