I'm trying to be as objective as possible and I guess Darxim does the same. If there is an item, that gives you +3 or even more on everything just for one click, it makes pretty every potion quite unneeded. It gives even better benefits like most of your equipment and it needs no real effort.
That you need no real investment anymore is a known issue, it's because elves can learn spells by eating corpses, so they need to be able to use anything. But without enough Memory there is hardly any profit from such an action even so, putting 1 point into every needed skill class hardly hurts anyway. Benefits from skilling are so meager, you hardly feel a difference anyway. Defence skills being far the worst.
