Let me first define what a Super pot is: Composing, Ladder and Global pots. I've purposely ignored donation pots because they are used by HCS to earn revenue. I'm against the huge increase in stat changing skills for Super pots. I am not alone. After witnessing repeated threads where players' concerns about the subject are being censored/deleted as off-topic I wanted a thread to DISCUSS the effect these pots have on the game so they can be heard ON-TOPIC. Players leave the game when they are silenced. I'd like HCS to have a dialogue with players, the way they used to, about these pots with the respect customers deserve.
These pots have detrimentally over powered all major game aspects; PvE, PvP and GvG. They have greatly diminished equipment's value. Leveling can now be achieved without changing gear for roughly 1000 levels and still 1 hit. Any previous thought of planning to level is now totally unnecessary. In GvG and PvP combat it is impossible to compete against a Super potted player without being super potted yourself. The use of these pots has become mandatory to be competitive. These pots are divisive between players who have them and those that don't. It's relegated the game to potion access, attainment and management.
The fact that everyone might be able to attain any of these Super pots is misleading and impractical. Composing is expensive and time consuming hence only a low number of players have access to the best pots. It's allowed some players too strong an advantage. The Ladder Super pot requires 70 tokens to buy, that's 14 cycles of Ladder winning. Ironically to win Ladders oftentimes players need to use the long duration Super Ladder pot in order to win. Lastly, Global event pots are the easiest to collect compared to other Super pots. Managing these pots has become easier with stacked pots however it limits competitive play by how many pots they have and can attain.
Not all skills included in these pots are detrimental. I haven't heard a single complaint about Doubler, Conserve, Lightfoot, Anti-d, and so on being too powerful. It's the high level stat changing skills that have been increased to levels exceeding 600+ that have simply become obscene. The increase is devastating compared to the standard 175 skill level players have access to. Why were these pot levels made so high?
While I respect the difficulty required to earn Composed and Ladder pots, the high level stat changing skills need to be toned down considerably to more reasonable levels. The skill levels are simply too high. Other non stat changing skills could be increased to compensate for this change. Standard 175 skills against Super pots simply have no chance in GvG and PvP and leveling in PvE is increasingly far too easy. The skill levels are out of control!