Change alchemy, no more healing, make it be larpy effects

[Nightdawg]

Alchemy is retarded. We already have enough medicine, and alchemy can be extremely overpowered.

Alchemy healing bum burns is literally undoing the nerf you added to pepper, making it pointless.
Alchemy being RNG is cancer (for a mechanic that can literally put your fighter back on his feet 2 seconds after being almost mortally wounded).

Here's my suggestion:
Instead of alchemy being medicine/stat buffs, make it be some goofy larpy stuff, for example:

- Clientside effects on the player's screen. Like drugs, they only make your screen move funny or some shit
- In game effects visible for everyone else. Like making the hearthling glow, or some thing like that.
- Hair growth acceleration. Your hair grows faster.
- Size increase/decrease. Make your hearthling look taller/shorter (WITHOUT AFFECTING THE ACTUAL SIZE OF THE HITBOX). Wait, now that I think about this, someone will demand more character customization, so maybe forget about this one. It's been 7 years since you mentioned you'll add black hair anyway.
- Make your eyes glow some color, depending on ingredients
- Make your hair switch hue, randomly
- Gender swap potion, you are now bodytype2

None of these effects affect pvp, stats, or the industry grind. I hope you catch my drift.
Just more funny stuff that isn't overpowered, but rather some goofy larpy stuff.

Thanks.

[abt79]

This is what alchemy should always have been, however devs couldn’t help fiddling with systems they don’t remotely understand because “might be neat”

doubtful we’re getting any patches in the near future, much less fixes to old broken gameplay systems, but this would be a good thing to prioritize. Nerf whales down to a similar larpy thing while you’re at it (better oil for lanterns, for instance).

[SnuggleSnail]

add a keybind to swill potions

[DonVelD]

Alchemy healing bum burns is literally undoing the nerf you added to pepper, making it pointless.

Doesn't it heal it super slow? Tho absolutely +1 to the thread, could be fun.

[Nightdawg]

Alchemy healing bum burns is literally undoing the nerf you added to pepper, making it pointless.

Doesn't it heal it super slow? Tho absolutely +1 to the thread, could be fun.

pfft, you got the wrong recipe brother (PROVES MY FUCKING POINT ABOUT RNG)