Housing foods

[Corfish]

Well of course you can just check an outside source, but honestly you shouldn't have to to check the stats of something. This isn't FFI where an entire strategy guide is needed just to know what everything does. It's just adding stats when you go to eat them for convenience, and considering they already confirmed they're adding it, it's pointless to argue against it :P

[Xakery]

you're pointless - take that!

[LineageRazor]

Do any of the housing foods even have good stats? I had only skimmed through them and they all looked pretty bad so I've always just considered it decoration and never eaten the ones I've seen.

The first and second stats on the food are relatively on-par with other foods of the same level as the furnishing, but the third stat is replaced with a gear durability stat that doesn't appear on any normal foods. Since most don't care much about durability, this makes each serving of food somewhat inferior compared to regular foods of that level.

However, you DO get ten servings of food for one synth, and while that synth typically includes several other completed food synths to create (the Afternoon Tea Set, for instance, requires Chamomile Tea, Pineapple Ponzecake, a Honey Muffin, and an Acorn Cookie as ingredients), that's still a lot of food compared to the ingredients used.

I see them as useful in much the same way as crafting furnishings: useful for when you're leveling up, but pretty much just decorative for folks already at 50.

[Pterois]

+1 on those DOL/DOH foods...

[Corfish]

you're pointless - take that!

Oh my god this gif sucks, excuse me while I flip a table.

[Xakery]

Oh my god this gif sucks, excuse me while I flip a table.

[seida]

On a similar subject, it would be nice if foods told you whether they are placeable in houses or not. Got one of the cakes from the event vendors, but can't be placed in house like the roast dodo etc.

[LlenCoram]

On a similar subject, it would be nice if foods told you whether they are placeable in houses or not. Got one of the cakes from the event vendors, but can't be placed in house like the roast dodo etc.

They do. Ones to be placed in a house are "Tabletop" items, while regular food are "Meals."

[Niwashi]

used the FFXIV Libra app to see what they were about or looked in my craft log to see what they did... It's not hard but it just takes minor investigation skills

Not everyone has the Libra app or a crafting log. Nor is everyone at a computer where they could just alt-tab and Google it, etc. Plus, even for people who can look it up elsewhere, doing so pulls you out of the game, which is contrary to the main point of these items that are supposed to improve immersion.

So I'm glad they're going to be adding the info. (Just a little disappointed it wasn't there in the original implementation. Surely as soon as they thought of adding items you could use and get stats from, they should have anticipated that players would want to know what those stats are.)

[Xakery]

Not everyone has the Libra app or a crafting log. Nor is everyone at a computer where they could just alt-tab and Google it, etc. Plus, even for people who can look it up elsewhere, doing so pulls you out of the game, which is contrary to the main point of these items that are supposed to improve immersion.

You do realize that this is an MMO? Pretty sure every MMO has info on the web to help players better understand or information to find on the internet. Even back playing RPG's on my playstation, if I didn't have a physical guide book to help me or notes from the internet, I was almost clueless as what to do. I don't expect this game or any MMO that I would play to have all the info in game for me for anything that I may wonder. It may just be me though.