Cursed Doll

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## Stats

**Cursed Doll** is a Level 45 mid-to-late-game Focus Weapon for the Witch and the Oracle in Dragon Marked For Death. Cursed Doll can be upgraded up to Cursed Doll +3.

## Lists

### Drop List

Cursed Doll drops from the following Quests:

* Dragonblood Village (Quest) Q.Lv. 50
* Werewolf Hunting Q.Lv. 65
* Unearthed Royalty Q.Lv. 45
* Displaced Royalty Q.Lv. 50
* They Come From Hell Q.Lv. 60-80
* Soul Vessel Q.Lv. 25-60

### Detailed List

This table shows all variants of Cursed Doll. The variants only have Elements, AGI, LUC, M.ATK, M.ACC, and Effects, so all other columns have been omitted.

## Appraisal

### Recommendations

Cursed Doll is a Weapon focused on recovering high amounts of Dragon Power (DP) when taking damage. Although the +3 variant deducts some points from LUC, the high DP gain is a great benefit for quickly activating powerful skills that consume a lot of DP. It may be risky to attempt to gain DP from taking damage if you are low on VIT or if you do not have an Accessory with the Effect "Resist instant-death", but this is not required.

The DP recovery still applies when afflicted with Poison, a Status Ailment that continuously damages the player until it disappears.

#### Witch

Cursed Doll is often used as a secondary Weapon for Witch players, paired with Tomes that deal high amounts of damage. By switching to Cursed Doll at the beginning of a Quest and intentionally taking contact damage from enemies or environment damage from obstacles, Witch can build up DP quickly. She can then switch to her primary Weapon and activate Dragon Surge to hit enemies with a barrage of spells.

Cursed Doll is a good companion for many Tomes and Foci, such as:

* ??? Lantern,
* Dinosaur Statue,
* Akashic Records,
* Magna Carta,
* etc.

#### Oracle

Cursed Doll gives the same benefit to Oracle players—the DP gain allows Oracle to more quickly activate DP-draining, high-damage attacks like Continuous Sword Forms—but it can be used more creatively in the endgame. One popular companion for Cursed Doll is Death Bringer, a Weapon that grants the Effect of "Permanent poison status" (Death Bringer +3 is especially desirable for endgame). Due to the continuous damaging properties of Poison, Oracle can use her Continuous Sword Forms and other attacks without paying much mind to her DP, which is almost constantly building up.

Oracle's Continuous Sword Forms each have different rates of DP consumption, i.e. Cleaving Slash Form consumes DP faster than Reinforced Guard Form or Continuous Thrust Form, so keep this in mind when using this build.

The Cursed Doll +3 and Death Bringer +3 build is overall a "glass cannon build", meaning that you are likely to have very low Health—and contact damage and strong projectiles may be fatal—for the benefit of high damage output. Players using this build prefer bringing a lot of Potion +2's and *avoid picking up the Dragon Sphere* to accommodate its Effects.

### DP Recovery Calculations

The following table shows the estimated number of times you must get hit before the DP bar is full, resulting from various effects.

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 Cursed Doll +2
 Cursed Doll +3

## Lore

### Real World Significance

Based on its appearance and name, Dragon Marked For Death's Cursed Doll most likely refers to voodoo dolls, a type of effigy in which pins are inserted, found in the magical traditions of cultures around the world, although it isn't actually prominent in Vodou. Fiction often portrays the sticking of pins into these dolls as a witchcraft for conjuring various ailments. In reality, the word "Voodoo" refers to spirits, and Voodoo is a practice for connecting spirits and mortals.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo\_doll
2. ↑ Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky\_Institute/courses/13things/7393.html#:~:text=The%20Voodoo%20doll%3A,various%20peoples%20began%20to%20intermingle.