I was just curious because I don’t usually interact with this type of system. Most of the time they just provide +2% lockpicking speed or something niche like that. You know stuff that only really matters on some builds for the highest difficulties.
But Potions of Speed, Elixir of the Colossus, and Elixir of Bloodlust are so damn good I started brewing them up anytime I got enough ingredients. It’s become almost as habitual as checking every barrel and box.
I’m was using it, but I’m also, idk. Because as far as I can tell, there’s very limited resources for alchemy, so you have to really plan ahead what potions you want and when to use them. To the point, I’m now doing the exact same thing I do in every other RPG, which is hoarding them to no end and never using them because, and sing it with me now, “I might need it later”. Who knows if later comes. Very real chance I beat the game with a crap tone of ingredients and potions just sitting about.
Poisons, haste, and spell recovery potions are a godsend for me. Every medium to large encounter my melee characters are coating a blade or staff after they run out of attacks.
I was the same hoarder though. When I noticed my potion pouch was 30% of my encumbrance I split those guys up and started chugging.
TBH I forgot it existed until I read this post. Maybe I should actually look in that menu…
You really should. Potions of Speed alone make it worth it. By mid Act 3 I was able to build up about 22 in the camp chest with 6 on each party member, and I pop those things like an addict.
As someone who burned through so many in Act 1, I’m salivating at the thought of this
‘free’ potions? especially speed? Oh, yeah! (Cue giant kool aid pitcher busting bown wall)
Yeah because it’s pretty seamless. Press H, click on any of the solutions or salts with a number greater than zero meaning you have stuff to create, extract all for literally everything which is just going through and clicking the button. Then you can see what elixirs, potions, poisons, and grenades you can make; then I just make the best things and leave the lesser potions unmade for the “any salt/solution/whatever” slot for later.
I’m bad for brewing and carrying around all the potions but never using them in every game.
I have Speak with Animals on my hotbar though so I can chug it first thing after every long rest!
I was playing around with a deurgar crossbow poisoner build for a little bit. Honestly it’s not that bad, but you run into a lot of situations where what you’re fighting is resistant to poison. Still, I totally agree with potions of speed. You can really turn fights around with potions.
I keep saving every potion and scroll I find in the hopes of using them eventually, but I end up only ever using the jumping and flying things to reach secret areas or cheese things. With scrolls, if I do find them useful, I have Gale just learn them so I have infinite uses. Can’t wait to get him where I can memorize that stone wall spell… I only found the one so I really don’t wanna use it until I can memorize it lol
Same. My potions (and throwables) pouch is now 42 pounds. Arrows (and lockpicks) pouch is another 31 pounds. And my scroll pouch contains 70 unique scrolls, at 3.4 pounds, at a value of more than 15 000 gp. Thats a lot of dead weight to carry around just in case I need it! But I often forget to use them.
I have them split up now. My main dude carries the potions, Gale has the scrolls, my paladin has the throwables. Alchemy and Supply stuff just gets sent straight to camp because why carry it when I only use them at camp? Same with things I’m gonna sell; I put em all in a single bag, send it to camp and only grab it when I am standing in front of a vendor lol
Aside from a quest related craft or to condense components, I haven’t touched it. That doesn’t mean my bags aren’t absolutely stacked with components though. I gotta stop clicking on flowers and shit.
I think it’s great! Just like you I’ve been spending time on getting materials for the potions of speed. It’s also nice that the alchemy system isn’t too much of a hassle to use.
My husband has been the alchemist of our party! I just chuck all my ingredients at him before a long rest, and then I hear an “Ooooh, I think you’ll like this one!” and he sends me whatever he’s just brewed up. He uses potions on his characters all the time, I forget about them a lot, haha.
Potions of Speed are literally drugs for my Wild Magic Barbarian (Gale). I grab all the potion ingredients I find.
I make the potions…health, mind reading, and others. I figured I will have them if I need them or I could sell them. And the ingredients are just lying around.
Yeah I’ve been using potions through act 1, especially portions of speed, they’re such an advantage.
Slowly building up ingredients to make more as I progress, before this game I finished off DOS: EE, and got into the crafting quite a bit.
Do you know if you can craft special arrows?
Just like you, I’m making those potions as much as I can
I’m still trying to turn urine into gold. Any help?
