Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2is a game that doesn’t pull any punches. From the very beginning, you and protagonist Henry are thrown directly into the fire, and you’ll need every single possible aid at your disposal to overcome challenge after challenge.
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One way to help tip the odds in your favor is by utilizing the many different types of potions that are present throughout the entire game. Henry can learn to brew many of these himself at alchemy benches, while others will be picked up from merchants or as quest rewards along the way.
There are many potions to test out and see which ones suit your play style and needs best, but some rise above the rest of the batch as essentials to have on standby when the moment calls for them.
Let’s take a look at the 10 best potions in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 that will consistently be able to make your life much easier.
10Chamomile Decoction
A Good Night’s Sleep
The Chamomile Decoction works as you’d expect the main ingredient in Sleepytime Tea to function. After taking this potion, Henry will have his health regenerate more quickly while he’s asleep.
If it’s a strong, high-quality brew, this decoction will also replenish his energy while he sleeps even faster.
Sleeping to both heal yourself and regenerate energy will be a frequent occurrence for you in KCD2, so a potion that aids with both of these things has immediate inherent value.
Sometimes, you might need to heal and regain energy quickly in order to get back out into the world and complete a quest on a timer.
The Chamomile Decoction will get Henry healthy and back on his feet after just a short rest, ensuring he’ll never miss a moment of action.
9Nighthawk
For The Night Owls
The Nighthawk potion allows Henry to see more clearly after the sun sets. In a world yet to discover electricity, this is a useful perk to employ, as the night sky often doesn’t give Henry enough light to make out where he’s going.
A torch can help with this same thing, too, but it has a more limited range and will also blow Henry’s cover during any type of late-night stealth mission.
Additionally, Nighthawk slows down Henry’s energy loss after hours. If it’s a good-quality potion, he won’t lose any energy during the night at all.
This is a great perk, as you’ll be able to stay up late and complete any nighttime quests, tasks, or even thieving attempts without having to worry about Henry passing out in the process.
Energy Boost
Up next is Cockerel, a potion that increases your energy while simultaneously slowing down the rate at which energy decreases.
This is incredibly useful, as oftentimes you’ll find yourself with your energy nearly completely drained right in the middle of a current quest or objective.
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It can be annoying at times to have to take a break from what you’re doing in order to go take a quick power nap, and the cockerel potion ensures that this inconvenience is less likely to happen.
You might lose a target you’re following or fail a quest entirely if it has a time limit due to energy loss, so having cockerel in your back pocket to prevent this is never a bad idea.
7Embrocation
Olympic Sprinter
Embrocation boosts Henry’s agility stat for a period of time and also allows him to sprint longer distances before his stamina is depleted.
You will face plenty of instances where sprinting away from a fight is your only option, and having some extra gas in the tank will help verify you safely escape your assailants.
While increased sprinting ability is useful by itself, having a boost in your agility stat is no joke either.
Higher agility makes your stamina decrease less during combat, makes your movement speed faster, makes you capable of bearing heavier armor and weapons, lessens fall damage, and allows you to dodge attacks more efficiently.
A strong Embrocation potion boosts your agility by four points for fifteen minutes, making it a useful potion to chug before an especially dangerous combat encounter.
6Buck’s Blood
Stamina For Days
Buck’s Blood focuses only on improving your stamina. More specifically, the different levels of quality of this brew will improve Henry’s stamina regeneration rate and total percent of stamina for a set period of time.
A strong dose of Buck’s Blood lasts for 40 full minutes while increasing stamina regeneration by 15% and increasing your total stamina by 30%.
Stamina is required for nearly every action besides a normal walking pace, so this potion allows Henry to get more hits in during combat, sprint and dodge more often, and so on.
5Marigold Decoction
Heal In A Pinch
Sometimes, Henry will be mortally wounded with no place to rest and recover in sight. This is where Marigold Decoction can come in handy.
This potion heals a certain amount of Henry’s health over a short period of time while also curing a hangover if he’s recently overindulged in this regard.
The strong version of the Marigold Decoction replenishes 40 health points over the course of one minute.
If you find yourself wounded in the middle of a quest or battle with no easy way to rest up, this potion can help bring Henry back from certain death.
4Painkiller Brew
For The Wounded
The Painkiller Brew is another option to use when Henry has been roughed up in combat.
This one lessens the negative debuffs of serious injury to Henry while also allowing Henry to keep more usable stamina as his health decreases.
Typically, in KCD2, your available stamina is tied directly to your available health. As you take damage, your maximum stamina also decreases until you’re back to full health.
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In normal instances, this can be a deadly combo. Low health is bad enough, but if Henry can’t even muster up the stamina to get an attack off or run away due to his low health, he’s doomed.
A regular strength Painkiller Brew aids with all of this for a full 15 minutes, making it another useful one to utilize before an encounter you’re extra nervous about.
3Artemisia
Strength On Command
A regular strength version of Artemisia will boost your strength by two full points during the 10 minutes after ingestion.
Extra strength can come in handy in numerous different scenarios, so this potion can be applied tactically at many points throughout the game.
Strength boosts your damage output during combat, allows you to carry more weight without becoming over-encumbered, and also makes you stronger in heavy armor.
If you need to turn into a tank for an especially difficult moment of gameplay, Artemisia can often be just the extra edge you need.
2Aqua Vitalis
Steel Yourself
Even if Henry is equipped with the most protective gear in the game, bleeding out in combat is a constant threat. Unlike taking regular damage that simply removes a portion of Henry’s health, bleeding makes his HP continually dwindle until the bleeding is stopped.
Aqua Vitalis slows down this rate of bleeding, so if you find yourself rapidly losing your health after an especially damaging skirmish, this potion can be the difference in getting Henry back to safety.
This potion also lowers the amount of damage Henry takes from attacks in general, so if you’re worried you don’t have the amount of health needed to get through a battle, Aqua Vitalis can give you that extra damage reduction boost you need.
1Saviour Schnapps
Plan Your Every Move
One of the earliest encountered potions in the game, Saviour Schnapps, is also the absolute best. On the surface, its ability to allow you to save your game wherever you want might seem trivial.
Once you realize, however, that you don’t have a typical game’s auto-save functionality, the value of Saviour Schnapps makes more sense.
You’ll get the recipe for this potion early on in the game, so it’s a great idea to brew as many as you possibly can. Many vendors around the world also sell this potion, and you’d be remiss not to buy all the stock available every time you’re able to.
Being able to save the game wherever you want gives you a safety net otherwise missing in KCD2.
Worried about messing up a quest? Saviour Schnapps. Bad at lockpicking and only have one remaining lockpick? Saviour Schnapps. Want to wager everything on a game of dice without the fear of losing? You guessed it — Saviour Schnapps.
The weak version of this potion simply allows you to save the game, but stronger versions give you this same benefit along with a nice boost to strength, agility, and vitality all at the same time.
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