worth it to go for higher quality potions?

[kingcarrot]

Is it always worth it to use higher quality potions? I have just begun the game, and the first potion (a healing potion) can be sold for 12 or so, if it is the initial low quality. If I use some other ingredients, and manage a level 3 potion, th eguy only pays 25 for it. It does not seem to be worth it...

Does it depend on their request? The first guy talks about not wanting to be in bed for a month, but it is not bad...So he can settle for a lesser quality potion?

Do customers askl for a specific level of potion, which gives the best payback? OR will they always pay the same for a given potion? Thus meaning it is always best to maximise quality?

[Hydargos]

To make money, it's always best to maximize quality....and haggling !
For some potions, lvl 1 or 2 will be sufficient in order to create multi-effects potions, for ex.

[Ptolemy]

It's always best to maximise quality. Customers never want lower quality potions. It's a difference of millimetres between a level 1 and a level 3 effect, and most of the time you can get a level 3 effect for the same ingredient cost as a level 1 effect. Just err on the side of overshooting the potion outline and ladling back to the centre.

[eX_ploit]

Always go for lvl3 potions. If it's not worth it, that's because you are making it inefficiently. For me it usually takes only 1 extra ingredient or sometimes even no extra ingredients to get lvl3 potion. The trick is to position yourself behind the potion, and then use water to bring yourself closer. There is a line going from you to the center and a line going from potion to the center. If you can overlap these 2 lines on top of each other then using water will guarantee you will hit lvl3.

Edit:
Also selling lvl3 potions grants a lot more popularity(2 if you haggle, 3 if you don't haggle), so you will raise your popularity fast, which will result in better base prices.

Edit2:
At this point I'm selling lvl3 healing potions for 60 gold without haggling, because of the combination of popularity and trading talents.

[Jay]

It IS worth, always. For example, Healing potion can be made with 2 herbs (down and right), but you can make a level 3 healing potion with 3 herbs. For 1 extra ingredient you basically double the price.
For Fire potion, you can get a level 3 with 3x left herbs and 1x up (only 1 extra compared to level 1 fire).
For basically every other potion, 1 or max 2 extra ingredients allows you to reach level 3 compared to level 1 and price difference is always huge.

p.s. also you get +1 reputation every potion level.

[eX_ploit]

Originally posted by Jay:

you can make a level 3 healing potion with 3 herbs.

Actually you can make it with just 2, for example waterbloom + weirdshroom or waterbloom + brown mushroom, there is a lot of other combinations also