im not the very worst player...and definitly not the very best....but i can see that constant money spending on items like sigil, potions, cap locks and teleports can be a big disadvantage too....
why ? Just because if i realize an enemy beeing equipped with all this shit...i just try to make him trigger it as often as possible...lets say..pretend to fight...wait for his sigil...then run....and so on.....
good luck in competing with my Groffling which i got in time by saving up very hard and only buy the most essential...i try to use my skills and my char to survive
all i wanna say....a sigil in the right moment is a good thing...but to have one with u all the time is bs in my eyes....
who knows when that right moment will be? Always have one with you so it isn't "man if I woulda had a sigil I could have got the kill"
however, I completely agree on constant spending on items. I see people waste items constantly.. like caplocking a flag that nobody was going to touch (i.e. you just killed 2 people and you're sitting on the flag... nobody is going to take it from you.. if the 3rd person DOES come.. caplock it then). Or they will port from mid to base for no reason.. or port in to try to kill someone only to have that person get out of reach before they get there. I do like making people waste teleports by pretending to push something.
Just because some people waste these items does not mean that the items suck tho. A well used pot, sigil, gadget, or tele can get you a kill, which is always better than no kill.