What's with all the potions on iconics with casting?

[deuxhero]

At first I thought some excessive potion hoards on characters who could use scrolls were to represent a naturally played character (they looted them instead of buying them), or just poor optimization. That idea fell apart when I looked further and found iconics that don't.

Iconics with on-list potions/UMD and potions of things they could easily scroll beyond one healing potion (which is basically "in case of negative HP, shove contents down throat"), or daylight (you need to see to use a scroll) on their level 7 sheet:
Bard (Expeditious retreat)
Cleric (Align Weapon, Eagle's Splendor)
Ranger (FOUR Cure Moderate Wounds, two pass without trace. I could justify one pass without trace for the sake of remaining silent.)
Sorcerer (Cat's Grace.)
Skald (Fly)

Those without
Bloodrager (weirdly enough has a wand of CLW despite not being on his list and having no UMD.)
Druid
Paladin (no potions)
Wizard (No potions)
Magus (No potions)
Hunter (Daylight)
Warpriest (No potions)
Summoner (Invisibility, though I'm putting him here because invisibility is something you want in the dark with minimal noise)
Witch (Though I question why you'd want a potion of bear's endurance)

(Is this question relevant for occult classes?)

Also what's with Arcanist and Witch having partially charged wands of mage armor?

[Volkard Abendroth]

Even a full caster enjoys having potions and scrolls for additional resources. Not only does it free up spell slots for spells where DCs and casting levels matter, it also allows for niche use spells.

On a more practical note: when playing iconic characters in PFS, it is additional resources that have no downside for freely expending during the course of a scenario.

[Chess Pwn]

cause they can hand off potions to other to use that you can't do with scrolls.

[TriOmegaZero]

Potions are also quiet and don't require the ability to read in the dark.

[deuxhero]

Noticed I forgot Inquisitor. Only potion is an oil of daylight (which is less useful for her because of darkvision, but I guess it still helps allies and bypasses darkvision proof darkness).

@Volkard Abendroth
Oh I perfectly understand why they have scrolls. I'm wondering why certain characters have potions instead of scrolls.

[Rysky]

Chess Pwn wrote:

cause they can hand off potions to other to use that you can't do with scrolls.

And they can also hand off wands to their buddies that have UMD or have the spell on their spell list.

[Cpt_kirstov]

deuxhero wrote:

@Volkard Abendroth

Oh I perfectly understand why they have scrolls. I'm wondering why certain characters have potions instead of scrolls.

You have no idea how often the face that the there is a CLW potion has brought a cleric back from the bleeding out and allows then to heal the rest of the party.

[blahpers]

Rysky wrote:

Chess Pwn wrote:

cause they can hand off potions to other to use that you can't do with scrolls.

And they can also hand off wands to their buddies that have UMD or have the spell on their spell list.

They have to have UMD or the spell on their spell list, though. Potions just work. Some parties, that's a bad trade, but for others it's life and death.