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Hi Everyone! In this blog post I share with you my tips on what is the best way to spend your gold coins in Warlords of Aternum when trying to buy Potions of Knowledge to increase the experience of your Army.

Potions

These potions are very useful to rank up your Army, especially for those units which you don’t use very often (we still need to rank all of them up to be successful in, for example, Tavern Stories). There are 4 types of potions:

Merchant vs. Dewport

In this blog I am focusing on tips for potions sold at the Merchant and at the Dewport’s Merchant Ship (the smallest ship).

Merchant Potion Prices

The prices at which the Merchant sells the potions:

• He sells the Lesser Potion of Knowledge for 200 gold coins
• The 5000 XP potion for 1000 gold coins (which is same as 5 x 200 gold)
• The Greater 25000 XP potion for 3000
• And all of these can have a chance to be on a 25% discount

Dewport’s Merchant Ship

On the other hand, although it is not possible to buy potions directly from Dewport, it is very much possible to get them to drop based on various chances (as below).

And knowing the chances we can calculate, for example, how many purchases are needed to get 1 Greater Potion of Knowledge. The chance, as we see on the table, is 4.1% and the gold cost is:

• 150 gold if you buy 1 (I don’t recommend this)
• 675 gold if you buy 5
• which makes it 135 gold per 1 purchase (when buying in lots of 5)

So for 4.1% we need to buy, in average, 25 ships (5 x 5) which is going to cost us 3375 gold.

On the first glance this looks to be more expensive than the Merchant, but this is not the case. Here is why:

Ship Table with Chances and Results

When we pay the 3375 gold and get our Greater Potion there are 2 huge benefits that comes with that:

1. We have a chance to get more than 1 potion.
2. We get a ton of other useful items!

Let’s look at the table below to see:

So we can see that we would get not only 1 Greater potion but also:

• 5 common items
• 5 uncommon items
• a bunch of extra ingots of 3 different qualities
• one more Lesser potion
• one more 1000 XP potion
• and a chance to get more of anything

Exceptions or Limited Purchases

If we buy only 1 time then, of course, there is a chance not to get the item we want. So when I say we will get a Greater Potion of Knowledge from 25 potions, it is important to understand that this is correct in average. This means if one buys 1000 times then in average there will be 1 potion per 25 purchases, but if one buys only 1 time 25 it is possible that the potion does not drop (although a lot of other items will).

Here is an example of what I got on my first purchase of 5 ships:

I think it is actually really good because I got a rare item (0.4% chance) which I needed!

Tips for Warlords of Aternum – CONCLUSION

Based on my analysis, the tips I can share with you are as follows:

• If you have to make a choice it is better to buy 5 lots of Merchant Ship at Dewport rather than paying for 1 potion at the Merchant.
• If the potions at the Merchant are on a 25% discount they are a good value to buy (even though you give up some extra items that you would get if you bought ships).
• Obvious, but just to add: if you have tons of gold then naturally you can buy both.