Making Restorative Items more useful?

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emember, if potions heal 200 and hi-potions heal 1000, then out of battle, 5*1 potion == 1 hi-potion. The strength of the potion you use in battle is a more decisive factor than potions out of battle. Although, it would be interesting to see that, in character.

You, Matseb and Wavelength have the measure of it. The weaker potions can remain viable for out of battle use long after they are too slow to be worthwhile in combat. They gain a new role rather than disappearing.

That said I'm not sure having a bottom tier of copper swords and basic potions get obsolete is the end of the world. It's only when you keep changing tiers of gear every level or two that it starts to get absurd.