World Refilling Consumables

The current problem with consumables like scrolls, potions, and meals is that you have a limited amount of charges, and once those are gone, it's gone forever. This is a problem because it discourages the use of rare ingredients like borange fluff and pride of the heights because you get a very limited use out of the item.

Something that would help would be the option of refilling consumables. Once you run out of charges, the charge counter would switch to [0/#], the texture would change to an empty bottle (possibly), and you would be unable to use it. There could be re-filler NPC in towns that will refill any potions for half of the cost of the lower-cost ingredient for both ingredients used to craft it, with the same rarity (for example, a lvl 103 potion crafted with t2 oil and t3 grains would require 3 t2 dernic oil and 3 t3 dernic grains since you need 6 oil to craft it, and that's less than 12 dernic grains). It's a bit expensive, but better than crafting a whole new potion.

 

I have to say crafted consumables can easily be very broken and essentially carry you through content. they feel more like something you spend time crafting so you can annihilate a strong boss rather than something you make to hold on to and explore with. games like the Atelier series are built around this concept.

a situation where refilling works well in wynn is warring. wars right now are basically about getting a ton of friends from your guild super powerful then to slay a ton of mobs.

consumables aren't supposed to be something you make to have then refill when needed, they're consumable buffs that will temporarily make you super powerful in the stats you decided to focus on. if you could just refill them at any time for a much cheaper cost, there would also be less demand on the market for them, which would be counterproductive to what the economy update was aimed to do.

 

Flowers hit it all for the most part. That's why they are consumables. They are designed to be used up.

 

OK I see, it's just that some super rare ingredients, like poth and borange buff, are a bit underwhelming since they can be used in other professions for a much more permanent effect and simply are not worth the benefit in consumables, discouraging the use of these ingredients.

 

I don't think it's that great of an idea to be able to repair these. Consumables themselves are basically cheat codes for the game that make it so much easier sometimes to the point of it being a joke (on some bosses and such). Also, consumables have a base of 3 charges, and that can be extended by several more charges AS WELL AS more duration if you really don't want to craft new stuff. I could maybe see a bit of a duration increase to scribing and maaaaybe alchemism, but definitely not another charge or making them repairable/refillable or whatever.

 

I actually don't mind this idea, I've very surprised I've never heard about this before lol. I think it would be a bit too OP to have only half the ingredients though as other people have said but maybe to save space with the normal health potions you could refill one for half the highest priced shop cost of emeralds for them. I do like this idea and it does make sense but the way you put it out would be a bit broken I'm afraid, but I do really appreciate the effort you put to share this well done!

 

Maybe every time you refilled it the stats would get worse so eventually it would be better to just make a new one.