will build up and you can buy upgrades for the town which will make the process easier as you play more and more. No, I'm saying you take the hit and spend the gold on destressing characters you want to keep. If you take a level 5 into the darkest dungeon, they will take 25 stress for entering. It increases stress resistance by 10, which is surprisingly significant. So are you able to recruit higher level characters to take on higher dungeons eventually? If not then again still lies the problem, if you're dumping characters or they're dying from the constant high stress negative effects then it just comes down to abandon quests over and over until you amass gold and loot? Level 6 raises stress resistance and is basically a beadge that says 'this hero survived a champion mission'. That Vestal is still with me 12 hours later as a healing beast and I've got a new Crusader now.

My first group had a hilarious back and forth with the Vestal yelling encouragement as the Crusader berated everyone and they all were very stressed out. The starting difficulty curve of the game is high, but as you play and lose a few heroes and gain some strong ones through luck of the quirks it becomes very easy to relieve stress and swap between sets of adventurers. PCs who can reduce stress help, as well as PCs with moves that naturally raise the torch light. I also stun any enemies who can stress your character quickly, like the Cultist Acolyte, Madman, and the Bone Courtier. Originally posted by Kaelinh:Don't fret too much. I havent played too much yet, but buying torches and keeping the light level radiant keeps the PCs from stressing too much.

Darkest dungeon stress level too much