Location of Pain Skull

[Ryastar]

I know that the %age varies between 1 and 3%, but I don't know what determines which one it is. It could be based on army size, mana taken etc, or it could just be a random integer between 1 and 3, inclusive.

[Vilk]

By searching about it that's what I read but I found nowhere more details. I noticed a -2% but no idea from what it comes if it's not random, that's clearly not the fight difficulty. 100 fights is a lot, even something around 60 is a lot. I'll try it a bit more and will throw it if the percent doesn't decrease faster.

[Quelthos]

I have found it in the undead ship you have to summon out of the pirate seas. It would be a lot more difficult to level later in the game; I have ignored it in those instances. On a lower difficulty you could probably get away with using it against armies you match up well against.

[Vilk]

Yes I got it in previous game and always gave up using it. In my current game it's first time I get it sooner so I tried use it and get a bit disappointed how slow it was to go to dead skull.

Well it seems that now I get more % higher than 1 and I have to admit that the mana decrease isn't a burden yet with tactics I'm using, at worse I had to use some magic spring but that was rarely a bad choice.

[bsctgod]

I found it in the same place I've always found it, the Necromancer house, but have never given it a try until now with my Paladin; the half mana always turned me off.

Just started going to the Elven lands, level 17, the first fight dropped 3% off it. I don't use mana for much other than Resurrection with the occasional Mass Battle Cry, Blind, or Haste. We'll see how it goes.

[Saridu]

You can find it very early in the game (if you are very lucky that is) at the graveyard castle in the Marshan swamps. My fighter found it (typical!)

[Vomaxx]

I found it somewhere in mid-game (I think--I have not yet finished the game) and have been using it consistently, even in the fight with Karador. It's now down to about 12% and I can't wait to see what happens when it's at zero--if I can win the next couple of battles. I think it goes down at about 3%, at least for the larger kind of fights I've been in since I had it. It will be very nice to get full mana back.