To clarify my comment - in trials - 100% on cooldowns. Overland - very rarely, maybe when up against a world boss. Its not really an always situation

Depends on the content but the answer is always yes.

I use buff potions but only when doing actual content such as trials or vDungons or vArenas

100% in trials.

Never in overland.

Should I use potions instead of wasting 2 skill spots? Yes. Do I use tripots anyway for sustain and due to crafting materials? Also yes.

Always has the magic or stamina potions you get as drops from mobs slotted, use them if resource get low, has more advanced potions I use if things get serious like dying on an world boss or having problem in a dungeon or in Cyrodil.

Not as often as the food buff which is 100%s, but potions are completely integeral to my PvP build as I run Clever Alchemist.

They're not only a return on resources and better stamina/magicka efficiency (I run tri-pots), but they're what I pop before I go into my burst for that 600+ spell and weapon damage from Clever Alchemist.

I use them basically on CD in difficult content, but only rarely in easy stuff. Most of the times I just heavy attack to gain back resources since slowing down doesn't matter in that content.

Early on I found I used them so infrequently that when I actually need them I didn't remember to use them when I needed them so I ditched them to save bag space.

I don't want to spend my gold to spam them for buffs and I don't like the design. To me, potions are for when someone screws up to save them from failure not something you chug non-stop for an edge.

In my view it also creates balance challenges as it creates separation between players in both stats and experience.

If I want to have Major Sorcery and Major Prophecy I'm either giving up a bar for Oakensoul, equipping two sets with five piece bonuses that give them to me, or using up 2-3 slots on them and using 1-2 active abilities to keep them up.

Meanwhile, the person using Spell Power Pots just needs to use a pot on cooldown and the pot lasts longer than the active abilities.

I probably use potions more routinely than food or drinks, but I have no idea if I use them more often. I keep healing potions and others I think would be useful for the character in their inventory and on the quick slot wheel then use them as and when I notice I need them.

I don't do vet dungeons or trials or whatever so I've never thought about constantly spamming potions as soon as they come off cooldown, I just use them when I know I need the effect.

Only when soloing world bosses and vet content.

Trials, Vet Dungeons, otherwise its situational.

On my main, I have tripots and stam+weapon power+crit pots slotted, and on alt tripots, stam+power+crit and mag+power+crit pots slotted. I already have a muscle memory of pressing Q every 45 seconds, and only swap to tripots on overland and in normal difficulty content. I don't chug potions if I'm harvesting, travelling or doing writs, but if I engage some enemies, chugging it is. (I know it's a muscle memory since chugging kinda just happens without thinking about it)

The poll severely suffers from not distinguishing between types of content, and from the assumption that potions are merely used to restore resources.

I don't use potions when doing overland stuff, or only very rarely for world bosses and stuff like that, and also not very often in normal dungeons/trials.

But I use them very frequently for veteran dungeons and trials, sometimes close to 100% (also depending on the role).

And strategically in PvP - nowhere near to 100% (because you don't need a potion when playing horse simulator in Cyrodiil), but when they're important.

And I assume many are using them similarly, and several people have said so. But they tend to interpret the choices very differently, and so did I - I had no idea what to choose, and so decided go with the interpretation "harder content = bad situation".

Which means, in the end, that the poll results are somewhat meaningless. The most common use of potions will be spread over at least three options.

If my main resource is runny low, yes. Also in harder vet content.