I already wrote this comment, but I missclicked and closed the comment, deleting it. Gonna ungrammar. You forgot: Guaranteed pot in 3-4 of each chapter. Stone of id between 1-4 or 1-6 don't remember Stone of enchant between 6-16 or 11-16 I think the latter Same sack in the firsts 3 shops as the most type of item in your inv.
Roll for investigation
100% sure, I've done a lot of runs and everything I say is contrasted by that. Finding a pot on the same floor as the catalyst is pure luck, you'll check it by yourself once you've done enough runs
There may have been an alchemist pot on level 2, yes, but levels 3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,16,17,18,19,21,22,23 or 24 might as well have had one (if we don't take in account the guaranteed ones) with the same chance 2 had of generating one. There is also ONE other correlation between magical catalysts and alchemist pots. Evan added the guaranteed pots, one for each chapter between the last 2 floors of the chapter for the catalyst, as dropping the catalyst (is always guaranteed) but then not being able of using it because of not spawning a pot, or being able to use it at floor 24 seemed like a bad idea. Their positions are independent from each other (well, they might both call the seed, advancing it, having in theory an influence on where the other spawns, but that's still seed's job, if I am right on how I think the seed works)
KROMER? HAHAHEHEHAHEHAHAHAHAH
If you just had missed by a tile in any direction... You shoudda used a fire seed, plant, thing... It saves you a whole fire pot.
An alchemist pot will ALWAYS spawn between the third and fourth floor of every chapter. It might appear in every other floor, excluding multiples of five, 26 and 1. A magical catalyst will ALWAYS spawn in the first few floors, guessing 1-4. That's it, there's no more correlation. So, no, finding a magical catalyst does not guarantee a pot to spawn on the same floor.
Use the fire wand
Me right after I scroll dump on a +0 plate I just found (substitute the mail with +3 plates)
The purple one for added excitement
The +20 waterskin was super important too!
The best item of this run was actually the Cape Of Thorns, but I took it off at the end of the run.
This is so op. You can also use a grim curse instead, but it's rarer. Glyph of stone on armor compensates the low level for scroll dumping the ring (it was originally a Ring of Wealth)
Self explanatory.
Don't remember right now who the last ally I am missing was. I am sure I'll go: "oooohhh, yeah I'm dumb" the second someone reminds me who this was.
Discovered that there was a Wand of BlastWave lying in the floor of floor 14 right as I was ascending with the amulet... Not that I needed it (got a good armor early on and just upgraded it and... Well, if you've ever played SPD with a +13 plate armor you know that hard doesn't enter on its synonyms list) but still, the best wand in the game just laying around? A gnoll probably dropped it after I killed it without even noticing...
With a +0 Mimic tooth too, right as I was making a run to kill the ebony mimic to add it to my bestiary. Also, it is over a strength potion and I think I don't have enough gear to kill it 🥲
The sickle isn't upgraded, btw.
The higher on the list the better the enemy. The more in the left the better. Height has priority over length, tho. I am ranking Yog-Dzewa as if it didn't spawn any minions at all. Ranked those separately.
What are your thoughts?
Wand's rarer than seed, can't realistically expect for them to get disintegration nor fire but fireseed is more common