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How often does your party use a potion of healing
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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7600662" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>If you do the math, drinking a potion during combat is almost always a waste of an action. The exceptions to this rule are:</p><p>1) It's one of the higher-level potions, and you are lower level.</p><p>2) You're in a safe position, and can't do much to help the group this turn anyway.</p><p>3) You are not drinking it; you're pouring it down the gullet of an unconscious ally, so that they regain consciousness.</p><p></p><p>The math on point 1) is as follows: If the hit points you get back from drinking the potion exceed the amount of damage the enemies are going to deal you next round AND that amount of damage would be enough to drop you to 0 AND (living another round without attacking is useful like because of opportunity attacks or something OR you can heal enough to live for two rounds so you can spend the second one attacking), then you should drink the potion. This is a pretty difficult calculation for a player to perform in the middle of combat, but the general gist is that unless it's a superior or supreme potion you shouldn't even consider it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7600662, member: 12377"] If you do the math, drinking a potion during combat is almost always a waste of an action. The exceptions to this rule are: 1) It's one of the higher-level potions, and you are lower level. 2) You're in a safe position, and can't do much to help the group this turn anyway. 3) You are not drinking it; you're pouring it down the gullet of an unconscious ally, so that they regain consciousness. The math on point 1) is as follows: If the hit points you get back from drinking the potion exceed the amount of damage the enemies are going to deal you next round AND that amount of damage would be enough to drop you to 0 AND (living another round without attacking is useful like because of opportunity attacks or something OR you can heal enough to live for two rounds so you can spend the second one attacking), then you should drink the potion. This is a pretty difficult calculation for a player to perform in the middle of combat, but the general gist is that unless it's a superior or supreme potion you shouldn't even consider it. [/QUOTE]
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