Pots Only Playthrough?

[fact0ry]

lets get a discussion going

how difficult would it be to do a Pots only playthrough of the storyline?

[MrSoul]

Impotssible

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Sisko:

Impotssible

Bravo.

OP, it is impossible. They simply don't do enough damage and you have a very finite amount at any time and cannot craft in combat. You would need to use other consumables as well.

[Nihrahk]

I think you can get up to 20 cracked and 10 ritual pots? I'm not sure if it's possible since crafting is unavailable while in battle.

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Xengre:

Originally posted by Sisko:

Impotssible

Bravo.

OP, it is impossible. They simply don't do enough damage and you have a very finite amount at any time and cannot craft in combat. You would need to use other consumables as well.

Yeah, the combat not allowing crafting makes the thing 100% impossible

[Cookie]

Craftable consumables in the game near useless, you would need to cheat to do it.

[rasabt]

Pots + Perfume tools
looking at the scaling and the inability to actualy "upgrade the weapon" (aka you cannot upgrade the pots or perfurmes themselfes unless i missed something) it's gonna be rough run.
but it should be doable. i killed many a boss, side-boss or tougher mob with the power of the crafting menue. especialy perfumes (also the selfbuffs) are way underrated.

[Elizabeth]

It would definitely be -mostly- doable, but there are a few bosses that might have too much HP for 30 pots to break through. Adding perfumes wouldn't help much either since there's not much raw damage from them. I'm planning to do an 'items only' run though which is certainly viable, adding the permanent 'spell cast' items as well as throwing weapons to the available options.

[GrimAtrament]

Pot only? No consumable where you use darts throwing knifes pots and perfumes? Definitely possible.

[Slain]

Pots can do good damage, and they already have decent stat scaling. And most of the ingredients you'll need can be fond in the open. The only issue is the amount that you can hold at one time. It would be impossible to kill later bosses with the 20 pot limit. You would also need to go around collecting the crack pots, and killing normal mobs with this limitation sounds like a pain.

Maybe doable using using poison/scarlet rot on bosses and you were patient enough? The run sounds like a nightmare. Consumables only would probably be more viable.

[Juno Brier]

Originally posted by Slain:

Maybe doable using using poison/scarlet rot on bosses and you were patient enough? The run sounds like a nightmare. Consumables only would probably be more viable.

One problem. Unless there's some sequence break I'm unaware of, Rot Pots are locked behind Radahn since their recipe is in Rot Lake which you can't reach until late in Ranni's sidequest.

[Jangkrik]

Originally posted by Slain:

Pots can do good damage, and they already have decent stat scaling. And most of the ingredients you'll need can be fond in the open. The only issue is the amount that you can hold at one time. It would be impossible to kill later bosses with the 20 pot limit. You would also need to go around collecting the crack pots, and killing normal mobs with this limitation sounds like a pain.

Maybe doable using using poison/scarlet rot on bosses and you were patient enough? The run sounds like a nightmare. Consumables only would probably be more viable.

Consumables only sounds fun. I'd love to see some creative uses of perfumes and easy to get consumables.

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by Juno Brier:

Originally posted by Slain:

Maybe doable using using poison/scarlet rot on bosses and you were patient enough? The run sounds like a nightmare. Consumables only would probably be more viable.

One problem. Unless there's some sequence break I'm unaware of, Rot Pots are locked behind Radahn since their recipe is in Rot Lake which you can't reach until late in Ranni's sidequest.

That’s the main catch for me beyond ridiculous notion of fighting something like godskin duo while doing slow mo pot tosses lol

Half of stuff arguably need to really do this at any serious level is locked behind hours of content, bosses and/or quests

I dunno maybe possible, I just don’t see it being doable long run with this game tho

[Elizabeth]

Yeah, also if you limit it to pots only... good luck reliably hitting bosses like Maliketh and Radagon with them. Or any of the ones with auto-juke on spellcast/item use AI.

[Slain]

Yeah, the input reading is already a pain for bow only runs...

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Elizabeth:

Yeah, also if you limit it to pots only... good luck reliably hitting bosses like Maliketh and Radagon with them. Or any of the ones with auto-juke on spellcast/item use AI.

It's possible to hit those with auto dodge if you use them while they're mid attack animation.