Potion balancing & triangular sushi (plum)

Now that my sushi stock is running low I figure it's a good time to discuss and write out why I want sushi in the game so much. Let's take a fairly average ranged character that has 7k hp before HB and 11.2k after HB and then another ranged character with 11k base hp and 17.6k with HB. The chart below compares the meso per hp rates for 4 different potions (completely ignoring any MP healed if applicable).



Compare this to a drk that would be using melting cheese at a cost of 4.5k to heal 4k or reindeer milk at a cost of 5k to heal 5k. Remember that neither of these potions heal mp while the ranged character gets some mp from ginseng, gingers, and PE. The 7k base hp player gets a fairly large meso per hp discount that is likely wiped out through double potting so this is fairly well balanced to me. Meanwhile the 11k base hp player likely isn't ever double potting so they get a very significant healing discount. This is also comparing ranged vs cleave. If we compared the potion costs of a hero/pally to a drk the meso per hp discount would be even more significant.



The other complaint for healing costs on a drk comes from some bosses just not being worth doing because the healing costs outweigh the drops but that's a different balancing discussion.

In the end I see 2 very viable solutions to bring drk potion costs more in line with every other class in the game. The first would be to increase all of the NLC potion costs to be more in line with literally every other HP potion in the game (1 meso for 1 hp). The second and probably more viable solution would be to add triangular sushi (plum) at an NPC for purchasing.

 

If it was up to me I'd put them in this NPC at Ninja Castle. Fits the theme of the area and this NPC already sells some use items compared to the other guy who only sells weapons. https://maplelegends.com/lib/npc?id=9110101

As for cost I think somewhere between 3-4k meso each is fairly reasonable. There's no real logic in that range given NLC pots are still cheaper but even at 4k meso the healing would still be .667 meso per HP and also heal some mp. This would still be a significant improvement over cheese which is 1.12 meso per HP and milk at 1 meso per HP. while neither give any MP.

Edit: Changing NPC to this one which already sells potions as Eiji pointed out. I completely forgot he was inside the castle already.
https://maplelegends.com/lib/npc?id=9110102

 

Definitely agree but I think it’d be significantly harder to balance NLC potions versus adding a better priced zerk potion. I personally don’t think it’s even possible to balance NLC potions because some people wash and others don’t so what do you balance it to? It’d also impact everybody on the server versus implementing one potion that only impacts one class because I doubt anybody would use a 20% pot besides for zerk.

 

Sushi bump? If there's no chance for sushi to be added through an NPC then can we at least buy more than 100 at a time from Mo? Trying to buy 1000 milk at a time gets kind of annoying when it's 10 sets of 100.

 

Didn't know this miso ramen potion existed. NLC potions are BaLaNcEd SeemsGood

 

Not sure if you mean this NPC but I forgot it existed. Definitely a much better option for selling potions.

https://maplelegends.com/lib/npc?id=9110102