I dont agree on 100 minutes for a flask of magic resistance, thats way to long.

@everybody- Each lucky pot cost 5 Azure dragon heart - 5 Dragon Heart and 5 Crystal dragon hear plus a lots of Suggar and clovers.. i used more than 7 Potions to get ONE semi rare.. ( crystal wand ) 10 for next one ( dragon maul from dragon ) if you guys thinks 50% more loot will repair them its wrong because this loot system is still unbalance
There is no way to get more than 50-75k ( cost of potions ) with one potion.. only if loots rate increase x10 but its just stupid

Ups sry for double post.

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I agree with deadpool here on the brewing level. I have said this since brewing came to be. Amp/vial/shot/ext... Should be duration while your brewing level should determine the % you gain from the brewing potion. If not once you reach brewing 50 there's no point to increase.

Ok K-Z, Nice Proposal, I'll first of all tell my Opnion about this feature.

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My First Impression:
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I Used to Play zezenia in 2011 and Quited, I started to play again in this Years, Saw lot of changes and one of them was the Brewing Feature.
It really suprised me, and I started to collect lot of resources and did many potions. But some time latter I saw that brewing was waste of time but still a nice Feature, just need some improvments.

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What's Brewing ?
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Well, as a experienced RPG Player, Brewing is more kind of a Profession. Same as Blacksmith, Miner, Tailor, Leather worker, or others.
in some Huge RPG Games there's Players focused in be a master in a Pofession.
They don't really mind to Increase their Level or Strenght they just want to be the best player with that profession so They'll be able to make/create the Best Itens/Potions/Equipments to help others Players.

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The Actual Point of View of Brewing in Zezenia:
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PROS:

* Pretty Nice Feature.
* If you dedicated yourself to this profession you'll be able to make itens that other can't.

CONS:

* You Need expensive ingredients to make something worth
* With Low Level of Brewing you can't create anything good
* Potions are Restrict to Specific Ingredients/Monster
* Potions are Hard to Sell
* The Advantage you get from potions is really small

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The main thing to make Brewing more Intreresting:
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As I Said before, Brewing should be treated as a Profession. What does That Means?
In Real Life, you spent lot of time to be a good professional, and the most time you dedicated to do something, you'll do it quickler with a better quality.

Converting it to Zezenia we'll have:

* No need more Ingredients to make better potions, the quality of potions will depends on your brewing level.



That will makes brewing cheaper for the players that dedicated to it.

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Some Other Small Things that could be change to decrease the Cons List:
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* Player With Low Level Brewing could be Able to Create Life/Mana Potions
- That might be better than Light or brewing potion.
* Ingredients used to make potions should be Dropped by More Monsters.
- Exemple: I'm level 85 and I don't want to hunt Crabs to make Defensive Potions.
* Create New Potions, Exemple:
- Bonus EXP Potion
- Light Colored Potion (The Ligth Could Be red, green, purple, depends of the ingredients)
- Melle/Distance/Magic Level Temporary Increase Potion
- Invisible Potion (Makes you invisble for some time)
- Ghost Potion (Makes you able to bypass Player for some time - same as happens to players lv 19 or less)
- Increase Max Life Potion
- Increase Max Mana Potion
- Teleport Temple Potion.
- Imune Potion (Makes you imune for some seconds)

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Some Big Things that could be change this scenario:
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* Create Other Professions:
- Blacksmith (Able to enchanter your equipment/weapown to Increase Attack/Defense)
- tailoring (Able to create different armor with specifiqued Atributes)

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Leech;
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Potion strength by skill is unfortunately not going to happen for technical reasons. Brewing speed and recipe learnability are the only things it will affect. Nothing says that we won't have potions that require an even higher brewing skill in the future.

Anyway, perhaps the best solution would be to make all potions the same strength (maximum strength), and the potion size would only alter the length of the potion's efficiency. What do you guys think about that?

Light potion, +5sqm light, 5-25 minute duration
Gathering speed potion, +15% speed, 5-25 minute duration
Defense potion, +15 defending, 5-25 minute duration
Life steal potion, 15% life steal, 5-25 minute duration
Expertise potion, +15% crit chance, 5-25 minute duration
Magic defense potion, +10% magic defense, 5-25 minute duration
Haste potion, +100 levels speed, 2-10 minute duration
Luck potion, +50% luck, 5-25 minute duration

Edit: I will also consider changing some of the ingredients to cheaper ones, but would prefer to not do that yet.

Consider add some useless products like Golems hearts

KZ any chance of change gathering too?

yeah , more products per gathering lvls .. no more speed

That's a rational and simple thing to do. Because, come on.... I've never seen anyone using amp/vial/shot/jar of brewable mixtures.

About changing the ingredients to cheaper potions, I'm not so sure if it's a good idea. Maybe only reducing the number of collects and leafs/beets used to brew them would be fine, because people would need to spend less time to get skill 20 which takes some time to get collecting the amount needed of crab claws (what also in my opinion brings more and more botters to the game).

The creation of potions to fill the gaps between skill 20-30, 30-40 and 40-50 would also be greatly appreciated since right now the only way to get the skill is to brew Magic defense potions, which again, brings botters to the game, because no one can stand to hunt dwarf magicians for that long, and no one is going to buy their beards because they're really expensive (this case, i know, isn't controllable by you, but i just can't help pointing it out). Furthermore, Haste potions are so expensive they're not even worth brewing (for this one, i think you could consider discarding the Bottle of rage elixir and using something easier to obtain).