Making Potions Useful

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Originally Posted by Darra

Whilst I will not disagree that potions are pretty weak, there comes a problem with making changes that so potions too useful. Raid content had to be designed with the assumption potions would be used by all players as often as they could.

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Potions are essential at least in PVP, and very helpful while leveling. Our FC saves Tab 1 just for pots, food, and low level HQ gear. So nice to have a raid group with HQ mega potions for burst dps during phases, or when Im tanking and give the healer breathing room with a HQ Mega VIt pot. HQ x-ethers are equivalent to and extra Convert for Blk mages, making trash pulls that much faster to burn. Spine Drops, Smelling Salts, Slow Ward Pots and X-Elixirs are almost mandatory for a good pvp experience.

At last, if potions are far powerful than actually, the healers task wouldn't needed really and they lost a lot of importance they got. I guess they put potions for strategic uses, like other comraders say before.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest something that runs counter to the gist of this thread : make HQ potions stronger, longer, but a much longer recast than their NQ counterparts.

If a stat potion is 10%, lasts 15 seconds, and has a reuse of 180 seconds, it is only offering a 10% boost for 8% of the time, or a grand total of 0.8% increase. Its HQ counterpart should be more like 20% for 15 seconds, with a 300 second reuse. That would confer grand total of a 1% boost overall.

This would bring relevancy to the NQ, an element of strategery as to which is more important, a smaller boost more frequently, or a greater boost less frequently.

HP/MP potions, and poisons, could work in a similar fashion. HQ providing the bigger boost, but NQ being usable more frequently.