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Dead Cells Mutation List: Find blueprints for Combo, Fireworks Technician, Melee, Sadism, Tainted Flask, Vengeance, Efficiency, Parting Gift, Ripper, Support, Tranquility, Counterattack, Extended Healing, Gastronomy, Necromancy, and Spite.

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Dead Cells Mutation List: Find blueprints for Combo, Fireworks Technician, Melee, Sadism, Tainted Flask, Vengeance, Efficiency, Parting Gift, Ripper, Support, Tranquility, Counterattack, Extended Healing, Gastronomy, Necromancy, and Spite.

Mutations:

  • Combo: +90 base DPS for 15 seconds after killing an enemy. Available at start of game. Mediocre by mid-game.
  • Fireworks Technician: -30% base cool down time on grenades. Available at start of game. Extremely useful, especially with moderate brutality stat boosting.
  • Melee: +120 base DPS with at least 2 enemies near you. Dropped by the Concierge after 3rd kill. Below average, only useful against groups.
  • Sadism: +75 base DPS if a nearby enemy is bleeding, poisoned or burned. Dropped by Spiker (100%). Great if using a weapon that causes burning, bleeding, or poison.
  • Tainted Flask: Using a health potion adds +300 base DPS for 12 sec. Dropped by the Time Keeper after 4th kill. Average mutation, Vengeance is probably better.
  • Vengeance: +200 use DPS for 13 sec after being wounded. Dropped by the Time Keeper after 5th kill. Good mutation, particularly in boss fights.
  • Efficiency: -30% base cool down time on skills (except grenades). Available at start of game. Decent if using multiple non-grenade skills.
  • Parting Gift: Causes a bomb (65 base) to appear when you kill an enemy with a non-melee attack. Hidden area of the Graveyard. Bonus damage not consistent enough to warrant space.
  • Ripper: A melee attack on a nearby enemy with a projectile struck in it causes the projectile to fall out and inflicts +100 base damage. Hidden area of Promenade of the Condemned. Added damage is good, but strategic use is limited.
  • Support: +65 base DPS if you're close to a deployed skill. Dropped by Inquisitor (100%). Very situational, requires a deployable skill.
  • Tranquility: +65 base DPS if there is no enemy near you. Dropped by the Concierge after 4th kill. Good for bow or turret users, useless for melee builds.
  • Counterattack: The attack following a successful parry inflicts +130 base damage. Dropped by Conjunctivius after 3rd kill. Good if you are good with a shield, only works for the first hit after a parry.
  • Extended Healing: Health potions heal you over time (15 sec) but adds +160 base DPS for this period. Hidden area in the Ossuary. Slower recovery time leaves you vulnerable.
  • Gastronomy: Eating food provides +100 base DPS for 30 sec. The food's effect increases by 200%. Dropped by Conjunctivius after 4th kill. Useful on high difficulty levels when food is a major healing source.
  • Necromancy: Recovers 2 base of HP after an enemy dies. Available at start of game. Useless, meaningless amount of health per enemy.
  • Spite: Successful parries and reflected shots inflict 120 base damage. Hidden area of Toxic Sewers. Fairly good damage for shield builds.
Tips
  • DPS boost from Combo isn't significant enough to be a major boost near the end game.
  • Fireworks Technician is extremely useful, even with some moderate brutality stat boosting.
  • Melee mutation has low damage boost and many difficult encounters are sole enemies.
  • Sadism is either a good mutation or completely useless, depending on loadout.
  • Tainted Flask's damage boost is nice, but best case scenario gives you four total potions in your inventory per level.
  • Vengeance is good in standard levels as well.
  • Efficiency can half the time between uses of skills with a handful of points sunk into tactics.
  • Parting Gift's bonus damage from the bomb is not good enough or consistent enough to warrant space.
  • Ripper has very few times where it is advantageous strategically to keep swapping between ranged weapons and melee weapons.
  • Support mutation is very situational at best.
  • Tranquility essentially serves as a free source of extra damage in bow users.
  • Counterattack isn't the best damage boost available and only works for the first hit after a parry.
  • Extended Healing's slower recovery time is going to leave you vulnerable.
  • Gastronomy can be useful on high difficulty levels when food become a major healing source.
  • Necromancy is best to just avoid entirely.
  • Spite provides enough of a boost.

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