Would anybody be opposed to more out-of-combat foods?

Explanation:

We've all had that meld fail and the feeling of spending millions of gil on it. and we've all had small issues with the game.

So why not add more things to buff or just make things slightly better?

My thoughts were like foods that buff movement speed, meld chance (not to a ridiculous degree, but just a tollerable level. Like making the final meld 25% at max over the atrocious 6%).

Now, I don't need it I am a materia hoarding pos who has hundreds of the stuff. I was just throwing this idea out there because we have food that reduces armor wear (how does that work?) and food that increases desynth chance.

Some things like that might be so useful that it's mandatory. Not that it's necessarily bad since it gives crafters something else to make money on. Maybe S-E just doesn't want to make melds too often successful since it would hurt the materia market somewhat.

I do like the idea of influencing some non combat stats though, either through consumables or equipment like the sprint boots. It's just nice to have more items which have some kind of function other than glamour.

I've never thought of something like that with food! It's such a cool idea!

Now my imagination is going wild :confused: :rolleyes:

There already is food to boost desynthesis chance: Bacon Broth, plus a potion called Tinker’s Calm.

Movement speed food? Yes, please. I would love to have that, especially on my low-level alts that can’t use mounts yet.

I think base meld rates should be buffed regardless, right now optimal melds require a lot of V overmelds at horrendous rates, by the next expansion that's gonna be mostly VI overmelds with some V.

You can only overmeld VI in the first slot. Besides the melded stats give a marginal increase in damage output at best. The one exception perhaps being strength on acc for tanks.

We also got spiritbonding food, all give xp buff
Also squads give a whole array of buff 'foods'

So technicaly we got a lot off buff options already. The one exception being movement speed, i would guess that should be active only outside of combat though.

I wouldn't mind more foods, but I honestly feel like they should drastically increase the amount of infusions produced per craft (Like maybe up to 10 or so) because you burn through them ridiculously quickly compared to food, but their benefit is fairly significant.

I'd totally love a food for increased movement speed or greatly increasing overmeld chances.

What about food that applies a cosmetic effect to your character like glowing eyes or flame aura (for example XD). Mostly food is only used to "serious" things like raid or more difficult crafting, or you just use whatever for the 3% xp buff, so it would be nice to have some things that you can use just whenever you feel like it.

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Originally Posted by number473

What about food that applies a cosmetic effect to your character like glowing eyes or flame aura (for example XD). Mostly food is only used to "serious" things like raid or more difficult crafting, or you just use whatever for the 3% xp buff, so it would be nice to have some things that you can use just whenever you feel like it.

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inB4 somebody claims that a food item gave them gas (complete with relevant graphical effect).

Don't forget alchemy, too~

I just had a similar thought yesterday as I began working on my overmelds for crafter/gatherer... but I'm not sure about the percentage increases.

If the percentages are too high, then the mats for food itself would need to be incredibly rare and super expensive. I'd rather have a consistent buff that isn't too difficult to make...

I was thinking something like...

Food Buff
NQ - Careful Meld+1 - increases meld chance somewhere between 1%-2%
HQ - Careful Meld+2 - increases meld chance somewhere between 3%-5%

Stack with an Item Buff from Alchemist craft...

Item Buff
NQ - Careful Meld+1 - increases meld chance somewhere between 1%-2%
HQ - Careful Meld+2 - increases meld chance somewhere between 3%-5%


Because I honestly feel like more than a 10% buff is way too overkill. Assuming the max % increase with both buffs stacked is 10%, this would increase the first overmeld slot for VI materia ti 27%. The final overmeld slot would be increased to 17% for gear with 3 overmeld slots of 15% for gear with 4 overmeld slots.

Movement speed would be fine, as long as it doesn't work in combat.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

There already is food to boost desynthesis chance: Bacon Broth, plus a potion called Tinker’s Calm.

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I know. That last paragraph was me saying “My thought was inspired by the desynth and armor wear reduction foods.”

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Movement speed would be fine, as long as it doesn't work in combat.

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Of course. I’ll admit though, I was thinking of those Anemos boots that give the longer sprint duration. Honestly, when I thought of it I was thinking mostly for crafters/gatherers.

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Originally Posted by Rowde

Food Buff
NQ - Careful Meld+1 - increases meld chance somewhere between 1%-2%
HQ - Careful Meld+2 - increases meld chance somewhere between 3%-5%

Stack with an Item Buff from Alchemist craft...

Item Buff
NQ - Careful Meld+1 - increases meld chance somewhere between 1%-2%
HQ - Careful Meld+2 - increases meld chance somewhere between 3%-5%

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This right here was exactly what I was thinking. Since melds aren’t based off of gear ilvl or crafter/gatherer stats/level, I was thinking something like this.

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Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu

You can only overmeld VI in the first slot. Besides the melded stats give a marginal increase in damage output at best. The one exception perhaps being strength on acc for tanks.

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Speaking from a crafter perspective here, and I doubt the restriction on VI will remain in 5.0 seeing how we're stretching meld stats almost to the limit right now with melded Onishi.

I need more tabletop food.

Gimme those pizzas, damnit.