Combat Items | Darkest Dungeon 2 Wiki

How do I find Combat Items?

You will need to scout and look for useful supplies and items to find Combat Items. While driving the Stagecoach, you need to pay attention to the road as there are random items laying on the ground that you can run over, running over these items can provide you small rewards of loot which you can use in combat.

Combat Items can also be purchased from various Merchants such as the Provisioner at the Inn or the Hoarder at the Triage when you are traveling. It can also be obtained as random rewards for meeting goals and interacting at Assistance Encounters.

Apart from that, Combat Items in Darkest Dungeon 2 are commonly given as a random reward along with other items for winning enemy road encounters or group resistances.

How do I use and equip Combat Items?

You first need to access the Combat Skills menu, right-click on the hero that you want to give a Combat Item to, and then select the dagger at the top-left corner. There will be an empty slot with a plus sign with no icon, this is where you equip your preferred Combat Item. You can equip only 1 Combat Item per hero and you can only use it in combat. To equip your preferred Combat Item, open the inventory, select the sword and shield symbol to view Combat Items and then drag your preferred Combat Item to the plus sign with no icon located on your Combat Skills. You will now be able to use it in combat.