Potions: When will they be useful?

[Punainen]

Potions are not useful unless you're a really low level.

The amount of hp/mp they restore, or the effects they have are too minute to make them worth buying/carrying much less use them in battle.

And then there's the recast times. I could maybe get by with restoring a measly 300mp if it didn't then take FOUR AND A HALF FREAKING MINUTES before I could use another one.

The only potion that is even halfway useful is Ironwill Ungeant, as it gives us the effect of Shell, which SE saw fit to deprive Conjurer of casting.
But even that has a cooldown of 10 minutes when the effect only lasts 5. So STILL no one ever uses it.

Potions should either have little to no 'recast' time, or give us boosts that are actually worthwhile.

[rina_inverse]

other kind of potions are usefull
just sayin

[Holland]

If potions would be given either lower recasts or greater effects, the game would have to be balanced around people using different kinds of potions, making them necesary instead of an option, just like materia.

[Molly_Millions]

usefull potions:

Mega-potion of STR (I love these! I can out DD a BRD on my PLD by using them)
Mega-potion of INT
Mega-Ether
Hi-Potion and better
nerve drops
throat drops
maddening potion
Elixer
all the status inducing potions

there could be more, I just haven't used them. OP try them, you'll see potions are quite usefull.

[Doho]

Mega Potion, just the regular one is useful NOW go buy some

[Rau]

usefull potions:

Mega-potion of STR (I love these! I can out DD a BRD on my PLD by using them)

STR helps?

[Punainen]

usefull potions:

Mega-potion of STR (I love these! I can out DD a BRD on my PLD by using them)
Mega-potion of INT
Mega-Ether
Hi-Potion and better
nerve drops
throat drops
maddening potion
Elixer
all the status inducing potions

there could be more, I just haven't used them. OP try them, you'll see potions are quite usefull.

Hi-potions have never been useful unless I was a low level. And I tried nerve drops once as a WHM when I accidentally took hate, and it didn't do any good.

[normalforce]

There's always:

Elixir - HP Regen : +50% (2000 max), MP Regen : +30% (1050 max)
Mega-Ether - MP Regen : +20% (600 max)
Mega-Potion - HP Regen : +20% (600 max)

But, yea, otherwise the rest of the healing potions aren't all that noteworthy.

[Altanas]

usefull potions:

Mega...
Mega...
Mega...
Hi-Potion and better
...
Elixer
...

that kind of illustrates part of the problem, theres no point using low level medicines, even if you are low level yourself.

there are times when potions would feel much welcome or needed, like if you are about to die from poison. The concept of a potion or ether is that its your First Aid kit when you are in a tight spot. So why the restriction in an emergency? It would be a fair compromise if potions had no recast time so you could spam them, but after you used a few you got a groggy / drunk like effect and you had to wait for that to wear off before spamming again.

a way to stop low levels using high end potions would be to have an over the top drunk effect, so they use the low level ones instead; and if you are high level well you could spam 20 potions if there were no mega potions in stock.

abuse too many potions and you might get a "weakness" effect like when you revive, abuse too many during weakness and you drop dead XD /remembers mules in Jeuno drinking poison potions for the lols

I'm sure the above would also keep the economy rolling or even entice DOW/DOM players to pick up a side craft for self sufficiency.

[Rokien]

I don't want potions to be how I cure myself, I want to carry a few potions with me in a emergency situation.