So i’ve played around four major (non-instadeath) cataclysm games in the past month or so, and i’m a big fan of the mutation system. I find it adds some of the biggest long-term goals my characters have. Alpha, Elf-A and many other mutagens don’t come cheap. The problem i’ve been running into though, is that even though most of my characters end up becoming master chemists fairly quickly, I have a huge amount of trouble finding the Dionne journal, which contains all the recipes for most animal targeted mutagens. Aside from the fact that this contains the majority of the mutations I usually want short term, it’s also required to create any of the advanced mutations (other than medical). This in itself is fine, but the problem is that in the time i’ve been playing, and after scavenging at least the top three floors of around eight seperate labs, i’ve only encountered Dionne ONCE. In this time, i’ve found about thirty Smythe Journals, twenty -x-|xp- journals and 5-10 of each of the unique mutagens (Chimera, Raptor, Alpha, Elf-A and Medical.)
To be clear, i’m not saying the advanced mutagens need to be more attainable. If anything, the opposite is true. The problem is that the recipes for the advanced mutagens are seemingly vastly easier to acquire than the recipes for the basic mutagens, which while it does have the effect of making the advanced mutations harder to make, effectively locks out almost the entire targeted mutagen crafting system until you find this one, exceedingly rare book. I’d love it if we could either make the book significantly more common, or add other ways of acquiring the other basic targeted mutagen recipes. I’m aware that I could just be spectacularly unlucky, but judging from my data gathered from multiple runs, it seems like the book is at the very least far, far less common than the other two basic mutagen recipe books (Smythe and x|xp). I don’t see any good reason for this, as the mutations in those books are no less or more powerful or risky than the Dionne ones.
