Concept:
3 levels of
40 gp for some
One of these
and
17 levels of caster/barbarian/magus....anything that has limited class resources.
Crafting your own tea would cost you 13 gold per spell recharged (two levels less than the highest you can cast), or 2 rounds of barb rage, etc. Accelerated Drinker to swig liquor, turn that into a temporary ki point. Then drink the tea and refill something. Rinse. Repeat.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit.
Is there any magic item that provides free daily alchemical products, or something? Like the poisoner's jacket, but with alchemical stuff?
There have been several decent builds posted on here about ways to abuse alcohol, but the tea specifically only works on Bardic Performance, Channel Energy, and spells 2 or more levels lower than highest level of spell you can cast.
I have a Arcane Healer-Geisha Bard that is VMC Monk... she uses the aforementioned Tea of Transference and the Ki Channel feat to have near endless Bardic Performance, Channel Energy, Ki, and spells of, or lower than, 4th-level... so she is always scribing scrolls to pay for tea. Lol. I like the Tea of Transference + Ki Channel combination because Ki Channel regains multiple Ki per Channel, and you can always use the tea to transfer one Ki into another Channel for several more Ki... you always end up with extra Ki for more tea.
Think about what an Evangelist Cleric VMC Monk could do with that tea and Ki Channel. Or, another way to use this trick would be as a Tengu Shigenjo Oracle with any of Mysteries that have access to Channel Energy... take Ki Channel at level 7. Between said feat and our favorite tea beverage, you should be pretty set for Channel, Ki, and spells of, or lower than, 7th-level... try find a good way to abuse the $#!+ out of the Shigenjo's Ki Magic.
You’ll need to go to level 4 monk to make that work… Drunken Ki does not count as having the Ki Pool class feature, which Tea of Transference specifically requires you to have to provide any benefit.
There have been several decent builds posted on here about ways to abuse alcohol, but the tea specifically only works on Bardic Performance, Channel Energy, and spells 2 or more levels lower than highest level of spell you can cast.
Re-read the tea…
By drinking a cup of tea of transference, you can expend 1 point from your ki pool to regain 1 point from your arcane pool, 2 rounds of barbarian rage, 2 rounds of bardic performance, one use of channel energy, 1 grit point, one use of smite evil, one expended extract slot at least 1 level lower than the highest-level extract you can create, or one expended spell slot at least 2 levels lower than the highest-level spell you can cast.
It specifically lists Arcane Pool, Rage, Bardic Performance, Channel Energy, Grit, Smite Evil, Extracts 1+ level lower than your Highest, and Spells 2+ levels lower than your highest…
Looks like I erased the stuff that didn't apply to my character when I copied the description into her notes. My bad.
Looks like I erased the stuff that didn't apply to my character when I copied the description into her notes. My bad.
I’ve done that a few times for some of my characters… it helps when playing to not see the extra stuff that doesn’t apply to you on a lot of abilities, feats, and items