How to make 4-doce potions quick and painlessly (minus CTS)

[wkw427]

What you need:

A bunch of (3) pots
4 pieces of junk that cant be interacted with at all, like a plank or a tinderbox or a burnt fish

How to do it:

1. Make sure your mouse buttons are set to one. Also, try to be at a bank without alot of people, NOT a bank chest. Because you will right click no matter what.



2. Have 4 pieces of uninteractable junk in the bottom of your inventory. It helps to have all the pots you are working with at the bottom of your bank, too. Take out all (3) pots



3. (dunno why I did this, but take out your pots!)



4. Left click on the top left pot. It will say drink, but when in 1 click mode, left click is a right click. Hit use. If you are going to no life this, concentrate on clicking the second line of text.



5. Use brew #1 on brew #5 . Skip that line. Use brew #9 (below the new (4) pot) on the one below it, the again.
Your first row should be like this:
(2)
(4)
(2)
(4)
(2)
(4)
Repeat for each 4 collums.



6. When finished, inventory should appear as follows:



7. Put all the (4)s in your bank and take out new (3)s. Repeat step #5, but make all the (2)s into (1)s, repeat again untill you only have (4)s! Bank the (4)s and vials and take out 24 new (3)s and repeat from step #4



You may ask, why the hell should I do this? I can sell (3)s!
Well, if you are going to use the pots, this is far better...

[Doomedrusher]

I just withdraw 28 pots and make the 2s in columns.

[wkw427]

Yea, but it is uneven with the last 4 aat bottom

[Doomedrusher]

??

28 pots * 3 doses = 84 doses pots

84 doses pots / 4 doses = 21 pots

It's not uneven

[Omega Skaarj]

your inventory is a 4x7 grid.
Since you are combining potions in columns (top to bottom) and the potions are combines in 2's, you would like the number of vertical slots to be even.
but, since you have 7 vertical slots, you add the bottom layer of filler items to make it 6.

Really... this is all semantics; this is just the way he does it. If having uneven rows of potions doesn't bother you, then ignore this thread

[Lord Klotski]

He makes them in columns, not rows.

Three columns have the 21 pots, the other column has empties .

[Qeltar]

I highly doubt that's any faster than going down column 2 and using each on the matching pot in column 1, then doing the same with column 3 on column 4, and finally column 3 on column 2.



Or do what I do.

1. Make 3-dose pots.

2. Go to the GE.

3. Sell 3-dose pots.

4. Buy 4-dose pots.

Bit of patience is all you need.

[wkw427]

Q, my method doesnt have you move the mouse left and right so much, only when you finish a column. Kind of think of it like putting chaos at bottom of inv and spam left click to sell to tzharr, or the old way to string bows.

[Boa1891]

I'll give him the merit that it is just barely faster his way, because after you click to use the pot you don't have to move your mouse to click the next pot.
However, everyone has their own style of doing it, and this is barely any more effective than any other.

[alex07]

I believe your method sounds kind of slow wkw.
After all these junk items use up inventory slots therefore you need to bank once you made 18 pots instead the usual 21.

[Dragonlordjl]

Or do what I do.

1. Make 3-dose pots.

2. Go to the GE.

3. Sell 3-dose pots.

4. Buy 4-dose pots.

Bit of patience is all you need.

Words of wisdom. I do this with seeds often... Because I cba to farm.

[Boa1891]

Or do what I do.

1. Make 3-dose pots.

2. Go to the GE.

3. Sell 3-dose pots.

4. Buy 4-dose pots.

Bit of patience is all you need.

Words of wisdom. I do this with seeds often... Because I cba to farm.

But if the doses come out even in the end, it's the same price... It's almost impossible to come out even on herb seeds, you almost always profit.

[JMB]

I always just go along each row until i have a column of empties on the left and 3 columns of 4 dose pots

[Defandor]

What you need:
A bunch of (3) pots
4 pieces of junk that cant be interacted with at all, like a plank or a tinderbox or a burnt fish.

I like it!

I'm just curious why you don't swap your rows and columns and eliminate the "junk"?
Since there are 4 columns, why not do the following and utilize the extra four spots as follows ...

Start:
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)
(3) (3) (3) (3)

After 1st pass:
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)
(2) (4) (2) (4)

I'm thinking this concept through and not testing it in game (because I'm at work). Let me know if this works. I'm curious if there is a text pop-up location limitation that doesn't make my enhancement idea a practical method in practice even though it might look good in concept?
I love the idea of saving time on this activity, even if its just a little, because I find I do it a lot... I'm glad you shared it wkw427

Just curious if anyone has compared the GE price of (3)'s to (4)'s to determine if this is a money maker activity ...

[Alconavt]

Just curious if anyone has compared the GE price of (3)'s to (4)'s to determine if this is a money maker activity ...

GE is set up so that per-dose prices would always be the same. You usually can, however, buy 3-dose higher-end potions at the market price and then remix them into (4)s and sell at max; it's one of several very profitable xp-less moneymaking activities. This method also helps if you are having trouble selling your 3-dose potions.