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OLD No.7 BrAnD
None forces you to take them. No doubt there are advantages and disadvantages by taking drugs. Not having to care for timers, flashes and drug-rezzes provides a clear focus on the combat only, so this is an advantage. If you feel like somebody is as skilled as you are, or even better and you want to increase your chances of surviving/winning, you can take them. But to say you're not viable without is simply not true. There are lots of fights who are done in a few minutes and others which can last up to 45 minutes and in those fights it's a huge disadvantage to take drugs. Of course you can always argue that the advantages of better stats outweigh the negative aspects and since we play on a 4slot server, you can always log an alt when you get a flash, but basically if all comes down to personal playstyles.
And as i mentioned in another post, right now we all don't know if the negative aspects of drug-using will increase automatically by the revamp of the freeze-mechanics (increased drug intake of anti-freeze-drugs). So it's all pure speculation, also from my side. Just imagine all drugs are gone (also anti-freeze ones) and the game gets slower again just because you can't do nothing about freezes. PPU's will again be the most important thing to have (anti-freeze spells) and since they are already few and far between that doesn't sound to good to me tbh.
I do know a lot of (skilled) players who don't prefer to play with drugs, but i simply can't agree with you that they aren't viable at all.