This isn't a problem - for one thing, it doesn't up the potential beyond +2 over your current stat (i.e. if you are at the maximum and drink two in a row, your potential is still only +2 over current, not +4, for a gain of +6 if you haven't herb trained). For another, they are not very common - how many of these potions are you finding a game? At least wrt toughness (most important by far), I'm lucky to find two.

A lot of these RFEs are designed in a roundabout way to fix herbs (for the fifteenth time). We should really have a forum discussion about how to actually fix HERBS and quit trying to change the entire game around to accommodate them.

This is incorrect. If you are at 14/16 and drink a potion of stat, you will go to 16/18. Wishing for potions of toughness is effectively worth 8 points of To if you're below the herb cap--quite worthwhile, IMHO.

I personally do not feel this change is necessary. Attribute potions are rare--much rarer than PoGA considering how many of the latter are now guaranteed. Having their effects be fairly significant is not much of a problem.

The potential is easily reached through be it strength or herb training, so most clever players will probably get the +4 to potential.

It was decided that herbs was not the issue entirely, but potentials should rather be more difficult to raise. I did and still do agree that HERBS is part of the problem and I had only one 2-part suggestion regarding it, that will fix it.

I might not have been clear, but that is what I meant by the potential staying at +2 over current. Potions of stat do not actually add +2 to your potential, they simply set it to +2 over the new current iff it is less. (this seems blindingly obvious by your example, but one could be led to believe differently if drinking one at 14/14 - new stat is 16/18, but drinking another one only takes you to 18/20)

edit: oh, I see, I actually totally misspoke, let me edit that.

Yes, that is exactly how it works: if you're at 14/14, drinking a potion of stat will raise you to 16/18. The next one will raise you to 18/20.

However, it means if you drink one and then herb train, the next one gets you to 20/22, which is I think what Stingray is talking about

This is what I do all the time, it yields the best results. It works pretty much the same as potion of potential *foo* only that it it grants additional actual attribute points.
Potions like these are even more valuable than potential raising ones and equally rare.
I don't see why the mechanism of how they work should be changed, it doesn't have a game breaking/scumming impact on the game, not by a long shot.

I'm not judging it, I was just saying why he was calling 2 potions +8 when other people were assuming only +6 ;)

These potions are supposed to be awesome. That's why they're so rare in the first place.