Wicked Flux

Wicked FluxItem_EarthEssence1
Type	Medicine (Type)
Element	Fire
Tier	Spirit Relic (8)
Beauty	Beautiful (10)
Description	Essence of what's deep inside the earth's crust with a bright red color. Consuming it directly replenishes a large amount of Stamina and expands Qi Reserve, increasing one's Max Qi. This substance has weak medicine ebb and can be taken multiple times. However, it will cause negative Qi to concentrate within, which has a permanent influence on the mind. Consuming it in large quantities greatly affect one's cultivation.
Edible
Stamina	60
Elixir
Max Qi (AddP)	30%
Medicine Resistance	10%
Elixir Effect	-10 Base Mental State
Trading
Sect Price	Buy Price: 1000 Sell Price: 200 Stock: 1
Merchant Price	Buy Price: 1500 Sell Price: 300
Auction Min. Price	Min. Buy Price: 500  Spirit Stones

Wicked Flux is Medicine of Fire (Element) that increases Max Qi (+30%) at the cost of Base Mental State (-10).

Obtaining

• Obtained by Adventuring to Poison Dragon Lake, near Exultant Isle on the Overworld Map
  • For better chances, Adventure with a high Luck Wood Law Cultivator

Effects

Wicked Flux increases Max Qi at the cost of Base Mental State.

• 3% Max Qi for every 1 Base Mental State lost
• +60 Stamina

Tiers

• Tier 8
  • -10 Mental State
  • +30% Max Qi bonus
• Tier 12
  • -20.74 Mental State
  • +62.2% Max Qi bonus

Theoretical Maximum

• -207.36 Mental State
• +622% Max Qi

Dial Codes

Losing 200 Mental State isn't feasible for most real characters, meaning there will be specific "break points" where it's possible to get enough Mental State bonuses to cover the loss, while still gaining the much needed Max Qi. Additionally, it is possible to take Wicked Flux in a certain order--taking one reduces the impact of the next one.

Some useful breakpoints:

• -10 Mental = Tier 8 Wicked Flux
• -14.4 Mental (just before -15) = Tier 10 Wicked Flux
• -19 Mental (just before -20) = 2 Tier 8 Wicked Flux
• -24.96 Mental (just before -25) = T9 then T10 Wicked Flux
• -27.1 Mental = 3 T8 Wicked Flux
• -29.95 Mental (just before -30) = T10 then T11 Wicked Flux
• -34.39 Mental = 4 T8 Wicked Flux
• -34.997 Mental (just before -35) = T9 then T8 then T11 Wicked Flux
• -39.40 Mental = 2 T12
• ?? = just before 40.

To get further (>35 Mental State reduc) breakpoints, it's necessary to start calculating with 4 flux combinations. Which needs to be done by a script, rather than by hand combination.

• 40, you'd need to check all the 3, and 4 flux combinations.
• 45 = 3 4 and 5
• 50 = 3 to 6
• ... by the way, not only is the list growing in numbers of tiers, but they're getting exponentially harder to check each one, as there's more ways to make combinations.
• 60 = 4 to 8
• 70 = 4 to 11
• 80 = 5 to 15
• 90 = 6 to 21
• 100 = 7 to ?? (or chug an infinite amount of Tier 8s)
• ... Here is where the list starts getting really big. Maybe some theoretical maths could cut it down from brute force computing.

From a rando that is just posting values that he uses for his various breakpoint:

• 80 = 4 T12 followed by 1 T10 = 80.77
• 100 = 5 T12 followed by 1 T11 and 1 T8 = 100.45
• 130 = 9 T12 -> 1 T8 = 130.92