I now have an emerging group of players in WOW.  We are not yet a Guild but we function much like a guild, which means that we work towards the better of everyone in the group.  The outcome is that we share our resources.  One of the resources is potions as we have a lunatic herbalist who is harvesting and making potions well above his level (the herbs he needs now are in very dangerous areas for him).  Let me tell you, these are FINE potions, which enhances the users attributes such as +4 to strength or +250 to armour.  The list goes on.  

We have been the beneficiary of the diligent work by our herbalist and alchemist who is also very giving because he does not take the drugs he produces (the secret of success for real life drug dealers? LOL).  With these potions, however, we can now take on higher level opponents.  In WOW, when you level, as in going from level 20 to level 21 as an example, you gain +1 in Strength, +1 in Agility etc....  Now imagine a potion that gives your character +4 to strength.  +4 is not a lot until you put it in the context that it takes 4 levels to gain a permenant attribute of +4 strength.  I have often bragged about how much higher the level of mob I am taking down - last count 5 level higher.  On a normal setting without the potions, I can take down a mob that is 3 level higher than me.  If it is 4 level higher than me, I will die before I kill it.  With drugs, I can do as high as 5 levels up!

Now, Stu and I, the two major beneficiary of Rob's deligent hardwork and his designer drugs, cannot go out without drugs anymore.  We are addicted.  If we go out without the potion buffs, it feels like we are going out naked.  The drugs makes us perform better - above our capabilities.  It is not hard to see why drug abuse in world class atheltes is rampant.  Once you use it, it is hard to walk away.  Drug addiction is a reality of WOW just like the real world   The funny conversation between Stu and I when we play together is asking each other for drugs - ROFL.  "Do you have an armour hit?" our favourite drug.