Funcom has absolutely no rights to include such powerfull items while game is not completly F2P. There are still paying premium customers that SHOULD NOT be obliged to buy that crap from item shop to keep up.
Yet another FC scam if they leave this crap in shop.
The thing is, funcom keeps adding stuff that makes skill less and less important and gear/potions more and more important. It is the direction the game has taken from 1.04 glory days that is just removing any fun in pvp.
This may not be as big an issue as the old BK buffs, and there may be similar potions available ingame from PvE, but "it ain't all that bad" is not good enough a reason to have those items impact pvp.
The thing is, funcom keeps adding stuff that makes skill less and less important and gear/potions more and more important. It is the direction the game has taken from 1.04 glory days that is just removing any fun in pvp.
But recent CC changes brought PvP miles back to 1.04 not further to geardependancy.