
If you don’t like the curse, you can always re-curse your item. If you don’t have any OP-tier enchantments, try it out. Also, the curses you get aren’t great, but they’re not gamebreaking either. There’s also a hidden benefit of your weapon not teleporting away due to certain traps later.
Shattered pixel dungeon starflower upgrade#
Curse infusions might sound really counter productive – deliberately curse your item to have it upgraded? Surprisingly, I found it to be quite good late game, where both your weapon and armor are upgraded to +6 or more – it gives you a curse, yes, but also a +2 upgrade on both armor and weapon, effectively giving you +4 extra upgrade scrolls.
Shattered pixel dungeon starflower full#
You can’t afford something in the current floors shop that you need? Plop this guy down and return anytime you have full inventory to offload or enough gold. You’re about to enter metropolis or demon halls, but first you want to revisit old shops and buy all scrolls/heal potions? Plop this boy down and use scrolls of passage (basically next entry) to quickly visit them all, then return. Beacons of returning are immensely useful and save a ton of food.The surplus scrolls and potions can them be used for further alchemy or just regular usage. You usually get enough identification scrolls from shops/drops/spawns that you can have almost every potion/scroll/ring identified before entering 3rd stage. Scrolls of Divination can be used to mass-identify potions/scrolls/rings without actually using them.Here are some of the ways it can change your runs: After getting a few wins under my belt, I was still ignoring it until a few months ago, that’s when I had a realization that alchemy is vital if you want to have consistent wins. I just wouldn’t use it, thought it was completely pointless. When I started out, I ignored alchemy completely.

The items background automatically shows if the item you got is an “always cursed” or “never cursed”, blue being not cursed, red being cursed and purple being “unknown”. Random drops can be cursed as well, however it’s mostly random. Cursed items usually come from gravestones, sacrificial altar and skeletal remains (if wraith spawns).



Sometimes this can be very useful when learning the game, since many monsters have unique mechanics that are described in the examine menu. The “examine” button can be used to, as the name suggests, examine things in the world, this can be monsters, items laying around, traps, hazards, etc.Zapping a wand of transfusion at an enemy ( 5 + lvl points).However 1 point of shielding given by this buff is lost every turn. This effect gives the Hero extra shielding, which protects him from all damage until depleted. Huntress with a blocking bubble visual effect after drinking a potion of shielding.
