He only gets one state at 100 stress, Rapturous. The Flagellant doesn't get virtuous or afflicted. The main risk, though is that if it misses I don't think the heal will trigger which can be really bad if you were on death's door at the time. It will stack with the bonuses he already gets for being at low health. This can mean he can kill an enemy and give himself a chunk of health back. The only downsides are that you can only use it a few times per battle, and each time you use it you get a penalty on healing for a while (so its not good to use it two consecutive turns.).Įxsanguinate is an offensive attack, giving you a high damage attack+bleed to the target, and healing a % of the Flagellant's max HP back. If both him and an ally are on death's door, it means you can pull two heroes off death's door in a single action which can potentially save either from dying. This is really unique among heals and it often means the Flagellant can go from say 35% hp to nearly full health, and take a hero on death's door and bring them up to nearly half health. Redeem will heal him and an ally for a % of their max health.

He has two powerful abilities that require him to be below 40% to work:

Plus his big heals have insanely good scaling.The way he works is he uses bleed attacks for his offense, and gets stronger when he hits certain health thresholds (40% and deaths door I believe). He's not quite as good at high levels because his damage does not scale well, but not so much to make him obsolete. Reclaim is pretty bad too unless you want to run a back row healer gimmick (you shouldn't, but you can if you want to.) Rain of Sorrows is ridiculously terrible, but you can bring it if you're desperate to have a way to do chip damage to the rearmost position. Periodically swap in Endure to help manage stress. Use Suffer tactically to save vulnerable party members from bleed/blight/mark while diverting damage to him that he'll just heal off with Exsang/Redeem effectively for free. Spam attacks until he gets under half health, then bust out Exsanguinate/Redeem to fill him back up while also delivering a super-powerful bleed or heal. His basic attack is quite good as long as you keep him away from the Ruins/Cove where bleed resist abounds. He's a pretty strong self-sustaining damage dealer / off-tank who can occasionally deliver huge burst heal.

Flagellate darkest dungeon