The only saving grace of the Hag is that her HP pool is relatively low for a boss, giving the three heroes left to fight her a chance to burst her down before the hero in the pot suffers too much.

Good luck! The game is also excellent with this combo: Hero falls from pot, she death blows them and immediately puts a new hero in. To top all this off, she gets multiple turns every round to cause damage and stress to the rest of your party, and if you retreat with somebody still in the pot, you've just abandoned that poor soul to getting boiled alive and eaten.

Even if you overturn the pot, it immediately respawns and she will put another hero in at the next round. She also immediately puts one of your heroes in the pot - meaning that even if you did bring a hero that can reliably damage her, she might randomly altogether disable them and quickly strip them of their HP.

A team composition that doesn't take that into account can only hit the pot. She stays at the back with her pot at the front.

The Hag boss is notorious for a variety of reasons.

Especially when some of them can appear without warning. Your heroes are just as likely to die to these guys as much as anything else. Make no mistake, Darkest Dungeon is not a case of Hard Levels, Easy Bosses.

Darkest dungeon hag tips