Food.

[Tommyrage]

Right Ive been following the updates over these past few months and not one SHRED of info has been released about the effects of food other than "It does something hurr"

I disagree.. I'm yet to see any evidence during battle or crafting that eating food is beneficial to my character - even after the chat log says my character found the food "Divine"

I'm pretty sure this system isn't even implemented yet as the data miners amongst us found the stats for the food buffs and they all appear to be identical regardless of the rank of food..

Seriously have I missed something here? has there been a post saying yes food is useless sorry we'll fix it later? because I see people eating boiled eggs to improve craftmanship yet I'm pretty sure it does NOOOTHING and its all in our heads.

I WISH a developer would clear this up for me as I just wanna know if they at least acknowledge that the food buff system needs looking at (or implementing) and they are gonna do something about it..

Maybe I've gone mad and its already been touched on but..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVAsmrwdtQ

[Moth]

When I use my honey muffin I get 70+ HP, so I know it does /something/ obviously...

[Tommyrage]

Ok smartarse the ONLY (and i mean only) visible buff for using food is HP / MP. But even then its pretty rubbish right? and what about food that supposedly increases accuracy / damage etc? It doesnt change in your attribute screen nor do i see any difference while fighting D:

[Moth]

How am I being a smart ass xD I am saying it does something! And I have noticed a difference in the amount of attack I do when I use Beef Jerky, of course not a HUGE difference, but it does do something. Don't get mad at me because I am simply trying to add a positive outlook on the situation.

[Visch]

Ok smartarse the ONLY (and i mean only) visible buff for using food is HP / MP. But even then its pretty rubbish right? and what about food that supposedly increases accuracy / damage etc? It doesnt change in your attribute screen nor do i see any difference while fighting D:

You're a sad, sad person.

[Orias]

I agree, food in its current state is not worth using. Not only can you not tell what it does, the boost it gives is minimal at best.

[Eisah]

I think it needs to be more useful as well. In FFXI people pretty much always had food because it was useful. Not so much in FFXIV yet.

There are websites that lists differences, and I use food often, but they just don't seem to make the same amount of difference as they did in FFXI.

[Visch]

I agree, food in its current state is not worth using. Not only can you not tell what it does, the boost it gives is minimal at best.

Do you expect to use a piece of food that's 1k and get HP+500 and STR+50?

The food system is exactly like XI. It works perfectly fine.

Why complain about this?

Why not complain about how the DEX+4 on your haubergeon isn't giving you 100% accuracy?

Or why the attack+5 on your neck piece isn't making you kill the mob in 1 hit?

[Grit]

The food system definitely needs an overhaul. They need to have more effect, and that effect needs to be displayed to the user in some way.

The calculations in this game are too complex to accurately measure extremely tiny food effects. Culinarians don't really have a place in the world. Food is so cheap that a lot of people use it.. but they could just as easily go without.

[viion]

I think the more serious issue is the fact they last 5 minutes (as im aware?)

The food affects seem to work, i mean you wont see a massive difference with +5 mnd or +5str but its all about stacking, tho you cant stack fodo so is a little odd. In XI with class specifics and attribute specifics that were static in some sense +5/+10 was a big step but in this game where @ 50 your stat cap is 179 and easily met, +5 doesnt seem so much.

But I completely agree in that the stat changes should be displayed, theres no need for all this secrecy. I mean people eventually will figure out that X item does X amount of stat points, so why continue hiding it from the display? We know what it does just making it more tedious.