Medicine Pouch

[Jethro]

What's the point of that thing? It takes ages to fill it up and barely does anything when enemies hit your for 40-50% of your HP.

[CEO of Simps]

it heals you?
and you can upgrade it's capacity so you can spend even more time to fill it up

[Moga CMDR]

I found the pouch to be useful. Especially once upgraded. I fill it up naturally as I'm travelling, so normally that isn't an issue.

[Grizzly UK]

To get the most from the Medicine Pouch you really need to take the Healer skill (triples the healing rate) and the Herbalist skill (increases the capacity). It's meant to be used as a quick heal, but taking those two skills makes the Medicine Pouch much better as a quick heal.

If enemies are hitting you for 40-50% of your HP then you may want to check what resistances you have on your equipped outfit. Change outfits to increase or boost specific resistances according to the enemies you're going to fight and remember to slot Outfit Weaves to either boost existing resistances on the Outfit or add extra resistances.

When I have the Medicine Pouch fully upgraded to 3 bars it only takes me a few minutes to fill it, even when it's almost depleted.

[Jethro]

Even with the Herbalist skill it takes a longer to fill the pouch than buying/crafting potions.

I find myself a lot just looking out for herbs to fill that damn pouch only to get hit twice and needing to refill again.

I'm wearing the Nora Protector Heavy Armor with 30 base def and some elemental ressistance and at lvl 25 i still get hit for 160+ physical dmg of my 450 HP by lower level enemies. (Do levels even matter)

Guess the % based fill rate is only worth it with a higher max limit.

In the end it comes down to me getting gud because i'm not perfect at dodging yet but still feels annoying.

[forester]

consider them just a free heal that makes no sense to specifically farm but is worthwile to pickup when its directly on your path. game puts a lot of them near boss fights to help player complete encounters when they are low on potions so thats basically it.
also in some areas there are mushrooms and other plants that can fill like 50% per one go so it kind of makes sense to pick them up when they directly on your path, but its not worth it to search for them hehe.

[Vayde Knyght]

In my experience, it's enough healing to keep your health bar topped off unless you seriously mess up in a handful of encounters in a row; but I haven't gone into Very/Ultra difficulties yet, and I don't fast travel much (because the world is so neat to look around at), so that may be skewing things in my favor, as far as the medicine pouch is concerned.

For major fights, I'd recommend popping a health boost potion and a resistance potion for any elemental types the enemies your facing will deal.
Doing that, you can pretty easily fill your capacity for health potions just from looting them, and make a tiny handful of extra shards selling them.


EDIT: Oh, and the percentage health each plant adds to your medicine pouch isn't a percentage of capacity, it's a percentage of your max health-- one full bar of medicine pouch is always one full bar of your health in healing, stored as a % so you don't lose any value as you level.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

101 hrs I have never bought a healing potion. Very rarely run out of my medicine pouch. I just pick up everything I come across in my travels and my pouch is almost always +++. I also think it takes less lag to take 2 uses of the pouch (while running) than for drinking a potion. (which pauses your movement)

[forester]

引用自 ƎϽ∀ƎԀ：

101 hrs I have never bought a healing potion. Very rarely run out of my medicine pouch. I just pick up everything I come across in my travels and my pouch is almost always +++. I also think it takes less lag to take 2 uses of the pouch (while running) than for drinking a potion. (which pauses your movement)

perhaps it depends on your difficulty settings and how frequently you like to attack big machines. on very/ultra hard herbs give like 5-10% per pickup, so getting to this +++ takes time and you can dump all of them on single big boss if something went wrong. plus when you have like 40k unspent credits it kind of makes potions free too but they can be replenished at nearest trader instantly.

[Eye of Newt]

引用自 Jethro：

What's the point of that thing? It takes ages to fill it up and barely does anything when enemies hit your for 40-50% of your HP. :lunar2019deadpanpig:

Having a healing mechanic is a pretty standard thing in games, though. :)

[vsrs]

引用自 Eye of Newt：

引用自 Jethro：

What's the point of that thing? It takes ages to fill it up and barely does anything when enemies hit your for 40-50% of your HP. :lunar2019deadpanpig:

Having a healing mechanic is a pretty standard thing in games, though. :)

I also think it's pretty realistic. Having Aloy fill up the pouch from just 1 or 2 plants would be unrealistic.