Flask(Potion) of Petrification
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https://db.ascension.gg/?spell=17634
During with Classic and TBC, this did not exist and was Blizzard actively gutting the actual Flask which is
https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=13506/flask-of-petrification#created-by-spell
My suggestion is basically to revert the potion back to its original flask. The potion is worthless all the way around which was intentional on blizzards part when they tried to break all the old alchemy stuff such as when they gutted the free action potion.
The original purpose of this was supposed to be a 1 minute equivalent to a mages "Iceblock" ability that you can't free yourself from after using. I remember this because I was an alchemist and had a warrior friend of mine always get a hold of the materials so I could make them for him since I was an Elixir Master and I was one of the few who knew the recipe and wasn't charging him anything for it.
He would use them to save himself a death when the groups were wiping as it dropped all threat or when he was tanking in heroics and you have that 1 person who can't seem to listen and keep wiping the group where he would just run out of the way and flask and let the mobs go wild on the remaining survivors rather than die needlessly or give a few to his other group members who weren't being a turd so they all could flask and watch that player die alone.
I know it isn't as huge of a thing on here since virtually anyone can get Vanish or Feign Death or Iceblock or Shadowmeld or maybe something else that is slipping my mind but it could at least have a use as opposed to the potion it turned into which is nothing but vendor trash where you can't move for 60 seconds but most things can pop the absorb in less than 10 seconds.
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