Stack of Books question

[Strem]

Noob question I dont understand this if I use a torch i end up getting +100 stress which is bad? http://i.imgur.com/t9cV297.png

[_DarkSol_]

Yeep...never burn the books!

[Morrtanius]

C'thulhu's cook-book finds your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disturbing.

In all seriousness, I THINK it is for people that stack hero rings and traits to raise their virtue-chance to get an almost-certain buff to one of their heroes when they set that thing on fire.

Otherwise, no idea.

[RodHull]

Just as an FYI never touch the books with or without a torch... ever lol

[Morrtanius]

actually, the books have a higher chance to grant positive perks than negative ones. I touch them all the time, even under danger of getting negative traits, just for the chance of getting one badass good one.

[Shirsh]

I guess it's just a trap for too curious minds. With obvious morale)
I hope there will be "Fahrenheit 451" referencing achievement for this one.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Morrtanius:

actually, the books have a higher chance to grant positive perks than negative ones. I touch them all the time, even under danger of getting negative traits, just for the chance of getting one badass good one.

I dont see the point, overall you have a 53.3% chance of a negative effect, 20% nothing happens 26.7% positive... those arent great odds. And even if you get the 26.7 roll its a random one so it could be something utterly pointless like a town effect one indeed the likelihood of it also rolling a good random quirk is remote, and most of my main guys have all 5 quirks already 3 locked in awesome ones...

Books are just not worth it unless you feel lucky... punk ;) lol

[Morrtanius]

Originally posted by RodHull:

Originally posted by Morrtanius:

actually, the books have a higher chance to grant positive perks than negative ones. I touch them all the time, even under danger of getting negative traits, just for the chance of getting one badass good one.

I dont see the point, overall you have a 53.3% chance of a negative effect, 20% nothing happens 26.7% positive... those arent great odds. And even if you get the 26.7 roll its a random one so it could be something utterly pointless like a town effect one indeed the likelihood of it also rolling a good random quirk is remote, and most of my main guys have all 5 quirks already 3 locked in awesome ones...

Books are just not worth it unless you feel lucky... punk ;) lol

I always feel lucky :D

[Hound Archon]

Burning scrolls on the floor, on the other hand, removes negative quirks from your heroes, even permanent ones, easily saving you several thousand gold a pop. Go figure.

[Morrtanius]

They can also remove sicknesses! Double figure!

Alas, my heroes also managed to gain Syphilis by reading books...

[Andy]

Remember in the classic arcade game shooting the food was bad. Burning books is like that in this game...because Eldritch horror..something...something...Nazis burn books too.

[Cymoric]

Negative traits are worse than positive traits are good though imho unless you max negative traits and haven't maxed positive traits so it's a win win or you have bad traits maxed and might get rid of them by having a new less bad bad trait. plus stress possibility unless you have stress strongly managed.

I just look for curios like Eldritch Altar, Confession Booth, Troubling Effigy, Pile of Scrolls, and Sacrificial Stone that remove bad traits or add good ones.

[Scout]

Originally posted by Morrtanius:

C'thulhu's cook-book finds your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disturbing.

In all seriousness, I THINK it is for people that stack hero rings and traits to raise their virtue-chance to get an almost-certain buff to one of their heroes when they set that thing on fire.

Otherwise, no idea.

I think it's damn near impossible (if not flat out impossible) to get your virtue % high enough to make it worth the risk of an intentional 100 stress situation.

There's 2 trinkets that give +15% chance of virtue, 1 of which is crusader only, so you can have a crusader with +30% virtue. I think base is around a 1 in 3 chance of virtue, so at most you can have a 63% of a virtue. And seeing how an affliction hurts you way more than a virtue helps, I doubt it's worth it.

[Zero Grim]

there is a +10 virture chance posative quirk i think, are there any camping skills that boost virtue chance?

I always thought burning the books gave stress becuase you where releasing the evils contained within, made sense to me hehe

[Grognerd]

Originally posted by RodHull:

Just as an FYI never touch the books with or without a torch... ever lol

I wouldn't say "never." If you've stacked + Virtue Chance trinkets on your character in the hopes of going Heroic, then this stack of books you just stumbled across is just what the doctor ordered. Light 'em up!

[Sir Francis]

Uhm, i just did the book-burning-for-virtue thing, and was pretty successfull. I took the ancestral tentacle idol (+25 Virtue) and the hero's ring (+15 Virtue) and equipped them on whoever had the most stress or when there were books to burn. I ended up with four virtous partymembers and no stress at all after a medium champion dungeon. This has been my first attempt, other tries will follow :) #alwaysburnbooks