Hello guys,
after my plan to gather a few of these bad boys for the latest tournament (which i manages to miss xDD) failed due to unobtainability of the aforementioned items I made my mind up the way that these should be banned from the tournaments.
Let me now tell you why:
there were other rare/unobtainable items proposed to be banned before and I was not all into it but it's way different with these potions. The most debated items iirc was the Smoking Pipe which adds 10% critical chance. Well, is +10% critical chance going to win you a fight? It might help but it surely won't introduce a guaranteed victory. Personally i would never rely on a pipe to win me a match... there are other numerous factors determining the outcome of the match than +10% critical.
Well, let's now move on to the dark potions cuz those are a different story.
Some numbers to begin with:
With a standard concentration potion and my max dps build i have 2934dps and 138 attack delay.
With the dark ones and the same stats I have 4050dps and 100 attack delay.
I'm sure you've noticed how significant the dps increase is. An advantage as such could (and probably has) totally repress the other circumstances affecting the outcome of a match and simply make you win all the time.
Of course everyone wants to win and everyone wants to do as much as possible to achieve it. But I think an item this over powered and not being available to the vast majority of players could ruin the fun and make it a "I have dark pots" game.
TO SUM IT UP:
You can lose using a smoking pipe... using dark concentration potions, you most likely won't.
Let me know what you think and express you opinion in the poll.
Thank you and have fun playing, winning and losing!