I'm a returning player so I am not up to date with the min/max "meta" of the game now. Before I left the game 1-2 years ago food and potions were relatively important factor in min/maxing. Food/potions often require a lot of grinding (usually the hardcore players with a lot of time obtain) which is something that results in dps gap between average and top players. Maybe this is something that is still is a big factor and needs to be looked into if the desire is to decrease the dps gap?