Cooking shard costs, 30 minute duration, fading on death.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Didn't you know this? That when someone dies they shat their pants? (South Park reference) This is why the effect of food wears off. :P Seriously. But yes!! I do agree that it's REALLY stupid that the effect of food wears off when you get KOed! I don't think it was like this in FFXI.

[Alhanelem]

I had several thousand of every kind of shard from 1.0 when I started playing ARR. Over 3000 wind shards and i'm down to about 500 after processing lots of gemstones and making rings and stuff.

[Greywizaqrd]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Those 2 star foods that require 2x clusters, those are easy. As a 50 miner I can pull 15 clusters from 1 node. Here's how:

Engage node > strike to clear prefered cluster > King's Yield II > 3 clusters per strike for the next 5 strikes.

You're welcome.

[LordMaitreya]

HQ foods should persist through death. Problem solved.

[Kewitt]

Problem here is everyone wants everything done today. You don't need to be capped level tomorrow. Take your time.

I love food effects.
3% EXP
+ Status for once you have great gear make a big difference.

for Gathering... the + Gathering % really make a difference when doing leaves it adds up to big gains over time and well worth the gil.

[Pyros]

You all are crazy. Look at the boards, people are buying tons of food. You can have lots of fun cooking all sorts of mid tier foods and selling them for a huge profit!

Thats what i've been doing, yall just need to chill out and not spam end game dungeons.

Yep exactly, no problem with the skill, you just need to be making lvl 20-30 food with your level 50 culinarian because it's the only thing that sells, why would you want to make endgame food, crazy people. /sarcasm

That's basically the issue with cooking, you either craft mid level items at a small profit but they're easy to craft and people are willing to spend 300-400g per food since that's not too expensive, or you make and sell very few of the HQ gathering/crafting food, but almost everything over 45 isn't worth crafting and won't actually sell fast or at a profit. That's because no one wants to spend 1-2k per food that doesn't last through death unless they're a gatherer/crafter(since they don't die). Simply make food persist through death, at the very least 1 and 2 star food, then it'll be worth crafting.

[alcolino]

cooking is perfect, close this discussion, you are not able to farm some shards .. pathetic

This is not WoW, everyone here should not be able to do everything ... if you can not stand behind the kitchen .. change job

[HealBus]

Only reason to level cooking is for hasty touch. A Culinary is just so so so inferior to a weaver or gsm. When something is as hard to make as a piece of gear that lasts forever and provides more stats you know the guy in charge of balancing DoH was probably the same guy balancing on release Starcraft.

EDIT: Forgot about steady hands 2.

[Nihility]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Those 2 star foods that require 2x clusters, those are easy. As a 50 miner I can pull 15 clusters from 1 node. Here's how:

Engage node > strike to clear prefered cluster > King's Yield II > 3 clusters per strike for the next 5 strikes.

You're welcome.

why use king's yield 2? the ward skills are 100 cheaper and gp is annoyingly slow to regen

[Ryuni]

To be fair...
The Crystal tower is not implemented yet (This is about food, trust me)
So we have to go into Bahamut's coil in ilvl 70 gear. Trust me, you want everyone in your party with food. It can really mean the difference between victory and defeat.

A group that cleared turn 4 didn't even bother using food...