A question about potions

[Ardnahoy]

<DIV>I've never used potions but now it looks like there is no choice but to start using them to be able to beat the Arena Champ. My question is, what are the <STRONG>names</STRONG> of the potions you all use, what do they each do, and how much do you pay for them? I assume they are player crafted since I never see anything resembling what you all describe on any NPC vendors.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Let me know. Thanks.</DIV>

[KiseroHT]

<P>Potions have been very helpful to me in the past.. and every little bit helps with that dang arena champion. Since you are lvl 40 or higher now I would recommend just going to the broker and setting the options to yellow/orange and legendary. All the potions should be at the end of the list if by price.. you can see everything offered there and will let you know what is available on your server. I recommend buying one potion at a time and seeing if it really helps before investing coin any further. Expect to pay around 10g for one vial which contains 7 uses. If you really like one I would get with your alchemist and see if you can cut a bulk deal which might save you some coinage..</P> <P> </P> <P>Later and gl!</P> <P> </P> <P> </P>

[TunaBoo]

If you are 40, merlenil's favor is the bomb... like 200 some ac. Other ones just add a few stats. <div></div>

[Arpophyllum]

<DIV>I remember part of the name...think it's 'Irontoe's Safeguard' or something like that. It's a 30 minute 400-500 (approx) magic mitigation buff. Since he uses casting on you at the beginning that might be useful. It's a legendary so costs a lot more. I think I paid 18g for it and it has 6 charges.</DIV>

[SmakenDah]

<font color="#ff9900" face="Verdana" size="2">A couple of pages back there was a <a href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=3&message.id=13761" target=_blank>spanky list of potions</a>.</font> <div></div>

[danmurph3]

With my alt monk I wanted some healing potions so got a few off broker that had 7 charges and after using some in combat I zoned back to Qeynos and noticed the charges were back to 7/7.  So I thought they always would recharge until I noticed after an update that didn't happen anymore.  Is there any way to recharge them or was that some very nice bug? <div></div>

[TunaBoo]

Just happens sometimes as a bug. <div></div>

[Ardnahoy]

<P>Thanks guys!</P> <P>10 gold for a potion sounds (to my cheap dwarven [Removed for Content]) like a lot of scratch for something that will not last very long.</P> <P>As it stands, it looks like I will need a Disease resist potion, a Power regen potion, and a Health regen potion. At 7 charges for 10 gold, that equals about 2.1 to 3.5 gold per attempt. It would suck to lose to the pit champ after blowing that amount of coin in potion charges.</P> <P>I think I'm going to wait around for a level 20 person to walk in and mentor down as far as I can to make the encounter trivial. I just want my [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot] port stone so I don't have to fight my way in every time.</P>

[TunaBoo]

Well to my guild I sell common potions for liek 1 gold, rare for like 3... find an alch and be nice to him ;P <div></div>

[Airog]

<DIV>Aye, excpect to drop 10-20g on a rare potions and 1-3g on a regular (at T5) Rare potions add 212mitigation, 688 or 501 to resists, 298HP 198POWER, 24 to STR/STA/AGI. That is basically what you can buff with rares, with commons, around 100 mitigation 150HP 100POWER, 17 STR/STA/AGI, 311 to resists. So all in all, if you solo or raid, I would suggest going for Elixer of Adeptness and Elikxer ok Reflection for STR/STA/AGI (those are the regs) cause 17 versus 24 not worth the price, however, when raiding, Melernil's Favor (rare) adds 212 Mitigation and is definitely better then the Regular, same with the resists, when doing Drayek with an IC, that extra 350 Cold and Heat really helps. I don't use Solvent of Life (rare HP buff) too often, but I do keep one wiht me for the harder mobs, just to give that small extra boost, like contested, Darathar ECT... All of these last 30mins except the HP ones last 15mins (not sure on power, never used it). Elixer of Clarity/Gronk's Renewel (rare and reg power regens) as well as the HP regens are utterly worthless as MT on a raid, Clarity is nice for healers, and maybe even scouts and stuff as the regular version gives around 290power, and reused every 150seconds (2.5mins) the rare adds around 450 power with same reuse timer. HP is ok for soloing as it adds 450+hp. DS's last 126 seconds, so they are very situational. and the power/hp regens only last 30seconds, so in combat use only.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Airoliz of Innothule, Alchemist of the 50th season and Guardian of the 50th season, MT to A O D.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P.S. Potion refills is a bug, a very nasty bug, not a good bug, and one that has come and gone, it is very spuratic, I have heard of a person keeping a potion for a month, then one day it stops replenishing itself. Very nasty bug.</DIV>