lets assume you're level 10 and you encounter a level 15 monster which is proving quite difficult thus you used several swallow potions to replenish your health, bombs, oils etc and finally managed to defeat it but after that what will you do ? you'll go a herb hunt to fill your supply again, not to mention rare stuff will be even more difficult to craft. In a massive open world like this such encounters are pretty common and finding specific ingredients is very difficult so while it sounds cool for like few days of game play, it will become a frustrating mess and you'll feel more like a herbalist rather than a monster slayer. Eventually you either end up buying ingredients from merchants or feel discouraged to use alchemy at all.
What you describe is EXACTLY what a lot of us want.
If we fight a monster five levels above us, in death march difficulty, and spam potions and bombs to get rid of it, so good job : It worked ! But now go replenish the stock you just used to avoid physical contact.
They could have done an auto-dodge system as well.
Each time a monster attacks you : hop, auto-dodge !
Let's imagine you fight a monster 5 levels above you, would you be ready to dodge every second to avoid its attacks ? Come on, we should be thankful for auto-dodge !
Do you see the irony ?
I understand people may like the alchemy system as it is.
It's normal.
Farming ingredients is not their priority.
But in my case, playing in death march, I consider potions, oilds and bombs as a valuable advantage in fights, and I should have worked to deserve this advantage.
Here, I just have to... meditate.
This is just a question of
difficulty.
Death march should force the player to farm ingredients for alchemy.
Or at least, there should be an option to choose between real alchemy and auto-refill.
