Originally Posted by Mex

@ Kaber. I don't agree with replacing drinking with pots. You'd still get the same effective situation where people would be required to go into an arena and pop them on cooldown to min/max their effectiveness, same as the current situation where you simply take 20 stacks of water and grab one or two ticks every 10-20 seconds. I don't like drinking in 2s, but by the same token you're right in that it's sorta necessary to effect a proper balance between non-mana based clases and casters. Drinking in arenas doesn't have an easy or quick fix I don't think, it's something that would require a fairly huge overhaul of game mechanics to balance, at least what I'd consider balanced. Still, I find it's a lot less of an issue in 5s (although I don't have much experience in high-end drain / 3 healer teams, maybe I'm wrong). I'd be happy to let 2s continue in its current miasma of drink spamming if it meant that drinking could be sensibly implemented in 5s games. Oh, and as I understand it, standard water isn't usable cause that'd make standard (and therefore buff) food usable, which would be yet another consumable we'd all be required to farm.