Quantum Physicist

"Constantly create items and avoid death like no other!"

— Former Specialized Adventuring! Description

Quantum Physicist is a class.

Quantum Uncertainty

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! Tooltip
 * Your location is uncertain. Every turn you either move between 1 and 3 spaces backward or between 1 and 5 spaces forward.
 * Your location is uncertain. Every turn you either move between 1 and 3 spaces backward or between 1 and 5 spaces forward.

If the Class Talent is active: Now always teleports you to another player if another player is in range.

Category: Buff
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Effect

 * During your Effects Phase, if you are alive, you randomly either move 1-3 spaces back or 1-5 spaces forward.
 * If the Class Talent is active: During your Effects Phase, if you are alive and a player(s) is on one of the spaces that Quantum Uncertainty can randomly teleport you to, you move to the space of the player on the highest space within those spaces instead of having the standard Quantum Uncertainty effect.

Standard Use

 * You gain Schrödinger's Box for 2 turns.
 * Schrödinger's Box: Passively grants Death Immunity. When this effect wears off in the Effects Phase, there is a 50% chance it will kill you. If you would die due to a trap in the Deadly Pyramid, Doom, Fungal Doom, Brahmastra, Pyroblast (Class Talent), or Empowered Heroic Plush Downie, you lose this effect before dying. This effect can be extended.


 * If the Class Talent is active: This skill's cooldown upon Standard Use is changed to be 5.

Inherent Effect Tooltip

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! Schrödinger's Box Tooltip
 * You're hiding inside a scientific cardboard box. You are currently immune to death, but when you come out of the box, you have a 50% chance to die. Hail science!
 * You're hiding inside a scientific cardboard box. You are currently immune to death, but when you come out of the box, you have a 50% chance to die. Hail science!

Duration: X turn(s)

Category: Buff
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Passive Effect

 * If the Class Talent is active: If you would die while this skill is off cooldown, the death is blocked 50% of the time; if death is blocked in this way, you gain Schrödinger's Box for 2 turns, and this skill is put on cooldown for 5 turns.
 * If the Class Talent is active: If this skill would be destroyed while it is off cooldown (e.g. due to Brahmastra or Empowered Heroic Plush Downie), instead it is put on cooldown for 1 turn.

Standard Use

 * Choose an item you have. (You cannot choose English Breakfast component(s).)
 * If you use the regular Flux and choose an item besides Improbability Device: You turn it into a random item out of the generic item-givers pool.
 * If you use the Global Flux and choose an item besides Improbability Device: You turn the chosen item (and all items it shares a slot with) in all player inventories into items out of the generic item-givers pool. (The random result for each player whose chosen item is affected is independently decided rather than being uniform.)
 * If you use the regular Flux and choose Space Capacitator or Space Fluctuator: There is a chance that all other players gain the same item your item turns into.
 * If you use the Global Flux and choose Space Capacitator or Space Fluctuator: There is a chance that all players gain every single item that each Space Capacitator or Space Fluctuator item turns into.
 * If you use the regular Flux and choose an Improbability Device: You turn it into a random result out of the following pool:
 * Orb + 2 random Magic Crystals
 * Charged Light Wand and Charged Dark Wand each with random (non-common and?) non-Scare and non-Curse Of Cold Spells
 * Demon Sword
 * Black Dragon Egg
 * If you use the Global Flux and choose an Improbability Device: You turn all Improbability Device items in all player inventories into random results out of the above pool. (The random result gained by each player whose Improbability Device is affected is independently decided rather than being uniform.)


 * If you use the regular or Global Flux and choose an item besides Improbability Device, the item that you create for yourself is added as a new option for this skill's Standard Use; you can create a new copy of that item (unless you already created it with the new option or you created another such item with regular/Global Flux afterwards); this causes Multiversal Flux to go on cooldown for 4 turns.

Standard Use

 * Gain a random "positive" effect from the generic positive effect-givers pool.
 * If the Class Talent is active, this skill's cooldown upon Standard Use is changed to be 8, and you gain an extra random "positive" effect from the generic positive effect-givers pool.

Strengths

 * Can become immune to death with no immediate side effects.
 * Can turn worthless items into more useful things.
 * Can acquire many useful items that can otherwise be very hard to acquire
 * Skill cooldowns are on the low side.

Weaknesses

 * Randomness is a huge element of this class. Quantum Physicist gambles with items, position, and even life on a regular basis.
 * Quantum Physicist cannot affect other players directly, with exception of a Global Multiversal Flux...which requires you to give up a potentially useful item yourself, and will possibly give the other players something at least as useful.

Strategies

 * Pick up low-cost items in shops, and Flux them into hopefully more useful things. The Engineering Shop has a fair few items at 5 rupees or less, most of which are situational in the first place. The Market also has 2 low-cost items, Skinning Knife and Gloves. The Pawn Shop can also be a great place to go for Flux fuel depending on how players buy from and sell to it. You should always be looking for cheap items to Flux and turn into more rare and useful items.
 * Many items from the ACME Shop that are otherwise dangerous are very useful to a Quantum Physicist. The Box can be used to get safe mileage out of ACME Rocket or blow up ACME TNT while in the blast-zone. It can also save you from dying to items attracted by an ACME Magnet (though beware you may still be Incapacitated.)
 * One of the more notable uses of Global Multiversal Flux -- that is, using the skill on an item in all players' inventories -- is to do it on Hypno Glasses when everybody receives it through the "Hypno Hacks" event. This is advisable if you feel that most of these will target you or a teammate who is currently leading the pack. Similar opportunities can be found with Lever's Reinforcements Activation Panel and when somebody uses Weaponize. You can also use it to deny Wands/Orbs/Staffs for Spell heavy classes, Hammer for Alchemist (and situationally Paladin), and Boots/Gloves for Necromancer/-cubus.
 * Avoid using Global Multiversal Flux randomly. It may not be worthwhile to risk giving another player a really good item.
 * Coffee (and Cocaine Cola and Star Power to some extent) are much more useful for Quantum Physicist due to Quantum Uncertainty always moving the player around. However, the Light Spell Wormhole is completely worthless for the same reason. Also, you need to be more careful with Sniper Rifle and Power Morpher.
 * The Earthwarder's Sigil can prevent moving backward due to Quantum Uncertainty.
 * A Sheep released and immediately caught with a Pocket Ball leaves behind a remote that can be fluxed.
 * Any item with multiple charges can be almost entirely used up and then Fluxed instead of fully used up, trashed, or sold.
 * Pay attention to where you are at the end of your Roll Phase. If you are close to an opponent, Quantum Uncertainty may put you on top of them, or vice versa.
 * You should usually use Multiversal Flux on an Improbability Device for its special results instead of using the Device for another purpose.
 * The Winter seasonal event is extremely useful for Quantum Physicists due to Pick Snowballs giving item fodder.
 * If the Adventure Time reference event is chosen by you, you can gain an Orb or Shades from Ooo while Global Fluxing the Prisms Of Ooo to deny the same to enemy players. Also, if you've gained Temporary Frost Immunity from Quantum Quality, you can randomly explore Ooo for a chance to beat up Ice King for a Staff and 3 Crystals.
 * If the Dr. Who reference event is chosen, other players can go to The Market more reliably, making it much more costly to deny Boots/Gloves to Necromancer/-cubus long-term. However, if you've gained Arcane Vision from Quantum Quality while other players do not have it, your exclusive access to the Arcane Portal gives you an edge.
 * If the Board Game Of Thrones reference event is chosen, you can become a Stark for Boots and Gloves (to more easily deny them to Necromancer/-cubus for instance.) Simply being a Stark is useful for Quantum Physicists even without repeat visits to Winterfell, as Starks collect Snowballs passively, which can be Fluxed. Alternatively, you can become a Targaryen to get an Ancient Dragon Claw if you've gotten an Orb from Fluxing an Improbability Device, or you could even try to kill The Dragon, using Schrodinger's Box to avoid death if you fail. You can also Global Flux Iron Coins when they generate to deny them to other players if you somehow judge that to be worth it.
 * If the Interdimensional Portal Gun reference event is chosen, you can explore Cronenberg streets without fear of Creeping Fungus since you can just Flux it.

Counterplay

 * This class depends on manipulating items, so item destruction can often hit items that are either valuable or useful for turning into better things.
 * Sources of direct item destruction include Liquidize, Laser, and Hinder.
 * Sources of fire, like Combustible Lemon, Flamethrower, and Torch.
 * Stealing items like with Steal Item, Telekinesis, and ACME Magnet can not only deny items of the Quantum Physicist, but give you those powerful items as well.
 * Denying or stealing rupees is a means of indirectly preventing more items from being acquired in the future to flux into better things.
 * Schrödinger's Box can prevent death, but baiting the skill can lead the QP to die in a later turn and possibly leave them without access to their Death Immunity when they really want it.
 * To do this, prepare some sort of death effect like charging a wand with Death, playing a Diss Card: Death, or setting a Phaser to kill. When the QP goes into their box to avoid death, switch to another target.  You'll kill your target and may also see the QP die once out of their box.

Enchanter

 * Flux can acquire more crystals that can be consumed with Condense Magic for specific spells. If you have no magic crystals, Flux should be used before Condense Magic to determine whether a different lower-quality item should be condensed and avoid fluxing into a magic crystal you just acquired from Condense Magic.  If you have magic crystals, Condense Magic should be used first to acquire a specific desired spell.
 * Rare items acquired by Multiversal Flux can be protected with Enchant to prevent them from being stolen or burned away

Merchant

 * Except for the Church and Bank, every shop available through Trade Routes offers items that either synergize well with the Box or are great Flux fuel. This could be used to save your Wildcard: Shops card for visiting the Future Shop or Medieval Shop, which each have good flux fuel options.  You can also drop off valuable items at the Pawn Shop and pick up others' cheap items to get more Flux fuel and come away with a profit.
 * Banking gives you more money to buy cheap items to turn into better ones.

Warlock

 * Skulls acquired through Skull Collector can be fluxed into better items. This is best to do when you don't need them for Harvest Power or think you are about to earn too many skulls.
 * Items can be fluxed into magic crystals that can be used by Harvest Power.
 * Box up after Chaotic Power to get the roll-streak without the immediate death.