This is the worst nonsense and completely unintuitive mess I've ever seen in this game!
Apart from the Tonic Brewery Guide being buggy and now blocked one of my characters from brewing any tonics - thanks for that btw! - what even is the point?
* Sometimes you have to get a reagent from the shelf, sometimes not - is this random?
* A dozen of silly materials you need to farm to actually do this tonic nonsense
* Then you gotta put stuff in here, drink there, do some other mumbojumbo to get a tonic
* Then these fieldwork tasks that somehow enhance somewhat and then you need to discover more tonics to unlock more of those quests
* How do you even discover new tonics? I have 7 now - do I need to grind the heck out of the "brand new" seasonal content and hope for a lucky drop? Is it timegated?
* The info thingy on the tonic table says you can discover more powerful tonics by synthesizing related tonics and a not specified item description should have more information - excuse me, but what?
* Is there any info but this stuff written in a language nobody can understand?
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Yeah, it's pretty terrible. Basically just a reskinned bunch of cookie nonsense. But don't worry. The BDF will still say it's brilliant.