Welcome to Kiyo's Juice Bar.
LINK. This link will help you if you want to buy a drinks from an NPC quickly and efficiently.
LINK. This chart pwns for a simple, graphically elegant comparison of Drinks. (Side Bar under Database, Food > Drinks)
Chart of drink effects: (It's ripped off from the above, and took way too long to format)
Rate is the amount regained per three seconds, Duration is in minutes.
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Name Rate Duration Total Crafting Cap Crystal Ingred One MP Juices Orange Juice MP:1 1:30 30 Cooking 10 Water Saruta Orange x4 Apple Juice MP:1 2:15 45 Cooking 20 Water Faerie Apple x4 Tomato Juice MP:1 3:00 60 Cooking 43 Water Rock Salt, Mithran Tomato x3 Pineapple Juice MP:1 4:00 80 Cooking 30 Water Kazham Pinapple x2 Two MP Juices Grape Juice MP:2 1:30 60 Cooking 50 Dark San d'Orian Grape x4 Melon Juice MP:2 2:15 90 Cooking 40 Water Watermelon, Thundermelon Yagudo Drink MP:2 3:00 120 Cooking 60 Dark Yagudo Cherry, Buburimu Grape x3 Vampire Juice MP/HP:2 1:30 60 Cooking 90 Water Mithran Tomato, Red Terrapin, Rolanberry, Faerie Apple HP Regen Drinks Selbina Milk HP:1 2:00 40 - - - Orange au Lait HP:1 5:00 100 Cooking 51 Water Saruta Orange x2, Honey, Selbina Milk Apple au Lait HP:2 3:00 120 Cooking 63 Water Faerie Apple x2, Honey, Selbina Milk Pear au Lait HP:3 5:00 300 Cooking 72 Water Derfland Pear x2, Honey, Selbina Milk Pamama au Lait HP:2 10:00 400 Cooking 81 Water Pamama x2, Honey, Selbina Milk Persikos au Lait HP:4 10:00 800 Cooking 91 Water Persikos x2, Honey, Selbina Milk
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For comparison:
Name Rate Duration Total MP Cost Refresh MP:3 1:30 150 40 Regen I HP:5 1:00 120 15 Regen II HP:12 1:00 240 36 Regen III HP:18 1:00 360 64...........................................................................................
Other than to say: Drinks do stack with food, I'll spare you the basics, since you all know it anyway, or can look it up easily.
However, there are some points I'd like to mention. No drink will ever be more effective than a spell (Regen/Refresh) per unit of time, though they can certainly have much longer durations. (Technically Amrita can, but it's the stuff of legends- so much so that I didn't even include it above. Research it yourself if you want to know about it.) Even the mighty Persikos Au Lait, which sells for 15K a pop on Fairy, will only give you 4HP per 3 seconds, as opposed to Regen I's 5. In the end, Drinks often give total MP or HP regen beyond that available from spells (Yagudo Drinks will even outclass a self-cast Refresh, since the net MP gain is only 110). Still, spells are preferred to Drinks in most conceivable cases.
All Juices except Vampire Juice and Yagudo Drinks are available from NPCs in some way (though not necessarily at any given time). (I guess you can't buy Slime Juice, but I wouldnÂ’t recommend drinking it anyway- that stuff's worse than sniffing Animal Glue. I suspect those things are really the Dynamis Overlord's discarded chamber pots).
Here is the point for which I started this whole thread: Why do we slavishly worship the Yagudo Drink? Sure, it is the most powerful juice, sure it is not at an NPC and is harder to makeÂ… but that doesn't make it all that much better usually. I am a Juice nut myself, but I use Melon Juice almost exclusively now. Melon Juice gives 2MP per 3 second "tick" just like a Yagudo Drink, but (on Fairy anyway) at a much lower price, whether crafted or bought. In fact, depending on your server, two Melon Juices give more MP for longer than a single Yagudo Drink, for much less cash! The only time I can see a Yagudo Drink being superior is if you A) just plain donÂ’t have any room, B) really think the miniscule time spent using more drinks will hurt you. The only common example I can think of would be the lvl. 20 Avatar fights. The three minute duration of the Yagudo Drink handily coincides with the three minute duration of Astral Flow, so you can pop one of them and not have to worry about drinking another one in the high stress environment of the avatar fight. But even then a cool head and a fraction more attention will mean you can save some cash on the Yagudo Drink! So there you have it, depending on your server prices, Yagudo Drinks are just another foolish cookie-cutter that players blindly follow, too uninformed or dogmatic to experiment and learn if there are any other effective options.
Edited, Sat May 14 17:16:11 2005 by Kiyokatsu