I don't mind that stacking, though what prevents someone from buying and drinking 200 potions to 'never' have to worry about the timer on them?
Easy! Reset the Counter on Death, or when you start the game new.
You could also have a cap. Maybe the max. timer for a buff can be 10 minutes and each potion gives just the Fine Taste Bonus of time. Or something like that.
The idea that you can just chug a ton of potions to make the bonus spiral out of control seems like an odd one. Difficulty on a boss? Throw all your gold at potions and kill it in one hit.
I think you missunderstood.
Cheynas and
Me are talking about the buff duration and not the stat bonus. Sorry if that wasn't totally clear. I suggested that drinking 200 Potions gives you duration*200 while the stat bonus stays the same and
Cheynas had doubts about people running around with 20 hour buffs for every potion.
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The normal potion gives +10% on the stat for 60 seconds.
Fine Taste raises the potion duration by 10%, so each Level gives +6 seconds.
What if we reduce standard duration of potions to 30 seconds and naturally have no stackability.
What if
Fine Taste enables stacking and:
Each Level could give +(4, 8, 12, 16, 20) seconds stacking effect. So even on Level 5 you never get the full 30 seconds of the first potion.
A Small (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)% boost which will be added to the initial 10% so the perk makes potion just a little better.
And the duration cap gets raised by 54 seconds per level. On the maximum level you can have a 30s+(54s*5) =300s=5min stack
On a strength potion with a level 5
Fine Taste perk, i would get +15%dmg for 30 seconds and would be able to drink additional potions for +20 seconds of duration to a maximum of 5 minutes. (Needs 14 additional potions if you chug them super fast)
When you reduce the time bonus given to 3 per level (3, 6, 9, 12, 15), you'd need around 18 potions to get a 5 minute buff.
--> This would lead to stacking to be unlockable through this perk and you can stack up to five minutes, and also a very small
stat boost boost making the potions even more useful.
Or Stacking is possible as a default and the normal cap is 60 seconds, where additional potions give 3 seconds of stacked effect and every perk level gives 3 extra seconds
(6, 9, 12, 15, 18) and the cap is just raised by 48seconds per level
60s+(48s*5) =300s=5min stack
--> This would lead to a little duration stacking which is always possible but with the perk you can stack up to five minutes, get better stacking per potion ratio, and also a very small
stat boost boost making the potions even more useful.
