Quote Originally Posted by odie View Post
I do. Do you even endgame? If you do, but you don't use food and Potions to maximize your potential then your team may need to pick up the slack where you fall short. Try using them sometime. They are incredibly potent.
What? Are you insane? When have potions EVER been considered potent? At level 60 I can just about restore half a cure spell using the best ether in the damned game! That's less than useless. Even my base regen is higher than that at this point!

HP potions are even worse! With a HQ I might just about be able to recover 650 hp. That's like half a melee hit, if you're lucky. If you're ever in a situation where a potion is the only thing keeping you alive, it won't be for long. The next hit WILL finish the job.

Ahem...

Echo drops, spine drops etc... now all of those have genuine merit to them. Those curatives are the only ones I'll accept as being useful and relevant in endgame content. Potions and ethers are almost irrelevant even at level 50, but with the level cap now raised they've been pushed even farther into obscurity.

No, potions are kind of weak. I'll give him that one. Food, on the other hand, now that can make a considerable difference. Bonus critical, bonus speed, bonus everything. It can make a marked difference on your DPS, give you a decent amount of bonus HP and just generally increase your chances of success and survival. It's extremely useful. Even out of combat, there are crafting foods, gathering foods and so forth which are immeasurably valuable to those classes. Remove at your peril.

But... linkshells? Did he really say he wanted to remove those? Linkshells are great for keeping in touch with your friends. Not everyone is in the same Free Company, and you can equip multiple linkshells so you can be in a variety of different groups at the same time. I've set my LS's to have different colored texts so I can see if it's a hunt, or a casual chat. They're invaluable and the fact that he wants them removed means he has no idea what they are.