UO Second Age

> When I go to vendor to purchase potions....how do I know if I am
> purchasing
> lesser potions or greater potions.

> Thanks.


If when single clicked it says "a greater heal" (for example), well, it's
a greater potion.

> The biggest reason Taste ID is in the game is so that we know
> what potions are what kind. The only way a potion is automatically
> ID'd is when YOU make the potion yourself. Know one else will
> know what it is unless they ID it.


False. Any and all potions are automatically ID'd for *everybody*. Buy
a potion from a player alchemist or his/her vendor. Or loot one off
another player. Guess what, that player made heal potion is already
ID'd, "a greater heal potion". As far as monster loot goes, those
potions are actually a different "strength" then the corresponding
"lesser" potion. Although a yellow potion may heal the same range as a
lesser heal, there are also such situations as "a blue potion", which
raises dexterity by 15, whereas the player made equivalents raise dex by
10 or 20, never 15.

Kaivan wrote:These notes are before the changes to taste identification introduced with the November 23 patch.

Potion Kegs can be Taste IDed (Information on Taste ID and potion kegs is below).
Potions from alchemy kegs not Taste IDed will only return the color of the liquid when looked at.
Currently tasting beverages (wine, ale, water, etc.) is not functional.

<[email protected]> wrote:
>When my lachemist makes potions for some reason...a couple of the kegs
>say Greater
>Heal Potion...or Greta Cure Potion...but some of them say "an unknown
>green potion"
>or " an unknown purple potion" Why is this when I am making all the
>greater and top potions. Why dont they all say this?


Are you saying that potions you're Alchemist are making are being
created as 'unknown <color>' potions? If so, something is wrong:(


>And when one of my other characters takes potions from a Keg..it doesn't
>say it is Greater Heal..just says "unknown yellow potion"..why?


It works rather oddly actually. If a character puts a 'known' potion
into an empty keg, that character becomes an 'owner' of the keg. A
keg is labeled only for an owner. All potions extracted from a keg by
an owner are labeled with the quality (greater heal, lesser heal,
heal) for everyone. Any non-owner will see the keg as 'unknown' and
all potions extracted by a non-owner will be of 'unknown' quality to
everyone. To make a character an owner, the character must
successfully Taste ID the keg. More than one character can be an
owner of the same keg... it remembers it's owners.

You may add an 'unknown' potion to an 'unknown' keg as long as the
potion is the same type and quality as is in the keg.


You may not add a 'known' potion to an 'unknown' keg even if it *is*
the same type and quality.


I haven't tried adding an 'unknown' potion to a 'known' keg yet.

I did find it interesting that having my Lumberjack taste ID the keg
(and all the potions came out ID'd to her and others afterwards)
*didn't* make the keg unknown for my Alchemist (who filled the keg in
the first place).

Light Shade wrote:Era-Accuracy, but sad to see all the "rare" named one's instantly become nothing. Value is irrelevant, it was just kinda neat to have unique items like that floating around on the shard. Kinda added to the flavor of things. *shrugs*

Perhaps they can give the old, previously unique ones, a slightly different name to maintain that bit of history on the shard?