Did you ever figure out how much they cost, by the way?
What do you mean? I never had problems "figuring it out".
It's just that the price changes according to the cahracter's stats, difficutly level AND patch version.
What never changes is the whole thing being a fake issue.
Weird. Having played through all the patches, difficulty levels and stat spreads, I never noticed the price climbing anywhere near as high, but yeah, must've been one of those old patches we can't verify anymore. I see.
As for a fake issue, maybe that word's being lost in translation. As an idiomatic speaker of the English language, I'm not sure it means the same thing to me. I would call this a *real* issue. The potions are so prevalent that, again, it's literally the source of many of the most popular broken builds in the game. In fact, there are videos all over the place with builds based on drinking daily doses of strength elixirs.
As a matter of fact, I was just watching a Luality build guide where she outlined three builds. Two of which were entirely reliant on drinking strength elixirs.
