Personally I think that the weapon was a mistake for reason's I'll ellaborate on later. Indeed, the antiquarian is basically degenerate by which I mean that the classes abilities are so poorly balanced against one another that 90+% of the time there is only one right action for the antiquarian to take.įirstly, the Antiquarian is designed to be something of a noncombatant, this is achieved two major ways: 1) the Antiquarian has the worst weapon in the game 2) the Antiquarian has underpowered skills.

What I'm here to talk about is the internal balance of the antiquarian class, you've brought one to the dungeon for your own reasons and now you are using it in combat. Personally I think the Antiquarian does the role of money generation very well, but inherently devalues themselves in harder dungeons. The balance between taking an Antiquarian vs someone else is entirely dependant on how easily you expect to clear the dungeon and how much you need money. Prefacing this: I'm not going to argue the external balance of the class, since its primary role in the group is to generate extra money but underperform in combat.

Darkest dungeon 4 antiquarian