Another food update?

[Oddwaffle]

I'm not asking for new food item, I'm asking for an update of the current food. There are a lot of food items in FFXI, probably over 200+. You can count at least 15-20 dishes for each of the AH categories. However, not many are actually used by people.

Even the most extensive user of food will probably only use up to 20 different dishes. For melee jobs: Yellow Curry Buns, Red Curry Buns, Meat Kabobs, Bison Steaks, Rice Dumplings and Carbonara. For mages: Apple, Melon, Pumpkin pies, Sweet Rice Cakes, Cream Puff, Marron Glace, Cookies and maybe some other 3 hour cakes. For craftsmen: the macarons. Nowadays, mages rarely ever use any food in abyssea, melee reduced their food consumption and crafting are pretty much dead. Overall, a lot of food are merely there to level up cooking, take up space and confuse players.

In the past, SE did an update to food so players wouldn't just eat meat kabobs. Now, I think there should be another similar update so the remainder of 200+ food items are to be useful.

Note: There are a lot of food that nobody has any idea what they do. I don't think people are willing to spend time and effort to research about such food and write them down on wiki anymore. Perhaps SE would disclose the hidden stat bonus behind several of the current food items?

[Dfoley]

Aside from the fact it would be a huge time sink to totaly revamp cooking so all the foods have useful stats... however, you will be happy to know there was something on the jp twitter this morning about skill up foods for mages/melee.

[Luvbunny]

The foods need and should be updated so that they are on par with the state of the game now.

[Malacite]

Some new pizzas would be neat.

But mostly I'd like to see them introduce new recipes for 95~100 that won't break the bank or require tedious farming of R/EX ingredients... virtually every option to skill from 95 to 100 just absolutely sucks.

[Camate]

Howdy! I actually have some information on a couple of food items that perhaps not many of you know about...




Both of these items increase the rate of combat skill gains.




Both of these items increase the rate of magic skill gains.


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[Rafien]

Howdy! I actually have some information on a couple of food items that perhaps not many of you know about...

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Both of these items increase the rate of combat skill gains.

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Both of these items increase the rate of magic skill gains.


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At 100K and 50K a stack on Bahamut, the increase better be 75% increase in skill gain!

[Karbuncle]

Howdy! I actually have some information on a couple of food items that perhaps not many of you know about...

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Both of these items increase the rate of combat skill gains.

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Both of these items increase the rate of magic skill gains.


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Do either of these Effect Automatons ? Needs more pet food :P

(Also, Thats epic...)

[Tamoa]

Howdy! I actually have some information on a couple of food items that perhaps not many of you know about...

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Both of these items increase the rate of combat skill gains.

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Both of these items increase the rate of magic skill gains.


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Oh that's nifty! Did not know about those food items (and I have 100 cooking lol..) - well, I know what I get to do once I've finished my 200 fish for the day!

[larrymc]

Howdy! I actually have some information on a couple of food items that perhaps not many of you know about...

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Both of these items increase the rate of combat skill gains.

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Both of these items increase the rate of magic skill gains.


The more you know!

Would the devs be willing to tell us the effects of Chocolate Rusk?

[Vold]

Would the devs be willing to tell us the effects of Chocolate Rusk?

I wish they would tell us everything about food. No one in a trillion billion zillion years would have ever figured out the above foods gave skill gain increases. Makes you wonder what else there is.

Starting to sound an awful lot like the so called crafting foods probably really do affect crafting. So and so is for skill ups. The others are for HQs or less breaks or something. It'd make sense since there's like a few different kinds. I wouldn't think they all accomplished the same exact thing. Hmmmm.