Haste/Destruction/Heroism Potions - Are people using them?

Copernicus · 07/20/07, 12:50 PM

Every few weeks, I glance at these potions again. The short duration (15 seconds) and using up my potion timer always convinces me that they aren't worth it for most fights. And well looking through WWS, I don't see the Destruction or Haste abilities gained by non-Dragonspine using players. They also are one of the few boosts that people can pick up outside of the standard food/flask/oil buffs.

However, I don't hear much talk of them in strategy discussions and I don't see them in WWS.. Is anyone out there using these potions on a regular basis, and if so how are they?

Gauss · 07/20/07, 12:53 PM

I know if I care about dps on a fight I am using my pot timer on super mana potions since I have a spec that consumes a great deal of mana.

Lambach · 07/20/07, 12:54 PM

If I have a shadow priest I bust destro pots out. They are a nice short dps boost. Over a 10 minute fight, if you can pop them every time, thats 1.25 minutes with extra crit and a nice chunk of spell dmg. They arent the end all be all, and I'm sure most people don't worry about them.

My GF is a fury warrior, she eats haste pots like candy.

♦ Praetorian · 07/20/07, 12:55 PM

If I were a melee class, I'd have an unhealthy relationship with haste pots. Other classes, I think, are using their timers on mana pots and such during really important fights.

I can definitely see using Destruction pots on a fight like Reliquary, though, if you find yourself needing more DPS.

Miaxi · 07/20/07, 1:00 PM

I use them on hard fights if my shadow priest is alive. Otherwise I need the cooldown for mana.

Spades · 07/20/07, 1:00 PM

I have an unhealthy addiction to haste potions. They're like orange tic-tacs. I try to resist using 'em on farm bosses because Terocone is a pain to get, but I pop 'em like cheap balloons when we're killing something new.

Bazazu · 07/20/07, 1:01 PM

Our melee love haste pots. Destro pots, not so much, since typically they are popping mana pots.

snape · 07/20/07, 1:01 PM

I certainly don't spam use Destruction potions. But on the off-chance that I'm not near OOM at the end of an encounter, and the "all-out" call comes across Vent - then I will be using a Destruction potion. I have about 5 on me at all raids - not the 15-20 SMP's I carry.

• Shifft · 07/20/07, 1:04 PM

I'm haste potting every timer on recently killed/progression fights. On older fights where we don't need the extra DPS boost I'll just use them when all of my other haste buffs are up to get absurdly low attack speeds.

Shabadu · 07/20/07, 1:05 PM

I am addicted to Haste pots. Shabadu - WWS and look for "Haste" under the Buffs section. But as Praetorian said, I am often forced to save my pot timer for a health or mana or protection potion. I'd use them more frequently but making sure I stay alive is worth more DPS than 15 seconds of haste. Using them with drums and bloodlust up can lead to sub 1.0 attack speeds, which is pretty absurd, especially if I time it to come up with my other trinkets and Shamanistic Rage.

Spades · 07/20/07, 1:09 PM

Originally Posted by Shifft

I'm haste potting every timer on recently killed/progression fights. On older fights where we don't need the extra DPS boost I'll just use them when all of my other haste buffs are up to get absurdly low attack speeds.

I time 'em with my Abacus/BF cooldowns, as I believe I saw some math here that said stacking haste was better than spreading it out.

Marroc · 07/20/07, 1:09 PM

On progression content where I know I won't be taking serious damage, or have a health stone, I'll be chugging haste potions.

Having a .98 main hand sword and a .61 off hand sword fully hasted (SnD, Haste Pot, Bloodlust, Bladeflurry) does some seriously nutty damage during it's duration.

• Shifft · 07/20/07, 1:11 PM

Originally Posted by Spades

I time 'em with my Abacus/BF cooldowns, as I believe I saw some math here that said stacking haste was better than spreading it out.

Yeah, luckily potion and BF timers are the same

I also try to save both until DST procs if at all possible.

Sui · 07/20/07, 1:11 PM

Haste Pots are to my warrior, what wow is to me. Completely unhealthy, and the worst part is any fight that we wipe on becomes that much more expensive, its really quite frustrating. Fights like Kael for example, sigh, just thinking about that 20 minute event and how many haste pots I can eat through for one person to not get a buff up that wipes the raid is really tragic. But fights where everything goes right the DPS increase from chain chugging haste pots with an enhancement shaman, and battle drums is really a substantial dps increase.

Benjaimn · 07/20/07, 1:15 PM

I'll admit that I have yet to raid a lot of the higher end bosses, but I have found destruction potions to be useful on Gruul mainly because I only use one super mana potion on average during the fight so I try to burn a destruction pot at 50% and at 20% to add some extra DPS.