Any consistent strategy to get essential perks?

[Doom Sayer]

Blood money, trick gold, (that double gold perk), perk lottery, extra perk, edit everywhere, no shuffle.

[LT2483]

No, it's random. You could farm gold for rerolls I guess, and take extra perk, but that's it. Also, no perk is essential. Many are good to have, but you can finish the game with only a slight increase in difficulty even if you took none of them.

[Kalistri]

There are substitutes for everything you mentioned: you can find healing spells (need a trigger spell so you can bounce them off a wall, back at yourself or delayed so you can run in front of it), or or pheromone and use it on the healers in the fourth zone; you can dig your way out of the holy temple so you can return to edit your wands (you'll have to fight steve so you need a plan for dealing with him) or teleport out or polymorph on your way out... obviously you can find no-shuffle wands.

Also, you didn't mention unlimited spells, permanent shield, projectile repulsion field, slime blood (also gives 40% projectile resistance fyi) or any of the immunities; I recommend keeping an eye out for them. There are also some powerful combos like breathless + water trail or invisibility + repelling cape.

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by Kalistri:

There are substitutes for everything you mentioned: you can find healing spells (need a trigger spell so you can bounce them off a wall, back at yourself or delayed so you can run in front of it), or or pheromone and use it on the healers in the fourth zone; you can dig your way out of the holy temple so you can return to edit your wands (you'll have to fight steve so you need a plan for dealing with him) or teleport out or polymorph on your way out... obviously you can find no-shuffle wands.

Also, you didn't mention unlimited spells, permanent shield, projectile repulsion field, slime blood (also gives 40% projectile resistance fyi) or any of the immunities; I recommend keeping an eye out for them. There are also some powerful combos like breathless + water trail or invisibility + repelling cape.

I started dropping shield perks since they fail too much. Every roll is chance for edit everywhere anyway.

[Kalistri]

One more thing; you might want to look up mods... pretty sure some of them would help you out.

[Dead Parrot]

infinite reroll mod lets you reroll the perks until you get what you want. class mods tend to let you start with a specific perk + themed starter wand.