You're very unlikely to have this problem in Season 2.

There's no bug to be fixed in here. We're just changing the functionality of an old node that wasn't too powerful when it was originally created, but became a problem as the game got more itemization and synergies with it.

Yeah, you're right about the potions following you to character select, that is a bug and I totally had forgotten about that part of this post when I responded to you earlier.

How those potions are generated via Ballista's Care Package node is not a bug which I was referring to, and it will be changed in Season 2 so you won't be able to get nearly as many potions anymore.