Darkest Dungeon challenges players with a number of boss battles throughout its campaign. As you delve into the depths of your family’s estate, you will come across different dungeon areas, each of which is home to specific enemy types and particular bosses.
The Cove is home to Eldritch and Unholy enemy types and this is also where you will encounter the Siren boss. As with all bosses, the Siren has three versions, each more difficult than the last, and its name will change to reflect which version it is. Here is our recommended party setup and strategy for this boss fight.
The Siren Boss Fight Strategy
Make sure all of your party members are well-equipped and be sure to bring along enough provisions and torches as the boss fight is usually in the final room on the map. Bring some bandages to make the fight easier.
When it comes to your party setup, we recommend using the following heroes:
- Antiquarian/Occultist: Siren fodder.
- Vestal: As your healer.
- Highwayman/Plague Doctor/Grave Robber: Moderate damage, can attack all positions if needed, can inflict DoT (although Siren has decent resistance on all debuffs/afflictions).
- Hellion/Leper: Decent DPS to take down adds quickly.
The Siren is an Eldritch boss, so trinkets or heroes with a damage bonus against Eldritch are worthwhile.
The most important thing to know about this fight is the Siren’s “Song of Desire” ability, which can charm one of your heroes into fighting on her behalf for a couple of rounds.
This raises the stress levels of the charmed hero and obviously pits them against your other heroes. Not only can they use the abilities you chose for them, but they have access to the full arsenal of their class abilities. After a couple of rounds, they will return to your party and be dumped into position four, moving all of your other heroes forward.
The Siren will use this move regularly and has a 70% chance of it working, so you’ll find yourself fighting with only three heroes for most of the battle. Make sure you don’t accidentally attack your own hero when fighting the Siren.
One thing to note is that the Siren will usually choose the hero with the lowest debuff resistance. You can purposefully bring along someone like the Antiquarian (Occultist is the next best option) for them to become charmed. They offer little threat to your own party and ensure your more valuable heroes remain on your team.
Additionally, the Siren will use “High Tide”, which will summon an add to fight alongside her. We recommend killing these adds immediately to avoid the fight from becoming messy.
You should bring along at least one decent DPS who is capable of taking out the adds quickly, as well as being on hand to hack away at the Siren’s HP. Just bear in mind that there is still a chance the Siren will lure them to her side, so you might suddenly find yourself on the receiving end of some serious attacks.
The Siren also has attacks that increase the stress of your heroes and inflicts Bleed, so having your Vestal on hand to heal and some bandages will definitely help out with this.
Note: Should you run away from battle while the Siren currently has one of your heroes under her spell, you will lose them.
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