Mixin’ Masta

This is a short guide to explain some things a good potion maker and culitvator should have. Keep in mind this is my view and your may vary slightly or even alot from what is written below.

Indentifying potions:

As a good potion mixer you will have to know what the potion you make does, the best way is to read the tooltip but when time is precious, heres a list of prefixes that are used with the potion. All potions heal for the same, the tooltip will say 1860 over 12 seconds for a normal potion and 2325 over 15 seconds for an enduring, if you use simple ratio you will see they both heal for 155 per second. I exclude the volitile ones because they are simply horrible!

Fleeting – Your potion doesn’t last very long! Only lasts for 6 seconds.

Brief – Oops! You did a minor mistake! Lasts for 9 seconds.

None – Your potion is perfect! Lasts for 12 seconds.

Enduring – Ooh! You have made something out of the ordinary! Lasts for 15 seconds.

Lasting – Wow! You’ve created a masterpiece. Lasts 18 seconds.

Creating The Best Potions:

Good potions are created by good apothecarists. This will include knowing what each ingredient does. Sure, the tooltip tells you the basic information but as a potion makers you will have to work out other uses for the ingredient many include. I found from experience that potions increasing the amount of potions being made, especially spore ingredients, tend to stabilize the potions as well. This is not as strong as water or resin stabilizers but it helps if you’re using 2 waters. The third water might make it a definite potion but a spore might also do the trick and lets you pocket and extra potion along with it!

Try experimenting different combinations and try to keep a record of what potions do come out of what ingredients.

Seed Indentification:

Keeping a record of all the ingredients that come out a seed is important sometimes. Knowing what seed produces what means you can be very efficient in buying seeds off the auction house to make powerful concotions!

Sometimes you should also keep note of the rare seeds like Jack o Lanterns and the possible spores they grow into.

Keep a Storage:

For me, I use my bank as a seed library, I cultivate all my seeds and then deposit them in banks at regular intervals. This is a great way to catalog all your seeds that you have gotten over your adventures. There are a couple of ways that you could organise your bank to store your seeds or plants.

One is to put them in order of what they do, cluster up all the firebreathing plants aside and do for all. With seeds the only real way to organise them without the knowledge of what they will produce is to put them in alphabectical order, not by the first section of their name (for Wiry Thief’s Nettle Seed – file this under Thief’s nettle and not wiry).

Addons:

Addons help with cultivating alot and some even help you feed your seed with nutrients and such. Some I am currently using:

AutoHarvest – Helps you by putting a button that says add nutrients / water / soil depending on what phase the plant is in.

Jardiland – Records what plants seeds grow into. Very useful and I suggest this to ALL characters with cultivation.

PlantMe – Provides an on-screen box with information about plant growth and allows you to do everything to your plant without having the big annoying cultivation screen up.

All the addons can be found on Curse.com!