Now, I'm not here to discuss weather these things I mentioned should be changed, my point was to provide some examples of how potions are the last thing they really need to be worrying about to keep the game balanced.

As it stands, potions are useless. 15 second duration is laughable for buff potions and in no way do these types of potions " off-set the necessity for certain roles". Not like bard has any stat boosting songs. As for healing potions and the like, if they are really that worried about it then I see several options to get around this:

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