What Happened to Potion Consistency?

[InkstainedGwyn]

I can attest to this as that is exactly what I would do. However, dodging right/left handgonne doesnt affect my GCD at all as you can hug the boss just fine. what I WOULD use the Pot for is Seiryu's In-and-Out mechanic and stay in regardless of the AoE. currently, I pop Bloodbath and Second Wind and take a Vuln stack whenever I don't have any to begin with. Yeah I'm technically cheesing it, but it just means I CANT get hit by any mechanic for the rest of the fight or its certain death, so I kind of think that balances it out.

edit: its certainly NOT because I dont know the mechanics or I like being lazy, its because I miss a ton of GCDs moving out of that AoE for what seems like minimal damage and minor punishment.

Yeah, I have 0 idea on actual melee mechanics, I only ever take my healer in - and I know that it's sometimes "worth it" to skip a mechanic (I'll sometimes double-shield a melee doing the LB3 because there's no good time for it), so I don't see that and automatically think "lazy".

But then there's the bard I had last night that at one point during Agrias had 5 vulnerability stacks because they never used shields, never dodged AOEs, did nothing but stand there and shoot (they ate every mechanic in Mustadio and Cid, too) and I just... well, I don't despair, I just let them die and rez them when I have mana.

[Nora_of_Mira]

But then there's the bard I had last night that at one point during Agrias had 5 vulnerability stacks because they never used shields, never dodged AOEs, did nothing but stand there and shoot (they ate every mechanic in Mustadio and Cid, too) and I just... well, I don't despair, I just let them die and rez them when I have mana.

LOL I think you did the right thing. I also have the benefit of my friend being the healer and having him in discord with me. I hear such a passive aggressive sigh with every Vuln stack.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Connor]

I think it’d be really cool if they scaled HP/MP potions to match current values, even if it’s just as an emergency thing.

I think even just 25% (10%?)hp / mp restore from an ‘endgame’ potion or ether would make carrying some much more worthwhile. As it stands recovery potions just feel like a wasted inventory slot, and I know I tend to discard them as soon as I get them in expert dungeons

[Barraind]

Potions and the like just need to have one or the other of max value or percentage taken off, and have a variant line that restores a percentage, and a variant line that does a flat amount.

Give them -some- use in some area of the games even if it's just overworld grinding and dungeon running.

[Ryaz]

Yep. In dungeons I have 53k health on my Samurai. Using a potion is basically pointless. The only healing potion worth anything is a Eureka Potion when you're soloing mobs in one of those instancrs. Otherwise, it's stacks of 100s of other healing pots I'll never use.

[Umeikoai]

I just wish there was less potions and more potion scaling. That way less item clutter and potions will always be useful no matter what level you are.

[InkstainedGwyn]

LOL I think you did the right thing. I also have the benefit of my friend being the healer and having him in discord with me. I hear such a passive aggressive sigh with every Vuln stack.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don't mind us, just your local pillars of salt, sighing as we watch the invulns roll in...

[CaptainLagbeard]

Well, HQ Super Potions can heal up to 6k Health, that's at least somewhat useful... But you need to be a level 70 ALC to make them, and they're probably not really worth the crystals used to craft them...

Personally, I think they should just get rid of the number cap on HP and/or MP recovered and let Potions, Ethers and Elixirs just recover by %.

[Derio]

HQ Super potions drop from HoH. But they are very low only 6k when most people now have 50k+ health

Super potions should be the last potions and they should be percentage based.

[Hasrat]

They're in a pretty awkward position for me. I keep a few around, "For emergencies" I tell myself. But I don't actually keep them on my hotbar or anything, so chances are, in an emergency, panicked inventory management probably negates much of the benefit.

But yeah. Also in those situations, I've begun noticing just how little it helps. They just don't even really seem to do enough to make up for the cooldown.