Food is useless

...at endgame for all but Savage raiders.

I did a comparison of my character's stats at various levels, and the actual benefits of using food, other than the 3% experience bonus, have such diminishing returns that it's not even worth using.

http://i.imgur.com/utx8ZAx.png

The amount of damage that the bonus translates into is so negligible, its value is next to nothing.

I agree with that. Even for raiders this +45 crit rate is nothing in comparison with the 1000+ the usual DD already has. The food bonuses must be raised at least twice

I like the vitality bonus. An extra 800 health on my black mage? Yes please!

To be honest, up to date gear is useless in endgame for all but savage too. There's nothing else in the game you can't clear at i240, let alone the Stat benefits from food.

The only food worth anything in this game is the stuff that gives accuracy. That miniscule 24 points can help a healer or caster meet accuracy cap without stacking materia.

High vit tank food gives a small hp boost, but also boosts attack power as well, but 55ish points isn't enough of an hp boost to warrant buying it or crafting it. But now that I think about it, it's cheaper than buying four vit5 materia that tanks can't meld anyway, lol.

Food alone just won't fix your (secondary) stats besides maybe accuracy i agree but why bother with an i145 baked pipira pira when you may have access to <i160 food with a much bigger bonus? Seriously +37 up to +55 vit is a tremendous life-saving bonus but why would you use food if not in savage or end-game content and expect a serious boost in the first place?

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Originally Posted by SnugglesD

To be honest, up to date gear is useless in endgame for all but savage too. There's nothing else in the game you can't clear at i240, let alone the Stat benefits from food.

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To be honest it's useless for savage as well. Logically you must clear savage to get that shiny 270 alexandrian.

Although Having cleared savage without that alexandrian gear its pretty obvious you don't actually need it. Thus it's useless.

Food is useless though because players already over power the hell out of content running 20-40 levels above the contents intended design.

+1 determination do change the flow of battle :D

would love to see a buff to the food stats

unless you're min-maxing, then the general increase food gives is negligible.

it does make a very real difference tho, as someone above said, when trying to meet arbitrary points. Most obv of these is acc cap, but also speed. I need a certain amount of SS to get off a fifth fire IV under leylines and back into b3 before af drops. I don't meet it without flaugnarde. I think the melee in my static also operate under similar conditions, I know they like an exact amount of skillspeed to fit enough GCDs under certain buffs