NLC pots nearly useless? Monster Crystal/Recipe/material farming?

For now, familiars can be "refreshed" by changing channel or going into cash shop. The familiar disappears, and when you take it out again it's at full vitality. So you really only need that emergency stack for situations in which you can't cc, such as bosses or party quests. Or when you prefer to be using another familiar (such as a Big Spider for more drops).

Oh cool stuff. I should really go nab some jr boogies for my sair then :O
But yes, at PQs it's great to have back ups. At bosses... well you might be using elixirs anyways due to nexon's love of 1/1.