Potions, Lizards, and I can't sleep

KochDerDamonen

The Culprits

Truly Superb Glyph of Magicka Recovery - Adds 169 Magicka recovery
Truly Superb Glyph of Potion Speed - Reduce the cooldown of potions below this item's level by 5 seconds
Distillate of Magicka - Restore 7103 Magicka immediately (cp100, crafted stats. unfortunately cannot use common looted potions or cp150 ones in general)
Resourceful - Whenever you drink a potion you restore 12% of your maximum health, magicka and stamina

Argonians have no inherent buff to magicka regeneration or stamina regeneration, these values can have different worth with champion points and class taken into account but I can't sleep so maybe I'll take those into account later, or maybe not. Magicka can be substituted for stamina effectively, the inherent difference being that Argonians get +3% maximum magicka but no bonus to stamina. Health will have different values, and I'm not interested in looking into that at this time.

Magicka Recovery x 3 = 507 Magicka Recovery
Potion Speed x 3 = -15 seconds potion cooldown, amounting to 30 second cooldowns

12% of ||||||| 20k = 2400 | 30k = 3600 | 40k = 4800
divide 15 ||| 160 ||||||||||||| 240 ||||||||||||| 320
7103 / 15 || 473.53
eff. 'regen' | 633 ||||||||||||| 713 ||||||||||||| 793

That would be, 12% of max magicka/stamina for the passive. Division by 15 because of the 30 second cooldown, and recovery being calculated per 2 seconds for the sake of comparison.

Well, I didn't expect it to be equivalent, or better considering the passive effects all resources at once but that's quite an investment for a bit over half the regeneration. This gets worse as you realize that this number will remain static unless you increase the magicka/stamina, whilst the regeneration can be upped by class and champion point passives. Additionally you have to use potions off cooldown, which is going to cost a large amount of materials/gold and will cannibalize buff timers. Sure it comes out higher with the potion's magicka counted for, and not including the regeneration buff inherent therein, you have access to higher magicka returns from using a cp150 potion and don't have to use it off cooldown for regeneration.

Really the most unfortunate part of these glyphs is the requirement of a lower levelled potion, disqualifying looted at-level potions which would be lovely, cheap, even if it did have lower magicka return and no secondary effects. It still wouldn't be very good, but it would be pleasant and interesting at least. I'm actually not clear on why these glyphs only work on lower level potions still. The only reasons you might have in the game to use these glyphs would be to synergize with the Argonian Resourceful passive or Clever Alchemist set (661 damage on a 50% uptime still isn't consistent enough for pve).

BlanketFort

Heeeey... interesting thread!

On a side-note completely unrelated to your post: My eyes itched after reading your name. Why? Why did you go for "Damonen" instead of "Daemonen" (Dämonen)? Whyyyyyyyyyy?

Cheers.

KochDerDamonen

BlanketFort wrote: »

Heeeey... interesting thread!

On a side-note completely unrelated to your post: My eyes itched after reading your name. Why? Why did you go for "Damonen" instead of "Daemonen" (Dämonen)? Whyyyyyyyyyy?

Cheers.

Haha, well when I was in middle school or so I played a lot of xbox and my relationship with German was something phonetically similar with moogle branflakes. Name stuck

I'm planning on accounting for other stats in either an attempt to see the whole value of the Resourceful passive and/or a deeper relationship with the regeneration buffs in the game. Although checking against the regeneration buffs seems useless, as it would just repeat the existing pattern but even more in favor of the regeneration!

WalksonGraves

Synergises great with nb ultimate from pots passive. The alchemy enchantments are never good enough to seriously consider since the cooldown reduction one is made worthless due to the restrictions. Actually now that I think of it the Argonian/nb passives are better than the pot effects I should try chugging...

KochDerDamonen

WalksonGraves wrote: »

Synergises great with nb ultimate from pots passive. The alchemy enchantments are never good enough to seriously consider since the cooldown reduction one is made worthless due to the restrictions. Actually now that I think of it the Argonian/nb passives are better than the pot effects I should try chugging...

Heh, yeah it's quite annoying that something niche is so lackluster even if you stack everything that should synergize with it.

RAGUNAnoOne

The worst part you can only use ONE potion cooldown glyph/other effect unless it was fixed fixed