Make The tea and stuff Pre-riff

[Jakepeng99]

Sorry but I don’t like this being post riff.

 

It is a pretty neat thing, but why is it locked post riff? A lot of updates are cool but then undermined by cool stuff being locked behind riffs which I don’t really enjoy

[A.P.Erson]

100%, it does not at all feel like something that would be post rift, especially cause most of the tea isn't even something you'd care about much in post rift cause by the time you get to dealing with the new pearl stuff you'll probably have a polar bearger bin with a stack of pierogi, ice cream/jelly salad, and jellybeans. It feels wayyyyy too early game feeling. Honestly I feel many of the tea mechanics shouldn't even be pearl specific, it's literally just tea.

[asdsaax]

As someone who likes to kill AFW as soon as possible
I think foliage tea would be such a good reward for investing your precious time into Pearl
to help players against the boss

I also think they have the most potential pre-rift for slow paced players
abudance in post-rift would make them inconvenient I imagine, but might be matter of playing Wortox and enjoying jellybeans + boosted crown 

Edited December 13, 2025 by asdsaax

[Mike23Ua]

I’m going to say this in the shortest TL:DR post I can, I have been crying out into the void for years that this game has a content balance issue. 😂 Don’t expect ANYTHING to ever feel like it’s at the right pace.

[Maxil20]

To give some credit, it is important to note a lot of the tea effects are actually very powerful now, even when compared to other lategame options. Things like the forget me lot tea are viable alternatives to sanity restoration items (you recover 110 sanity per sip of the tea over 45 seconds, and you can sip the tea 10 times for 1100 sanity total, getting close to the amount restored from an entire stack of banana shakes), alongside things like the fire nettle/succulent teas being very effective for temperature management (giving ~2.5 days of temperature managing without any insulation per tea, and being much more effective if you are wearing proper insulating gear).

I wouldn’t mind if the tea shop was accessible earlier to give more incentive to interact with pearl at the cost of needing more ingredients (with the current costs being retained if you are in the pre scion stage), as the teas cheapness in relation to its effects is pretty clearly balanced around being at an endgame setting.

 

[Jakepeng99]

1 hour ago, Maxil20 said:

To give some credit, it is important to note a lot of the tea effects are actually very powerful now, even when compared to other lategame options. Things like the forget me lot tea are viable alternatives to sanity restoration items (you recover 110 sanity per sip of the tea over 45 seconds, and you can sip the tea 10 times for 1100 sanity total, getting close to the amount restored from an entire stack of banana shakes), alongside things like the fire nettle/succulent teas being very effective for temperature management (giving ~2.5 days of temperature managing without any insulation per tea, and being much more effective if you are wearing proper insulating gear).

I wouldn’t mind if the tea shop was accessible earlier to give more incentive to interact with pearl at the cost of needing more ingredients (with the current costs being retained if you are in the pre scion stage), as the teas cheapness in relation to its effects is pretty clearly balanced around being at an endgame setting.

 

They should just increase the price again and nerf the stats a little, then problem solved. they only buffed them cus they were late game.