| What we've needed to do lately is ensure farming of AQ20 for spells and otherwise folks just need to farm. With Major Mana pots at 25g/5, its all rather costly. Stoneshields are actually really useful for some encounters too, and the problem is the potions which don't persist through death. Because of the latency on Thaddius on my server, all the damage potions are practically required to compensate having 1-3 second lag on instants and cast spells.
Its really not worth discussing, since its pretty obvious by now there is no plan to change this design. I would prefer alchemy be removed from the game or potions just add little retarded gimmick effects.
There was another thread which mentioned all the above mentioned points, and people were basically told l2p and stop whining about the costs, so I expect that to happen in this thread too. | 