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Changes to potions and balance to them

In the combat test Jeb introduce a new mechanic, stackable potions, and so, a lot of players think that that it is OP. To make stackable potions not that OP I would suggest it should have a "Cooldown", like for example; drinkable potions can be quick to drink with the exception of healing. maybe the potions like: speed, jump, fire resist, and those types of potions should have a 20 ticks drinking animation, but healing, and regen could have a 50 ticks drinking animation or even more.
and for the trowable potions, i think they should also stack, a stack of 8 and a 3-5 second cooldown would be kind of balanced. many people think stackable harming potion is way op, so for that problem there can be a buff/debuff where, after being trown a harming potion the damage taken by it gets decreased to a 20% or so for a short lapse of time.

*English aint my first language, so sorry for any typo

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    Potions are pretty balanced actually, even healing potions. You can't drink healing potions when attacked, so you can't just consume tons of healing potions when your health is low while being attacked.

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    Different drinking times for potions can be counterintuitive for most players, so I don't think that's the way to go.

    Drinking time change for all potions should be reverted instead.

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    3-5 seconds delay for throwable? Are you crazy? What if one misses? They need a huge buff, makung them stackable with a 3-5 seconds delay is a nerf. In pvp that would make throwable potions useless for how much one would need to wait for a second potion

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    I'd tweak your suggestion. Make throwing potions stackable to 16 to be more consistent with drinking potions. I suggest the delay to be at most a second. Three or more would be a bit too harsh and ruins the potential of throwing potions.

    I don't think a gauge on damage would be necessary.

    As for drinking times, I'd give a maybe for the difference between healing potions and other non-health ones, however due to the ability to be interrupted I think this shouldn't change.