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Let me first say I was just checking the patch against a 1.32 savegame, so it might not affect new saves. The Battlefields trainer let me learn Alchemy 4, and since I have some holy water I thought I'd make a permanent potion. However I can keep making them, almost indefinitely. The holy water is never used up, just the plants as normal, and since I have so many of them I quickly bumped Vitality/Mana/Stamina to 4000 each and the primary stats to 100+ each. Obviously if it should work like that then it takes great willpower to not abuse this.

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The Holy Water was probably supposed to be used up.


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Nope, was never used up - from 1st version on - BUT! the high stats you gain now are new.

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How do you make permanent potions? Is there a site that tells you what herbs, etc., do and what skill levels you need to make various types of potions? Clearly there aren't enough skillpoints to merely "experiment"... if I want a decent alchemist character I'm obviously going to have to plan in advance and give up a lot to get one. But I cannot plan in advance if I don't have a clue what will be required... Catch 22!

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Look at your recent post, please - I explained it.
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Nope, was never used up - from 1st version on - BUT! the high stats you gain now are new.


Well I made a heck of a lot of potions to see if there was a limit. Since I was carrying about 30 each of the plants I could make lots! Each Stat gained about 15 per potion and Health/Mana gained about 800 per potion. I would have expected the holy water to vanish after one use.

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Ben, in former versions the values were far lower - so you couldn't be as overpowered as now. I haven't downloaded the last 1.41 patch - but this is addressed as fixed => permanent potion prob. (Hope only the values, not the Holy Water <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> )

When my 2 last boss enemies were very strong in former versions, I used about 15 different potions to boost myself up. Primary stats were +1 - mana and HP +60, stamina +25 => see? Not so overpowered, right?


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