Stat Items & Healing Tea

Recently (5/22/2004) it was suggested that using a stat item whilst brewing may actually have no affect on the brewed tea. That is your brew will recover no more health points whether or not you have a stat item (ie bronze helm, dex gloves), it will remain consistent to your unstatted bonus.

I had always been under the impression from my own brewing experiences that stat items did indeed affect the potency and I went forth to test this hypothesis after an inquiry from Lincentious. Anavrin, as well, pointed out that the larger the bonus the less of an affect the stat item would have.

The tests were proceeded through the traditional method of sifting through ashes and healing myself with 1/100 bottle of tea (that was brewed alone) and through simple math getting the results that follow. After doing this repeatedly for a given number of times I found an average to best summarize health point recovery.

Bottle one made by me unstatted with a brewing bonus of 402.

01 1466 - 349 = 1117
02 1371 - 154 = 1217
03 780 - 193 = 587
04 1035 - 248 = 787
05 726 - 142 = 584
06 782 - 199 = 583
07 905 - 285 = 620
08 868 - 101 = 767
09 1055 - 247 = 808
10 1074 - 215 = 859

Average unstatted tea health point recovery: 792.9

Bottle two made by me using dex gloves with a brewing bonus of 417.

01 762 - 74 = 688
02 810 - 100 = 710
03 859 - 283 = 576
04 802 - 114 = 688
05 1446 - 102 = 1344
06 754 - 17 = 737
07 829 - 78 = 751
08 1111 - 163 = 948
09 570 - 98 = 472
10 1073 - 95 = 978

Average statted tea health point recovery: 789.2

To test the lower bonus theory Nell helped me with a bottle of unstatted and statted (with dex gloves) tea.

Bottle three by Nell made unstatted with a brewing bonus of 255.

01 288 - 49 = 239
02 594 - 68 = 526
03 415 - 22 = 393
04 827 - 193 = 634
05 1085 - 827 = 258
06 1350 - 1085 = 265
07 963 - 414 = 549
08 1415 - 963 = 452
09 1045 - 662 = 383
10 1466 - 1096 = 370

Average unstatted tea health point recovery: 406.9

Bottle four made by Nell using dex gloves with a brewing bonus of 265.

01 480 - 197 = 283
02 724 - 480 = 244
03 966 - 724 = 242
04 1247 - 966 = 281
05 757 - 547 = 210
06 735 - 301 = 434
07 1405 - 1012 = 393
08 611 - 367 = 244
09 815 - 611 = 204
10 1060 - 830 = 230

Average statted tea health point recovery: 276.5

While the healing potency of 1/100th of a bottle of tea varies quite a bit, as shown above, I was hoping to get the healing potency average rather than specifics.

I would have liked to of done more test runs than ten but after awhile burning myself gets a little boring and a little too close to death now and again.

It does seem that stat items have no affect upon higher bonus tea and a limited affect on low bonus tea. However, these are far from conclusive results and I hope at a later time to perform more accurate and precise testings.