Mutations, a crucial mechanic in Grow a Garden, help you accumulate more capital, allowing you to acquire desired seeds, pets, and more faster. Countless players yearn to collect more Mutations in the game, bringing a unique look to their farms.

Mutations can be broadly categorized into pet mutations and crop mutations. In GAG, Crop Mutations are the core of increasing profits.

By transforming ordinary crops into rare variants, you can obtain returns several times or even hundreds of times greater. Mastering Crop Mutations mechanic will allow you to quickly accumulate capital before the update and exchange for your desired items.

What Are Crop Mutations?

Crop Mutations mechanic brings a more interesting setting to the game, offering players unique gameplay content. It manifests in two aspects: its intrinsic value and its appearance.

Because crops change because of specific conditions during their growth, mutated crops not only have a unique appearance, but their selling price is multiplied by a specific factor, making them key to players obtaining substantial profits.

The following are the factors affecting crop selling price:

• Weight
• Base Value
• Base Weight
• Variants

The final selling price is the result of multiplying the crop value by the mutation multiplier. Calculating crop value and the total mutation multiplier requires complex calculations. Specifically:

Crop Value: The square of the ratio of Weight to Base Weight, multiplied by the crop's Base Value.

Mutation Multiplier: First, sum Sheckles Multipliers from all mutations, then subtract the number of all mutation types. Note that an extra 1 needs to be added in this step. After calculating the result, multiply it by the corresponding multiplier for each variant to obtain the current mutation multiplier.

Different levels of variants will provide different multiplier bonuses:

• None and Ripe provide a multiplier of 1.
• Silver provides a multiplier of 5.
• Gold provides a multiplier of 20.
• Rainbow provides a multiplier of 50.

These calculations may seem complex, but with time, you'll eventually master them.

Best Crop Mutations

GAG features a wide variety of crop mutations. Besides their individual effects, they can also produce special reactions, granting unique bonuses and mutations during seed growth. Below are what I consider the best crop mutations in the game.

Celestial

• Value Multiplier: ×120
• Trigger Condition: Meteor Shower Weather Event
• Strategy Suggestion: Watch out for meteor showers at night and plant valuable crops densely in advance.

Shocked

• Value Multiplier: ×100
• Trigger Condition: Crops are struck by lightning during thunderstorms
• Strategy Suggestion: Spread out high-value crops during thunderstorms to increase the chance of them being struck.

Paradisal

• Value Multiplier: ×100
• Trigger Condition: During Solar Flare
• Strategy Suggestion: Plant the target crop before the game update for a chance to trigger this special weather event during this period.

Ancient Amber

• Value Multiplier: ×50
• Trigger Condition: Automatically evolves from an Amber mutation over time.
• Strategy Suggestion: After obtaining the basic Amber mutation, do not harvest crops immediately; wait for it to develop into Ancient Amber.

Although some mutations have a very low probability of appearing, obtaining them will provide you with extraordinary bonuses.

How To Obtain High-Multiplier Mutations?

Obtaining high-multiplier mutations requires strategy and preparation. Here are some methods for your reference.

Basic Preparation

Having a solid foundation will lay the groundwork for various activities later. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you improve your basic efficiency before pursuing mutations.

You can use Grow a Garden items like Super Watering Can to improve game efficiency and help you complete the initial construction as soon as possible.

Mastering The Methods

Understanding some available methods can yield twice the results with half the effort, saving you time and achieving superior outcomes:

Pay attention to weather and events: High-multiplier mutations like Shocked and Celestial rely on specific weather conditions. Keep an eye on in-game weather changes; they might appear any second.

Participate in limited-time events: Many events have previously offered players the chance to obtain rare mutations, such as Prehistoric Event introducing the special Amber mutation. Timely participation is the best way to acquire rare mutations.

Utilize Combinations And Planning

If you're already an experienced player, consider the following advanced strategies to quickly accumulate capital:

• Plan mutation combinations: Combine stackable mutations within known rules.
• Utilize community tools: Player-created tools can easily calculate the final value of different crop and mutation combinations, helping you make optimal decisions.

Wait patiently for evolution: For evolvable mutations like Amber, don't rush to harvest crops. Continue waiting for it to evolve into a more valuable mutation.

What Effect Do Pets Have?

Compared to environmental events, which, while having higher multipliers, are more random, the effects of pets, though less pronounced, are still worth considering.

Below are some of the effects of Grow a Garden pets:

• Polar Bear: Every 90 seconds, there is a 10% chance to inflict Chilled or Frozen status on crops.
• Dragonfly: Increases the chance of fruit reaching Gold level.
• Firefly: Has a small chance of causing hit fruit to mutate into Shocked mutation.

Combining the effects of pets with the random mutations that appear in the game, you will discover a wide variety of crop mutations, bringing you a surprising and fun gaming experience.

In short, to get rich in Grow a Garden, you need to pay attention to the effects of multiple factors.

By utilizing weather bonuses, participating in various limited-time events, cleverly combining mutation effects, and pairing them with the right pets, you can quickly accumulate considerable wealth in the game.

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 is almost here. The livestream and announcement have also been released, meaning you can now learn about all the content and changes in this patch and have about a week to prepare for it!

Undoubtedly, the most anticipated feature, both before and after the livestream, is the new Druid class. Previously, we could only speculate based on short trailers, but now we can finally see the full picture!

Based on this, we will now provide you with the most complete ultimate overview of Druid based on the livestream and announcement.

Patch 0.4.0 New Content Summary

First of all, in addition to Druid and its Ascendancy class, this patch also introduces the new Fate of the Vaal League to POE 2, meaning you will need to farm currency and passive tree points from scratch. Other new content mainly includes:

• More skill gems and support gems
• New Lineage Supports
• More new passive skills added to the passive tree
• New Unique Items
• New weapon type Talismans
• New Augment items with new modifiers
• Abyss from the previous league is retained as a core mechanic

In addition to the above, Patch 0.4.0 also brings many changes based on existing mechanics, as well as optimizations for game performance, aiming to present you with a better Path of Exile 2.

PoE 2 Druid Overview

As the second new class to appear in the entire Path of Exile 2 (the first being Huntress), Druid primarily uses elemental spell-casting as its main attack method and has three transformation forms: bear, wolf, and wyvern.

The first two forms have actually been circulating in the player community through leaked information for a long time, while the wyvern was speculated based on the silhouette in the trailer, and now it's finally here!

Source Of Power: Wrath Of Nature

Before introducing the three transformation forms, you first need to know Druid's main output method. In its regular human form, it can use skills with different attributes through Wrath of Nature, dealing damage to enemies through natural forces such as plants or lightning.

These skills mainly include:

• Volcano: Creates a small volcano on the ground that spews lava balls at enemies for a period of time.
• Entangle: Summons plant vines to entangle enemies, dealing damage and slowing them down.
• Thunderstorm: Summons a thunderstorm, causing rain and lightning in the area. Affected enemies are more susceptible to electrical or ice damage, and it also makes plants summoned by Entangle grow faster.

Spell Totem skill deserves a separate mention. It allows you to create a totem that automatically casts any of the three spells above for a limited time. However, regardless of which skill you want to use, you will need to earn skill gems yourself.

Wolf Form

The basis for Druid's transformation is the use of the new weapon, Animal Talismans, which grants you special powers, allowing you to transform into the desired animal form as needed. To transform back into a human, simply cast any spell.

The wolf form is characterized by its ability to quickly increase your agility and speed, freezing enemies first and then tearing them apart with sharp claws and teeth. If enemies appear in groups, you can also summon minions to help you.

For example, you can use Pounce skill to pounce on a target and apply a mark. Killing that enemy will summon a new werewolf to join you; the more enemies marked, the larger your pack becomes.

The wolf pack will then prioritize attacking marked enemies, and the more wolves there are, the higher the damage dealt.

Bear Form

This form is somewhat like a tank role, not only allowing you to knock down and stun enemies with immense strength, but also to attract enemy attacks to accumulate Rage, thereby increasing the final damage output.

Once you see the runes on your back glowing, it means you have accumulated enough Rage to use a more powerful berserker strike to destroy enemies. Combined with Volcano skill, nothing can stop you.

Wyvern Form

This form allows you to transform into a wyvern in close combat to tear apart enemies or deal lightning damage, or to circle in the sky, spewing fire at enemies from a distance to inflict damage.

Notably, after combat, you can accumulate energy by devouring enemy corpses, and then consume that energy to use Rend skill when new enemies are approaching a stunned state, enhancing your wings to unleash a gust of wind that knocks enemies off balance.

This not only deals a large amount of damage but also transforms this melee skill into a larger AoE attack. After the wings are fully charged, it creates a lightning explosion through a shockwave, dealing even more damage.

Ascendancy Class 1: Shaman

This Ascendancy class also harnesses the power of nature, combining animalistic talents and magical inclinations by accumulating and using Rage.

You can then allocate available passive skill points to increase your spell damage as your Rage increases, while ensuring continuous Rage generation to achieve this. Additionally, you can obtain Shaman-exclusive extra modifiers from runes and statues.

Ascendancy Class 2: Oracle

Oracle grants you precognitive abilities, allowing you to see visions of yourself using specific skills in the future during combat, and then decide whether to cast the skill as planned, potentially dealing more damage.

For example, when monsters are susceptible to freezing, stunning, or electrical attacks, as an Oracle you can foresee the enemy's future and then merge it with the current timeline, thus dealing double damage to the enemy.

The above is the key information you need to know about playing the new Druid class in Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0. We hope it's helpful. And remember that this patch will be released on December 12th, so don't miss it!

If, after the new league starts, you don't have time to farm resources and can't enjoy the new content to your heart's content, you can choose to buy PoE 2 currency on IGGM according to your budget. We are dedicated to providing cheap and safe PoE 2 goods and services!