2.1 and Cooking

How are us Culinarians expected to continue to make decent profits when the demand for food is going to plummet due to food effects persisting through death? I understand that the end user of the food will be happy with this as it saves their wallet, but it surely will hurt mine.

Or we could flip the perspective and think that people will be using food more often now that there's no risk of prematurely losing your buffs due to a sudden case of death. :p

I used to avidly cook food and use it regularly, but after having a hundred too many wipes on random bits of dungeons and primals, I've more or less stopped using the stuff entirely. Drinking some Pineapple Juice and then having a Paladin pull the first four packs of Wandering Palace without Shield Oath active, then not using a single cooldown and losing aggro after the first Cure II cast (not that I'd be able to heal that <_<) begins hurting my Pineapple and Cluster supply. :)

I personally plan to use food more often with the next patch, at least. Sure, I'll end up using lower quantities than I did on the fateful Titan groups I ended up helping, but hey. :p

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Originally Posted by Raminax

Or we could flip the perspective and think that people will be using food more often now that there's no risk of prematurely losing your buffs due to a sudden case of death. :p

I used to avidly cook food and use it regularly, but after having a hundred too many wipes on random bits of dungeons and primals, I've more or less stopped using the stuff entirely. Drinking some Pineapple Juice and then having a Paladin pull the first four packs of Wandering Palace without Shield Oath active, then not using a single cooldown and losing aggro after the first Cure II cast (not that I'd be able to heal that <_<) begins hurting my Pineapple and Cluster supply. :)

I personally plan to use food more often with the next patch, at least. Sure, I'll end up using lower quantities than I did on the fateful Titan groups I ended up helping, but hey. :p

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Fair enough..I guess we will have to see how it works out :P

It should at least be balanced out by PvP being a thing, if not a net gain in number of sales.

Now only if they fixed Two-Star Food................

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Originally Posted by Exphryl

Now only if they fixed Two-Star Food................

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sssshhhhhh... there are still stupid people out there buying it, don't let them know that they get higher stats from lower level food.

I took up culinarian to make gil, and I don't see that changing since it's still consumable and does wear off eventually. I am also of the mind set that sales will either go up or stay the same as they are now due to people actually wanting to use it instead of having to reapply it every 5 minutes.

Coming from a consumer's perspective, I had little to no incentive to even bother with DoW/DoM food pre-2.1 because there was always a chance of a bad/accidental pull, someone missing Silence 10 seconds into the fight, bad groups, DC's, insta-wipes, etc. Now I'll be chowing down because I know it will last.

Culinarian demand is likely going up, trust me.

I hear many players saying this, but will it actually happen? Players who were too cheap to buy food will likely continue to do so. The bigger issue is the shear number of culinarians in existence already. The food market will likely plummet, at least until all the stale food is bought up.

Here's something to consider though... The consumer never cares about the plight of the provider. Those consumers are the same people charging crafters 400+ gil per egg, yet whining even deviled eggs cost over 500 gil? I personally gather my own materials, and this means having to deal with farmers head on. Nasty people they are...

im culinarian myself and i used to sell 2 star foods pre 2.1 and now im selling far more food than before...

I've yet to make more food since the patch since I had a decent stock built up beforehand, but I have noticed sales seem to be up so far which is a welcome sign for sure! Not sure if that is a product of more people resubbing for a month to check out the patch, or if the demand is really that much higher. Lets hope for the latter :P

I definitely see more people eating Food, at least. It's usually the guys sitting around in Coil gear, so they're probably used to it, but it's a positive change nonetheless. :p

Over time, more food should be purchased than pre-2.1. Some players don't realize that food has changed. Talk to your friends, FC members, and LS members and mention food now lasts through death. Players should consume food for most fights to try and maximize on their jobs.

I'm gonna bump this to check in and see how peoiple think the food market is since patch has been a few weeks now. It looks like food is indeed selling more, but the prices of most of the good foods like La Noscean Toast and Deviled Eggs, etc has plummeted to about 50% of what they were pre patch. I'm looking at profits of 500gil per HQ food I synth if I'm lucky now as opposed to about 2k per synth prior. At least on my server the difference in price from NQ and HQ food is almost negligible to the point where I am tempted to spam NQs and save some time. Anyone else experiencing something similar?