Please Add Duration Or Lower Recast On Potions

[Kyri]

The majority of potions I look at have a duration of 30 seconds or 40, but cannot be reused for 4 minutes. Could this possibly be changed to 1-2 minute duration so its a two minute timer?
The ones the last ten minutes but take 30 to reuse drop to say.. 20 mins?
I don't forsee many buying these potions or my urge to gather the materials for a 30 to 40 second period time of use. This is a very small period of time that from a non alchemists point of view isn't quite worth the gil, from alchemists point of view, not worth the farming.
I have high hopes in potions adding a bit of spice to my alchemy again, as I feel its been less then great outside of the crystal/shard side of things, and look forward to using them in pts. I do not however feel the duration is worth the energy to make them. Please SE could we look at a higher duration or lower recast?

What are your thoughts?

[Urthdigger]

I wholeheartedly agree. While these potions may be of use to melee for a little bit of added damage, the MND and VIT potions are comparatively useless as consistency is needed when it comes to damage reduction and healing. Having an extra burst of defense or healing doesn't help much, because either one of two scenarios are present:

1: You're doing just fine when the potion isn't in effect... so no need for it.
2: You NEED that potion. In which case when it wears off, you're fucked.

Well, ok, there is a third option where the tank is SLOWLY being whittled down faster than you can heal, and it's JUST enough of a problem that 40 seconds of bonus defense or healing can keep him up. However, being just in that exact range of difficulty is so wildly unlikely that it's pretty much a moot point.

[Kiote]

The Medicine Recast times in this game are absurd.

I can understand making the Super Buffing Potion have high recasts, but there is no reason for Potions and Ethers to have it too.

[Bocajo]

I imagined the use for these types of potions would be to quickly burn high damaging bosses down at a certain stage down (Like shadowlord from ffxi). MND or VIT potions might be useful for popping for certain moves like hellfire (VIT doesn't fit exactly in these case, but yeah).

[Urthdigger]

Problem is most things I can think of that hurt REAL badly, where you may wish to pop a potion beforehand are magic damage, such as hellfire. VIT potion boosts defense to help with physical attacks, but MND potions only boost the main MND stat, and do not boost the secondary stat of magic defense: They instead boost the other secondary stat of healing magic. Granted, you could probably try to have the tank use a potion of piety and pray they get a partial resist, and have the healer use a potion of mind to help get the tank back up after... though the latter isn't usually as much a problem as the tank surviving the move in the first place, and that still puts the potions into the realm of "Highly situational"

[Brannigan]

I gotta say that while I've found drops, ethers, potions, and elixirs to all be pretty fuckin sweet (when properly macroed), the stat boosting potions are pretty unappealing. I'd say they either need higher stat boosts or longer durations (with preference to the former) and maybe an increased recast time to compensate. Maybe a higher-tier stat potion that uses vampire plant cuttings would be better for that, though.

[Kyri]

Completely agree

[WinterSkyblue]

Totally agree. Only ethic and potion and elixirs will be required, my LS members even not willing take others but all potions are free of charged! Food like crown cake / beef / knight bread are much more demand.

[Shallowdeep]

I think we need a better item then Throat Drops for silence, with a recast timer of 5min. Where are my echo drops? With the new dungeon in AV and those slugs that silence a 5min timer just doesn't work.

[Kyri]

yes! silence is a taru'ble thing for us mages, nothing worse then a tank at 30% and your silenced with 4 minutes on your potion timer ^^;