potion that removes 5+ curses

[cline ice]

I was on the fourth level, and got a potion that said it would remove all curses, if you had over 5. I had 10 curses from the level 3 boss, but when i used it all it said was invalid. and none of the curses were removed.
is this a glitch? or am i missing something.

[Tears of Asariel]

the potion says EXACTLY 5 types of curses, if you had 10 then it wouldnt work..

also note that it says 5 TYPES of curses, so if you have 3 stacks of the hp reduction curse, and 2 other curses, that also is invalid, but that also means that if you have 3 stacks of that curse and 4 other types, it will remove them all (7 curse effects, but 5 types)

[cline ice]

hm okay, i guess I read to quick and misunderstood. that seems like a very narrow use case. would be nice if it removed 5 types and left the rest atleast.

[Tears of Asariel]

its designed that way, if it removed up to 5 curses then the potion that removes 1 random curse would be useless..

i personally hang on to that 5 curse potion, then play through, maybe getting a curse or 2 from random chests or a cursed relic, but you will most likely encounter a cursed chest room where you can be strategic about what you take.. taking all stacking curses, and the severe curses that you dont want to play with until you reach 5 curses, and then popping the potion, and you just scored an easy 5-7ish chests/relics at virtually no cost to you

**Edit** although.. maybe reworking that potion, or even adding a new potion that removes 1/2 of the curses you have would be good.. and it still leaves a use for the other 2 curse removal options

[swordsnroses1986]

you can use 'tears of the goddess' to your advantage though, too. lets say you had 2 types of curses on you and you enter a cursed treasure room (6+ cursed chests), you can grab 3 different dangerous kinds of curses (like random bomb or teleport randomly when damaged) and pop the potion, then extract the whole rooms left of lesser curses (like - 10% max mana/damage etc)

[AmishJustice]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Tears of Asariel:

the potion says EXACTLY 5 types of curses,

This is not actually true. The wording on the potion currently reads,
"Removes All Curses if 5 Different Curses are Present".

For most English speakers, if 6 curses are present, then 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 curses are also present. I suspect that most users would assume that ALL curses would disappear if they had 5 or more curses --- that's too powerful, but I expected it to remove 5 random curses.
In any case, it should be reworded to include "exactly" to make it less ambiguous. Even clearer language might invert the sequence so it reads,

"If Exactly 5 different curses are Present, Remove All of Them"

[{PhN}Solrackhamul]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Tears of Asariel:

the potion says EXACTLY 5 types of curses, if you had 10 then it wouldnt work..

also note that it says 5 TYPES of curses, so if you have 3 stacks of the hp reduction curse, and 2 other curses, that also is invalid, but that also means that if you have 3 stacks of that curse and 4 other types, it will remove them all (7 curse effects, but 5 types)

The precise text on the potion says "Removes all curses if 5 different curses are present."
So yeah, it is a bit misleading. It should specifically say that it only works if you have 5 curses and only 5. If I have 20 curses, certainly I have 5 different curses (and more), so with the given text, it should remove them all.

[TwoFaceTony]

The localisation of this game definitely needs some work. There are quite a few pieces of the text that seem to be misleading, uninformative, or even just wrong.

[Tall Dark and Gruesome]

yeah the localization needs a few passes, you can tell it was done on a budget or machine assisted. there are a few of the spells that have changed names and effect translations over the builds, hopefully the dev gets this potion updated to say "if you have exactly 5 different curses" in a future patch.