Talk:Albedo/@comment-93.105.250.220-20180611131042

I can explain how Albedo works in Witcher 1.

To put it simple any potion drank containing Albedo as secondary effect or while under the effects of Albedo will have a reduced toxicity by 1 level.

So what does that mean? Well potions can have Low, Medium, High and Very High level of toxicity. So Albedo reduces that totixicy by 1 level i.e. a potion with Very High toxicity is reduced to High, a potion with High toxicity is reduced to Medium and a potion with Medium toxicity is reduced to Low.

But what happens with potions with Low toxicity? Well they are in fact reduced to None-toxic just like White Honey.

This is very useful for a number of reasons:

First of the potions with Low toxicity like Cat and Wives Tears are used quite often even outside of combat. So if you do not wish to gain any toxicity from them in case of emergency, then making them with Albedo will solve that problem. An Albedo Cat will never give you toxicity when you need to see in the dark. Albedo Wives Tears will remove drunkness without the need to meditate to remove toxicity later, so you can enter as many drinking contests in a row as you want without ever dying from drinking too many Wives Tears.

Another thing is potions like Cat and Wives Tears with Albedo can be used as "appetizers" before a battle for which you will need to drink a lot of other potions. Wives Tears will of course do nothing on their own but will give you the Albedo effect for the remaining potions. (It's also possible to do with Perfume as they have Low toxicity too, but they will apply "drunkness" effect requiring you to drink Wives Tears to remove it, so it's mostly pointless. Unless you can't get enough Wing membrane's as they are the only source of Rebis with Albedo and Perfume is the only Low toxicity potion that doesn't require Rebis.)

It's also a very good idea to make White Honey with Albedo, as even though it's None-toxic on it's own you usually drink it when you need to drink other potions mid battle, but have already too much toxicity to do so. So an Albedo White Honey will not only remove all toxicity but also reduce it for all the potions that will follow.