Andor's Trail

Drinking a Minor Potion of Speed shouldn't cost 5 AP. The battle would need to last for three to four more rounds after that to see any net benefit from it. I think it should be lowered to 2 or less. Thoughts?

quaff the potion before you engage the enemy?



changing equipment and drinking health potions cost 5 as well...
doubt that will change

but a little foresight can improve the benefits of the speed potion.

I never thought of that, I usually drink it before going into battle if I see a group of creatures that I know have a high HP or BC.

Yeah, but what if something just pops up at you. It seems as though a healing potion may take a minute to work (or 5 AP worth of time) but a potion of speed maybe should be a little faster? I don't know, I've found myself in hairy situations that I didn't anticipate that I wished I could drink a potion of speed, but once in battle it is totally useless.

if you have 12 AP & attacking costs 3AP - you still get two attacks [without the effects of the potion]

12 AP - potion
7 AP - attack
4 AP - attack
1 AP + MPoS AP bonus

i think it's fair. [speed is HUGE in this game]
remember, it's just a Minor Potion...
the next one will be more potent!

Also, unless you're using the extra AP to switch gear or take a healing potion, if you have 2 skills in Combat Speed, then the minor potion of speed only helps if you're using the quickstrike dagger paired with the jewel of fallhaven.

Normal AP (with 2 combat speed): 12

With Jewel of fallhaven:
The quickstrike dagger costs 2 AP, so if you take minor speed you'd get 14 AP for 7 strikes.

The next weapons (Flagstone's Pride, dagger of the shadow priests, steel sword) costs 3 AP. In this case, you'd get 4 strikes just from your 12AP, but using the speed potion would be 1 AP short of the 15 you'd need for a 5th strike.

Shadow of the slayer adds 2 more by having it equipped so that you have 14 AP, and it costs 6 (with the jewel), but taking a speed potion falls 2 short of the 18 you would need for a 3rd strike. If you're not wearing the jewel of fallhaven, then it would give you enough for a 2nd strike though.

It was much more powerful before the Combat Speed skills entered the picture in v0.6.10.

im sure adjustments will be made in future updates, correcting balance issues...

thanks for that breakdown - i wanted to check into the numbers more...
but im working on a new build [Lv 12 now! very experimental build]

so i was partially distracted.

right on Mino! [+1]

Mino wrote:Also, unless you're using the extra AP to switch gear or take a healing potion, if you have 2 skills in Combat Speed, then the minor potion of speed only helps if you're using the quickstrike dagger paired with the jewel of fallhaven.

Normal AP (with 2 combat speed): 12

With Jewel of fallhaven:
The quickstrike dagger costs 2 AP, so if you take minor speed you'd get 14 AP for 7 strikes.

The next weapons (Flagstone's Pride, dagger of the shadow priests, steel sword) costs 3 AP. In this case, you'd get 4 strikes just from your 12AP, but using the speed potion would be 1 AP short of the 15 you'd need for a 5th strike.

Shadow of the slayer adds 2 more by having it equipped so that you have 14 AP, and it costs 6 (with the jewel), but taking a speed potion falls 2 short of the 18 you would need for a 3rd strike. If you're not wearing the jewel of fallhaven, then it would give you enough for a 2nd strike though.

It was much more powerful before the Combat Speed skills entered the picture in v0.6.10.

Excellent Post Mino! Very Informative!