Cannisters

[Craig234]

Is there a key to bring up skills outside of levelling? I saw that it's good to not use skill cannisters, waiting to get the first point later. Does that apply to attribute cannisters, and cannisters such as 'Daze' also?

[Mechalibur]

Increasing skills outside of canisters is very rare in Mutagen. You're expected to use them, there aren't really any penalties for it in Mutagen, it's later games in the series where canisters have more obvious downsides.

 

The only thing canister use does is slightly change one of the endings and add dialogue with a particular NPC.

[Craig234]

Thanks, I'd read there's a section if you have zero skill, you can get a point so it's better to wait for those skills.

[Randomizer]

Original series early games penalized you in that you couldn't train (buy) skills and spells if you used a canister first. But in the remakes , the order no longer matters.

[Mechalibur]

28 minutes ago, Craig234 said:

Thanks, I'd read there's a section if you have zero skill, you can get a point so it's better to wait for those skills.

 

Ah, those are sarcophagi. In the Tombs and South Bridge map you can get +1 to the following skills if you have 0 in them:

 

Missile Weapons

Quick Action

Evasion

Mental Magic

Blessings Magic

Spellcraft

Battle Shaping

Magic Shaping

Healcraft

 

So if you want to optimize, you can wait to increase those skills from 0 until you do those 2 maps. If they're already higher than 0, there's no point waiting.

[Craig234]

Ya, that was it. So the AGI cannister and Daze cannisters I didn't use are ok. (I already have points in most of the list).

[Mechalibur]

Yeah, those are fine to use.