Buff food, potions?

[Velisra]

You can look at your character sheet to see what your most desired stats are for your current class, and if you hover over them it will tell you what exactly each stat does for you. After you determine which stat you might like to increase, you can look here:

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Gu..._by_Urthdigger

to find appropriate food. Yes, this guide says it's out of date, however since you're still in the ARR content (as opposed to the xpac content) you should be able to get a good idea of what to look for there.

You can also look at this site:

http://ffxivcrafting.com/food

Which is great for many other reasons as well!

ETA: Food in FF is a little funny, since it doesn't have a level requirement. Instead, you'll see a percentage number, and a maximum number. I guess you have to do a little math to figure it out. You don't want to use a food that would give you a 6% boost with a max of 22 stat points if your class only currently has 100 stat points, since you'd only actually see an increase of 6 points so the bulk of that food would be wasted--and some foods ain't cheap!!

[Urthdigger]

You can look at your character sheet to see what your most desired stats are for your current class, and if you hover over them it will tell you what exactly each stat does for you. After you determine which stat you might like to increase, you can look here:

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Gu..._by_Urthdigger

to find appropriate food. Yes, this guide says it's out of date, however since you're still in the ARR content (as opposed to the xpac content) you should be able to get a good idea of what to look for there.

!!!!! Do not use my guide yet! It currently uses a lot of 1.0 information. My life's been busy, so I put that on hold... but I think I'll take this as an impetus to get on it. I'll post here again when I've updated it.

[Velisra]

!!!!! Do not use my guide yet! It currently uses a lot of 1.0 information. My life's been busy, so I put that on hold... but I think I'll take this as an impetus to get on it. I'll post here again when I've updated it.

Oops, sorry! Well... it was still informative, and I'm not an "end-game raider" type person anyway. /shrug The other site I linked is regularly updated, and it also has a nice table/graph type interface to help find the perfect foods.


As to BLM stats, there's a very long and involved Black Mage thread here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...age-Calculator

which was updated in January. The spreadsheet linked seems like it may have had an update in March. There are stat weights there, as well as a stat priority that looks like:

Weapon DMG > INT > DET >= SSPD > CRIT

This is all from ARR, but considering that you're still leveling, it will probably do for now, and I'm not sure that the stat priority will have changed that much anyway. There may be other things out there that are more current, and a google search might turn those up, or perhaps someone who plays a BLM will pop in shortly to help things along.

[RiversideGuy]

You can look at your character sheet to see what your most desired stats are for your current class, and if you hover over them it will tell you what exactly each stat does for you. After you determine which stat you might like to increase, you can look here:

Said character sheet lists a LOT of different stats, but far as I can see, no pointing to that which is most important... what they are/do is really useless because I don't know what a Black Mage in FF XIV performs best with. I do know Intellect is most important, but as a primary stat, I don't see any buff food giving INT. Somehow I doubt I can translate my pretty deep understanding of what mages need in WoW... AND it's different there betwween the 3 sub specs of Mages.

[T2teddy]

Said character sheet lists a LOT of different stats, but far as I can see, no pointing to that which is most important... what they are/do is really useless because I don't know what a Black Mage in FF XIV performs best with. I do know Intellect is most important, but as a primary stat, I don't see any buff food giving INT. Somehow I doubt I can translate my pretty deep understanding of what mages need in WoW... AND it's different there betwween the 3 sub specs of Mages.

on the second page of the meals on the MB is where you find our foods. Go for anything to do with spellspeed/crit/accuracy. Because the darned stuff is so ridiculously overpriced these days I usually just go to Vesper Bay and hit up the mender merchant for his bubble/pearl chocolate for wuesting and save food with better stats such as pastry fish, ginger cookies and pineapple ponzecake for the dungeons