RECOVERY CHARM is not a bad option alongside Profane Scroll on a frontline Vestal, as she will often take a lot of damage that cannot be easily addressed due to lack of Judgement and Divine Grace from that position. You may elect to eschew Natural Swing if you run this trinket. I recommend running this with a Tome of Holy Healing on a 4th slot vestal. PROPHET'S EYE is great on a backline Vestal, as it gives everything she wants. The main reason you'd want it would be to Stun first, but it doesn't let you do that. Running this instead of a Sacred Scroll allows you to maintain a modicum of speed and also use Stun. The -10% HP doesn't matter because the backline usually doesn't take a huge amount of burst, and a Vestal can always heal herself up while simultaneously doing damage with Judgement. TOME OF HOLY HEALING, a very good item for a backline Vestal. Nevertheless, I think this trinket is generally inferior to the. It lowers your stress damage and strengthens your heals, and there are two approaches you can take to healing: either you can go first and heal up enemy damage at the start of a turn, or you can go LAST and heal up the enemy's damage on the same turn they do it. SACRED SCROLL, although it essentially disables your Stun and makes you slow as hell, is not necessarily a terrible item on a backline Vestal. Every frontline Vestal must take this trinket. The tradeoff is that you take extra stress damage and must remain in rank 2. It gives you a damage bonus, 10% PROT, a debuff bonus for Hand of Light/Illumination, and a hefty healing bonus for your AoE heal. PROFANE SCROLL is the trinket that literally enables the frontline Vestal play style. I recommend: Hard Skinned/Steady/Natural Swing with Profane Scroll/Heavy Boots. Tough would also not be out of the question to make her just a little bit tankier (44-48 hp). Slugger/Unerring are no-no's on her due to her mixed damage. On the frontline Vestal, you want Natural Swing, Hard Skinned, and either Quick Reflexes, Steady, or Warrior of Light. She is there to do damage and mitigate enemy damage with Hand of Light. You must not think of this Vestal as the primary healer for your group, though she can put out very respectable AoE heals with Divine Comfort. You put her in rank 2 with Mace Bash, Divine Comfort, Illumination, and Hand of Light and she becomes a tanky bruiser/controller in the front lines. I recommend: Natural Swing/Steady/Quick Reflexes with Tome of Holy Healing/Prophet's Eye. If you want to be a bit more offensive with it, Eagle Eye is not out of the question.ĭepending on what you're running and if you're in the 3rd or 4th row, one of the moves can be flexed for Illumination or a melee ability in case of shuffle, but the above setup is optimal. The primary quirks you want on this Vestal are Natural Swing, Quick Reflexes, Steady, and Hard Skinned. She'll open a fight by stunning someone, then use her turns to place damage with Judgement or heal as necessary. The BACKLINE VESTAL will run Judgement, Dazzling Light, Divine Grace, and Divine Comfort. Let's do the more commonly used one first. There are two basic builds I want to talk about here: the backline build and the frontline build. Let's start with the positives: -Slightly above average HP and damage -Only true healer in the game -High utility with stun/self-heal/light boost/damage reduction -Can hit any rankĪnd now the negatives: -Slow -Inaccurate -Damage gated by low dmg% abilities You can find my other guides here: Abomination Grave Robber Hellion Leper Occultist Plague Doctor

My first guide is for the Vestal, the stalwart healer and lady of light.

Darkest dungeon vestal