Are Secret Stardust Potions a Waste?

[SC Oreo]

I haven't used them yet and been debating on making them when going for 99astrology and/or 99masteries.

The problem I have on my mind is the charges on the potions are so low that it's laughable, if you look at the tier 4 variant it has 25 charges with 15% interval reduction. bringing the 3 seconds down to 2.55; that would mean you use a full tier 4 potion every 63seconds if no charges are conserved.

it requires 2 lemontyle herbs to make as well. until you are overly end game with millions of supplies this potion is seemingly never worth the cost and by the time you can make them en-masse most likely you're already done or nearly finished astrology anyways.

on a side note I believe the fishermans potion also has the same problem. 20charges at tier4 2lemontyle 2 raw crab is not bad but fishing actions usually take a lot longer where astrology is every 2.55seconds with the potion. both should be increased in charges.

[Kagora]

Their main function is speeding up Golden Stardust farming, but they can still be a decent boost in XP/h while also boosting Stardust per-hour, with tier 3 being 11% more XP/h and 111 more actions per hour and fairly cheap to get if you stack Item Preservation chance, though I would recommend getting level 99 Herblore before a lot of other skills, including astrology.
Plus it's even more of a waste of Stardust to re-roll in Astrology until at the bare minimum Mastery level 80, and at most 95% mastery pool, you won't have much of a use for it for a while leveling Astrology so investing it into making it more useful faster is a nice option.

Here's the XP per hour boosts for each tier of SSD pot
tier 4 17.647%
tier 3 11.111%
tier 2 5.263%
tier 1 3.092%

[SC Oreo]

My gripe isn't the effectiveness of the potion but simply the duration they last. with the exception of fishing all the other non-resource consuming skill potions (including thieving/agility) are 50 or 100 charges. agility-50 charges / mining-100 charges / woodcutting-100 charges / thieving 50 charges. agility for example also uses the same effect of -% interval but has double the charges.

[Kagora]

SC Oreo の投稿を引用：

My gripe isn't the effectiveness of the potion but simply the duration they last. with the exception of fishing all the other non-resource consuming skill potions (including thieving/agility) are 50 or 100 charges. agility-50 charges / mining-100 charges / woodcutting-100 charges / thieving 50 charges. agility for example also uses the same effect of -% interval but has double the charges.

I remember getting annoyed with that when Astrology came out but I've maxed the skill and gotten the potions to tier 4 twice now and while astrology is definitely one of the slower skills to max it's not the worst but ether way there's plenty of inconsistencies throughout the game as a whole.

But really I think a bigger gripe would be all but 2-4 out of the 15 combat potions being completely useless once you get Herblore lvl 85.

[Kryptos]

I used them to hit 99 mastery in all constellations. I also used Alchemist bags to extend the potion's use.

I eventually ran out of bags and didn't craft more, but even without the bags I was consistently finding 5-10% more stardust than I was using potions (Use 100 potions, get 105-110 stardust). Stardust is the real problem with crafting them, not the herbs, you will have thousands upon thousands of herbs if you plant them with any sort of consistency.

Their length is acceptable because you get a little bit more stardust than you use in the long run, making their use sustainable. And yes, I know it's all "RNG" how many I get.

[Salmon Snake]

Also remember that when crafting potions, theres plenty of sources to preserve resources and double potions.