Boy, hope this post generates a bit of responses since I'm feeling lonely on these forums. Please don't force me to move to the <ugh> EQ forums!*
I "maxed" my alc tolerance at 200 ages ago and didn't realize the cap has crept up to 575! Jeez, I'm a real lightweight now! It's embarassing!
So I went to bar in Katta, since I was roaming around re-exploring old zones. Kinda fun place where the drunks bust out with nonsensical statements from time to time, and the bartenders chastise then, even threatening to cut them off. But the Katta drinking laws must be very tolerant since I haven't seen a drunk NPC ever thrown out and they keep harping on with their stupid observations undeterred by the harried barmaids and barguys.
IN any case, I bought some of the cheapest swill they had, interesting Luclin brands distilled from Owlbird brains and Sonic bat detritus, etc. Real yummy-sounding brewskis.
I didn't really keep track but I was able to "skill up" pretty much 1 point per drink from 200 to about 275. Then the skill ups got a little less than 1:1 but they still came pretty often. The brews cost like a 1sp apiece, so not worried about cost. I was worried about reaching blocking points since I read on some old forums that some guys had to click on 150 drinks to get 1 skillup at "higher" levels, and those posts were old so by "higher" they meant 300 or so. Ouch!
Of course, those posts were back in the day when this game was actually tough to play and the Care Bears hadn't broken down the entry door. Not today!!
Got to 350-ish and the skillups were now coming about 1 in every 3 drinks, which means I had to start buying more often and bigger stacks from the poor harried barmaid who's still having to threaten the town drunks with banishment for their inane shouts. The music got annoying too since someone not evident in the room is playing a sea chanty of some sort and someone else, also not in the room, is signing along very badly. (Remember the Monty Python cheese shop sketch? Those guys playing, singing and dancing in the back until John Cleese yells at them to stop? I felt like that altho in EQ they never stop...)
Got to about 400 and the skillup rate drops to 1 in 4 (about) so I really have to booze it up big time now. I might have to start spending... GOLD pieces! However, I notice that because my AT is so high now, I AM RECOVERING FROM DRUNKEDNESS MUCH FASTER! In fact, I'm getting close to being able to non-stop guzzle... the time when I'm so loaded, I can't get any drunker is very short now. So while I have TO DRINK MORE, the good news is... I CAN DRINK MORE!
So spending gold pieces unlike sewer covers I fill an entire bag (10-slot, not 40, what you think I'm a raving drunk?!) with Owlbear Spittle Brew and guzzle myself all the way to 500! Woot, end of the line in sight! And no Katta cop has tried to toss me out onto the street yet.
But now the skillups come rather infrequently. Sometimes 1 in 10. Sometimes so rare I start to think I may have hit a hidden halfling AT cap! But, wait, I'm playing a damn HALFLING! We drink with the best of the races. We can keep up even with dorfs if someone else pays for the booze! So the RNG starts turning in my favor and the dings start coming and soon enough, after maybe about a half dozen refills of my 10-slot bag (well, 16-slot now, to be safe) I get to 570.
5 dings to go! I have to admit these were sloooooow but what am I going to do, stop with the finish line directly in sight!? NOT THIS HALFLING!! So I force myself to down about 50 more Ownling Spittle Brews, along with a stack of Sonic Bat P#ss** Lagers, and sure enough... DING 575!
I'm now a proud truly and fully FULL-BLOWN ALCOHOLIC HOBBIT!***
Just don't remind me that the cap is probably going to 600 next month with the expansion. I don't need to hear that now, because my head is really really really hurtin'!
*Seriously, those forums scare me. I posted some innocent and brief (by my standards) comment concerning warrior dps of some weapon a while back and there followed a string of responses each of which had content suitable only for an engineering journal... a PHD engineering journal. Some players (not saying who but melee types high on the list) take this GAME (very operative word here) far too seriously!!
**Can you believe the bad worD filter doesn't like "p*ss"?
***This is a post about DRINKING! Surely, everyone who reads this has an opinion and/or exciting story about drinking, either IRL or (preferably) in-game! Just don't post long technical stats about how a drunken warrior does so much more/less damage per swing when loaded... PLEASE! Just post NOW before the devs discover that encouraging drinking alcohol in an online game is decidely politically INcorrect and all the game's booze vanishes in a fit of extreme temperance (wow, there's a oxymoron if I ever saw one!)
Edited, Nov 11th 2019 1:50pm by Sippin