
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). When you receive a new item, depending on where you got it from the item might always be cursed or never cursed.Equipable items and wands can be cursed, meaning that they come with a harmful enchantment and that you cannot unequip them, and it’s not always obvious whether or not an item you want to equip is cursed or not.However, it is a good practice to use them sparingly, saving them up until you’re in a pinch or until you find a high-tier weapon/armor (tier 4/5 for weapon, tier 5 for armor (unless you’re mega unlucky then tier 4, which is scale armor, will do), to which you can dump enough scrolls to get to at least +6 armor and everything else on weapon.
#Shattered pixel dungeon battlemage upgrade
BE SURE TO GET THOSE. Potions of strength allow you to equip better equipment while also making you better with your old equipment (due to excess strength), and scrolls of upgrade directly buff your items. Each stage of a dungeon (one stage spanning 5 floors, for example sewer, prison, caves, metropolis and demon halls) always contains 3 scrolls of upgrade and 2 potions of strength.Your character might also spot the secrets around them randomly, but don’t count on it.


This is vital to finding secret rooms or traps.
