Investigator using a Mutagen question

[Gar0351]

So, my investigator just leveled up to 3rd. She is now eligible for a talent selection and I was strongly considering the alchemical discovery Mutagen.
What threw me off was if the Investigator has to use this DC check as she is not a full blown Alchemist:

A non-alchemist who drinks a mutagen must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 the alchemist’s level + the alchemist’s Intelligence modifier) or become nauseated for 1 hour—a non-alchemist can never gain the benefit of a mutagen, but an alchemist can gain the effects of another alchemist’s mutagen if he drinks it. (Although if the other alchemist creates a different mutagen, the effects of the “stolen” mutagen immediately cease.) The effects of a mutagen do not stack. Whenever an alchemist drinks a mutagen, the effects of any previous mutagen immediately end.

So, does she need to make a DC check or would she be using this mutagen as if she was an alchemist?

[Ascalaphus]

In general when a new class or archetype borrows an ability from an earlier one, you substitute class names as needed. So an investigator is just fine drinking an investigator mutagen.

(Alchemists and investigators maybe shouldn't drink each others mutagens however.)

[Gar0351]

Ascalaphus wrote:

In general when a new class or archetype borrows an ability from an earlier one, you substitute class names as needed. So an investigator is just fine drinking an investigator mutagen.

(Alchemists and investigators maybe shouldn't drink each others mutagens however.)

Thank you!! I was hoping that was the case.

[Eltacolibre]

the investigator uses his class levels as alchemist levels. It's in the description of the investigator talent:Alchemist discovery.