Prior to the 'October butchery update,' it had become common knowledge that these talismans were garbage due to their counterparts' superiority regarding hitpoints.
I have a four star set of holy sorcery talismans that I foolishly built before becoming aware of their handicapped nature, and since the updates I have not moved forward and cleared all these new three-star skilled sorcery etc. talismans that have no hit point augmentation to them. So, the question is whether you have found any of these worthwhile after the update, or do they remain vend trash?