So I was wondering of those who have experience using this potion where you think the best place to use it is and how to use it? Is it best to use it just before turning in a whole stack of quests (pine barrens for example) or somewhere else? Is it best to run past trash to get to bosses when using it or is the trash clearing worth it? It claims to last an hour but it always seems much shorter than that.
It legitimately lasts an hour. Keep it on while you’re questing/grinding. Make sure its still one when you turn in.
If you die, it expires. Reapply. Continue killing.
My lazy loot run is: Twin Falls + Bee Hive + all 3 floors of Arkovia (boss and maybe Nemesis), warp to Broken Hills for Solael guardian (MI pants), then warp to Four Hills and Cronely’s hideout (boss and maybe Nemesis). I did this run on my 93 Witch Hunter yesterday and was 94 at the end of the run just from killing things with the potion buff.
Tonics clearly make killing trash viable. Both options presented here are viable. Pine Barrens is an excellent example, where you have 5 quests you can turn in at the same time + some nice killing spots (Tyrant’s Hold is full of small corridors filled with small monsters).
Roguelike dungeons are also very good with tonics.
The only “risk” if you abuse them is that you might quickly become outleveled, especially with AoM. Monster scaling is good on normal and ultimate, but a bit lacking on Elite, and you can be 10+ superior to random mobs. Not a shame, but it’ll make your journey trivial (and you won’t level faction rep as quickly as you would like to).
I generally do it right before I turn in a bucket of quests, then plow through as much shit as I can in an hour. Act 1 is a huge pile of quests so it’s pretty awesome for +xp stuff as soon as you turn in the preliminary quest to kill the reanimator boss. I generally don’t pop another until Homestead, because that’s the next quest hub, but if you have a build that can aoe vaporize trash packs then by all means crack a second when going through old arkovia/SoT. As a general rule though, it’s way better for xp gains to do quests rather than going full clear on mobs. Make sure to get a good bounty for the area you’re in before popping one because in ult each bounty is 15k xp, which adds up real quick like.