After several rounds the boss will use Courtship Renewed to transform back to her first form (Thirsty) and repeat the cycle. She can deal high damage to multiple heroes, apply Bleed, Stun and infect with Crimson Curse and can heal herself with The Thirst. She can move 4 times during a single round. Bloodlust form - the strongest form of the boss.

The latter applies Horror status to your party, cures her of Blight and Bleed and transforms her into her third form.

In this form she has access to two attacks - Momentary Overexertion that slightly buffs her resistances and Metamorphosis. After transforming into the Flushed form the boss will receive a severe penalty to her resistances, allowing your party to apply Blight and Bleed with ease.

Flushed form - the weakest form of the boss, in which she only has 1 move each turn.

She will use Flushed to transform into her second form. The boss also has access to a shuffle DoT, inflicting characters with an effect that will shuffle them randomly for three turns. The boss can infect multiple characters with it. It will deal damage to them each round and at the end of third round (after getting infected) the 'tumor' will explode, dealing high damage to the character. The most dangerous attack is Love Letter - she infects one of your characters, placing a 'tumor' on them. She can move 3 times during a round and has access to attacks that deal moderate damage, can shuffle and Blight your party and cause high stress.

Thirsty form - she starts in this form.

She will turn into them in that order and transformations will give her different benefits and penalties, such as: The biggest difference between her and the previous bosses is the fact that she has three different forms - Thirsty, Flushed and Bloodlust. What's more, one of her own attacks, Love Letter, deals 10 points of damage to her. However, the battle wont' last significantly longer than the previous encounters - Countess doesn't have the Pods to hide behind (Baron) or almost any means of healing herself (Viscount).

Recommended team composition for the encounterĪs soon as the battle starts, you will notice one thing - huge (400 points!) health pool of the boss.

There's no point in entering the boss area when most of your characters lost 2/3 of their health and are almost afflicted. Keep in mind that you can always leave the Courtyard area and re-enter it with a fresh party, with a better composition that will be more effective against the boss. This guide will include complete maps of each Courtyard area - if you have any problems navigating through them, check those chapters. Thanks to that, you will be able to skip about 50% of the rooms, avoiding numerous encounters and traps. Fortunately for you, the layout of the dungeon is fixed - it's always the same (like in the Darkest Dungeon area). As with the two previous bosses (Baron and Viscount), you first need to get through a huge area, divided into dozens of rooms and filled with keys and enemies, to get to the Countess. You will encounter her during the fourth mission of the area called 'A Bewitching Predator'. The Countess is the third and the final 'main' boss of the Crimson Court DLC fought in the Courtyard. The the third and final main boss of the DLC - the Countess.

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