Does doctor song ALWAYS take your common spell or is it random?

[Vahnkiljoy]

I really hate how we don't get a choice in stuff like that, generally don't waste my time with her or the other guy that does the lottery one, after losing an enhanced spell that I actually was using and sort of built around those npcs can just diaf.

[Implosionds]

THe doctor usually take my third spell.

[Talamarie]

It's purely random though with all my runs : i never saw the basic/dash/signature arcanas being taken.

[adarazrad]

im pretty confident he cannot take your signature, basic, and dash (has someone experienced those being taken?), he can take your standards.

[jep]

If he took your dash, you'd be unable to cross the plentiful pits and probably would have to quit.

[Biwyk]

Your basic, dash, and signature arcana are "special", and not eligible to be traded away. If that's somehow all you have left, (for instance, you give your starting standard arcana to Doctor Song, and then meet Nocturne without picking up anything else) then they refuse to take anything from you.

All of your standard arcana are fair game, however, including your reserve slot, and it's random which of those they take.

[jep]

Originally posted by Biwyk:

All of your standard arcana are fair game, however, including your reserve slot, and it's random which of those they take.

I suppose you could game it by dropping all the (eligible) arcana but the one you want to trade, right?

[Sleepy Umbreon]

Originally posted by jep:

I suppose you could game it by dropping all the (eligible) arcana but the one you want to trade, right?

you cant dorp arcanas tho

[jep]

Originally posted by Sleepy Umbreon:

Originally posted by jep:

I suppose you could game it by dropping all the (eligible) arcana but the one you want to trade, right?

you cant dorp arcanas tho

I think I'm probably thinking about when you get too many arcanas to hold and it auto-drops it for you.

[adarazrad]

Originally posted by jep:

Originally posted by Sleepy Umbreon:

you cant dorp arcanas tho

I think I'm probably thinking about when you get too many arcanas to hold and it auto-drops it for you.

thats the only way.

if there is one spell you must keep you can collect an extra one and drop the standard you want to keep, then interact with the NPC and go back to pick up the spell.