Lost starts with holy mantle

[Conrad273]

so as the title says the Lost can now start with holy mantle, if anyone learns how to unlock it, the people who view this discussion will be thrilled to understand how to do this. Also will this mean the holy mantle won't be able to be d4'ed as the lost? If so that's great!

[Zimmm]

i don't like he can start with D4 i never use that item, D6, D20 only dice i touch, better off find another active for the lost

[matchles]

Pretty sure it only happens when you gather Eden's Blessing the run before.

[Conrad273]

Originally posted by matchles:

Pretty sure it only happens when you gather Eden's Blessing the run before.

Are you sure? because I looked at the new achievements and one of them is that the lost can start with the holy mantle.

[Fall Putz 4093]

You'll probably need to at least beat Mom's Heart or other boss as Lost to unlock it, akin to unlocking the D6 for Isaac.

[matchles]

No, I'm not sure at all. Just remembered it from a reddit thread. Maybe there is a way to unlock permanently.

[Banr]

The achievement probably can't be unlocked right now, maybe when the next patch comes out.

[Escapist]

every time I think I will get %100 achievements of the game, they adding new ones. how great... but idea of The Lost holds Holy Mantle at the begining is great.

[TskR Illusion]

Probably when the next patch comes out :3 hopefully I can unlock the lost now. As the holy mantle is an item it will probably be alongside the D4 and flight and spectral tears.

[The Renderer]

Uhm, this is not possible yet, so we don't know how to unlock it either. Have to wait for the patch. Ed tweeted that it will be out this night or tomorrow morning.

[Femboy Puppygirl Enjoyer]

I think it kind of defeats the point of the character, the lost is meant to be difficult, let us find it in item rooms if we're lucky but honestly I think adding a permanent holy mantle is kind of redundant.

[TommySmiley]

considering the colours of the achievements (pale yellow) it's unlockable with greed mode.

[Lethrblaka]

Sweet! I was playing the new Lost but man, I hate the D4. I know I don't have to use it but it's annoying when I get worthless items like Health Ups, so I use it and get something worse almost every time.

I managed to get to the Hush once but messed up twice (had Guppy's Collar) when he had about 20% health left.

It's great that we'll have Holy Mantle from the start, it'll especially prove useful in those tiny boss rooms with sometimes two Monstros (that room is ridiculous).

[Ash]

Originally posted by TommyPDY:

considering the colours of the achievements (pale yellow) it's unlockable with greed mode.

yep. im also 99% sure about that.
btw does some1 else feel the stop watch got pretty rare since afterbirth? (beside the fact of bigger shop item pool)

[Elymnir]

Originally posted by Snowflake ♀:

I think it kind of defeats the point of the character, the lost is meant to be difficult, let us find it in item rooms if we're lucky but honestly I think adding a permanent holy mantle is kind of redundant.

That's not wrong, but now the game's become too unfair to play with the lost without a screw-up safety net. I'm currently trying to beat mega-satan to get all the completion marks and damn... between the almost-unavoidable damage button rooms, tiny boss rooms with two monstro, broken hitboxes for many ennemies, ennemies hitting you when you're in a rock or somewhere normally unreachable, ect...
It's out of character but very welcome, it's not fun to be at -200 winstreak because you keep dying to impossible/too random stuff.

[K1]

its a double edged sword, would u rather die alot or die even more?