Drunk

What things look like when you're drunk on supported graphics cards.

Drunk is a character condition comparable to tipsy, but much worse. If you continue to drink you will become "totally smashed". You become drunk by drinking multiple alcoholic beverages (available in some Inns) in succession, without allowing the effects of earlier drinks to wear off. Your ability to function in World of Warcraft is severely impaired, including your typed messages, such as your "S"'s becoming "SH"'s and "...hic!" being added to the end of your lines on occasion (example: what you shay might come out like thish...hic!).

Gameplay effects

Getting a character drunk lowers the apparent level of mobs. This is a very strange and not fully tested effect. Apparently it is designed to trick players into acting more confidently / aggressively, as if really drunk.

While the true level of the creature remains the same, it appears lowered to the character that's drunk. The apparent level of creatures can go down by up to 5 levels while drunk. You still receive the same XP for killing them as you would while sober, though. Note that this effect can and will corrupt data collected with addons such as MobInfo2.

It has been theorized that this effect adjusts the resistance level of the creature, making it easier to kill because it resists your spells and blocks/parries/dodges melee attacks as if it was a five levels lower. However, this is very unlikely because of the gameplay advantage it would provide.

Effects on PvP are unknown.

Graphics effects

For supported graphics cards, the more drunk you become the more your screen will blur around the edges until it becomes nearly impossible to see. This can be turned off in the World of Warcraft main menu-->video options by turning off the "full screen glow effect."

Changes

In Patch 1.6, Blizzard explicitly added code to stop the "S" to "SH" conversion on certain words that could become profane. Specifically, the word "sit" and its various derivations such as "sits" and "sitting" no longer get translated in this fashion, as long as the profanity filter is turned on.