Location of Pain Skull

[Akimbo]

I don't remember where I picked mine up, but don't forget item locations ( most of them anyway ) are randomised at the start of a new game. So if you find item X at place Y one game, it's not guarenteed to be there in your next game. It's possible that the chance of an item turning up in certain places is higher however.

[Vilk]

Yes I don't remember any item sold to be in a constant place. But for the pain skull I remember the same location than Elwin but I'm not sure I remember well and didn't check. I'm using 1.7 version.

[Metathron]

Dang, Necrocom is so far away for me on impossible, if the skull is indeed going to be there in the first place. If not, what a waste it's been saving up/avoiding all those weak/very weak stacks.

[jake21]

In the last game I played (mage hard) I found it at the very start of the game

Of course near the end i didn't find so many wonderful items

[Vilk]

In my current game I found it in the dwarven necromancer house.

[Vilk]

I don't understand how it is working ie what formula to have it fully charged so it becomes a dead skull?

[Vilk]

Nobody know or is the rule just basic ie -1% at each fight? If this is the rule that makes the pain skull one of the worthless item of the game in term of efficiency, 100 fights with half mana to change it to dead skull is so vain, either you find it too late as it generally happen to me either it's worthless because the game is easier as you progress in any difficulty mode.