Of course, you don't have to like the game, no one can force you to, but personally I would like to let the devs know : Well done, whether the risk management model was put in with or without deliberation it is certainly there to be seen and is great to see the design is not focused on grinding but effective management at large. While the game does have certain shortfalls like slow combat animation, overall it has pioneered a new type of dungeon crawler that's a fresh breeze compared to the old and outdated ‘grind to max level and save the world’ model. Those types of players do not see solutions, only problems, and will only get angry when help and advice is offered. When they cram 100 trucks into an one lane road in Cities Skylines, they say 'the game is bad'. It is understandable that risk management skill do not exist in the immature adults or children who have been fed with hero complex and unable to accept compromise, it is easier to just blame it on rng. And even if the healer does get psyched out we have controls to reduce the consequences from catastrophic to minor (if they retreat they go to town have a break no biggie). Now we have applied control, we have reduced the likelihood (rng) of healer getting psyched out from possible to unlikely level. Have self heal on dps to reduce healer workload Strict retreat protocol- if the healer is not coping, escape combat Have ranged damage that can wipe out stressors on round 1, IE dogs and highwayman To a thinking gamer, a CONTROL will be applied. So now, the typical gamers have two response : Vestel heal is weak, or negative quirks are too strong. The “CONSEQUENCE” of that would be wiping and losing the juicy trinkets your squad has (catastrophic) and the chance of me having no torch may occur in long dungeons (possible).

Say if my vestel is highly prone to stress in dark due to quirks, we have “RISK” of her getting psyched out and become incapable to heal. Let's cover the risk assessment: to put it simply, you look at the LIKELIHOOD (rng) and CONSEQUENCE of a RISK to get a risk score, and you assign CONTROLS to reduce the two aforementioned factors.

Darkest dungeon boss turn order sucks