Re: Potions of Raw Chaos

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> I first tried using potions of Raw Chaos with my current character,
> and there are a couple things I wanted to ask/note
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> 1) The guidebook says that when dipping items in them, you could spill
> the potions and get 100-200 HP of damage and 4 corruptions. I dipped
> about 25 items in these potions and this never happened to me( maybe
> the chances are lower than 1/25), however, what did happen is that
> when creating the potions with the ancient scythe I got some drops on
> my hands and got a little corrupted (not enough for a new curruption
> after the 7-10 times it happened to my Orcish beastfighter). The guide
> book doesnt mention that. Or is the guidebook refering to the spilling
> of potinons when creating them?

I haven't experimented with potions of raw chaos myself, but this post 
shows that you can lose significant amounts of hit points by dipping:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c605db35.0302170304.3b40be78%40posting.google.com

Haven't heard about that spilling thing before, sounds like a guidebook 
update if it isn't in there yet.

> 2) Also, I found it interesting that, for example, dipping 2 rings in
> a potion results in only 1 new ring, thus changing two items into one.
> I didnt know this was possible.

That's how it works with raw chaos, which makes this tactic much less 
useful. The story for (blessed) potions of exchange is different.

Malte