Does anyone bother with booze anymore?

Could not help wondering how much the community is even bothering with Alcohol anymore. Just finished looking over some of the buy/sell threads and noticed bids as low as 50-60g per point. Looks like it is very hard to move unless you sell it very cheap. Almost dread seeing it when you open a Gift/Present or whatever.

It seems like noone wants to take the time involved to achieve this title. Not sure if the zoning trick still works or if it has been fixed. I do not see it referenced anymore here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Drunkard. I thought I saw it being discussed here on Guru, but it seemed to not work as well as it used to. Believe it was this thread here: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/a...108169p22.html

This requirement to max out the title seems boring: The 10,000 minutes required for completing this title track takes about 6 days, 22 hours, and 40 minutes to achieve. That much time spent keeping track of minutes used for all the different types of booze ( http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Alcohol )while standing around repeating the same canned lines has to grow old quick.

I know there are some skills that use booze, but they do not seem very popular. Just extra clicking during battle.

Maybe too late in the games life to even bother reworking this with GW2 coming in 2011, but what a waste. Booze seems to be getting closer to a trash item as time goes on...

What do you all think? Still fun and worthwhile or trash item?

so play smart.. not dumb then booze is like any other consumables title.

I don't think it's 'fun and worthwhile' or 'trash'. It just kind of... exists. I'm going for drunkard because I might as well, with the Kegs that Nicholas keeps giving me.

It's very slow going, and I wouldn't do it otherwise, though.

booze is easy to consume if done properly, making it the cheapest and most attractive of all 3 consumable titles

Also, people want to get as much as they can for as little as possible. It's called bargain-hunting.

It makes other people look attractive too :3

Progressing in this title doesn't restrict you from doing other things.

EDIT: When I'm buying/selling, im usually drunk.

I'm working on the title (6000 mins) but don't see any need to buy at any price. Between Nic in pre and post searing and the different events I have 3 kegs, 3 stacks of aged, 2 stacks of egg nog, 1 stack of spiked egg nog, about 100 reg hunters ale, some apple cider and some rice wine.
And I'm not hoarding it, I used about 60 mins yesterday and 100 today. I try to use at least 20-30 mins a day.

Drinking is good because all you need to do is drink one and afk. Just type /age or look at the bar to know when u need to refuel. Then you can do things like studying, laundry, cleaning the room ect.

It's one of the easiest consumable title to do.

heck i still need 80k for 8 more chars . ..

Given I've already maxed drunkard on one character I just give my alcohol away to guildies.

The only skills I ever actually used booze for were Drunken Master and/or Dwarven Stability while doing VSF runs as a perma. Other than that, I just sell it (except lately, I play so seldom I don't spend time selling stuff.)

To say that the drunkard title is hard is almost laughable. Seriously. If you turn off your post-process effects in the options menu and keep your title window open to the drunkard title, you can drink during missions, quests and vanquishes, as I did. Took me a month to get 10,001 mins drunk. With the title window open, I could keep easy track of when I needed to drink again. Srsly, this is the EASIEST of consumable titles to get.

It's hard to sell 1 min boozes because well, people are lazy and don't want to click 5 times when they can only click once for things such as Kegs, Grog, Firewaters and Spiked Eggnog. I have about 12 stacks of 1 min booze in my storage that I have yet to touch for this reason, I rather buy kegs.

The market is pretty overloaded with booze right now following Talk Like A Pirate day, Halloween, Thanksgiving weekend, and Wintersday. Not to mention all the kegs and ales that Nick hands out. That tends to drive prices down, at least for a while. Also, as Saph said, nobody wants to buy one-minute booze these days now that Nick has added so much three-minute booze to the economy.

10,000 minutes in a month is 5 and a half hours a day. That's quite a feat without botting. Anyway, I'm doing it because it's easy and I need it for GWAMM. I'm almost at 7000 minutes and I'm out of booze . Started at Halloween, so that's 7000 minutes in two and a half months.

Create a chest runner build using the drunkard skills ([drunken master][dwarven stability]), and chest run from Boreal Station. There's a way to get 3 drunkard points per each 2-2.5 minute run.

Also, when sitting in town trying to sell/buy/afk, keep drinking (best time to burn the 1 point alcs).

Finally, when doing missions/vanquishes/farms, just keep drinking. The [drunken master] skill is actually pretty awesome for this, as you move and attack 25-33% faster for a long duration and minor 5 energy cost, that is infinitely maintainable...

I suspect the price might go up on these, if they ever decide to make them act similar to sweet/party points (points instant upon consumption, rather than based on waiting 1 minute while affected).

EDIT: If you want to sell them, they go pretty fast at 80-90g/pt in Spamadan - I've gotten rid of 7 stacks of misc booze this way, in about 10 minutes worth of auctioning (~40K worth). Also watch for WTB - often there are peeps paying 100-120g/pt, but usually for a specific type...

Booze is ezy, although I didnt start booze title until a few months back even though I started since GW came out, bad decision. And since I dont really play my main war as often cuz Ive done most pve already, booze progress is slow.

I won't be bothered to look at booze again until it grants title points on consumption, not over a waiting period.

Well then that's one title to don't have to worry about, because that is not going to change.

I like that the title actually forces you to use the stuff rather than fast double-clicking your way through a stack.