In Fallout 2, the Broc Flower and Xander Root did nothing, unless combined into Healing Powder. Healing Powder had a -1 PER and +8 to +18 HP (depending on medicine skill).

In Fallout New Vegas, the Broc Flower gives 1HP over 14 seconds, and the Xander Root gives 1HP over 4 seconds. Made into Healing Powder, you get the -1 PER debuff, and only +1HP over 18 seconds. Indeed, the whole is less than the sum of its parts!

I don't understand 14+4=18 hp a second so i don't see what your talking about but if your talking about -1 per its cause combined it makes you sleepy

What is the point of making the powder if the ingrediants taken seperatly can do just as well without the -PER

But I just played with 23 survival I was getting 2 hp for 18 seconds with -1 per

I have a higher survival so doesn't food heal better?

I just save the damn things and with empty syringes, make them into stimpacks.

I don't do workbenches or reloading benches, I do the shoot.

same

i let the egg heads over at new vegas medical clinic make my stimpacks.

Well said. The only way I like it.

Healing Powder weight less.

I do agree both Bloc flower and Xander should have -1 Perception.

Healing Powder heals 1 hit point per second over 18 seconds, for a total of 18HP. The two individual parts in rapid succession will give +2HP a second for the first four seconds (for 8HP) and another 10HP for the remaining 10 seconds -- so, it still seems to be the same 18HP anyway, and you receive it a little faster.

Maybe as your Medicine and Survival skills change, the advantage in the healing powder will become more evident...

With 23 survival I'm getting 2 hp for 18 seconds so I'm getting more health than the two

I drink water and sleep for an hour.


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I just drink Sunset Sarsaparilla. It's heavy, but is the best and most plentiful healing potion around for non-critical healing. And you get money for using it

The higher your Survival skill the more it heals. Same for all the food.

So you pay through far more for weapon repair then. Suit yourself.