With the nerf to alchemist and pending Shad Star nerf, Shad star's duration should be increased.

**Weapon Attack Potions: The Beginning**
We were trying to (across the board) tune down weapon attack potions used in boss runs. With party bears being pretty much free for every run, there was an inadvertent power creep that came into the game. That lead to easier and faster runs with little to no sacrifice. A free (no mesos used, and also with voting on multiple accounts now allowed) 20 wa buff that lasted 15 minutes was way too strong. We decided to change party bears, which would then cause people to have to go to alternative weapon attack potions/skills.

**Replacing Bears: Ciders and NLs**
The replacement for 20 wa party bears would be ciders/guava/rage, which have a much shorter duration. Alchemist provided NLs with a 150% duration to these shorter pots, which definitely adds up compared to all the other classes with 100% duration. This imbalance would've ultimately meant all other classes would be nerfed indirectly and NLS made more OP (relatively). Therefore, to keep all classes in line and be equally affected by the party bear change, a 25% decrease in buff duration seemed reasonable.

The avoid + shifter built into avoids make NLs use way less potions than all other classes anyway, which makes them use relatively less use slots for potions (potions specifically) anyway. There's also the 150% recovery effect for potions that remained unchanged in alchemist, which helps with potion consumption (and therefore, less use slots being taken up).

Eg. For a HT run, let's say a BM has to take 1300 pots + 4 stacks of ciders (100 minutes) = 17 use slots taken
Meanwhile a NL can take around 800 pots + 3 stack of ciders (3*5*5*1.5 = 112.5 minutes) = 11 use slots taken
With the change it becomes > 800 pots + just a bit over 3 stacks of cider (16 ciders = 100 minutes) = 12 use slots taken

**Potency of Strong Potions**
Removing party bears as the go-to buff was only part of our attempt to tune down the use of weapon attack potions used in boss runs. High attack potions like apples can't be removed from the game at this point, but the potency of it could be altered by reducing their duration. If we were to just reduce the durations for all classes, a NL with 150% duration would be even more sought after to better utilize these game-changing potions. There's enough of a demand/reliance on NLs as the main DPS classes for bosses. Making them sought out for this reason as well, would clearly push them over the edge as the indisputably best class.

We still wanted to preserve the NL class identity which is survivability (avoid+shifter+dark sight) and efficiency maximisation (meso up + alchemist + drain). So we kept it at 125% duration, but 150% would've just undermined or nullified our attempts at achieving the original objective: trying to tune down weapon attack potions.

This is all in response to explaining the rationale for alchemist changes