Well i'm afraid thats not the case anymore. The virtue chance is always at least 1 and is capped at 95. So a virtue is more often than not a sign that the rest of your run is going to be pretty easy. Characters with lower level than the dungeon they are in get a virtue chance penalty of 5 per level difference except when the difference is 6 (level 0 characters in the Darkest Dungeon) then the penalty is 33. If they pass the resolve check, they get a massive 'virtue' buff, massively reducing their stress while also giving many other benefits to themselves and the party over the course of the run. It's not really something you can rely on, but one character having a virtue tends to mostly counteract the negative stress effect of another character having most afflictions in addition to the buff. 1 Agony 6:36am Originally posted by Twiggles: If a character's stress gets to 100, their resolve is tested.

I've had runs where 2-3 characters all got virtues before. Seems much higher than that, about 25% in my experience. I'd say it has a base chance of maybe 5-10%. I believe it also effectively makes you immune to death by stress, since every time you hit 100 stress you get the virtue again. This immediately drops the character's stress to about 30, plus they get extra bonuses like free healing or stress relief for the party. Sometimes, when you hit 100 stress, the opposite happens, and you get a virtue.

Nasty thing like masochist where you do damage to yourself and stress the party. Originally posted by aaron.m.barlow:When you hit 100 stress, you usually get an affliction.

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