How can I get MP potion?

[ogh0123]

How can I get MP potion? Even the merchant doesn't sell it.

[yoship]

Can't usually buy MP potions at merchant. But resting at night refills MP gauge. When MP gauge depletes in dungeon, then either return to town, or equip mage and grind lower level enemies in overworld action combat to slowly refill MP for the party. I'm not too keen on grinding, so I just return.

[Mike Maximus]

In the early game all you have access to is the limited supply of MP items at the water vendors and ones that you find naturally.

In some dungeons there are enemies that will consistently drop Magla Pills, enemies that look like worms or butterflies will usually drop MP restoring items. You can just farm these over and over in overworld combat with the Merchant archetype (or just inherit Lucky Find) to build your reserves.

As yoship pointed out you can also grind with a Mage archetype to restore MP, but it's a really painful process. It can be useful if you're desperate for MP in the early game.

Dungeon enemies respawn slowly as you play, or fully each time you re-enter or go to Akademeia, so you don't need to end the day to grind.

Later on you can also cook MP restoring items.

[thesilentsoul]

Best bet is to get Wizard lv11 (tier 2 mage) and an equip that gives a stat boost at start of combat. +10mp every turn, if you have the ability to one shot groups with an aoe you can often just 'pass' through your team so you get the +10 twice, normally leaving you in the positive.

[borizb]

Originally posted by ogh0123:

How can I get MP potion? Even the merchant doesn't sell it.

-there are very few merchants that sell limited stock, usually 3 and then never again.
-you can cook in the gauntlet runner. Later in the game cooking uses no time and yields double item (Maria rank 6 or higher iirc). There is a meal you can cook that restores 100 mp to the entire team and removes hex, but you have to stock the ingredients before travelling.
-You can teach a charachter (Heismay already has it) MP Thief to steal MP from enemies and then learn the Gift MP skill from the Trickster archetype, which distributes 50 MP to other characters. Steal MP -> distribute, rinse and repeat. It's tedious and takes a very long time.
-Pro tip: Look for skills that use HP instead of MP. These are few, but worth it.
-heal the team with items, not with skills. Healing items are cheap, no reason to be stingy
-Pro tip2: Use the merchant/tycoon archetype, as he uses money instead of MP
-passives or equipment that restores mp are rare and give you like 5mp or a little more per round, when a skill costs 10-20 on average. I'd rather equip magic or strength boost gear and passives so it won't take as many attacks to kill them, thus saving MP in return

[OKMB]

You can farm them from certain enemies, but it's usually 30 MP restore pills.

Equip a Thief-lineage Archetype and go into a Dungeon with the red crystals (make sure the enemies drop the Magla Pill/restore item you want) that infinitely spawn enemies. Equip all archetypes on your team with "Lucky Find" from the Merchant.

Go wild. You can easily get 99 (max) of these with minimal effort. You can do this with any enemy that respawns and that you can kill without forcing squad battle. You can also equip Mastered Archetypes on all characters to get infinite Leafs of Light by doing this, as it takes 1,000 A-EXP to get a Leaf.

[Livy]

Sadly the early farm spot for mana pots is a temporary location. then the next one is the 4th city story dungeon at the very end. by which you already got access to wizard.

[Sol]

MP balance, MP costs and the lack of options to fill your MP are by far the worst things about this game. Even if you have all the traits that give you mana back, the amount you get every turn is minuscule and barely worth it. It's less noticeable in the first half of the game, but near the very end it becomes a massive problem. It's very poorly balanced.

[OKMB]

Originally posted by Sol:

MP balance, MP costs and the lack of options to fill your MP are by far the worst things about this game. Even if you have all the traits that give you mana back, the amount you get every turn is minuscule and barely worth it. It's less noticeable in the first half of the game, but near the very end it becomes a massive problem. It's very poorly balanced.

Mage lineage lets you get MP back from every enemy killed in open world combat
Prince has an ability where every time your allies attack an enemy (meaning 1 hit) you and all allies get 1 MP back in overworld combat. You can abuse this to get infinite MP back off any enemy that you do not out level, and is particularly effective when allies are using Archetypes with weapons that hit multiple times, such as Masked Dancer or Faker lineages.
Knight lineage has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles
Masked Dancer has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles

There are options, you just have to work hard to get them.

[MasterKroket]

Get all characters to lvl 11 wizard find some weak enemy in the dungeon and just click pass a couple minutes while sometimes reapplying some group buffs. easiest way to deal with it. Early on you need to clean enemies in overworld with mage.
Besides its totally cute how junah keeps saying 'otakido' so i dont mind doing it too much.

[Sol]

Originally posted by OKMB:

Originally posted by Sol:

MP balance, MP costs and the lack of options to fill your MP are by far the worst things about this game. Even if you have all the traits that give you mana back, the amount you get every turn is minuscule and barely worth it. It's less noticeable in the first half of the game, but near the very end it becomes a massive problem. It's very poorly balanced.

Mage lineage lets you get MP back from every enemy killed in open world combat
Prince has an ability where every time your allies attack an enemy (meaning 1 hit) you and all allies get 1 MP back in overworld combat. You can abuse this to get infinite MP back off any enemy that you do not out level, and is particularly effective when allies are using Archetypes with weapons that hit multiple times, such as Masked Dancer or Faker lineages.
Knight lineage has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles
Masked Dancer has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles

There are options, you just have to work hard to get them.

Your reading comprehension sucks ass. I already mentioned those things and said that what you get is minuscule and barely worth it. Take a reading class or something.

[OKMB]

Originally posted by Sol:

Originally posted by OKMB:

Mage lineage lets you get MP back from every enemy killed in open world combat
Prince has an ability where every time your allies attack an enemy (meaning 1 hit) you and all allies get 1 MP back in overworld combat. You can abuse this to get infinite MP back off any enemy that you do not out level, and is particularly effective when allies are using Archetypes with weapons that hit multiple times, such as Masked Dancer or Faker lineages.
Knight lineage has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles
Masked Dancer has MP recovery passive skills for Squad Battles

There are options, you just have to work hard to get them.

Your reading comprehension sucks ass. I already mentioned those things and said that what you get is minuscule and barely worth it. Take a reading class or something.

So play more conservatively with your MP. Target enemy weakpoints or create weakpoints with Masked Dancer or Synthesis skills. If you're blowing 100 MP across all characters on every fight, you're doing something wrong. This is in part a strategy game - strategize.

I'm able to clear most dungeons in a single in-game day using regen methods and grinding so I outlevel trash mobs and get MP back with every enemy killed in overworld combat. If I, and others, can do it, so can you.