Hello all,
Let me get straight to the point; saradomin brews greatly unbalance range (and to a lesser extend, mage) vs melee pking. Let me first explain why mage isn't a problem right now. It's because mage lacks knock-out potential, something you really need in edgeville pking (where 95% of melee pkers fight). This means almost no one uses mage there and it isn't noticible but let me tell you; everything I'm going to tell you below also applies to mage vs melee pking, in almost all circumstances it's even worse.
What's the problem?
The problem is that saradomin brews
DO lower your attack and strength, but
DO NOT lower your ranged and magic levels.
How is this a problem?
1: Since it is possible to eat a piece of food and drink a dose of saradomin brew at the same time, you can heal a lot of hp (about 40) very quickly. This is a viable strategy to every pker, regardless of attack style, but only rangers fully benefit from it. This is because they can keep drinking brews and eating food at the same time without having to use a ranging potion afterwards. Which means there is no penalty to using it, contrary to melee pkers who can only do this around 2-3 times a fight because otherwise they have to fill half of their inventory with potions.
2: Drinking a potion, including saradomin brews, does not act the same way as eating food. You can drink as many brews as you want without ever stopping to attack your opponent.
Combining these two things creates a very imbalanced situation. Rangers never have to stop attacking you because they can just drink brews and when a situation arrives where brews alone won't cut it, they can eat a manta ray and drink a brew at the same time to heal a large amount of hp without any penalties. This results into insane dps + high survivability without having to deal with any penalties.
Solution
Saradomin brews should also decrease ranged and magic, just like they decrease attack and strength. This means rangers won't use it as their primary form of healing, unless they are okay with having a decreased ranged level the entire fight. And this means rangers also have to decide whether they should use the manta ray brew combination or not because they now have to pot up after doing so.
Thank you for reading and feel free to share your thoughts.
Have a nice day.
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