Drunk

You can get drunk by drinking any kind of alcohol. While drunk, your vision will be blurred and/or off-color depending on what kind of alcohol and how much of it you drink. Your character may act erratically by randomly saying things like: "I love you, man!", "I'm the king of the world!", or performing emotes like sitting down or dancing. You can remove drunkenness just by waiting a few minutes. Death will not remove drunkenness, nor will going through a portal. Traveling by using the map or by talking to an NPC, however, will make you sober. Being drunk long enough will eventually get you the Drunkard title.

Potency
Alcohol is divided into two types based on how many levels of drunkenness (see below) they bestow on the character:
 * Level 1 alcohols grant 1 level of drunkenness (at most, adds +1 to drunk rank).
 * Level 5 alcohols grant 5 levels of drunkenness (at most, adds +3 to drunk rank).

Alcohols by potency
The following table lists the intoxicants of each type.

Levels of drunkenness
There are 6 levels of drunkenness distinguishable when dealing with intoxicants:


 * All characters are at level 0 unless they consume alcohol.
 * Consuming a drink raises the drunkenness level by the amount of the drink's potency (listed above, either +1 or +5, up to the maximum level).
 * These levels are cumulative: drinking three L1 drinks quickly takes you to L3 drunkenness.
 * Level 5 is the maximum level; at L5, drinking more is wasteful.
 * Every 60 seconds, you lose 1 level of drunkenness.
 * For each minute of drunkenness (i.e. at L3 or more), you gain 1 point towards the Drunkard title.

Summary of Inebriation levels
The following table summarizes each level of Inebriation, including the in-game effects and whether you are drunk, tipsy, or sober. Drunkard points are gained only when you are drunk (L3 or higher).


 * {| class="stdt" style="text-align:center;"

! Level ! Talking/ emotes ! Inebriation
 * 0 || ✅ || Sober
 * 1 || ✅ || Tipsy for 1 minute
 * 2 || ✅ || Tipsy for 2 minutes
 * 3 || ✅ || Drunk for 1 minute
 * 4 || ✅ || Drunk for 2 minutes
 * 5 || ✅ || Drunk for 3 minutes
 * }
 * 3 || ✅ || Drunk for 1 minute
 * 4 || ✅ || Drunk for 2 minutes
 * 5 || ✅ || Drunk for 3 minutes
 * }
 * 5 || ✅ || Drunk for 3 minutes
 * }

Efficient drinking
As you can see, the most effective way to accumulate drunk points is to stay at level 3 (or above). For example, you could drink 5 ales in a row then wait for 3 minutes so that you drop to level 2. Then you have to drink another 3 ales to get back to level 5 and so on.

To get the maximum use of level 5 alcohol (e.g. Firewater, Spiked Eggnog, or Grog), wait until you drop down to level 2 before drinking them, otherwise you will waste their potential. These are the perfect startup drinks as they will boost you up to level 5 when sober, thus jumping over the two priming stages.

Since the game doesn't give you any obvious cues as to when you are at Level 3, players have developed several strategies to be reminded when to take the next drink:
 * Use something like an egg or tea timer (which are often geared to 3-minute reminders);
 * Open up the Hero panel (default keyboard shortcut: [H]) and display the Drunkard title (on the second tab, Titles). Whenever the title increments by 1 point, you can drink a Level 1 alcohol. Or you can wait for it to increment 3 points and drink to drink a Level 5 intoxicant.

Vision for each level depending on drink
The kind of image distortion and coloring depends on the last drink you took. So it is irrelevant if you drink 4 Vials of Absinthe and then 1 Witch's Brew or 5 Witch's Brews. Both combinations will result in level 5 Witch's Brew-drunkenness. The popular Spiked Eggnog and Eggnog combination for example, sends you immediately to Eggnog level 5