Glaring problem with cooking. SE please address. Everyone please support this cause.

[Noxifer]

Five melds with only five seasonings to pick from would increase the number of unique food items at minimum 5 fold if using 1 of each seasoning. If you mix and match the potency meaning 3 of this one 2 of that you are looking at over 3125 combinations PER base food.

I definitely like your idea of having unique qualities of food other than just the same old stat increases all the time. (Just as they ought to add that type of unique "flavour" to materia melding as well, IMO.)

One question, however... Would that kind of "seasoning melding" be done /per item/ or /per stack/? Melding with a static item (equipment) is one thing, but melding with consumables... It would need to be very carefully thought out and implemented to avoid becoming too unbalanced. I.e. if you have to meld a stack of 99 cookies one by one, each of them five times, it's going to be far too time consuming for many to have the patience for it. If you can meld the entire stack in one go, and you'd fail it, rendering all cookies worthless would be agonizing considering you'd most likely have crafted them one by one. Both versions could quite possibly drive up the prices of successfully seasoned food to the point where you'd almost have to ask yourself if it was worth the investment to use them all up ^^; (At least I know I would...)
I'd love to read your thoughts on this =)

[Cocytus]

One question, however... Would that kind of "seasoning melding" be done /per item/ or /per stack/? Melding with a static item (equipment) is one thing, but melding with consumables... It would need to be very carefully thought out and implemented to avoid becoming too unbalanced. I.e. if you have to meld a stack of 99 cookies one by one, each of them five times, it's going to be far too time consuming for many to have the patience for it. If you can meld the entire stack in one go, and you'd fail it, rendering all cookies worthless would be agonizing considering you'd most likely have crafted them one by one. Both versions could quite possibly drive up the prices of successfully seasoned food to the point where you'd almost have to ask yourself if it was worth the investment to use them all up ^^; (At least I know I would...)
I'd love to read your thoughts on this =)

I would have it set on seasoning the stack but here's the kicker you don't have to use full 99 stacks. If you have 99 break them into 3 x 33 stacks. Sure you have to do the melds 15 times but if you lose 2 of the 3 and get one with all 5 melds, which no reason you couldn't stop at 2 melds or 1 even, that's 33 food items at 990 minuets of playtime. The whole point of this rework is to add some for of economy back into the game without forcing it back in meaning making things players WANT but don't HAVE to use.

Yoshi already said last night on the live letter they are planning a rework for the materia system eventually in the future, so who know maybe they will be going that route with materia as well. I would like to see this type of system put in for cooking especially as it is the only class that doesn't have melding of any kind at all. Even alchemy has the books and staffs.

Side note would love to see a cooking minion being a walking cookie or something. LOL

[Bitte]

New patch notes yo.

[Cocytus]

New patch notes yo.

Yep I saw them. Looks like they did take notice and sneaked in under the radar with my exact recommendation in my original post to simple increase the % point by 1 to fix the issues. This while not maximized with the current end game gear of iLvL 90 is so close I can see it being maximized for the stats of the new end sets of iLvL 110. Thank you SE.

Now get to work on my food melding idea of seasoning foods with spices and I'll be as happy as a fat chocobo in a gysahl greens processing plant. XD

[Lyrinn]

This while not maximized with the current end game gear of iLvL 90 is so close I can see it being maximized for the stats of the new end sets of iLvL 110. Thank you SE.

It was a huge buff. Now if you can cap on the 4X food, you're already better off using 2 star. Cap stats for 2 star are much lower also, so people may be hitting those even before getting full i110.

[PROBOUND]

New stat caps posted: Can someone cross check? Seems almost too good to be true. Did those slight changes really push the caps down that low?

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...hresholdscaps/

[Cocytus]

New stat caps posted: Can someone cross check? Seems almost too good to be true. Did those slight changes really push the caps down that low?

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...hresholdscaps/

This WOULD be the case... expect the new stat caps needed for T6-9 won't be the previous 480 acc or whatever. You could probably expect the new cap to be somewhere near 540-560ish is my best guess at this point if not higher.

[HaelseMikiro]

Now if we could only find the Master Craft book for Culinarian, and scrape the info for any new recipes out of it