Hero Class

Plague Doctor

The Plague Doctor is a hero in Darkest Dungeon.

HealerDebuffer

Featured in comps

A Stun Lock B Blight Spam A Flesh Bleeder

Recommended for

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Ancestor's Pen S

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

Ancestor's Signet Ring S

Class-locked

Ashen Distillation CO

Combat Skills

A doctor, researcher and alchemist who prefers to hang back, eating away at her foes with stacking damage-over-time abilities like toxic clouds & plague-filled grenades. She is equally effective in a support role, blinding and confusing foes while enhancing a party's survival with damage-increasing tonics, and remedies for bleed and blight effects.

— Guild

Note: New Plague Doctors will always come with the Plague Grenade skill.

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

Noxious Blast#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -80%
Accuracy: 95
Crit: 5%

EffectBlight (100% base) 5 pts/rd for 3 rds
-5 ACC (100% base, 3 rds)

Plague Grenade#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -90%
Accuracy: 95
Crit: 0%

EffectBlight (100% base)
4 pts/rd for 3 rds

Blinding Gas#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -100%
Accuracy: 95
Crit

EffectStun (100% base)

Incision#

Range: Melee
Rank
Target
Damage: +0%
Accuracy: 85
Crit: 5%

EffectBleed (100% base)
2 pts/rd for 3 rds

Battlefield Medicine#

Rank
Target
Heal: 1-1

EffectCure Blight/Bleed

SelfCure Blight/Bleed

Emboldening Vapours#

Rank
Target

Effect+20% DMG
+3 SPD
(1 Battle)

Disorienting Blast#

Range: Ranged
Rank
Target
Damage: -100%
Accuracy: 95
Crit

EffectShuffle Single (100% base)
Stun (100% base)
Clear all Corpses

Camping Skills

The Plague Doctor makes use of experimental remedies and risky healing practices to cure her companions' ailments, and restore their vigor. Eager to prove the effectiveness of her latest untested concoction, she will inject herself - blindly faithful in its beneficial results.

— 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.

The Plague Doctor practices and experiments during camp, and her tonics yield health benefits for the party and herself. She can cure disease, buff and heal.

Equipment

The Plague Doctor wears only light cloth - intent on remaining as far from melee combat as possible. From a distance she lobs toxic sachets that can blind, disorient, and eat away at her foes.

— Blacksmith

Equipment upgrades are all bought at the Blacksmith:

Grenades
Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Level 4			Level 5
	Crude Sachets			Crafted Sachets			Diseased Sachets			Toxic Grenades			The Bubonic Herald
	DMG base:	4-7		DMG base:	5-8		DMG base:	6-10		DMG base:	6-11		DMG base:	7-13
	CRT base:	2.0%		CRT base:	3.0%		CRT base:	4.0%		CRT base:	5.0%		CRT base:	6.0%
	SPD base:	7		SPD base:	7		SPD base:	8		SPD base:	8		SPD base:	9
Doctor's Robes
Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Level 4			Level 5
	Attendant's Robes			Intern's Robes			Doctor's Robes			Surgeon's Robes			The Malignant Mantle
	DODGE base:	0		DODGE base:	5		DODGE base:	10		DODGE base:	15		DODGE base:	20
	HP base:	22		HP base:	26		HP base:	30		HP base:	34		HP base:	38

Each Hero has Trinkets unique to them that only they can equip. The Plague Doctor has eight; 3 common, 2 Crimson Court and 1 uncommon, rare and very rare. In the base game, her trinkets are herbs, vials, and a censer. The Crimson Court DLC adds a subject notes and dissection tools.

Name	Rarity	Class	Effect
Diseased Herb	Common	Plague Doctor	+40% Disease Resist
Rotgut Censer	Common	Plague Doctor	+8 ACC -5% MAX HP
Witch's Vial	Common	Plague Doctor	+15% Stun Skill Chance
Poisoned Herb	Uncommon	Plague Doctor	+40% Blight Skill Chance -15% MAX HP
Bloody Herb	Rare	Plague Doctor	+10 ACC Melee Skills +30% Bleed Skill Chance +20% DMG Melee Skills
Blasphemous Vial	Very Rare	Plague Doctor	+10 ACC Ranged Skills +20% Stun Skill Chance +20% Blight Skill Chance +25% 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 CourtSubject #40 Notes	Plague Doctor	+25% MAX HP +35% Disease Resist	+15% Blight Skill Chance +15% Stun Skill Chance	"Those fools at the University..."
	Crimson CourtDissection Kit	Plague Doctor	+35% Bleed Skill Chance +25% DMG	+15% Blight Skill Chance +15% Stun Skill Chance	"Those fools at the University..."

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 MadnessAshen Distillation	Crystalline	Plague Doctor	45 Shards	+20 DODGE +25% Blight Skill Chance +20% Healing Received if Medicinal Herbs in inventory

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
		1