Mutagen and Magic items

[Derek Dalton]

Creating an Alchemist Monk combo for high level campaign. Will have standard amount for purchasing magic items. Bonuses of the same type do not stack. However magic items Belts of physical enhancement is typed and alchemical enhancement is another. So I have for this example a Belt of Physical Might +4 so it increases my strength of originally 14 to an 18. Now I use a mutagen. As a Rage chemist it increases my strength by six more points. So would my strength go to a total of 26 or not? I say yes because the belt and mutagen bonuses are two different types.
This is more of an experiment but I'd like people's thoughts on this

[blahpers]

Yes, the alchemical bonus from mutagen stacks with the enhancement bonus from your belt of physical might.

[Joesi]

Enhancement bonus stacks with alchemical bonus, yes. However it seems as though you failed to accurately calculate what 18+6 equals.

Also as a side note, I think experienced players have said that ragechemist is quite bad. You'll have a high chance of falling in battle or outright dying. The loss of will makes you susceptible to a lot of save-or-die —or kind of worse: save or kill your allies— to become practically guaranteed.

You can mitigate it with feats like iron will and other stuff though, which I would recommend if you do decide to go ragechemist for that extra 1 damage (which is more valuable at lower levels, but becomes more insignificant at higher levels). I guess since he will be a partial monk you'll get a bit better will saves there, as well as probably a fair bit of points into wisdom, but you will probably want more than that as well.