LOL I’m doing this right now in BG3. I think Shadowheart is trucking around with about 400 potions of every thing conceivable. And Gale has a bag of a thousand scrolls.
Don’t forget every magical staff , necklace, and ring that casts a spell.
Will I ever use Create Water from the Rain Dancer? Probably not, especially with Shadowheart lugging around more than a dozen bottles of water. But what if I really need it?
Glad I’m not the only one whose Gale has a dragon hoard of scrolls. No matter that half the party and Tav has dark sight, I might need that dark sight scroll!!
LOL I feel called out and seen at the same time. One of us!
So what you’re saying is I’ll never actually need it and it’s just for players trying to make the game easier
And that if I use it I’ll be without it in the presumably increasing difficulty to come
Worse. The game is Pathfinder 2e, the GM is following WBL, and if you use that healing potion - or literally any consumable ever - you can’t sell it to get your +1 striking rune a little earlier.
Final boss fights are for experimentation. “Well, I don’t think I’ll need these five thousand items, what does this do?”
What if it wasnt actually the final boss? Or you used all your items in the first of 5 stages?
Restore the game to before I used them all, get through the first five stages, and then go back to experimenting on stage six.
Heck, forget rare items, I even hoard stuff thst isn’t rare. The only thing I use most of the time are things that cure ailments, healkng stuff and revive pots when needed.
But I also have the tendency to overlvel so I don’t need much else. Why use strategy when raw firepower does the job?
But I might need 99 of every potion for the last boss!
Potions that you’ll never be able to use because you keep getting nearly KO’d every other round, so only elixirs will do…
Someone played final fantasy…
Can’t buy ether. Never use them just in case.
Reminds me of when I finished the first Max Payne.
I was all kitted out. Rocket launchers, full deagles, you name it. I used my little starter pistol all throughout this fight on the tower that I thought was leading up to the very end… only to have credits roll while I sat that there with a full fat armory of gloriously destruction - forever unused.
I’m really bad with this in games. I even hoarded iron back when I still played Minecraft simply because it was a resource I couldn’t infinitely produce.
Cobblestone generator = use only cobblestone tools
there are iron farms though…
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SMH damn kids don’t even know about the before times when leaves didn’t despawn on their own and minecraft cost less than $10
I’m a proud 10€ alpha version buyer. There was no hunger bar nack then and mushroom stew was the shit.
It’s a shame Notch completely detached from his creation, tho.
It’s not a shame, Notch completely detached himself from reality.
AFAIK, Notch got burntout with the project because it got too big and aside of that he had some PR fuckups.
Didn’t he drop a hard R while saying that only white people should vote? I am as anti-cancel cultures the next rational person, but you deserve to be detached from more than just a video game if you pull that in a public forum.
Remember Herobrine and all the love songs for him right at the beginning of beta?
Automatic Villager-Farm remembers.
And food did not stack in the inventory.
He detached from reality not too much later in so it’s probably for the best.
Lol I still do this cobblestone tools are free iron just doesn’t feel consistent enough. Though I am trying a new mining strategy we will see if that improves it.
I don’t want to tell you how to play your game, but I will say that diamond is well worth the effort, even if you don’t want to get it the easy way with villagers. The amount of time you will save using diamond will more than make up for the time spent mining, and make you resent all the time you’ve wasted using stone. Just dig a tunnel down to y -59 and strip mine, you never need to see a mob or get lost in a cave if you don’t want to. A normal level 30 enchant with efficiency 4 and unbreaking 3 will last a very long time, and can be repaired infinitely if you get mending on it.
I would compare it to something like drinking instant coffee all the time and finally tasting a properly brewed, high quality coffee. Or only buying cheap shoes all the time and then investing in a proper pair of very comfortable and well made ones. Or playing video games on a 5 year old hand me down Mac then upgrading to a decent gaming pc.
Get a tool smith and buy tools. Emeralds are super easy to get in bulk with master fisherman and fletchers. Selling sweet berries to butchers is another great source.
Or sell iron from an iron farm or melons and pumpkins from one of those farms. Trade with librarians for mending books, never break a netherite item again!
I’m getting to the battle frontier with 30 revives I have not and will not use
So I decided while playing Fallout 4 (around the time it came out) that I was going to try to break this habit, because it meant I never got to use any of the cool shit.
I made this decision while retaking the castle, fighting the queen crab thing. I used all the mini nukes I had on it.
Those who have played the game knows what happens next… after killing the queen, the king emerges. Way bigger, way harder to kill.
I’ve been a hardcore no exceptions hoarder ever since
Maybe I’m having a mandela effect moment but I don’t remember a “way bigger, way harder to kill” mirelurk king after the queen. The mirelurk king in-game is the size of a deathclaw tops and I think it’s stats are definitely weaker when compared to the queens. Is there a special one that spawns after the queen that I am forgetting?
You are definitely right, not sure what this guy is on about.
Of course, if you had been hoarding, you also would not have used anything on the king
Because of the secret double king
Did somebody say Double King?
For me, that’s not just rare items. I won’t spend any in game money. I don’t care if it’s readily available on the ground, I’ll still treat it as if I can’t get any more money ever.
Not even on upgrades?
Are you the chosen one who never upgrades their RPG characters equipment and only use their default?
I have no idea when I’m gonna need 3 health, that 500g apple might save my life someday
Starfield.
A tip online was to drop all food as it’s worthless.
And my response? No.
Dude I know I don’t do drugs but what if I get addicted someday? I GOTTA have this addichrone!
System Shock 2 was brutal with this one. Lots of great weapons that were hard to find ammunition (or maintenance tools) for so the ol’ wrench/rapier kept getting used instead.
System Shock 2 is highly unbalanced where a conventional weapons run will do you just fine even if you have no idea what you’re doing. I think the assault rifle, when using the correct ammo, will kill any enemy in the game within 6 shots except the final boss. And there’s ammo everywhere.
Psi playthroughs make the game trivial if you know where you’re going
This is also how I am with customer rewards points.
“Hmm, I have enough to cover today’s slice of pizza, but if I save up, I’ll have enough for an entire pizza in five years”
I can’t say that I’ve ever used a single Megalixir in several Final Fantasy games due to them being limited in supply.
FF7 Remake: “oh, there’s a superboss and a Hard mode, which is the only way to fight the super boss? Better preserve all the good items“
[Items are not allowed in Hard mode]
I would use them on the final boss for shits
99 Potions, 99 Ethers, 99 Tents, can’t be too sure, 99 Hi Potions, 99, Antidotes, 97 Golden Needles, better go back to the store…
Worst are the games where they expect you to use these things but make it hard to actually use them, potions in CRPGs come to mind (having to manually put potions back in your belt once you use them)
