Is DPS food even worth using?

[Alkimi]

All food is basically like wearing an additional (tank) accessory with customisable stats depending on what you need.

Yes food is always worth using if you're currently in the process of "progression" or are in a pickup. Once you have stuff on farm I guess it's up to the party whether it's needed or not.

I asked if VIT is more beneficial than dex/crit food.

You keep asking that, but all food has VIT on it. No food has DEX or indeed any other base stat except Piety.

[Felessan]

SO basically, If DPS is borderline then food is worth using. Otherwise, not so much. Is impression I get from the replies

Same as with potions it gives a relatively small boost that still adds damage and ease encounters. If you are not anywhere borderline, you can easily omit food (and many do).
Food is more helpfull where there are requirements for HP (and always for tanks) as hp boost is more significant than damage boost.

I very much doubt food available would add ~18-20 DPS It's not that good XD Maybe all 4 DPS combined using food

For bard HQ Omlette gives around 2.2% DPS (~7.5 DPS) and HQ X-Potion gives 1.5% DPS (5 DPS).
HP boost is 4.5%

[mero-ix]

Pretty sure food gives me an extra 15~dps. That's pretty significant.

[Spot]

YES! Because I cook it and I like making gil.

[Nikup]

People not using DPS Food are just lazy. Why not push towards doing more DPS? That's literally your only job. I don't want people to barely be able to beat content. I want to stomp content into the ground. If you're okay with being passable, have fun being a filthy casual.

[LunarEmerald]

People not using DPS Food are just lazy. Why not push towards doing more DPS? That's literally your only job. I don't want people to barely be able to beat content. I want to stomp content into the ground. If you're okay with being passable, have fun being a filthy casual.

Because it's a waste of money for something not needed. It's even more of a waste when you're learning a fight. Literally just throwing away gil.

Turn 8 is only fight in the game where even with a perfect run, you will come very close to enrage. Food definitely helps there. But only if you're not learning the fight and can actually hit enrage reliably. If you're repeatedly wiping to other stuff then it's a waste. The food isn't helping you.

[Alcyon1]

Because it's a waste of money for something not needed.

You don't NEED a comp, why waste money on one ? You don't NEED to play FFXIV, why wasting money on the game ?

During training, the extra VIT can sometimes save your life and give you more time to the current try. Yesterday, I survived the Mega Flare with 21 HP after someone made a mistake and the WHM had no time to stoneskin everybody. That extra HP gave us time to train the next phase. Our first T5 kill was a few seconds before the timer. With a little more DPS, you can skip a phase, Leviathan is a wonderful example.

So what, just because you don't NEED something, you shouldn't use it ? And about gils, someone in our FC craft them if we bring her the materials.

[Felessan]

Because it's a waste of money for something not needed. It's even more of a waste when you're learning a fight. Literally just throwing away gil.

Every little bit helps. It waste of money when you comfortable pass fight without food as it just gives you mere tens seconds in best case. If you are still learning fight, each bit of damage/heal/hp makes this fight easier, just look at Echo which do the same and made all encounters easy and more prone to errors then before.

Turn 8 is only fight in the game where even with a perfect run, you will come very close to enrage.

Food really helps in T9 especially if you are still learning it as there are a lot of soft dps/hp checks there.

[Dwill]

Because it's a waste of money for something not needed. It's even more of a waste when you're learning a fight. Literally just throwing away gil.

Turn 8 is only fight in the game where even with a perfect run, you will come very close to enrage. Food definitely helps there. But only if you're not learning the fight and can actually hit enrage reliably. If you're repeatedly wiping to other stuff then it's a waste. The food isn't helping you.

Most benefit, buffs and upgrades in MMO comes in small increment, food included. For the cost to benefit, I can't see anyone actually not using it for progression. It costs next to nothing if you craft them, a little more if you buy them.

So in the end, there really is no excuse not to use consumables during progression.

[Kuroyasha]

Most benefit, buffs and upgrades in MMO comes in small increment, food included. For the cost to benefit, I can't see anyone actually not using it for progression. It costs next to nothing if you craft them, a little more if you buy them.

So in the end, there really is no excuse not to use consumables during progression.

Yes there is; Because reasons! :P