discourage soloers??? You do know that most that actually do solo anything of worth here are casters and hardly make use of potions anyways.
It strikes far harder on the no caster classes then anything else, as they are in dire need of potions to get by at times.
It is what it is, but in Port-a-Lucine they charged like 150 gold for a barkskin before, now over 700, the increased price may in my opinion be a little to much.
Anyways, just what i think.
Some of the loots priceings have been altered too. For instance a fine paintaing may have the price of 180 and 450 gold pieces. Still not worth a potion, but at least it is something.
About the prices, well the only potion you could buy was usually barkskin potion nothing much else folks really bought. And that actually will not make the soloers be discouraged, since most soloers, actually just ninjaloot the place if possible, or if it is more worth it.
I think we will see more ninjalooting and less dungeon clearing.
For instance, my character has a number of places which he can clear, with the help of a barkskin potion, but also can ninjaloot.
Usually if i clear a dungeon i do it for alchemical reagents, and not xp, since i can barely kill anything that would give me xp, and it requires such an amount of potion and other consumables to be used up, that with the new potion priceing system it will be definetly not worth it, since i get meager xp, and the gold i would make from a run, would not suffice to replace the potions i have used up. (Especially with 700 per barkskin bottle.)
Allthough my character is in a special position in which he has major problems finding himself a party or getting anyone to help him to go to a dungeon.