Potion

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Potions are liquids that imbue the user with temporary and beneficial magical powers or enchantments. Most potion magics improve productivity by:

• reducing materials or Heat used in production
• increasing the quality or number of resources gathered or goods created
• speeding up item production or material gathering
• improving the chance to find or create a rare material or item

Brewing

Although many potions are sold in the Marketplace, potion makers usually brew their own through alchemy. Since alchemy is a subtask of the Cooking skill, brewing potions will:

• contribute XP towards a player's Cooking Skill Level
• generate Cooking Shards
• produce Fire Essence and to a lesser extent Air Essence.

Brewing an epic Shrimp Lord potion.

To brew a batch of potions:

1. Click on the Brewing (Alchemy) tab while in the Cooking guild.
2. Select a potion recipe.
3. Select the desired potion quality (strength) using the green slider (Common=1, Rare=2, Epic=3, Legendary=4).
4. Click the empty Cauldron and choose a Vial type.
5. Click on Start to begin brewing.
6. Potions will continue to brew until:
   • the Stop button is selected,
   • an ingredient, reagent or the Heat runs out, or
   • another skill action (excluding Farming and Crafting) is performed.

Recipes

Potion recipes become available as the player progresses to higher levels of cooking and gathers enough raw ingredients and reagents to produce them. A sufficient quantity of vials (or existing lower quality potion flasks with identical magics) and Heat must be applied with the necessary ingredients to produce new or upgraded versions of the desired enchanted potion.

Note: the descriptions in this recipe table are those belonging to potions with enchantment strengths of 1.

Potion Name	Skill Affected	Description	Reagents	CollapseOther Ingredients
Deep Fry	Cooking	Increased cooking speed by 4%. Caps at halving action time. Stacks with Haste.	Fish Oil	Bitter Essence, Sour Essence, Spicy Essence
Empowered Prospecting	Mining	Increases the chance to find gems and silver while mining by 50%. Rolls before Prospecting and does not stack with it. Does not require earth runes.	Yellow Pepper	Bitter Essence, Spicy Essence
Root Digging	Foraging	Gain a chance to find gems while foraging. Has a 10% to consume earth runes upon success.	Mushroom	Bitter Essence, Spicy Essence
Supercooling	Mining	Items with lower heat costs to process have an increased chance to be gathered. Has a 1% chance to consume a water rune every mining action.	Frost Flowers	Bitter Essence, Sweet Essence
Empowered Gathering	Mining, Foraging, and Fishing	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering. Rolls before Gathering and does not stack with it.	Watermelon	Diced Fruit, Sour Essence, Sweet Essence
Cooking (Enchantment)	Cooking	Decreases chance of burning food by 4% while cooking.	Salt	Chopped Vegetables, Spicy Essence
Shrimp Lord	Cooking	Player gains 5% increased chance of finding raw shrimp while cooking.	Raw Shrimp	Filleted Fish, Sweet Essence
Pyromancy	Cooking and Smithing	Player uses 5% less heat while cooking and smithing. Caps at 80% reduction.	Ashes	Bitter Essence, Ground Flour, Sour Essence
Inferno	Smithing	Gain a 10% chance to instantly smelt ores after a completed smithing action.	Pepper	Ground Flour, Sour Essence, Spicy Essence
Superheating	Mining	Gain a increased chance to gather ores with higher heat requirements while mining.	Chili Pepper	Spicy Essence
Naturalist	Foraging	Increase chance to gain chests as well as convert chests to higher variants by 20%.	Durian	Sour Essence, Sweet Essence
Fishing (Enchantment)	Fishing	Increases fishing catch rate by 10%.	Honey	Sour Essence, Sweet Essence
Fishing Magnetism	Fishing	Increases bonus rarity by 2 and decreases bait and reel power by the same amount. Increases chance to find known rare nodes.	Raw Magnetic Minnow	Filleted Fish, Sour Essence
Reinforced Line	Fishing	Increases reel power by 3.	Raw Tigerfish	Bitter Essence, Filleted Fish
Pungent Bait	Fishing	Increases bait power by 3.	Seaweed	Bitter Essence, Chopped Vegetables
Oil Spill	Fishing	Adds 8% chance to try and extract fish oil from a fish based on size. There is a chance that fish oil may not be created if the fish is too small.	Raw Slippery Eel	Filleted Fish, Sour Essence, Spicy Essence
Deadliest Catch	Fishing	Increases bonuses from bait by 5%, but decreases chance of bait preservation by 5%. Increases chance to find known rare resources.	Raw Great White Shark	Minced Meat, Spicy Essence
Gathering	Mining, Foraging, and Fishing	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering. 15% chance to consume a nature rune.	Banana	Diced Fruit, Sweet Essence
Runecrafting (Enchantment)	Runecrafting	Reduces essence used in runecrafting by 5%. Caps at 80%.	Goblin Brain	Bitter Essence, Butchered Monster
Efficiency	Cooking, Smithing, Runecrafting and Scrollcrafting	Gain a 2% chance to produce an extra item during cooking, smithing, runecrafting and scrollcrafting.	Sugar	Bitter Essence, Sweet Essence
Intuition	Most activities	Increases experience gained by 5% while doing most things.	Sageberry	Bitter Essence, Sour Essence, Sweet Essence

Effects

A potion's effects last one production, gathering or combat turn per potion use. Potions may be stored in inventory or drank in quantity. Their buffs can be paused or resumed in game while not in battle.

Drinking potions with identical enchantments but differing power levels is not additive. For example, drinking a potion with Cooking 1 followed by a potion with Cooking 2 does not result in the chef gaining a Cooking 3 buff. Doing so will place the potion with the higher level Cooking 2, in queue for consumption before Cooking 1. All consumed stacks of Cooking 2 must be gone before Cooking 1 will take effect.

While potions only affect the drinker, some of these buffs can be made available game wide through purchase at the Shrine of Toucan with in-game gold or at the Platinum Shop with real life currency. Potion enchantments are additive to their respective global buff as well as additive to buffs caused by wearing enhanced gear possessing the same buff.

Quality

Potions are divided into four levels of quality or strength as designated by the type of potion: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary with the first being of lowest quality (potion strength of 1) and the rest in ascending quality (potion strengths 2-4).

The quality of the potion is determined by the number of ingredients used to brew the potion through cooking alchemy. Higher quality potions require more ingredients, more heat and higher Cooking skill to brew. Legendary potions contain enchantments that are more powerful than their lower quality counterparts.

Containers

Potions require containers such as empty vials to create new potions. Upgraded potions require lesser quality potion containers with an identical enchantment. For example common Shrimp Lord 1 potions, rare Shrimp Lord 2 potions or epic Shrimp Lord 3 potions can be upgraded to legendary Shrimp Lord 4 potions.

Potion Quality	Enchantment Level	Vial Requirements	Vendor Price
Common Potion	Level 1	Empty Vial	5
Rare Potion	Level 2	Empty Vial or Common Potion	10
Epic Potion	Level 3	Empty Vial or Common Potion or Rare Potion	15
Legendary Potion	Level 4	Empty Vial or Common Potion or Rare Potion or Epic Potion	20

Potions can not be downgraded to lesser quality nor can they be emptied back into their Empty Vial state.

Potions with an existing enchantment can not be used to create potions with different enchantments.

Byproducts

Potions are brewed in batches or set amounts based on Cooking skill level. The higher the skill, the more potions can be brewed in one batch. In addition to creating a batch of potions, the brewing process has the possibility of creating other byproducts.

• Ashes: When a brewing fails, the ingredients, Heat and 1 Empty Vial (or potion container) is used up to produce a set of ashes. To burn a potion intentionally:
  • Remove any cooking related gear or items with cooking related Affixes or equipment that provides any positive effects to cooking stats
  • Use equipment with the Overly Well Done enchantment
  • Refrain from drinking potions with Cooking (Enchantment)
  • Turn off the Cooking buff if it appears in the buff list
  • Cook difficult potions (usually the Intuition or Empowered Gathering ones have the greatest chance to fail)
  • Brew Legendary potions using Empty Vials

• Raw Shrimp: Raw Shrimp may be produced if the potion batch is brewed while:
  • The chef is wearing equipment with Shrimp Lord
  • The Shrimp Lord global buff is active
  • And/or the chef has consumed potions with the Shrimp Lord Enchantment

• Shrimp Bauble: A Shrimp Bauble may be produced when Shrimp Lord potions are being made (or raw shrimp is being prepared into Filleted Fish) and the chef is under the effect of at least Shrimp Lord 5 enchantment as a result of combining the following:
  • The chef is wearing equipment with the Shrimp Lord enchantment.
  • The Shrimp Lord global buff is active.
  • And/or the chef has consumed Shrimp Lord potions.

• Fish Oil: If the potion contains fish or Filleted Fish in the ingredients there is a possibility of Fish Oil being generated after a batch is brewed regardless of success.

• Prismatic Extract: also has the possibility of being produced after successfully or unsuccessfully brewing a batch of potions.

To increase the probability of Fish Oil or Prismatic Extract being created:

• Increase cooking skill level
• Wear equipment from the Cooking Set
• Use more a powerful Golden Spoon ladle
• Augment cooking related gear to a higher level
• Enchant one piece of equipment with Cooking (Enchantment) scrolls until all the enchantment slots are full and wear it
• Affix wards on cooking equipment
• Drink Legendary potions with Cooking (Enchantment) and Efficiency. (Efficiency will increase the chance to double the Fish Oil but not Prismatic Extract.)
• Cook during periods of global buffs (bought from the Shrine of Toucan or the Platinum Shop where cooking is involved

Extra Potions

Whenever a potion batch (ie. a batch=50 potions) is successfully brewed, an equal amount of Empty Vials or other lesser quality containers is used up along with its required ingredients and heat. The result is typically one batch of potions with the possibility of an extra potion. An extra vial or potion container is used up if the extra potion is produced.

If an extra potion occurs because of an Efficiency buff or because of a successful roll of Alchemy Amount (due to an affixed cooking ward on a worn piece of equipment), then no ingredients, containers nor heat is used up. Similarly if the amount of potions is doubled due to a successful roll of Cooking Doubling extra resources are utilized.

Value and Rarity

Vendor price is not a reflection of a potion's value just as quality is not a reflection of a potion's rarity. Some potions are more 'valuable' due to the scarcity of their ingredients. For example, Intuition potions are created from rare sageberries.

Other potions have relatively higher value due to the nature of their enchantment. For example, Empowered Gathering potions provide increased gathering capabilities without the cost of runes in comparison to regular Gathering potions.

The rarest potions are ones that can not be brewed but must be earned in combat such as the Gold Leaf Cook potion which is only dropped after completing the dungeon Master Chicken's Kitchen.