Potion Drought?

I hate buying bag space...and I like the extraballs, too. I'm trying to keep at 100 golden razz...so Delibird and Pikachu sometimes get fed good. I haven't been too concerned with revives/potions yet.***largely depends on location, I'm not required to fully square up to battle full gyms---plus I get to gyms by car and the weather is mostly mild. If I was spatially contained and I needed to knock down big gyms all the time I'd be concerned. Plus if really cold/dark it is not pleasant to spin and spin trying to get your performers to health

Since I started fighting gyms with the byproducts of mass evolves rather than my A, B, C, D...teams and then transferring them after fainting, no more revive/potion problem. I still do use optimal attackers when I am pressed for time, but not so often that it creates a shortage of items.

Haven’t really been too nervous about potions in a while. Mostly only take fully demotivated gyms and drop in 4-10 gyms daily. Only a few of which are keepers requiring revive and potion. In addition, average a raid a day (usually legendary). Haven’t thrown potions away for a couple of months but do toss revives occasionally. When I was getting nervous about potions, I just dropped in throwaways.

It is now perfect for me. I only throw away about 10 potions/revives per week. It used to be 50-100 per week.

50% of my current items are max potions or max revives, so I am nowhere near a drought. I’m still swimming in potions/revives.

I don't have any healing item shortage. The campus in my town has a lot of stops and 9 gyms, which I circle in 15 minutes. I have all those gyms on gold, so i get plenty of items. I mostly throw away non-max items and keep 50 max potions and 150 max revives as "emergency" healing items

Still plenty of potions and revives. I still occasionally throw out potions and revives, including a few max potions and max revives for the first time a few weeks ago.

I'm lowest on berries and pokeballs because of all the harder to catch weather boosted pokemon.

The problem with the potion drought is that it makes the game less fun.

Gee I really want to drop in Junk into Gyms and fight Gyms with Junk just so I can keep potions steady.

And the point of powering up pokemon is when all you are using is transfer bait is???

Potion drought is real, even if its just in the way it changes people's Defenders and attackers.

I’m also not feeling it. I get most of the revives and potions I need from L5 raids and have been sitting on 70+ max revives that I never need to use.

I still throw away anything below Hyper potions...the system gives me what I already have a collection of so I just don't let it run out.

All studies on what drops we get from stops have been done based on an unproven assumption...that every spin will give the same chance at an item no matter what is in your bag already.
Until anyone proves or disproves this initial assumption, I can't take any other studies seriously.

My theory....it isn't about the stop, it is about what you already have in your pack.

I sort of see it but being a higher level and actually maxing out my Pokémon, I can clear out gyms with little to no effort by selecting the proper counters.

Raids giving out hyper potions now despite being a free to play player has helped out a lot as well.

I still toss out revives in bulks of 30 or more and use normal potions on Pokémon that hardly get any play time since I rarely use some of them. I don’t like holding more than 100 revives at a time since I’ll never get a chance to actually use them.

I still have WAY too many potions and am always out of pokeballs. If they changed the drop rates it wasn't nearly enough. It's stupid how hard it is to get enough pokeballs

No potion drought for me, at all. Even if I do run low on potions, there are five gyms within close proximity to my home that I maxed to gold status, so, other than raids, I'm always being supplied with potions regularly from these gym stops, particularly Hyper Potions.

I feel it in full, since the start 6 weeks ago, although it's not as bad now as it was at the beginning. As a free player, the near disappearance of 50hp potions makes a difference since raids are the only way to get big potions in large numbers.

As someone else said, it makes the game less fun. I used to fight gyms just for fun while in the subway. Now I have to target only the gyms I can take. Combined with the increase in golden razz, it makes the gyms more stable here in my city, hence fixing the problem we had 9 months ago before the gym rework... which is not a problem in the new gyms system.

I know this game is too easy, so in that sense it's good, but I miss fighting gyms just for the heck of it and to get some badge points.

So in summary, it's bad for gym players, not bad for grinders

People I raid with are constantly complaining about needing potions and revives, but I've still been throwing them out. I've tossed something like 100 each of hyper potions and revives in the last few weeks, while I still have a hard time building up a decent supply of pokeballs. If I have more than single digits for each kind of pokeball, I'm doing pretty well, because most of the time I have like 10-15 of all three combined, but still holding hundreds of max potions and revives.

Find an area to farm with several gyms in close proximity, and get your badges for those gym to gold, voila, suddenly no more potion drought.

For me there is a revive drought. Raids don't give enough revives for me to burn through 5-7 pokies per raid, plus put 2-3 mon in gyms per day for coins. The drop rate of revives from pokestops is pathetic, too.