unborn tangle
Three different currencies/resin is too much.
It's a pain to manage all 3 without getting alot of extra points in one of the three.
I have two ideas for possible solution
#1 change this system to only reward a single currency and readjust all prices accordingly.
#2 Allow Aldarium to be purchased by any single currency.
open owl
eh
if you have an excess of one, just omit the potions with 2 or more of that resin
the others will catch up
unborn tangle
What I do, but that's bad game design
open owl
on top of that, you can use the digweed to prioritize specific resins
it's not bad design, it's to encourage you to balance outputs
unborn tangle
I'm very aware how to do I'm saying it shouldn't be part of the minigame
open owl
why not?
unborn tangle
Because the minigame was designed to be a ryhtm skilling experience should be able to just brain off and skill out
open owl
I can balance points with brain off already, what's your point?
unborn tangle
Il rephrase what benefit do we get by having 3 different currencies
open owl
certain rewards require different ratios of points, and therefore higher tier herbs to unlock
the lowest tier potions take the most low tier resin
unborn tangle
Aren't these like 200% dead content? I never looked into them was just told it was similar to loot crates from mahogany homes
Herbloretodt reqs 60 herblore to do and you get over 3 million xp green loging it. I don't really see anyone unlocking rewards earlier because of this change
open owl
the apprentice potions are worthless, yes. But the higher tier ones are actually profitable. If you convert it to a single currency, then you would be able to purchase high tier potions with low tier reagents
unborn tangle
I'm mostly asking for the reward output to change I have no issue with using the paste
They can just add level requirements to the potion packs to compensate
You should be able to get the juicy point bonus for making all 3 potions and stay efficient in doing so
open owl
you only drop from 40% bonus to 20% bonus if you don't do all 3. Plus if you make a mistake, you hold it to use for a reroll if you see too many of the resin you have excess of
for example, I had too much aga resin at one point, because I was going for the potion storage and amulet. So whenever I saw too much aga in the list, I would either reroll with a mistake I made earlier, or do the minimum of the three, then get a new set of three. Eventually, it balanced back out that I didn't have to focus on balance
unborn tangle
You lose out on so much xp per hour and overall points per hour doing that. I don't think you should be punished at all I don't think it's good game design.
It breaks the flow is mostly the issue
open owl
I was still getting 70k/hr, and if you just check every once in a while and skip the single ingredient you have an excess of, you break even since those give the least in terms of points anyway
it doesn't need to be hyper optimized, it's just another layer of gameplay
shell briar
the apprentice potions are worthless, yes. But the higher tier ones are actually...
Those are dead content since none of them are worth the lye resin used to buy them.
aldarin is 690 per lye
Adept potion pack is 600 per lye
expert is a laughable 170 per lye
To be useful the potion packs need to be 1 resin type only.
open owl
when you calculate it as the gp value, sure. But that's not always the case, and the GE makes conversions for minigames much worse, because the most valuable outputs are going to straight up be the best
formal crater
I'm not really sure what they were thinking with all the useful rewards using one type of currency but giving an equal amount of the other two during the game. If there were any interesting choices while doing the minigame to prioritize one without losing efficiency it wouldn't be so bad, but there isn't. I agree, this should be changed
woeful estuary
im a no
having multiple currencies in this case means that the reward space is less design-degenerate
more thought and/or planning has to go into it
open owl
Those are dead content since none of them are worth the lye resin used to buy th...
I do agree with this though, it doesn't make sense that the low tier potions require even any high tier paste
minor mauve
mixology is just a bad minigame in general. people only use it to get 3 items and never use it again. its not even recommended in any training method. literally dead content
open owl
I wouldn't say that, herblore on an iron is directly tied to how many seeds you can get. That's why it's often the most lamped skill. 70k/hr herblore xp is not insignificant, plus it allows you to effectively convert an excess of some herbs into other potions that may be more difficult to obtain
for example, tarromin, irit, and toadflax can turn into these potions
open owl
oh, I just noticed, this also just straight up includes a 1/5 for a prayer regeneration...
the adept has a 1/8 chance for a prayer regeneration?
woeful estuary
mixology is just a bad minigame in general. people only use it to get 3 items an...
mixology is on-par with iron herb rates and completely dumpsters old uim herblore rates
unborn tangle
It's not good for pvm oriented ironman either as herblore is a joke of a skill if your pvm focused