Question on Alcohol Tolerance

[Frankrizzo Jerkyboy]

What exactly causes this to go up?  I've been very drunk for an hour and nothing then today, with no alcohol effects whatsoever on my character, I get 2 skill ups.  Anyone help?

[Jesdyr]

what type of drink do you have?  (the regen power kind) <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> You can gain tolerance from the various alcoholic regen drinks (they do not say anything about it). This seems to cap at 25 skill after that you have to get drunk.

[Morgane]

<cite>JesDer wrote:</cite><blockquote>what type of drink do you have?  (the regen power kind) <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> You can gain tolerance from the various alcoholic regen drinks (they do not say anything about it). This seems to cap at 25 skill after that you have to get drunk. </blockquote>Is there a benefit to having a high alcohol tolerance? In the game, people... in the game. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Brigh]

You have to actually consume them to get skill ups. They don't work like normal drink. There is no practical use for them, yet. EQ1 has at least one raid encounter that utilizes alchohol tolerance.

[gi]

Am I right in thinking that alcohol in EQ1 used to give you Str bonuses <img src="/smilies/0a4d7238daa496a758252d0a2b1a1384.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Thicket Tundrabog]

There was an Alcohol Tolerance bug for a few days. Besides myself, I know of two other guildies that were affected. I completed the two Brewday quests. Despite being sober, I would often get an Alcohol Tolerance skill-up when zoning. I probably got about 10 skillups this way. This hasn't happened in the last couple of days, so it's probably fixed.

[Maldian]

It was to my understanding that alcohol tolerance helped in the resistance against poisons and disease. Just makes sense to me... fill yourself up with alcohol and become a drunk....

[Galithdor]

Rlaal@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote>Am I right in thinking that alcohol in EQ1 used to give you Str bonuses <img src="/smilies/0a4d7238daa496a758252d0a2b1a1384.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></blockquote> True. It did give STR bonus and lowered DEX

[gi]

<cite>Galithdor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Rlaal@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote>Am I right in thinking that alcohol in EQ1 used to give you Str bonuses <img src="/smilies/0a4d7238daa496a758252d0a2b1a1384.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></blockquote> True. It did give STR bonus and lowered DEX</blockquote> Good to know I am not going mad! <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Yet..... Does alcohol(in eq2) give you bonuses depending on how good your Alcohol tolerance is then? The higher your skill rating, you are able to resist the negative effects and gain a postive? Or is this sending a wrong message to real world players, and thats why theres no benefit?

[Jesdyr]

The only benefit from high tolerance is that it takes more to get drunk and the effects dont last as long. About this Oakthicket@Permafrost wrote: <blockquote>There was an Alcohol Tolerance bug for a few days. Besides myself, I know of two other guildies that were affected. I completed the two Brewday quests. Despite being sober, I would often get an Alcohol Tolerance skill-up when zoning. I probably got about 10 skillups this way. This hasn't happened in the last couple of days, so it's probably fixed. </blockquote> A few weeks ago I thought I was bugged as well. I had the exact same thing happening (long before brewday). I did figure out what was causing it. I was using Gin and Tonic drink (regen NOT alcoholic) and this was causing the skill up.  As I said before this does happen with the drinks that would be alcoholic in RL (there are wines as well). The gains seem to stop at 25 skill. After that you have to get drunk from alcoholic drinks to gain skill.

[mellowknees72]

<cite>Brigh wrote:</cite><blockquote>You have to actually consume them to get skill ups. They don't work like normal drink. There is no practical use for them, yet. EQ1 has at least one raid encounter that utilizes alchohol tolerance. </blockquote><p> There were also traps in some of the Lost Dungeons of Norrath (LDoN) instances that would cause your party to get drunk...my characters were almost always first to have the effect go away...Master Alcohol Tolerance FTW, baby!  Lots and lots of time spent fishing drunk in EQ1 to pass the time...LOL.</p><p>It would be cool if there were chests with similar traps in EQ2 so it actually would help you in some way...but alas.</p>

[Faheuc]

Rlaal@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote><cite>Galithdor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Rlaal@Antonia Bayle wrote: <blockquote>Am I right in thinking that alcohol in EQ1 used to give you Str bonuses <img src="/smilies/0a4d7238daa496a758252d0a2b1a1384.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></blockquote> True. It did give STR bonus and lowered DEX</blockquote> Good to know I am not going mad! <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Yet..... Does alcohol(in eq2) give you bonuses depending on how good your Alcohol tolerance is then? The higher your skill rating, you are able to resist the negative effects and gain a postive? Or is this sending a wrong message to real world players, and thats why theres no benefit? </blockquote> my main has well over 300 alcohol tolerance, and it really doesnt do anything. aside from making drunk effects go away faster