Talisman of the Flame gave their holders stress?

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So I entered the dungeon with the talismans equipped on some fresh heroes, but as soon as I entered my 3 heroes holding the talismans all started at 80-90 stress? So I basically failed the mission because 3/4 of my fresh guys apparently had a really bad time walking down the stairs to the dungeon or something. Not gonna lie I'm pretty frustrated and really struggling to find the motivation to keep grinding my face against this game's RNG, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to just expect 3/4 of my heroes to be in the afflicted stage for most of the dungeon from the start, or if the game just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me because it's darkest dungeon. It's especially aggravating since I just watched 2 of my heroes go from rested up and ready to go, to masochists who refused healing until one of them dying gave the other a heart attack.

TL DR If it's a bug fine but if it's how you're supposed to do the mission I'm not sure how to overcome starting at 80-90 stress on top of everything else the game wants to diddle you with.

[Radene]

You're not supposed to use fresh meat in Darkest Dungeon. They'll get stressed just from being there.

The Talisman doesn't protect aginst stress in general, but only from stress/damage from the Revelation ability that the Templar mobs in the second run have.

[mldb88]

Originally posted by Radene:

You're not supposed to use fresh meat in Darkest Dungeon. They'll get stressed just from being there.

The Talisman doesn't protect aginst stress in general, but only from stress/damage from the Revelation ability that the Templar mobs in the second run have.

Yup pretty much this. Unless you’ve got a ton of low levels and just want to scout out the encounters, you should only be taking lvl 6 people I to the DD (maybe a lvl 5 if you’re impatient/willing to take that risk). Anything less will get starting stress scaling based on how much difference there is between the recommended level and theirs (if they complain in the embark screen saying things like “please no I cant do this”, they’re taking stress damage as soon as they enter.

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To clarify, all my team was level 6. I meant fresh heroes as in they've been rested and have no stress. Then as soon as they walked in the door the heroes holding the talismans all shot up to 80-90 stress from 0.

[Demethrite]

Maybe if your playing on Radiant where heroes that went in a Darkest mission can return in the Darkest dungeon for another mission they get a debuff that give them stress upon returning. (Can't confirm because I always used different parties for each Darkest mission)

That's the only thing I have in mind because the talisman really does nothing else than protect against that one attack templars do.

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Maybe, I am on radiant since it's my first actual attempt at getting through the game. Is there a marker or something that tells you which heroes have been in the dungeon before? I have a couple groups i rotate around and not sure which ones actually originally went in and got the first dungeon finished.

[Demethrite]

They get a talisman status icon on your rooster if they already went in the dungeon (they also stop being counted for rooster capacity)

[Jesterofgames7712]

Yeah this 100% sounds like you just brought people you previously brought too the Darkest dungeon.

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Rip that party then I guess.