Why is the Strong Health Potion so cheap on the market?

Question

Dear Tibian Sages!

This questions is related to my more general inquiry into the state of the market, but probably has a straightforward answer.

Why are Strong and Great Health Potions so cheap on the market? On Refugia, they go for 10 and 35 gp/ea respectively [SHP: 115 gp @ NPC]. Similar NPC-sourced items are within a small range of the NPC-price: for instance, Strong Mana Potions have market value of ~112 gp/ea [liquidifier prices; 93 @ NPC]. 

So, the questions is: what is the source of cheap health potions that made the prices deteriorate by greatly over-supplying the market?

Comments

There's a simple reason for that, there isn't use for them, after lvl 80 knights have great health potion, paladin have great mana potion so shp is pointles once great potions are unlocked, specially due the healing it provides is meaningless if we compare it to imbuements, so if you were really in need of healing there are a lot of better options already.

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I don't think this answers the underlying cause, because Great Health Potion is similarly sold on the market at about 10% of NPC price, while both Strong and Great Mana Potions' are sold above NPC price (110-120%).

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Anubora is correct. No one really uses them above level 80. It is supply and demand. Strong and Great Mana potions are more expensive because they are the best potion available for some vocs and they buy them from market for convenience so there is a markup. Strong manas are best for EKs while Great manas are best for RPs. Strong health potions are only useful from level 50 to 80 pretty much.

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They also drop a lot from creatures!

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yeah and that most player already passed a long time ago that low lvl phase the healing of these potion isn't worth, potion system is already a bit deprecated even great potions all of them become a bit outdated and considerably lower price than they should (some of the reaching 50% less price) and the latest ones are only expensive because there aren't any better, if other new potion appear these were a lot cheaper aswell because of it.

Answer 1

the speed to raise levels makes them useless in 2 days..

just playing 3h daily with all these boosts and exp bonus, reach lvl 80 or more is prety easy.