{"id":2020,"date":"2010-08-05T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2010-11-29T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:27:40","slug":"lotro-salves-are-evil-and-worthy-only-of-disdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/lotro-salves-are-evil-and-worthy-only-of-disdain\/","title":{"rendered":"(LotRO) Salves are Evil and Worthy Only of Disdain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bw_heal_salve.jpg\">Heh. Got your attention?<\/p>\n<p>I actually have <s>a<\/s> <s>two<\/s> a few other posts I plan to write today, but I wanted to quickly address a theme I saw in the (fantastic and insightful) replies to the last post. The suggestion was to bring along Disease, Wound, Poison, and Fear salves as well as the potions for same.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll have to respectfully disagree.<\/p>\n<p>I will do you the courtesy of telling you why I hate salves, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crappy to nonexistent range.<\/strong> This is not a huge deal, and it makes sense, but it still sucks to have to run up to whoever you&#8217;re trying to sa(l)ve and crawl into their pocketses while you should probably be doing something else.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They share a cool-down with your wound pots.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/strong> This is the main reason that salves fall so far down into the Vendor Trash category that I delete them while soloing to make room for more perfect bat wings in my bag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, yeah: it&#8217;s nice <em><strong>in theory<\/strong><\/em> to say &#8220;bring salves to help your buddy&#8221;, but if you use a salve to remove a killer wound\/fear\/disease\/poison from someone else, and then CAN&#8217;T remove that same killer effect off yourself ten seconds later because all those pots are on cooldown, you&#8217;re just trading one dead fellowship member (them) for a different one (you).<\/p>\n<p>And to be honest? I&#8217;d RATHER keep you alive, because you&#8217;re the person who remembered to bring all the supplies to the raid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>[1]<\/strong> &#8212; I know the salves used to have their own cooldown, back in hoary old pre-historic times &#8212; seriously, I think it changed during the same book the Rift came out &#8212; and if they were ever changed back to that, I&#8217;d be ALL OVER bringing salves to raids. As it is? No. Vendor Trash. Moria goat food. Junk em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. Got your attention? I actually have a two a few other posts I plan to write today, but I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos","tag-lotro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}