savageorange wrote:
The correct lesson to learn there would be "don't quaff things that could be cMut if you have mutations you like".
There are very few potion types where quaff-IDing (in a safe place, of course!) will fuck you up. basically *Mut and Decay. It's mostly manageable by monitoring the \ screen and getting a feel for what potion types typically generate at what level. (getting a !Mut while trying to figure out which potions are poison, slowing, paralysis etc is possible, but pretty unlikely). Of course as your expectation for getting one of these as your next quaff-ID rises you are justified in using ID scrolls on them.
ID scrolls just aren't that plentiful that you can burn them on IDing all the different potion types.
No, he had the correct lesson, just a bad illustration of it. While you're right that quaff-iding the majority potions won't damage your character too badly (assuming you have curing on hand and aren't near any monsters), you're forgetting the other cost: losing your first one of all the beneficial potions in the game.
I used to believe, as you do, that there simply aren't enough ID scrolls to scroll-ID potions, but since I started trying it, I found that in most games scroll ID identified the most important beneficial and harmful potions without problems, and that I could ID all potions within a reasonable time frame. It does put more stress on your pile of ID scrolls, but in most games you can afford it without sacrificing much opportunity, and as a reward you get the following treasure pile:
1 potion of heal wounds
1 potion of might
1 potion of speed
1 potion of cure mutation
1 potion of agility
1 potion of brilliance
1 potion of resistance
1 potion of invisibility
etc.
Monday, 30th December 2013, 07:32 
