Dumb Questions about Potions and Farming Potions

[Alisha.Banshee]

I have read a lot about the hackers getting large number of potions. What exactly is a potion? Are there different kinds? How are they used? Where do I see them in the menus? How do I get them? Is there any thread that discusses this that I can reference?

Thanks for your help,
Alisha
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[Dogs Pizza]

this was from the drop quest before the last war. they are gone now.

[Alexius]

Potions were part of an LTQ that had several different attributes to them. One of these was the Cactus Potion which added a 1%cp bonus per potion good for the previous war only. People have farmed upwards of 700 of them. Some hackers found a way to get 199,999 of them without a high powered weapon which is highly suspect because the top gem players only got 700 or so farming 24/7.

[AvatarTBS]

These aren't dumb questions at all.

This is exactly what I've been taking issue with. Gree launches a new "feature" which seriously impacts future gaming, and does not explain to the players what is is or what it does. Yes, I appreciate the folks that have posted the line from the third paragraph of an announcement buried with a hundred other stickied announcements whose title doesn't even remotely suggest it will explain "potions", dated May 23 yet only seeing its real effects until this past weekend.

But the fact of the matter is that this information was not released to all the players, just a vague hint of it to the small percentage of people who happen to read this forum and read that specific line in that specific post. What these potions are, and particularly WHAT THEY DO, was spread around by word of mouth, to players in their own guild. Not "trial and error and oh gee let's explore my inventory to see what this does". I call absolute BS on that. The quest in game NEVER suggested that there was any point collecting these stupid random-drop potions beyond having enough to progress to the next level.

Gree did not share information to the players of this game, as usual. And as usual, those lucky enough to be in the know benefitted, and everyone else did not. Then those that knew took advantage of that knowledge and pushed it far beyond what it was meant to be used for.

Gree is at fault, both for intentionally failing to communicate with their players, and by not simply placing a level cap on the maximum number of each potion each player is allowed.