2025-02-23 11:06
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Exactly the same as a Greater Agility Potion - but a 1 hour buff, instead of 3 minutes.
This buff is too short for playability, the fact it is one of the most scripted functions backs this up.
The logic? Looking at my mage for example, there are 70 hotkeys I am using to play this character.
To have to maintain this buff every 3 minutes is painful, when you are doing everything else. So people script it.
Giving a Superior Agility Potion (and Str and other relevant potions), would enhance gameplay, and in fact make less need for scripting, therefore nullify the entire point of scripting in this case. You have to look at why players script, and usually, their reasons are quite legitimate and are down to perceived game weaknesses. A 3 minute cooldown 20 years ago, was fine, when there were only 5 consumables and 60 spells to use, now there are 20 odd consumables, with cooldowns, and counters, and far more spell schools, masteries, and special abilities, some of the lower end functionality needs to be made easier.
So - some fun ways to bring Superior Agility potions into the game?
Or, make re-applying Greater Agility potions - legally?
1. In Classic Client Macro options where you set the macro use agility potion - add another option behind it - {Use automatically in X Minutes}. Just that 1 option built into classic, gets rid of the need to script. With this function built into Classic, nothing else is needed, not even a Superior Agility Potion.
2. Make Superior Agility Potions a Bod reward for alchemists, or make them craftable by alchemists completing 100 Greater Agility potions as the ingredient.
3. I've often said there should be some rewards for Knight of all 8 Virtues. If you are worried about "balance", have these high end potions craftable by Alchemists, then only usable by Avatars (Knights of all 8 Virtues). What this would do for game balance is ensure not every character can use them instantly. To get the 8 Virtues requires commitment to a character - it is a Main character, and therefore qualified to use a Superior Agility Potion. In general, botters are not committed to playing a character so much (they are built using quick and easy - hence sampires), if players achieve Avatar status, it would get rid of these complaints. Yet ultimate pvpers, and pvmers are interested in being an Avatar.
This buff is too short for playability, the fact it is one of the most scripted functions backs this up.
The logic? Looking at my mage for example, there are 70 hotkeys I am using to play this character.
To have to maintain this buff every 3 minutes is painful, when you are doing everything else. So people script it.
Giving a Superior Agility Potion (and Str and other relevant potions), would enhance gameplay, and in fact make less need for scripting, therefore nullify the entire point of scripting in this case. You have to look at why players script, and usually, their reasons are quite legitimate and are down to perceived game weaknesses. A 3 minute cooldown 20 years ago, was fine, when there were only 5 consumables and 60 spells to use, now there are 20 odd consumables, with cooldowns, and counters, and far more spell schools, masteries, and special abilities, some of the lower end functionality needs to be made easier.
So - some fun ways to bring Superior Agility potions into the game?
Or, make re-applying Greater Agility potions - legally?
1. In Classic Client Macro options where you set the macro use agility potion - add another option behind it - {Use automatically in X Minutes}. Just that 1 option built into classic, gets rid of the need to script. With this function built into Classic, nothing else is needed, not even a Superior Agility Potion.
2. Make Superior Agility Potions a Bod reward for alchemists, or make them craftable by alchemists completing 100 Greater Agility potions as the ingredient.
3. I've often said there should be some rewards for Knight of all 8 Virtues. If you are worried about "balance", have these high end potions craftable by Alchemists, then only usable by Avatars (Knights of all 8 Virtues). What this would do for game balance is ensure not every character can use them instantly. To get the 8 Virtues requires commitment to a character - it is a Main character, and therefore qualified to use a Superior Agility Potion. In general, botters are not committed to playing a character so much (they are built using quick and easy - hence sampires), if players achieve Avatar status, it would get rid of these complaints. Yet ultimate pvpers, and pvmers are interested in being an Avatar.
