I need shrine help how to use the Shackled and the scholar

[Donnie]

I just recently came across the scholar and game him books but he didn't do anything so i'm confused on what he does is he like the smith also. How do i use the Shackled i know you suposed to give him cursed items but when i give him an item even if cursed when i put it on he does nothing then i'm stuck with an item i new was probably cursed i can't take of till i find another item HELP ME

[Purerock100]

http://vagante.gamepedia.com/Shrines

You have to drop items before they are cursed onto the statue

[nicktom]

The general tactic with the Shackled is to drop unidentified items on it:

- If they do not get cursed you just put them on and see what stats they have;
- If they do get god cursed you identify them and decide if it's worth using them for the whole run as they can not be uncursed and removed.

I haven't really tried to give books to the Scholar as it's usually more useful to learn them, so I can't really say if it's better to try and get a random spellbook by giving him scrolls and useless books or by destroying the shrine, as of now it looks like the latter is the better option.

[Ole' Swifty]

No idea the scholar, you get a free book for destroying it though.

I game him a ton of scrolls/books once, not a thing happened.

Now the shackled if you really want to min/max get your favorite items (life steal, coins heal, death protection) ect that are strongly enchanted and unequip them.

Destroy the altar.

Now all items are cursed, you can wear some of your garbage items and use a scroll of uncurse.

Hold onto the cursed 'good' items. A level or two later you can use them on another the shackled shrine for some beefy new equipment. Amulets of death protection are an obvious choice.

[My name can't be thirtytwo chara]

The scholar pretty much let's you re-roll books to get spells suiterd to your build. If I'm a proper mage I don't really care for Evil Transformation and Dash for example, so I might sacrifice them in the hopes of getting say, Eleclance.

Basically five scrolls are worth one book, and you have to sacrifice two books at base to get a random book.

However, smashing the statue increases the price of a payout, BUT gives you a free random spell book. However, if it stays alive you can cycle through like, 3-4 books if you have enough scrolls, greatly increaseing the odds of favourable books.

Only things I'm not sure of is the cost increase of smashing, and the odds of getting a book you just put in back. I will do more testing.

[My name can't be thirtytwo chara]

Upon further testing it seems that breaking the statue renders the Scholar unsuable forever more, Light style. At the very least it's usefully unuseable, as I pumped 6 book equivalents in and I got no payouts.