Gardener

"The Gardener gains miscellaneous seeds during their run, which take ten rooms to reach their powerful ability. Use your watering can to speed up the growth process and choose your seeds wisely."

- Class Description

Description
The is an event class from the Easter Event. It's centered around seeds, and using them to take advantage of their unique and powerful effects. Seed effects take ten rooms to activate, so you'll need to plan ahead while using this class.

Strategies

 * It is recommended that you get an ally who can protect you as you use the Magic Compound, as you are stuck on for the duration of its effect.
 * Entering large parties is not ideal for Gardener as it will scale the already long ability cooldowns further. But if you must, then have only one Gardener in your party to prevent nullifying a decent Gardener passive.
 * When choosing seeds, think about what you want to focus on. For getting more or, pick Rose or Daffodil Seed respectively. If you need  and , pick the Lotus Seed. If you want potion ingredients, pick Theriac, Virulent, or Magic Seed.
 * Rose Seeds gives which will increase the amount of healing your party receives. This is valuable if your teammates have abilities that emphasize healing such as the Healer.
 * Lotus Seeds provide a minor stats boost which is ideal to deal with quick droids. This is more prevalent in Ascension where modifiers are more common.
 * When a Lotus Seed blooms, you'll immediately equip the Potion of Balance, unequipping the item you were holding. Bear this in mind when Lotus Seed activates in a non-special room.
 * Daffodil Seeds can be worthwhile in the long term if you get them early, as you'll get their seed back in addition to the once their effect activates.
 * The effects of the Theriac and Virulent Seeds can be activated early by using your Watering Can. If you have an unused Watering Can the seeds can be bloomed on the same room they are planted, at the cost of consuming your only Watering Can.
 * The berries gained from these seeds can be used to make potions (most notably Potions of Affluence, Regeneration, and Sustaining).
 * Using Magic Compound as a potion ingredient is safer as you can duplicate a Potion of Balance or Stats Up to gain the same effects of consuming one without the handicaps.
 * If you choose to consume the Magic Compound avoid engaging in close quarter combat and just rely on your ranged weapons and teammates (watch out for all ranged droids)
 * Consuming Magic Compound at the 5th room of every world is ideal as you'll minimize the amount of rooms explored while at 1 HP and you'll receive the healing from entering a special room right after the heal negating debuff expires.
 * The Gardener is one of the best classes for solo runs especially in Ascension 15 because you can easily obtain stat buffs without randomness.
 * (cool trick) If you still own an unused Watering Can, and you have both the Theriac and Virulent seeds, if you use the Theriac seed before the Virulent seed on a room with three or more droids, you can obtain 3 Theriac berries and 3 Virulent seeds while also clearing the room instantly, effectively being three Potions of Regeneration.

Trivia

 * The idea of Gardener was given by RGD player Inviral.