Whats more important...

[Aubie80]

Whats more important to you guys?

1 Flavor, nicotine, or amounts of vapor?

2 Do you mix your own juice and if so do you make stuff that needs to steep or mix stuff that's ready to vape?

Me, flavor is most important followed by amounts of vapor then nic. It used to be nic, vapor, flavor. Ive started to mix my own juice I test it when I'm finished and if it doesn't taste good I check it in a few days and usually its good to go. Most the stuff I mix I vape as soon as I'm done mixing and it only gets better as I vape it.

 

[lasttango]

performance is most important to me, if I want something that tastes awesome, I'll go cook something...
it can't taste nasty though...

 

[FinallyQuit]

Flavor, hands down. Vapor, don't need a cloud, but would like to see some on the exhale. Nic, keeps steady at 18 mg and not intending to drop any time soon. Chasing the Holy Grail of flavors was my downfall on my 1st trip on the merry-go-round. Now it just has to NOT taste nasty. It's opened me up to a lot of possibilities in vendors that were not on my radar until now. Still finding some I just don't like, but finding a LOT that are pretty good!

 

[wv2win]

Throat hit first, so nic level/warm vapor and then flavor. Amount of visible vapor is a distant 3rd since it has no barring on throat hit or flavor.

 

[Aubie80]

Flavor, hands down. Vapor, don't need a cloud, but would like to see some on the exhale. Nic, keeps steady at 18 mg and not intending to drop any time soon. Chasing the Holy Grail of flavors was my downfall on my 1st trip on the merry-go-round. Now it just has to NOT taste nasty. It's opened me up to a lot of possibilities in vendors that I were not on my radar until now. Still finding some I just don't like, but finding a LOT that are pretty good!

I found many more that I didnt care for than ones that I could vape. Thats why I got into diy. Ive been vaping almost 2 yrs so I know that proverbial merry-go-round all too well.

performance is most important to me, if I want something that tastes awesome, I'll go cook something...
it can't taste nasty though...

Lol, good point, performance is a great way to look at it. If you have an awesome juice but in a poor delivery device it wont perform that well but if set up correctly you'll be plenty satisfied.

 

[Myrany]

It might be because I am new to this and my tastebuds haven't fully rebounded yet but I find myself gravitating towards simple flavors. I started DIY and have been enjoying the heck out of my DIY strawberry and watermelon juices.

I did manage to make a chocolate coconut one that isn't too bad but I find I vape it in small quantities. It might do well to steep some.

Every complex flavor I bought I sort of had to force myself to finish the bottle. I wouldn't say they were nasty just not something I overly enjoyed.

I don't like alot of TH and I do prefer a cooler vape so I DIY 50/50 and use bottom coil devices for the most part. Amount of vapor really doesn't matter to me as long as there is some. I just am not happy if I can't blow my vapor rings

 

[NICnurse]

I DIY, always 100% PG as throat hit is important to me. I allow them to steep, always have 6 30mL bottles in "progress". By week 6, the juice is steeped and perfect.

I would rank it as Throat hit, vapor, then flavor. I like a warm vape, so LR cartos @ 4.5volts. Been vaping almost 3 years, same juice for 2.5 years, and same LR cartos for 2.5 years. Vari volt vaping for over a year now. It works for me!

 

[tidegirl]

1. Um, yes? All 3 are pretty important to me. Flavor doesn't have to be knock-my-socks-off, but it does have to be decent. I like to see a good amount of vapor. I believe this visual aspect is a large part of the mental addiction. My nic is low, but still very very important.

2. I do DIY, and most of my stuff does not require steeping. I do fruity and candy type vapes, many of them single flavors. Steeping doesn't seem to affect these as much, and I am such a procrastinator that I usually need it when I mix it.

I have recently dropped from 8 to 6 mg, after fairly recently dropping from 10-12 to 8. I do well there most of the time, but since the latest drop I am thinking I need a "loading dose". It takes a good while after waking up before I get the edge off with 6 mg. I may make up some 10-12 mg for my morning vape, then switch to 6 mg once I have a decent level of nic in my system.

 

[bnrkwest]

Flavor, nic, vapor. I am a flavor junkie LOL Nic is next and vapor is just not important to me. bnrk

 

[retrox]

My preferences are interesting, now that you've made me go and think about it...

Flavor, vapor, and nic ranked in that order when I'm just chilling. Nic, flavor, and vapor ranked in that order in the morning. Flavor, nic, and vapor ranked in that order after meals. I keep a few different juices on-hand for various occasions, in three different ratios and two different nic levels. I'm not OCD about it or anything, but my preferences definitely change throughout the day. I have moods.

I steep most of my DIY with an ultrasonic on a 2-hour cycle and proceed to vape away, but I generally let my main tobacco blends sit for about a week before I tear into them. Lately I've been experimenting with super-concentrated flavorings which don't seem to require much, if any, steeping at all. My vendor-bought juice always gets the ultrasonic treatment before I vape it.