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TruthScape Skill Secrets - Herblore - Potions and Other Skill Products Specialty and Quest-Related Potions

Regular potions are the mainstream potions with which most people are familiar; examples include strength potions, antipoisons, prayer potions, super energy potions and Saradomin brews. I call these “regular” only to differentiate them from specialty and quest-related potions. They comprise the majority of all products that exist in the Herblore skill, as well as the vast majority of the volume of all potions made, so you’ll become quite familiar with them as you train the skill.

Regular potions follow a fairly standard pattern when it comes to production. Each begins with a base of either water or coconut milk, to which an herb (or non-herb primary ingredient) is added to yield an unfinished potion. A single secondary ingredient is then added to the unfinished potion to yield a final product. These potions generally have three doses when made, the exceptions being extra strength and super strength antipoison potions (which have four doses), and the three strengths of weapon poison (which have just one).

Regular potions give an amount of Herblore experience that ranges from 25 XP for the level 3 attack potion, all the way up to 190 XP for the level 82 super weapon poison. Note that for these potions, all of the XP is given when you add the secondary ingredient; this has important implications for the role of unfinished potions in the skill.

Potions are made and used for the effects they provide, which can be very beneficial to players in a number of circumstances. They can be divided into five categories based on their general function, as shown in Table 20.

Some stat boosts are “flat”, meaning that you get the same bonus regardless of your normal level, while others are proportional to your level. For example, a Magic potion always gives a 4 point bonus, while a ranging potion gives 4 to 13 points. The bonus for most variable potions seems to be calculated by taking a percentage of the skill’s maximum, rounding down and then adding a flat bonus number. For the ranging potion, it is 10% of the player’s Ranged level, rounded down, plus 4.

Stat boosting potions do not “stack”—this means that they are not cumulative. Thus, you get no benefit from drinking two doses of a super attack potion one after the other. Similarly, if you drink a regular attack and a super attack potion, you get only the effect of the better potion (the super attack). Most of these also do not stack with other items that provide bonuses; for example, an admiral pie gives +5 Fishing and a fishing potion gives +3, but taking both yields +5, not +8.

Finally, all stat boosts that result from potions are temporary; the raised levels will slowly return to normal at the standard rate of one point per minute. This is the same as the normal restore rate for skills that have been reduced. For example, if your normal attack level is 70 and it is raised to 80 via an attack potion, it will become 79 after a minute, then 78, and so forth, until returning to 70 after a total of about 10 minutes.

Here’s a brief description of each potion, so you understand more about what you’re making in Herblore and how the items are used. I’ve tried to keep the simple potions simple, but added extra notes where appropriate:

• Attack Potion (Level 3): Provides a boost of 3 to 12 points to the Attack skill, depending on your Attack level. This appears to work by taking 10% of your Attack level and rounding down, then adding 3.
  
  
• Antipoison Potion (Level 5): This potion removes any poison that is affecting you, and grants very short temporary immunity: about one minute. It is most useful in situations where you are poisoned infrequently.
  
  
• Strength Potion (Level 12): Provides a boost of 3 to 12 points to the Strength skill, depending on your Strength level. This appears to be computed as 10% of your Strength level, rounded down, plus 3.
  
  
• Stat Restore Potion (Level 22): Restores most combat stats (Attack, Defence, Magic, Ranged and Strength) by 10 to 39 points. You can take multiple doses if one does not restore all stats fully to their normal levels. This will not raise stats above their maximums.
  
  
• Energy Potion (Level 26): Restores 10% of your run energy. Note that this means that 10% is added to the number, not that you get 10% of your current level; if you are at 60% run energy, for example, it goes to 70%, not 66%.
  
  
• Defence Potion (Level 30): Boosts Defence by 3 to 12 points, depending on your Defence level; as with the attack and strength potions, it appears to be 10% of your Defence level, rounded down, plus 3.
  
  
• Agility Potion (Level 34): Provides a flat +3 bonus to Agility.
  
  
• Combat Potion (Level 36): Combines the effects of a regular attack and regular strength potion, boosting both Attack and Defence by 3 to 12 points.
  
  
• Prayer Potion (Level 38): Restores from 7 to 31 Prayer points, up to the skill’s normal maximum level. The number of points restored appears to be calculated by taking 25% of your normal level and rounding down, then adding 7. So, at level 65 that would be 16.25, rounded down to 16 plus 7 which is 23 prayer points restored. Note that you get an extra 1 or 2 points if you have a holy wrench (reward from Rum Deal quest) in your inventory.
  
  
• Summoning Potion (Level 40): Restores 7 to 31 Summoning points, using the same formulas as the prayer potion, but based on your Summoning level instead. There is no bonus here from the holy wrench.
  
  
• Super Attack Potion (Level 45): Boosts Attack level by 5 to 19 points, which appears to be computed as 15% of your Attack level rounded down, plus 5.
  
  
• Super Antipoison Potion (Level 48): Cures poison affecting you and provides immunity from poison for six minutes.
  
  
• Fishing Potion (Level 50): Provides a flat +3 boost to the Fishing skill.
  
  
• Super Energy Potion (Level 52): Restores 20% of your run energy; the same comments apply as for the regular energy potion.
  
  
• Hunter Potion (Level 53): Provides a +3 boost to Hunter.
  
  
• Super Strength Potion (Level 55): Boosts your Strength level by 5 to 19 points, which is computed as 15% of your Strength level, rounded down, plus 5.
  
  
• Weapon poison (Level 60): Coats one dagger or spear, or up to 5 arrows, darts, knives, javelins or bolts, with a mild poison that begins at 2 damage and slowly wears off.
  
  
• Super Restore Potion (Level 63): Restores 8 to 32 points in all stats except Hitpoints and Summoning; this includes Prayer. Calculated as 25% of the normal level of each skill, rounded down, plus 8. Cannot raise any stat above its normal maximum.
  
  
• Super Defence Potion (Level 66): Increases Defence level by 5 to 19 points, based on 15% of your Defence level, rounded down, plus 5.
  
  
• Extra Strong Antipoison Potion (Level 68): Cures poison and provides immunity for (I believe) 12 minutes.
  
  
• Antifire Potion (level 69): Provides resistance to dragon fire for six minutes. When combined with wearing an anti-dragon or dragonfire shield, this potion grants complete immunity to dragon fire breath weapons for six minutes. Beware that it does not replace the shield, and does not work nearly as well without it!
  
  
• Ranging Potion (Level 72): Provides a variable boost of 4 to 13 points to the Ranging skill, calculated as 10% of your level, rounded down, plus 4.
  
  
• Extra Strong Weapon Poison (Level 73): Treats one dagger or spear, or up to 5 arrows, darts, knives, javelins or bolts, with a moderate strength poison that begins at 3 damage (for ammunition) or 4 damage (for melee weapons) and slowly wears off.
  
  
• Magic Potion (Level 76): Gives a flat +4 bonus to Magic.
  
  
• Zamorak Brew (Level 78): An offensive tradeoff potion that boosts Attack by 2 to 21 points and Strength by 2 to 13 points, while reducing Defence by 2 to 11 points and Hitpoints by 2 to 11 points. Note that all of these are based on the skill’s normal level except Hitpoints, which is based on current HP; thus, if your normal Hitpoints level is 90 but you are down to 5 HP, a Zamorak brew will not kill you. There also seems to be a bit of randomness at play here—“chaos”, dare I say? J—in that you don’t always take the same amount of damage even when you have a constant number of Hitpoints.
  
  Zamorak brews also restore Prayer points, in an amount equal to 10% of your Prayer level, rounded down. This is not widely known, and is not even mentioned in the RuneScape knowledge base.
  
  
• Super Strong Antipoison Potion (Level 79): Cures poison and provides immunity for (I believe) 24 minutes.
  
  
• Saradomin Brew (Level 81): This is a defensive tradeoff potion, and the complement of the Zamorak brew. It boosts Defence by 2 to 21 points and Hitpoints by 2 to 16 points, while dropping Attack, Strength, Magic and Ranged by 2 to 9 points each. It does not restore Prayer points.
  
  
• Super Strong Weapon Poison (Level 82): Poisons one dagger or spear, or up to 5 arrows, darts, knives, javelins or bolts, with a high strength poison that begins at 4 damage (for ammunition) or 6 damage (for melee weapons) and slowly wears off over time.

Table 21 shows all of the regular potions in Herblore sorted by level, including all of the components of each and the XP obtained when you make them.

Table 21: Regular Potions

Herblore Level	Potion Name	Base Item	Primary Ingredient	Unfinished Product	Secondary Ingredient	Final Product	Summary of Effects	Experience Points
3	Attack potion	Vial of water	Clean guam	Guam potion (unf)	Eye of newt	Attack potion (3)	Boosts Attack skill by 3 to 12 points	25
5	Antipoison potion	Vial of water	Clean marrentill	Marrentill potion (unf)	Unicorn horn dust	Antipoison (3)	Cures poison and grants immunity to poison for one minute.	37.5
12	Strength potion	Vial of water	Clean tarromin	Tarromin potion (unf)	Limpwurt root	Strength potion (3)	Boosts Strength skill by 3 to 12 points	50
22	Stat restore potion	Vial of water	Clean harralander	Harralander potion (unf)	Red spiders’ eggs	Restore potion (3)	Restores Attack, Defence, Magic, Ranged and Strength by 10 to 39 points (will not exceed maximum)	62.5
26	Energy potion	Vial of water	Clean harralander	Harralander potion (unf)	Chocolate dust	Energy potion (3)	Restores 10% run energy	67.5
30	Defence potion	Vial of water	Clean ranarr	Ranarr potion (unf)	White berries	Defence potion (3)	Boosts Defence skill by 3 to 12 points	75
34	Agility potion	Vial of water	Clean toadflax	Toadflax potion (unf)	Toad’s legs	Agility potion (3)	Gives +3 Agility boost	80
36	Combat potion	Vial of water	Clean harralander	Harralander potion (unf)	Goat horn dust	Combat potion (3)	Boosts Attack and Strength skills by 3 to 12 points	84
38	Prayer potion	Vial of water	Clean ranarr	Ranarr potion (unf)	Snape grass	Prayer potion (3)	Restores from 7 to 31 Prayer points, depending on Prayer level	87.5
40	Summoning potion	Vial of water	Clean spirit weed	Spirit weed potion (unf)	Cockatrice egg	Summoning potion (3)	Restores from 7 to 31 Summoning points, depending on Summoning level	92
45	Super attack potion	Vial of water	Clean irit	Irit potion (unf)	Eye of newt	Super attack (3)	Boosts Attack skill by 5 to 19 points	100
48	Super antipoison potion	Vial of water	Clean irit	Irit potion (unf)	Unicorn horn dust	Super antipoison (3)	Cures poison and gives immunity to poison for six minutes	107.5
50	Fishing potion	Vial of water	Clean avantoe	Avantoe potion (unf)	Snape grass	Fishing potion (3)	Gives +3 Fishing bonus	112.5
52	Super energy potion	Vial of water	Clean avantoe	Avantoe potion (unf)	Mort myre fungus	Super energy (3)	Restores 20% run energy	117.5
53	Hunter potion	Vial of water	Clean avantoe	Avantoe potion (unf)	Kebbit teeth dust	Hunter potion (3)	Gives +3 Hunter bonus	120
55	Super strength potion	Vial of water	Clean kwuarm	Kwuarm potion (unf)	Limpwurt root	Super strength (3)	Boosts Strength skill by 5 to 19 points	125
60	Weapon poison	Vial of water	Clean kwuarm	Kwuarm potion (unf)	Dragon scale dust	Weapon poison	Poisons certain melee weapons and ranged ammunition; maximum damage 2	137.5
63	Super restore potion	Vial of water	Clean snapdragon	Snapdragon potion (unf)	Red spiders’ eggs	Super restore (3)	Restores all stats by 8 to 32 points, except Hitpoints and Summoning	142.5
66	Super defence potion	Vial of water	Clean cadantine	Cadantine potion (unf)	White berries	Super defence (3)	Boosts Defence skill by 5 to 19 points	150
68	Extra strong antipoison potion	Coconut milk	Clean toadflax	Antipoison+ (unf)	Yew roots	Antipoison+ (4)	Cures poison and gives immunity to poison for (12?) minutes	155
69	Antifire potion	Vial of water	Clean lantadyme	Lantadyme potion (unf)	Dragon scale dust	Antifire potion (3)	Gives immunity to dragon fire when used with anti-dragon or dragonfire shield	157.5
72	Ranging potion	Vial of water	Clean dwarf weed	Dwarf Weed potion (unf)	Wine of Zamorak	Ranging potion (3)	Boosts Ranged by 4 to 13 points	162.5
73	Extra strong weapon poison	Coconut milk	Cactus spine	Weapon poison+ (unf)	Red spiders’ eggs	Weapon poison+	Poisons certain melee weapons and ranged ammunition; maximum damage 4	165
76	Magic potion	Vial of water	Clean lantadyme	Lantadyme potion (unf)	Potato cactus	Magic potion (3)	Gives a +4 boost to Magic level	172.5
78	Zamorak brew	Vial of water	Clean torstol	Torstol potion (unf)	Jangerberries	Zamorak brew (3)	+2 to +21 Attack +2 to +13 Strength -2 to -11 Defence -2 to -11 Hitpoints (less if already damaged) +10% Prayer	175
79	Super strong antipoison potion	Coconut milk	Clean irit	Antipoison++ (unf)	Magic roots	Antipoison++ (4)	Cures poison and gives immunity to poison for (24?) minutes	177.5
81	Saradomin brew	Vial of water	Clean toadflax	Toadflax potion (unf)	Crushed nest	Saradomin brew (3)	+2 to +16 Defence +2 to +16 Hitpoints -2 to -9 Attack -2 to -9 Strength -2 to -9 Magic -2 to -9 Ranged	180
82	Super strong weapon poison	Coconut milk	Cave nightshade	Weapon poison++ (unf)	Poison ivy berries	Weapon poison++	Poisons certain melee weapons and ranged ammunition; maximum damage 6	190

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