Is it worth it: Buying Vitality Potions
There aren't a lot of ways to heal in SKA, even fewer when you want to heal a bunch of HP during battle. One of the very few means: Vitality Potions - unlocking once you sold your first Star Metal to the Alchemist. They come with the downside of reducing your willpower (or maybe an upside for some? :D), but come with the perk of granting you permanent +5 Max HP.
In this poll I would like to check how many actually actively buy them. If you never buy them, it would be great if you could drop a comment as to what your reason is.
Curious to find out how popular or unpopular this item is.
Comments (6)
I feel their usefulness as a time-efficient healing item drops off once the player gets access to that Lumerian bread. And the +Max HP only becomes less impactful as the game goes on. On lewd runs, the -Willpower becomes more of a hassle too with all the other effects that bring willpower down.
Might be an outlier here but when speedrunning the pure route it's very useful to be able to stock and buy them. I use them at the end of the day when willpower loss isn't going to trigger events. The max HP increase is nice to be able to fight more monsters during the day and also to learn techniques that have max HP requirements faster.
I feel you find enough of them to cover what you need outside of battle and rarely should you need them in battle unless you've messed up.
The corruptionless willpower management and useful combat heal once you bless it, makes it always worth having ai least 1-2 in the inventory.
In hard mode, to win battles you most likely need to kill fast enough to not take much damage anyway. So I almost never use them.
I made my slime eat a few off me early on.