Yeah, same here. I drink a Flaming Humbaba but it isn't working. I have wasted 4 drinks for it.....but it isn't working. Still loose all my energie.
Please fix it....................
I've had this problem recently too and I think it was some sort of silent change to flaming grinder. It seems you're charged the energy cost of everything you grind after the grinder buff expires. I get that they wanted to stop people from grinding 1300 ore with one drink but I still want to be able to grind that much ore and it's very cumbersome to have to split that into 5 sessions of drink/grind/drink/grind. Wouldn't be a problem if you could stack drink durations
I have heard that 200 ore chunks is pretty much the maximum amount of ore you can crush on one flaming humbaba now. Even then you'll probably die a lot if you don't have the energy. 175 would probably be the safer choice. As for me, I'll do all my grinding with no-no from now on.
I think there should be an option on the grinder like crush and drink a flaming. you can really loose most of the effect bu entering the number to crush / lag
As described this IS a bug. I've seen the same and reported it.
I ordered a big grind just after drinking a Humbaba, fully expecting to use some energy after the buff expired and accepting a risk of death. No energy was deducted, no grinding was done, and I lost all benefit of the Humbaba.