Brewing

Brewing
Brewing is a skill concerning the creation of brews, potions, and other beneficial items. Often times, these items  provide a short special effect or stat boost, which makes them useful both for combat and peaceful skills.

All items made with the brewing skill require ingredients. Low level potions usually require organic substances like fruits and flowers. Similarly to magic essences, as the brews get more powerful, the ingredients also become more expensive and rare. Low level ingredients may include dandelions or mushrooms, while high leveled ingredients can be expensive ores or monster drops.

All potions must be crafted with a glass vial of small, medium, or large size. Glass vials can be made using the Crafting skill. Upon consuming a potion, the vial of the potion is returned to the player. Larger containers require more ingredients and also have a longer cooldown time.

Potions have cooldown times to balance their effectivness. For example, after drinking a small health potion, players must wait a ten second cooldown before consuming another. For this reason, players can not rely only on potions to defend themselves in battle.

Brewing is a relatively cheap skill to take on, as the ingredients in low leveled potions or very often widely available. Players wanting to make high leveled potions, however, must either spend a lot of money on expensive ingredients, or hunt down the items themselves, making a general knowledge of the world and a high combat level very useful for finding high level potion ingredients.

Potions' special effects can include speed, skill, or combat value bonuses. Speed potions can increase the speed of mining operations or military movements, and they are a cheap alternative to horses. Potions can also increase experience gain up to 10% for a short time period.

Types of Potions
Please note that potions have a temporary duration, unless stated otherwise.


 * 1    Stat Increase Potions - Increase level in specific skill(s) for a small duration.
 * 2     Resistance Potions - Increases armor resistance to a specific elemental damage type.
 * 3     Experience Potions - Increases net experience gain by up to 10% for a specific skill.
 * 4     Damage Potions - Increases damage done for a specific weapon type (bows, melee, etc).
 * 5     Permanent Potions - Exceedingly rare potions that have permanent effects.
 * 6     Quest Potions - Potions made in certain quests; quest items.                                                 
 * 7     Misc. Potions - Potions that have effects other than the types above.

Sizes of Potions
Potions can be made using one of the three types of glasses. They are as follows;


 * 1) Vial; single use
 * 2) Flask; two uses
 * 3) Bottle; three uses

When a potion's last dose is consumed, the original bottle used in its creation is returned to the user.