People need to speak up more for Alchemist buff.

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And that's the point potions do not exhibit any clear benefit towards combat. So you can shave 5-10 seconds off of your fight? So you can claim to your friends "Whoa just pulled off a 2.5k fester crit!" So what?

If I go buy 5k worth of HQ bit food and spend a few weeks farming my ilevel70 / 90 gear and clear coil and clear content with no worries? I can tell you potions are the least of my concerns.

And yet there are situations all the time in duty finder or elsewhere that groups can't kill Titan's Heart in time, or they die with the boss having a tiny bit of HP left. If anyone used potions, they would've won. Those are just a couple examples: in other scenarios, like Garuda, killing the sister slightly faster greatly eases the healing load on the healers, which could allow the tank to survive and move on.

STR/INT/DEX Potions grant DPS, just like gear. Your arguments can be applied exactly the same to both gear and food.

The problem here is that you're not necessarily arguing against potions: you're arguing that encounters are too easy and nothing needs high enough stats to warrant the purchase. However, again, food is the same, and not everyone is in your position where the game is "so easy" that none of it is needed. People want and need both gear and food. They could want and need potions too, they just misjudge them.