A potion is a use item that restores HP or MP. This page covers all of them, along with the food items that do the same job and the buff drinks that raise a stat for a while. Between them they are the largest recurring cost in the game, and the one most players never think about.
Classic World prices 33 different recovery items. They do not all give the same value for the mesos they cost, and the pattern runs the opposite way to what most players expect.
Recovery per meso
Divide what an item restores by what it costs and the whole list falls into a clear order. The cheapest items are the most efficient, and efficiency drops steadily as the items get larger.
| Item | Price | HP | MP | Restored per meso | |
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Apple | 2 | 40 | 0 | 20.0 |
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Egg | 3 | 60 | 0 | 20.0 |
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Red Potion | 5 | 100 | 0 | 20.0 |
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Fried Chicken | 6 | 120 | 0 | 20.0 |
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Meat | 8 | 160 | 0 | 20.0 |
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Orange Potion | 15 | 250 | 0 | 16.7 |
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Hot Dog | 18 | 300 | 0 | 16.7 |
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Dried Squid | 18 | 300 | 0 | 16.7 |
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Pizza | 25 | 360 | 0 | 14.4 |
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White Potion | 35 | 500 | 0 | 14.3 |
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Hamburger | 35 | 500 | 0 | 14.3 |
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Cake | 15 | 100 | 100 | 13.3 |
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Hot Dog Supreme | 48 | 600 | 0 | 12.5 |
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Mrs. Ming Ming's Stew | 48 | 300 | 300 | 12.5 |
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Andre's Seafood Soup | 48 | 300 | 300 | 12.5 |
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Orange | 5 | 0 | 50 | 10.0 |
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Green Apple | 3 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 |
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Lemon | 15 | 0 | 150 | 10.0 |
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Fat Sausage | 80 | 800 | 0 | 10.0 |
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Unagi | 100 | 1,000 | 0 | 10.0 |
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Ice Cream Pop | 150 | 1,500 | 0 | 10.0 |
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Melting Cheese | 200 | 2,000 | 0 | 10.0 |
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Reindeer Milk | 250 | 2,500 | 0 | 10.0 |
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Blue Potion | 22 | 0 | 200 | 9.1 |
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Salad | 22 | 0 | 200 | 9.1 |
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Watermelon | 192 | 800 | 800 | 8.3 |
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Orange Juice | 54 | 0 | 450 | 8.3 |
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Grape Juice | 126 | 0 | 900 | 7.1 |
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Pure Water | 112 | 0 | 800 | 7.1 |
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Red Bean Sundae | 225 | 0 | 1,500 | 6.7 |
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Sunrise Dew | 300 | 0 | 2,000 | 6.7 |
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Sunset Dew | 375 | 0 | 2,500 | 6.7 |
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Rainbow-colored Snail Shell | 100 | 50 | 0 | 0.5 |
What that means in practice
Five items are tied at the top on exactly 20 HP per meso: Apple, Egg, Red Potion, Fried Chicken and Meat. Nothing in the game beats them, and a Red Potion is four times more efficient than a Reindeer Milk despite restoring a twenty-fifth as much.
What the expensive items buy is not value, it is convenience. A single Reindeer Milk occupies one inventory slot and one keypress where the equivalent healing in Red Potions would take twenty-five of each. On a long trip away from town, or in a fight where standing still to drink is dangerous, that is worth paying for. When restocking for ordinary training near a shop, it is not.
MP is simply worse value than HP throughout. The best MP item in the game restores 10 per meso, which is only half what the best HP items manage, and the large MP potions fall to under 7.
Rainbow-colored Snail Shell is the outlier of the entire list at 0.5 HP per meso, forty times worse than a Red Potion. It is a curiosity rather than a purchase.
Elixirs
Four items restore a percentage of your maximum rather than a flat amount, which makes them scale with the character instead of against them.
| Item | Price | Restores | |
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Elixir | 500 | 35% HP and 35% MP |
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Power Elixir | 2,500 | 100% HP and 100% MP |
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Mana Elixir | 1,000 | 50% MP |
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W Ramen | 200 | 40% HP and 40% MP |
W Ramen is the quiet bargain here: it restores more than an Elixir for less than half the price.
Buff drinks
A separate group raises a stat for a fixed time instead of healing. Durations are stored in milliseconds, so 300000 is five minutes and 600000 is ten.
| Item | Price | Effect | Duration | |
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Warrior Potion | 250 | +10 weapon attack | 10 min |
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Magic Potion | 250 | +10 magic attack | 10 min |
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Sniper Potion | 250 | +5 accuracy | 10 min |
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Dexterity Potion | 250 | +5 avoidability | 10 min |
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Speed Potion | 250 | +8 speed | 10 min |
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Supreme Sniper Potion | 300 | +7 accuracy | 15 min |
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Supreme Dexterity Potion | 300 | +7 avoidability | 15 min |
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Drake's Blood | 300 | +12 weapon attack | 5 min |
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Sap of Ancient Tree | 300 | +12 magic attack | 5 min |
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Drake's Meat | 250 | +10 weapon defence | 5 min |
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Fairy's Honey | 250 | +10 avoidability | 5 min |
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Red Bean Porridge | 40 | thaw 10 | 5 min |
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Cider | 1 | +15 weapon attack, −5 accuracy | 5 min |
Cider is the only recovery or buff item in the game with a drawback attached. It grants more weapon attack than anything else on the list, +15 against Drake's Blood's +12, and takes 5 accuracy back in exchange. It also costs 1 meso.
For sustained attack, Warrior Potion lasts twice as long as Drake's Blood for less money, so the shorter, stronger drinks are worth saving for a fight rather than drinking while grinding.