High-level Herblore Potions - Is it worth it?

High-Level Herblore potions recently came out on October 7th. What this means is that once you hit 85 Herblore you get the ability to make Super-Antifire potions (Super Prayer at level 94), and at level 88 you get the chance to make Extreme-Potions up to level 96, including the Overload potion, which is a potion giving you the added bonuses of all the Extreme Potions. The potions are as follows:

~Super antifire 85
~Extreme attack 88
~Extreme strength 89
~Extreme defense 90
~Extreme magic 91
~Extreme ranging 92
~Super prayer 94
~Overload 96

These potions add bigger bonuses to your already level of which ever skill; Attack, Strength, Defense, Magic, and Ranging. While the Super Prayer and Super Antifire give you better points and protection. This update caused a lot of people to start complaining about the bonus, given that they don’t have the level of Herblore required to make the potions, and what makes it even worse is that, these potions are untradeable! Those of us who have trained Herblore, know that its one of the most expensive skills on RuneScape. If its not the cost of herbs, its the cost of added ingredients. If you are on the poorer side of RuneScape, you are forced to search for the added ingredients or the herbs, which range from a few gold pieces, up to 3k or more for one herb. Not only is Herblore expensive, but many people do not train it, simply because most of the potions you need are sold in the Grand Exchange. You can easily get your hands on prayer potions, and it is much cheaper to buy the potion than make it, or get the level to make it.

So we come to the problem that people are angry about. Not only is it expensive, but now they have to train up to level 88 to even get to the first Extreme Potion, and bet on it, that you will be spending millions of gold pieces to get there. You can not even make money off these potions to add up for all the money you just spent getting there. Of course you can make other potions to make up for the money lost, but you usually do not make any profit out of it.

So, we come to the question, is it worth the amount of time and money spent to be able to make these potions? There are both pros and cons. I believe that if you really want to be able to do these, you will ignore the cons and just go for it. It all depends on your wealth, and determination. Of course, congratulations on those of you who have reached the level to make these potions, and even 99 Herblore, because most of us wouldn’t have been able too.

What do you guys think?

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