Potion

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Potion Belt in Hearthstone.

A potion (sometimes referred to as a pot) is an item that a character can drink that will apply an effect to the imbiber, or restore some of their resources. Potions can be created by characters with the alchemy profession, they can sometimes be available as drops, and they are sometimes sold by vendors. Here is a list of potion vendors.

Types

Potion

• A potion is consumed to provide an immediate effect - e.g.  [Healing Potion].
• This list shows all the potions in the game.

Elixir

Main article: Elixir

• Elixirs provide stat improvements while potions provide other effects.
• They are similar to potions with differing effects that have mostly longer durations - e.g.  [Noggenfogger Elixir]
• There are two types of Elixirs: Battle Elixir (offensive stats) and Guardian Elixirs (defensive stats}
• This list shows all the Elixirs in the game.
• This list shows all the Battle Elixirs in the game.
• This list shows all the Guardian Elixirs in the game.

Flask

Main article: Flask

• A Flask is a more powerful type of elixir in which effects persist through death - e.g.  [Spectral Flask of Power]
• This list shows all the Flasks in the game.

Phial

This section concerns content related to Dragonflight.

• A Phial is flask potion with a 30-minute duration that persists through death - e.g. Phial of Elemental Chaos
• It can be can be consumed twice to increase the duration to an hour, or sometimes even longer.
• This list shows all the Phials in the game.

In lore

• Nathanos Blightcaller offers the adventurer a vial of  [Blightcaller's Easy Death] in preparation for  [10-60] The Stormwind Extraction.

Notes

• Health/Mana Potions used to have a chance to randomly "crit", increasing its utility by 50%. This no longer occurs in modern WoW. ^{[citation needed]}
• Potion cooldowns used to not start until combat concluded. This caused a strategy of "pre-potting", or consuming a potion before a boss encounter in order to use a potion again later. This behavior was removed in patch 9.0.1, and the potion cooldown moved to 5 minutes.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Phials added.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Battle Elixir and Guardian Elixir classifications added.