A while back Talian asked for some thoughts from us on why empaths were given the special foraging commands, even though they are not survival prime. So, here are some guesses.

At some point it would be pretty nifty if new potions were possible, a true alchemist's kit of helpful items. Imagine potions to increase strength, stamina, agility ... magical potions of seeing in the dark, breathing underwater, shrinking ... salves that make you invisible, that disguise you as a different race, that create glowing tattoos ...

And all of these potions can be made only by empaths, using only the finest ingredients (foraged up with the use of the special foraging commands), combining them with their knowledge of life magic.

That'd be a new career path for Empaths, a new source of revenue, and a rationale for having special foraging abilities.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.

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I think (and hope) that it's because with the advent of DRII and more ranges of healing herbs that there will be ways for us to forage up the best herbs (ones other people can't). The ones that when dried or otherwise concentrated increase the natural healing rate by 1,000,000 times. Now that would be neat, chomp down on an herb, heal the completely destroyed right arm, and poof, your almost destoyed chest is back via the herb!

Now THAT would be worth it. ::pokes Reexa::


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