Food Crafting seems imbalanced (time vs value)

[Xbob42]

We need to make like a minimum of 5 food items per craft. Or perhaps food needs to persist through death. It's just such a monumental time sink every single week for regular raiding. I literally helped every single person in my raid group get to 50 culinarian (I got to 50 first then just made them HQ food for the triple turn-in leves) so that everyone would be able to make their own food instead of having one or two guys spend several hours per week making enough for everyone.

It's patently ludicrous.

[Kayko]

Or perhaps food needs to persist through death. It's just such a monumental time sink every single week for regular raiding.
It's patently ludicrous.

I do think that persisting through death would be a good solution or at the very at least as a temporary solution but I'm personally all for the food to persist through death.
Coil is a place were one persons slight mistake can easily lead to a raid groups wipe and even if you take a VERY conservative 15 minutes per food crafted, that equals 2 hours of lost time (8x15 minutes) and all just cause of a mistake, no matter how slight it was or even worse, something out of a players control (since we all know how fantastic the instance servers can be on any given day.)

I would venture a guess that 2 hours is about an average amount of time a random group puts into a night of raiding. So, a single wipe with food equates to an average days worth of raiding...... that seems to me to be a pretty stiff penalty for death, don't you think?