How do you think potions could be improved or made useful?

I've realized how unnecessary potions are, especially mana potions, after farming at DreadFool's Labyrinth. You can easily collect more than you can use up.

First of all, most of the time, I let my character die in battle since I rarely pay any attention to my character's health. I think it'd be nice if we had some kind of indicator, like the game displaying a red tint that gets redder as your health decreases, with an option to disable it in Settings. I think that'll partly help make potions become useful.

Secondly, I'd like to see a class that's heavily reliant on Mana Potions. For instance, maybe a Healer class with quick skill cooldowns, but heavy mana use. That'll encourage more use out of Mana Potions.

Another neat idea is increasing the potency of potions by, for instance, crafting 5 Small Health Potions for 1 Big Health Potion that heals a lot more health. That way, we get a good amount of health without having to wait for potions to cooldown.

What ideas do you have?

 

Yeah, something that restores more health would be great. I wonder how that would affect cooldown of other potions. Like would using a Full Health Potion make you wait until you can use Small Health Potions or just the cool down for the Full Health Potion, because that could change how OP potions could become.

 

Yeah, hardcore dungeons would make potions a lot more useful, but I think they also have plans to have Necromancer revive players in hardcore dungeons which would sort of lessen the use of potions a bit, depending on how hard the dungeons will be. The main challenge would be getting the perfect team, and I hope hardcore dungeons won't require keys since it would feel like a waste if the player died in the dungeon and couldn't respawn. I think mana potions could have unique abilities for classes that don't even require mana such as Warrior class.

 

If they do that, then they'd have to nerf the amount of health and mana given from that potion. Besides, I don't think using a health potion puts a cool down on a mana potion, just a cooldown on health potions, so you can sort of use both health and mana in battle.

 

They could, but 999 is already plenty. One thing they could definitely do, though, is change the daily chest potions' stack value from 20 to 999. They're just the regular potions (the non-Fancy ones) that stack up to 20 based on the daily chests tested on the PTR server. They could reward Fancy potions instead of the regular potions for daily chest rewards, at the very least.

If they do give both the fancy and non-fancy potions the same stack value, then of course there wouldn't really be any difference other than the names. Then I would say that fancy potions would need a buff to reward more health and mana in-battle.

 

They decided to just scrap the idea of rewarding the regular potions for daily chests, but instead did the fancy ones. You don't really get a lot out of it considering it's easy to get a ton just from chest farming at the labyrinth. Still doesn't solve other inventory issues from the loads of items added to daily chests, but it's better than getting regular potions that only stack up to 20.