Alchemist's Poison's

[Jynx]

The only thing I agree with is that the types of potions should have seperate timers.

Debuff
Buff
Heal

Should all not share the same timer.

[Firon]

after i bought some throat drops to cure silence on my mage class i never wanted to use them again 5 min cool down to use it once more... I still think alc got the shaft. As someone who does not craft and only buys stuff sad to say i will not be purchasing anymore alc related goods >.>.

[Doho]

as a lvl 48 alchemist and avid user of medicines here's a simple breakdown of how i feel about each potion:

Mega-Potion: good
Mega-Ether: ok
Elixir: ok
Status Cure Medicines: joke, recast too long
Status Debuff Toxins: joke, duration too short, recast too long
Stat buff potions: ok, duration too long
Enmity increase/decrease meds: good

summary: not feeling so great about being an alchemist.

[Peptaru]

People always look at status remedies in the wrong way, they're fantastic. No they aren't the spammable necessity they've been in past FF titles, but in an emergency situation the meds can be a god send in this title. In case of emergency - prevent wipe.

[Lyssa]

Status remedies are very useful. The recast duration, especially the shared recast, are a bit annoying. However, consider that the alternatives could come down to a) your WHM saying "silenced" in /p, standing around doing nothing for 30 seconds except possibly remember he has Benediction, and you quite likely watching your tank wiped out or b) the WHM popping Throat Drops and resuming curing immediately.

Of course, Throat Drops and Spine Drops are also available from the GC, so that might not help ALCs much

[TheFatHousecat]

Status remedies are very useful. The recast duration, especially the shared recast, are a bit annoying. However, consider that the alternatives could come down to a) your WHM saying "silenced" in /p, standing around doing nothing for 30 seconds except possibly remember he has Benediction, and you quite likely watching your tank wiped out or b) the WHM popping Throat Drops and resuming curing immediately.

This. Slugs happen to Silence your only WHM at Miser's Mistress? Throat Drops. Want a huge stat. boost to your main combos? STR/INT pots. Tank can't seem to keep hate over DPS? Maddening Potion. Tank can't dodge a NM's WS and takes a huge chunk of damage? Elixir.

The potions all have uses, some more than others. The consensus seems to be that, rather than rarity of mats. being an issue, it's moreso that the shared timer makes it hard to see the full benefit of using potions.

[Jynx]

Oh I can find tons of mats to make most any potion, or find someone who can get them for me. The mats aren't the issue it's the shared timers.

[TheFatHousecat]

Oh I can find tons of mats to make most any potion, or find someone who can get them for me. The mats aren't the issue it's the shared timers.

Rofl sorry, there's like three ALC threads up now I mistook this one for the 'mats are too expensive/rare' thread xD

[Jynx]

Well people have brought up that Potions are not good for profit on alchemist. But I don't use Alchemist for profit really...so I can't say on that front.

[Razor]

I think we need an FFX-Rikku-esque class, skill, something that allows us to combine potions together to make epic things. Take random potions and combine them all together into some kind of crazy explosion that can deal damage. It would at least increase the demand for potions. I'd elaborate further but I'm almost to Dunkin Donuts~