Archive:Alchemy system

Alchemy is a crafting discipline which converst herbs into potions.

Herbs

Herbs exist in different colors:

red (common)

Red herbs have healing powers and thus are the base for all potions which recover hit points.

yellow (common)

While having no powers on their own yellow herbs can be used to potentiate the powers of other herbs but also make them work over a longer period of time.

blue (uncommon)

Blue herbs suck up mana energy while growing. Potions brewed from them cause a sudden boost to spell recharge.

green (uncommon)

Green herbs have healing and purifying properties. They are the base for potions which remove or protect fro status effects.

black (rare)

Black herbs are cursed with demonic energy. They can be used to create very powerful potion but every potion brewed with them also has a negative side effect.

purple (rare)

Purple herbs cause very weird effects. They are usually for entertainment purpose. Their practical use is usually low.

Herbs of every color also come in different quality grades. The better the quality of the herbs the better the resulting potion.

Formulas

All these potions also exist in different quality grades which are determinded by the quality of the used herbs. The higher the sum of the quality of the herbs and the rarer the herbs the harder are they to craft.

In addition to the herbs listed here each potion also requires an empty potion bottle (small bottle for one-herb potions, medium bottle for two-herb potions and large bottle for three-herb potions). In contrary to most other MMORPGs the empty bottles can be reused after drinking the potion (yes, we recycle).

Category	Formula	Name	Effect
HP Recovery	red	Healing tincture	Instantly recovers HP
	red + red	Healing drink	1.5 x as effective as a healing tincture.
	red + yellow	Recovery drink	3 x as effective as a healing tincture but does not recover instantly but over a short amount of time.
	red + red + red	Healing potion	2 x as effective as a healing tincture.
	red + red + yellow	Recovery potion	4 x as effective as a healing tincture but does not recover instantly but over a short amount of time.
	red + black	Cursed healing drink	4x as effective as a healing tincture but causes a loss of hp over time which will eventually take 6x the hp of a healing tincture.
	red + red + black	Cursed healing potion	6x as effective as a healing tincture but causes a loss of hp over time which will eventually take 12x the hp of a healing tincture.
Spell recharge	blue	Magic tincture	Instant boost to the recovery state of all currently recharged spells (divided through the number of recharged spells)
	blue + blue	Magic drink	1.5 x as effective as a magic tincture.
	blue + yellow	Flow drink	3 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time.
	blue + blue + blue	Magic potion	2 x as effective as a magic tincture.
	blue + blue + yellow	Flow potion	4 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time
	blue + black	Cursed magic drink	4x as effective as a magic tincture but completely stops magic recovery for a short amount of time.
	blue + blue + black	Cursed magic potion	6x as effective as a magic tincture but completely stops magic recovery for a long amount of time.
	blue + yellow + black	Cursed flow potion	10 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time. When this period is over all spells are instantly discharged and spell recovery is completely stopped for a short amount of time.
Effect recovery	green + green	Antidote	Chance to remove "poison" status effects.
	green + red	Medicine	Chance to remove "plague" status effects.
	green + blue	Nerve tonic	Chance to remove "insanity" status effects.
	green + yellow	Holy water	Chance to remove "curse" status effects.
	green + black	Wonder Drug	Chance to remove any status effect but also lowers resistance against all status effects for a considerable amount of time.
Effect protection	green + green + yellow	Immunity Potion	Increases resistance against "poison" status effects.
	green + red + yellow	Vaccine	Increases resistance against "plague" status effects.
	green + blue + yellow	Sanity Potion	Increases resistance against "insanity" status effects.
	green + yellow + yellow	Soul Potion	Increases resistance against "curse" status effects.
	green + black + yellow	Anti-Magic Potion	Increases resistance against all status effects, including positive ones.
Other	purple	Halucination potion	Causes halucination status effect (the user sees monsters which don't exist)
	purple + red	Polymorph Potion	Makes the user look like a monster for a moderate amount of time.
	purple + yellow	Surprise Potion	Causes the effect of a random potion.
	purple + blue	Warp potion	Teleports the user to a random city.
	purple + green	Anti-Depressant Potion	Makes the user spam emoticons and inserts random smilies in the users chat messages for a moderate amount of time.
	purple + black	Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster	Very strong alcoholic beverage.