If you are having trouble with stress in full light, don't think you're such a tough guy that you can handle a dark run.ĥ) Camping cures a lot of stress 10 points with a full 8 food meal, and additional amounts from many skills. Backtracking often triggers more food events and increases stress - it's sometimes unavoidable, but generally look at the dungeon map and think of a plan.

Spot them with scouting and disarm them, not doing so means getting a random hero a big chunk if stress, doing so will keep your trap disarming hero at low stress.Ĥ) Keep light high - bring enough torches, don't backtrack. Eventually you'll know what curios cure stress - and you can use them effectively, but should never depend on them.ģ) Disarm traps. Learn your curios and pack the right supplies - just grabbling at everything will increase stress. Yes there are some curios that have rewards about 30% of the time and penalties 70% when you don't use supplies on them (confession booths say)- still don't touch them. Don't waste attacks smacking into enemy damage dealers unless you can one-shot them or all the stress dealers are dead.Ģ) Stop touching curios. Some points are not using an AOE attack unless it will kill one monster or assure a kill by another hero on one or both monsters.

Yeah focus down those cult witches, puke pigs and madmen - especially madmen! You will need to be able to hit the rear ranks to do this, and having someone who can stun damage dealers (or debuff - but then the occultist sky tentacles are pretty good at hurting stress dealers) as well is a nice addition - mostly though it's about killing them fast, and not being methodical about killing one monster throughly before moveing on the the rest. In dungoen the best ways to avoid stress are:ġ) Kill stress dealers fast. Most of your heroes will need a week or two of rest (why you have 20+ heroes) to have thier stress go down by 5 points a week, and 0 level heroes will likely gain more stress.

Ocassionally one hero wil get it bad or you'll mess up a bit and have to put someone in the chapel or tavern, but that's generally not too much of a problem. With camping, crits and trap disarms you should be able to leave a dungeon run with 2-3 boxes of stress per hero. Your goal isn't to remove stress, it's to avoid it.

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