Just remove the limit off potions and adjust the %'s!

So I was looking at the adjustments to potions, and the increases just made me shake my head. Flare costs 1000 MP to cast at 60 SE, people wanted the potion adjustments so we could triple flare again, X-ethers have been increase to a mere 630, this adjustment isn't enough to do anything...

Just remove these pointless caps on potions and adjust the %'s instead so they'll scale better with levelling and you won't have to keep adjusting them!

I'll admit that I'm a bit annoyed with the fact that the best healing I can get from a potion is a little over 1k. As a MCH, I don't have any self healing skills. I also have over 13k hp right now. Healing 1/13th of my HP isn't going to be doing anything to stave off being killed while waiting on a healer, unless it's DoT damage of some sort, and even then I might just get an extra three seconds of being alive. It's also certainly not worth wasting a hotbar slot on.....

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

Just remove these pointless caps on potions and adjust the %'s instead so they'll scale better with levelling and you won't have to keep adjusting them!

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Not sure if you've looked at the percentages on each potion, but they actually decrease as they go up in level. A normal potion heals 32%, while an X-potion restores a mere 24%. This is because you need a higher percentage at low levels for it to not be a pittance of HP. By the same token, you need to cap these numbers so a potion isn't better than an X-potion at high level. Without a cap, you'd have one variety of potion that's any good, and it would either be way too cheap at level 60 or way too expensive at level 1.

All that said, the caps are ridiculously low. In the pre-3.1 world, you hit the HQ X-Potion cap of 650 at 2169 HP. It looks like they doubled NQ, so presumable HQ X-Potions now cap at 1300 for 4338 HP. That's still crap at level 60 but it's at least good until the early ilvls at 50. Hopefully max-potions go significantly higher. All previous potions were about double the cap of the previous tier, so I'm guessing something like 26% to a max of 2500 (which you'd hit at 9.6k HP) for HQ.

Potions are really lame in this game. :(

The only thing I've found potions useful for was cheating with ALC Levequests.

Agreed, they may have to re-adjust the percentages again but then that would be the final and last time.

I kinda say increase the cool down and make it a solid restorative percent. Make it unfeasible for the entire team to keep saving themselves in a dungeon or raid except for a 1 time error.