Another food update?

[Kimble]

People rarely use food since abyssea came out. They don't see the point with all their god mode atmas. B4 abyssea most players used food to maximize their acc, attk, or what have you. Crafting of consumables being broken is directly related to abyssea. Period.

As far as 1/2 the foods out there being useless that is nothing new. Except in cases where those foods are part of a higher level synth.

The good players till use food and the bad players still dont. You arent always auto capped on attack like people seem to like to believe. Almost always useful to use a form of attack food even inside abyssea.

[Anapingofness]

Oh spare me. I am so tired of the whole "giving players information in game is easy-mode" attitude, really. Give me a break. Most food is rarely used. Crafting in general is fairly broken. There would be no downside to giving players this information.

But I guess the game is "harder" because no one makes half the food in the game because no one buys it because people don't even know what it does. That's not artificial difficulty at ALL.

I agree 100% with you.

[Seriha]

I can understand not listing food stats in game due to display limitations, but there's no reason SE can't set up an outside resource with this info. Overall, I'd liken it to the nutritional value found on packaging for real foods. Knowing what goes into your body isn't a bad thing, and while some might have that Latent Effect: Explosive Diarrhea, when it comes to stats we can't see, it's a no-brainer that things like boosted skill rates are very, very, easily missed.

[Urthdigger]

On a happy note, I'm pleased to see that both of these foods are low level and made with fairly common ingredients, most of which can be cheaply bought from an NPC.

[Misi]

So that's where all the puffballs went.. Never the less, happy they are a low level craft, yay!

[Niyariko]

Please let the dev know that Automatons also need skill up. Automatons are our left and right hands, please don't left them out.

[Sparthos]

Question to the devs since they so kindly dropped some information on mystery food added during an update:

Do Macarons (Kitron, Coffee, Cherry) actually increase the skillup rate of crafts?

What do rusks (Coconut, Chocolate) do?

These items have gotten urban legend status regarding their effectiveness in skilling up crafts and desynths and some information would be greatly appreciated.

[Kari]

Question to the devs since they so kindly dropped some information on mystery food added during an update:

Do Macarons (Kitron, Coffee, Cherry) actually increase the skillup rate of crafts?

What do rusks (Coconut, Chocolate) do?

These items have gotten urban legend status regarding their effectiveness in skilling up crafts and desynths and some information would be greatly appreciated.

I really hope a staff member responds on this.
Someone on FFXIAH mentioned that information regarding the effects of Macarons/Rusks was given in a Japanese magazine.
[FFXI Dengeki no Ryodan-hen Vana'diel Official World Guide 2010 Vol. 2 (2010/10, ISBN-10: 4048701029)]
^You can find the post on the Kitron Macaron page.

But, yeah. I don't understand enough Japanese to bother buying the guide for this information. I've heard mixed results on what they actually do. Though, common belief is that the Macarons are varying levels of a "Less Break Rate" effect, and Rusks increase HQ rate. Whether this is true, false, or partially true with other effects, we can't tell until SE tells us or someone else with the information confirms it.

Show us some love Camate, get the info. <3

[Urat]

I really hope a staff member responds on this.
Someone on FFXIAH mentioned that information regarding the effects of Macarons/Rusks was given in a Japanese magazine.
[FFXI Dengeki no Ryodan-hen Vana'diel Official World Guide 2010 Vol. 2 (2010/10, ISBN-10: 4048701029)]
^You can find the post on the Kitron Macaron page.

But, yeah. I don't understand enough Japanese to bother buying the guide for this information. I've heard mixed results on what they actually do. Though, common belief is that the Macarons are varying levels of a "Less Break Rate" effect, and Rusks increase HQ rate. Whether this is true, false, or partially true with other effects, we can't tell until SE tells us or someone else with the information confirms it.

Show us some love Camate, get the info. <3

Macarons dramatically lower break rate but also cripple HQ rate.

Rusks appear to dramatically enhance HQ rates.
My study

This is one, out of a hundred, "why didn't they do this to begin with" topics. One could easily think FFXI is SE's first game ever. I don't even recall them adding items in single player games that didn't state anything about what they did. And if they did, I probably never used them.

FF7 and since had item descriptions.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

They should have reminder text on food like gear dose.