



The caravan simply keeps bringing more and more, so you can dismiss characters and get new ones at any time. You probably won't be getting any characters to level 3+ until week 80+. That means farming the Apprentice dungeons with level 1-2 characters over and over. Your goal is to upgrade your town and get good characters to take into the later game. Unlike a lot of other games, your goal with the start of Darkest Dungeon is NOT to level your characters up as fast as you can. I also learned some from watching streams. It's really necessary with this game as you learn a lot as you go along. I've done 3 significant restarts (by significant I mean week 70+ then restart) and several minor restarts (week 20 or less). I'll start off by saying I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
