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Description: Nightsight potions
dispel darkness and make your surrounding appear as bright
as day. You can use them at night (If you are afraid of
the dark) or in dungeons, where it is impossible to see
without a light source. There's only one variety of Nightsight
potion, and it lasts from the time you drink it until the
dawn of a new day.
Advantages: Why would you want to
use a Night Sight Potion?
- No Mana Loss. Save your mana
for offense, or for a quick get-away.
- No Magery Skill Required. With
the mages' spell "Nightsight," the amount of light created
depends on the magery skill of the target of the
spell. Thus someone without much magery gains very little
benefit. A Nightsight potion creates an equal amount of
light for everyone who uses them.
- Lower Cost. You can save alot
of money on reagents if you mix your own Night Sight Potions
[See the Tactics section
below for more information on this]
- No Noteriety Loss. You can give
them to friends or strangers of lower notoriety, and they
can see again. You do not need to cast a Night Sight spell
on them and lower your own noteriety.
- No Unequipping. Since you can
drink potions with one handed weapons and bows, you have
no need to sheath your weapon. Simply reach back into
your pack and grab a potion and keep fighting. Most of
us are not as effective fighting in the dark.
Limitations: There has to be a catch.
Here are some limitations of the Night Sight Potion:
- Brightness.The light provided
by the nightsight potion is not as bright as the light
provide by the night sight spell, if the magery
of the target is fairly high --the potion provides the
same amount of light to all. For a comparison between
the Nightsight Potion and various other light sources,
see the Light
Sources page.
- Light Till Dawn.Because the duration
of this potion (the spell works the same way) is not from
the time you drink it, but until a specific time in the
future, it is possible to quaff a night sight potion,
and 5 seconds later have dawn arrive. If you are in a
dungeon then, you will need to drink another one. This
is only (potentially) a problem when you first enter the
dungeon; after that you will get the full use.
Tactics: So, how do you best use
Night Sight potions? Here are some tips to try:
- Carry about 4 with you when you go into
a dungeon. The amount of mana that you save by using Nightsight
potions is rather small, but the players who are the best
at combat use every little advantage that they can get.
Someday that litle edge in mana may save your life.
- This
Tactic is brought to you by Prospero of Napa
With out any doubt this is the most
fundamentally cost reducing potion in the game for EVERYONE.
Every time I see the words IN LOR I cringe and the money
that just went up in a cloud of smoke. I encourage EVERYONE
to own 4 bottles, a few pieces of silk and a mortar.
Keep it in the bank, and crank out 4 nightsight potions
every time you head for the dungeons. There is ABSOLUTELY
NO DRAWBACK to this method, and in the long run it will
save you from squandering hundreds if not thousands
of gold needlessly. [ed. note: not that we consider
the purchase of potions wasting money, just the needless
casting of spells] Casting IN LOR will cost you
mana plus 2 reagents each time you cast it. Making your
own Night Sight potions will cost you no mana and only
one reagent for each one that you make (after your initial
investment in one Pestle and four bottels which you
will reuse). Consider this, the BEST price for that
extra reagent, Sulfurouse Ash, is 3 Gold. Each trip
to the dungeon you easily cast Night Sight 4 times.
3 x 4 = 12. (On a good night you will visit either the
same dungeon or others at least 5-8 times.)
8 x 12 = 96. 96 gold wasted in one night.
96 x 7 = 672 a week
672 x 4 = 2688 a month I don't know about you but I'd
rather not be loosing 2.5k a month if I don't have to.
Because anyone can make this potion it will not be a
factor in throwing off your skill cap (far too low to
worry about).
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