Drunk

This article is about the game mechanic of intoxication. For the title acquired by consuming alcohol, see Drunkard.

A player becomes drunk by consuming alcohol. This in-game intoxication is visually obvious: drunken characters will begin to act irrationally, randomly emoting and spewing various quotations. In addition, players will see their own display become warped and blurry (and certain alcohol will also change the screen color).

Intoxication mechanics

Intoxication works on a 5-tier system: each alcoholic drink in the game has its own intoxication level; consuming a drink will raise the character's current level of drunkenness by the amount that drink represents. For example, consuming a Hunter's Ale will raise your drunkenness by 1 tier; consuming a Spiked Eggnog will raise it by 5 tiers. The higher the level of drunkenness a character is at, the more pronounced the blurry-screen effect becomes.

One minute after a drink has been consumed, the character will begin to "recover" and will lose one level of drunkenness. Note, however, that a character is not considered officially "intoxicated" until they are at level 3 -- at levels 1 and 2, they will not emote. Once a character reaches level 5, they are at the maximum tier of drunkenness and consuming further drinks will have no effect.

Death and zoning do not affect your drunken level. Should you die or zone, your level of drunkenness will continue to progress as normal. Upon resurrection, drunken visual effects may disappear until your drunkenness level changes.

Screen color effects

Absinthe's green tint

Certain types of alcohol alter the coloring of the post process effect; the particular tint is determined by which drink was consumed last and the effect might become stronger as you drink more of the same beverage.

Drink	Tint
Spiked Eggnog	red
Brandy	reddish
Cider	light reddish-orange
Firewater	light orange
Witch's Brew	orange
Eggnog	yellow
Shamrock Ale	light green
Absinthe	green

By default, the table is sorted by rainbow colors: Red → Orange → Yellow → Green → Blue → Indigo → Violet.

Random behaviors caused by intoxication

Quotes:

• "I love you, man!"
• "I think I'm gonna be sick."
• "I'm the king of the world!"
• "Everyone stop shouting!"
• "Oh no, not again."
• "It's spinning..."
• "I think I need to sit down."

Emotes:

• /sit
• /stand
• /kneel
• /moan
• /bored

Additional emotes, only observed when drunk on pirate grog:

• /flex
• /fistshake
• /roar

Skills affected by intoxication

Activate these PvE skills while drunk to trigger conditional effects (level 1 intoxication is sufficient):

Icon	Name	Description						Prof.	Attribute	Campaign
	Drunken Master	Stance. (72...90 seconds.) You move and attack 10...15% faster if you are not drunk. You move and attack 25...33% faster if you are drunk.	0	055	0	06060		a	Deldrimor rankZ	Eye of the North
	Dwarven Stability	Enchantment Spell. (24...30 seconds.) Your stances last 55...100% longer. You cannot be knocked-down if you activated this skill while drunk . [sic]	0	055	00.250.25¼	03030		a	Deldrimor rankZ	Eye of the North
	Feel No Pain	Skill. (30 seconds.) You have +2...3 Health regeneration. You have +200...300 maximum Health if you are drunk when activating this skill.	0	055	0	02020		a	Norn rankZ	Eye of the North

Notes

• Players can uncheck "Enable post process effects" to remove the drunk visuals at the Graphics tab in the options panel.

Trivia

• Until the March 3, 2011 update, characters had to spend 10,000 minutes (almost 167 hours) being drunk in order to obtain the Drunkard title. The title track would progress by one point for every elapsed minute spent drunk.

See also

• Alcohol
• Drunkard title track
• Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Grog