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Karlen · 01-09-2006, 11:49 PM

Eepop wrote:The savings making your own adept 3s can be fairly significant. I may be a bit biased because my mystic is a sage.I don't have many Adept III spells, but have found Adept 1s to be common on the broker and fence. I do know a sage so have gotten some Adept IIIs made and you are right that they can be expensive to buy.I did rate provisioners pretty high too. Although everything is based on my perspective.While drink is very powerful, if you have a bard, enchanter, or second priest in your group, mana is rarely a problem. Any one of those and store drink is just fine.I don't group all that much so am not very knowledgeable about in-combat power regen opportunities. In my normal group, I have all three of those, a troubador, illusionist, and templar, so most of the time I dont need drink at all.There are certainly playstyles that make drink more useful, but in most situations npc drink will do. It only works out of combat anyway, so having a little less regen usually doesnt make a difference.Good drink can really cut the downtime when soloing as I tend to run through all my power in battle if I am battling anything that is a bit of a challenge.And if you are in a group where you are out of power and everyone else is ready to go, the group(or you) is probably doing something wrong.I value drink highly, but the greatest percentage of a characters potency comes from thier spells.Good point.

01-09-2006, 11:49 PM	#8
Karlen Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,513	Eepop wrote:The savings making your own adept 3s can be fairly significant. I may be a bit biased because my mystic is a sage.I don't have many Adept III spells, but have found Adept 1s to be common on the broker and fence. I do know a sage so have gotten some Adept IIIs made and you are right that they can be expensive to buy.I did rate provisioners pretty high too. Although everything is based on my perspective.While drink is very powerful, if you have a bard, enchanter, or second priest in your group, mana is rarely a problem. Any one of those and store drink is just fine.I don't group all that much so am not very knowledgeable about in-combat power regen opportunities. In my normal group, I have all three of those, a troubador, illusionist, and templar, so most of the time I dont need drink at all.There are certainly playstyles that make drink more useful, but in most situations npc drink will do. It only works out of combat anyway, so having a little less regen usually doesnt make a difference.Good drink can really cut the downtime when soloing as I tend to run through all my power in battle if I am battling anything that is a bit of a challenge.And if you are in a group where you are out of power and everyone else is ready to go, the group(or you) is probably doing something wrong.I value drink highly, but the greatest percentage of a characters potency comes from thier spells.Good point.