Feedback - new alchemy changes
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My personal feedback on the alchemy changes. They seem kind of overboard now. The ingredient numbers are extreme. I believe it looked like 5 essences of power for one bulls strength potion, which means 5 cranberry juices, which means like 40 cranberries for one potion. 5 essences for one is kind of extreme imo. I also tried the barkskin potions, and ended up getting 4 potions for 20 birch barks, in addition to 20 gem dusts and 10 hazelnut oils.
In addition to that, the thing with the gem dust before, there is now the added ingredients which are more of the same problem - basically more gem dusts. The addition of some ingredients seems to just be similar to adding more gem dusts. There were gem dusts available in the market before, and now alchemy requires alchemical reagents, which to me seemed to be the gem dusts before. But now they need both. My suggestion would be to get rid of the gem dusts, as the alchemical reagents are stackable and the crates have been made. That would make it less cumbersome for alchemists getting ingredients at the stores. But right now, gem dusts and alchemical reagents seem to be the same thing, but also are both needed. Those two things being needed at the same time seems extreme.
It seems to be the case that alchemy might have been too quick before, but this change made alchemy completely inefficient and extreme. I'd rather get prestige points for barkskins now, and I'd rather just make pies for bulls strength and cats grace now, rather than make both when I can. That is a lot of cranberries, and a lot of birch barks for just that few amount of potions.
Just my feedback from a quick making of some potions and looking over bulls strength and cats grace ingredient list now. The number of essences per potion seems to need an edit. The gem dusts seem to just add to the ingrendients list now that there are reagents, which are stackable. I'm fine with grape juice and hazelnut oil, as some of it before was dependent on cooking, but cooking and gem dusts with reagents seems to be quite cumbersome. I'd like - essences, cooking, reagents needed for alchemy.
It seems the changes worked at least. It's fun to see things changing. Happy to help with feedback. Thanks for everything!
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The changes so far as I understand were only really meant to add a gold price to the potions.
@Echo would know more.
I would point you to the discord channel and there is a forum you can join to be involved in changes before they go live.
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Changes to alchemy were implemented some time ago. Forgot to mark this as done.
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Moved from Suggestions by
Echo
