What's with all the food?

Ever since 1.18 went live, I've been inundated with food. Leves now give it as rewards. Treasure chests pop out blue cheese and bouillabaisse like it's a Pez dispenser. I've got eel pies and tomato pies and shepherd's pies. Boiled shrimp and coconut shrimp and fried shrimp and, okay, that's enough Forrest.

Given the overall lackluster performance of food pre-1.18, has anyone noticed anything more significant post?

What? You dislike having +20HP for 30 minutes? <.<

HP potion (forget its name) save me from death XP

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

What? You dislike having +20HP for 30 minutes? <.<

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Point is that before 1.18, food was basically non-existent as rewards. Now, it's everywhere.

(And LOL at +20HP, I'm hoping that was sarcasm...)

LOL @ Pez dispenser.

Well I'm hoping this means we're finally getting a list on food stats soon we know what to eat for what gain.. ^_^;; Or it could say right on the food even.

I had high hopes for my Culinarian skills once they overhaul it. I could actually be useful! But now, with the crazy amount of food being handed out for nearly every other quest and leve, no one will need to buy or request food when they can just receive it as a reward

It's a good way to introduce food to the majority of players who never bothered with it before. But I agree they should lower the amount of food items that can be received as rewards - especially from treasure chests handing out whole stacks of goodies.

I just realized that I haven't eaten anything in months.

Must be starving by now.

dude, you can never have too much food. thank about what you are saying!

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Originally Posted by Cendres

LOL @ Pez dispenser.

Well I'm hoping this means we're finally getting a list on food stats soon we know what to eat for what gain.. ^_^;; Or it could say right on the food even.

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Food actually has relatively clear stat boosts. It just doesn't say in game. There is a post on ZAM that explains it. Different food works for different ranks and races and it scales with rank. So food that gives +5 STR at RNK10 does not do the same at rank 5 and conversely food for rank 5 won't give the same stats at rank 30. How much it scales for using optimum food I have not tested. I will do this tonight since I have lots of it.

Here is the list

My Lalafell is fat because food doesn't vend well and my retainers were full >.>

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Originally Posted by Synfrag

Here is the list

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LOL at those food effect...

We shouldn't have to dig through the dats to find this info. Or play SE's guessing game.

Thank you for the list though. :)

I think food is low priority atm. There's other way more important stuff that needs to be enhanced or implemented. Like storyline, client stability, dungeons or skill balancing.

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

I think food is low priority atm. There's other way more important stuff that needs to be enhanced or implemented. Like storyline, client stability, dungeons or skill balancing.

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Yes, a whole class being useless is low priority.

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Wasn't it already announced Food/Potion Effect going to be changed post patch 1.18? Maybe it will happen in 1.18a/b/c, who knows?

I wont use food until they put the stats on the item description for the food. If/when they do that, though, hidden effects would be a nice touch for those that enjoy alt tabbing to crawl through databases of hundreds of items to read comments in order to find out what bonuses food gives. I'm getting all of this food and I am just vendoring it because I don't know what any of it does, and since the only stats that matter (until 1.19 or 1.20 when they adjust them) are hp and mp it's w/e. >.>

pre patch 1.18 food was a common reward for low level quest, they just weren't worth it. I think they're trying to add more venues for people to find food, if you check rankings sites, the average server has only a handful (less than 10 on some) of rank 50 culinarians. I bet they checked those too, or they have even cooler data.

OOOOOOOOOOOO now that mp cost is high, and running out of mp can be a problem can we have refresh food like in xi? i want roasted mushrooms, and wtf at acorn cookies, you know what i expected to them to be and you know what they aren't SE :/

Some of the stats on the list is wrong, with basic requirement (normal eat which is like -3 of the max effect) i get about +50 HP from Walnut bread, there is also "tasty", "delicious" and "heavenly".

They realized that they were giving out rewards from all the other crafting classes that can be crafted, but not really culinarian's food. Which in my opinion, is the opposite direction of what they should be doing. They should rein in dropping items that can be crafted in general. Especially with this new dropping +3 gear. I know it's not high-level, but what are crafters suppose to aspire to make for some players if they can just get it as a drop?

Any prize given will add to the flooding of the market regardless of what it is. Giving out something consumable versus something lasting in the game such as gear was a smart move in my opinion.

It was mentioned before by the dev team that food effects will be displayed as part of the description. Thank the twelve for that! I never understood the purpose of hiding food effects in XI. It certainly didn't stimulate the economy, most the recipes they spent time and money into creating went unused in the game because people didn't understand what to do with it. It wasn't really worth it for the maybe one or two people whom actually found it worth their time to sleuth around and test for what they think they might have felt an increase of, when everyone else just broke into the game files to try to figure it out.

I was kinda horrified that they seriously thought this a good idea to carry over from XI. Of all the good ideas in XI they ignored, they brought over the bad one. So glad that Yoshi-P decided to go through with this change. It should really open the doors for people wanting to play culinarian and have customers other than the npc vendors. Just hoping it's not too late for the players of the game to feel the need to start using food when probably the majority of players have gone through 50 just fine without.

On a side note, my character never eats and runs the entire country on foot. No wonder she is so slender!

When the food effects are no longer rank-based I'll probably be much more likely to eat it. Well, that and the whole "display what it does" thing.

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Originally Posted by Eldaena

They realized that they were giving out rewards from all the other crafting classes that can be crafted, but not really culinarian's food. Which in my opinion, is the opposite direction of what they should be doing. They should rein in dropping items that can be crafted in general. Especially with this new dropping +3 gear. I know it's not high-level, but what are crafters suppose to aspire to make for some players if they can just get it as a drop?

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