Food BS

[Elesirdur]

Tried out Fish Chiefkabobs and was getting the same pre-patch effect as I was getting with Boiled Crab, with a few additional Defense points. Got the +3 Vit and extra 90 Defense, which with Defender put me up to 552 - I was in good partying form.

However, I payed a painful 25,000 Gil on that stack of fish chiefkabobs. Sure I get 12 hours of party food time, but that's a very high price to pay for food. :mad:

[Kurgan]

I'm really liking Shallops Tropicale. The fact that it lasts for 3 hours means I only need to have 1-2 with me when I go leveling. For 6k each at the Auction House in Jeuno, that's not too bad. I have a friend in my linkshell that can cook them for about 3-4k each, so I get them a little cheaper. I'm really enjoying the VIT and defense bonus but especially the MP+20 bonus. Very nice.

[JP_Ikari]

I was deciding on getting the Shallops tropicale since it was only 5k in Garuda, in Jeuno, but there was only 6 available. And since i had 34 Boiled Crabs, i decided to go exp with it. I normaly have 268 def, and with Boiled crabs, my Def was at 319 (+51 def with food) and I guess that only equates to +19% def?? The VIT increase though was 2 like what everyone already said. The crabs in Kuftal was still doing the same damage that they did to me when I was using the crabs pre-patch. I was about to switch over to Fish mith's but damn, it jumped up to 12k a stack. I guess since all this pre-patch crap and the AH fee's, it will go up in price ; ;. Anyway, I'm still going cook the crabs til i'm satisfied enough (and since I need to have the steamed ones anyway, might as well make em). But that +20mp does look too good though.

JP

[Sathington]

Originally posted by perry
http://home.comcast.net/~firebirdjim/ffxi/food.htm

According to the Japanese site, tazvanian salad would give

20HP, 20MP, 5dex, 6vit, 5agi, 4Chr, C150@600 (25%) and good for 3hours.

I think I’m going to just grab one and test it out.

[Pesh138]

Originally posted by JP_Ikari
I was deciding on getting the Shallops tropicale since it was only 5k in Garuda, in Jeuno, but there was only 6 available. And since i had 34 Boiled Crabs, i decided to go exp with it. I normaly have 268 def, and with Boiled crabs, my Def was at 319 (+51 def with food) and I guess that only equates to +19% def?? The VIT increase though was 2 like what everyone already said. The crabs in Kuftal was still doing the same damage that they did to me when I was using the crabs pre-patch. I was about to switch over to Fish mith's but damn, it jumped up to 12k a stack. I guess since all this pre-patch crap and the AH fee's, it will go up in price ; ;. Anyway, I'm still going cook the crabs til i'm satisfied enough (and since I need to have the steamed ones anyway, might as well make em). But that +20mp does look too good though.

JP

Fuck you douche!

[Lakai]

Dex+2; Vit+4;Int+1 Evasion +5; Resist sleep; and some other stuff on black curry, this is what i use for exp.

[Sathington]

Well i can confirm that Tazvanian salad does give out these stats

20HP, 20MP, 4dex, 6vit, 4agi, 4Chr, C150@600 (25%) and good for 3hours.

I was getting 105def points. very nice food.

15k for one on Titan.

[Tatsuji]

Re: Food BS

If you do any soloing with your PLD and have a mage subjob I found ginger cookies to be extremely useful. They increase your mp regen while resting making your downtime far less. I often combined them with Selbina milk, that way I have the milk's regen effect while fighting and the cookies effect while resting. I've made 19 as PLD in a matter of a week with this method.

[Weeeekujata]

Re: Food BS

My food prefence:

#1 Lemures Salad
This is simply the best food it's a HQ taco, once thing I did notice is when I tank hard hitting stuff, this reduces the dmg by a very noticible dmg. Maybe im just imagining stuff ^^

Tazvanian salad/Taco 20-25k unit /40k stack respectively
This is simply the best food overall, 20mp & hp, VIT, I've used this since lvl 55(pre patch i used fishkabob & shallops, than when the taco era came i switched to that, i also took a year break from pld 55, to lvl many other jobs ^^)

My Personal Favorite dish: Turtle soup

This is simply a amazing food. The bonys has +6 VIT(or was it 7) & 10% UNCAPPED hp bonus, so my 1620 hp + food = 1782 atm.
I dont recommend this food unless you have some koenig pieces, and your defense is going to hit 500+, but with that requirements this food help a lot in situation such as kiting, or straight up tanking many mobs. the reason why 500+ is where you hit high diminishing returns on defense, whereas vit takes a nice point where it lowers your overall max dmg curve down considerably in the right amount.

fun fact with taco+brd songs you can effectively hit 900+ defense.

[Taskmage]

Re: Food BS

Both of those foods are very expensive, though. Tacos are ~5k on Lakshmi and the NQ Salad runs about 20k. Turtle soup is good food for soloing or boosting Soul Eater or Spirits Within, but it uses Acorns and Chicken Bones, both of which are a pain to obtain and not used in many other synths, so they're typically not in stock or absurdly overpriced at the AH. Same thing goes for the Red Terrapin that give the soup its name, only to a lesser degree.

If you're interested in alternative defense food, you might want to check out the relatively new pasta recipes that use noodle kneading. All of them give Store TP and a % bonus to max hp (though capped) and Vongole Rosso and Nero di Seppia give defense boosts as well.

I realize I'm answering ancient questions with this, but this page gives a complete listing of all the commonly used defense foods (excluding the pasta) and their caps. Fish Mithkabobs can be purchased in Kazham from Nuh Celodehki at I-7 for less than 1k each. Shallops Tropicale is available from Taajiji in the Timbre Timbers Tavern (Windurst Waters F-10, top map) but only if Windy is 1st in conquest and your character is a Windurst citizen. It costs about 13k even then, which is probably more than you would pay at the AH these days.

[Weeeekujata]

Re: Food BS

Leveling cook help`s a lot, do it on a mule it pays off long term .

ill admit i dont have monetary problems, but ill also admit food is one thing that makes a world of a difference.


chicken bones... damn chicken bones, im lucky if i find a couple a week anywhere

[Omni]

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was just passing by and the op said 15k/stack for fishbobbies was O.o... then the next person posted saying u can get them for 1600-1700 each... how is that any better?

[Crode]

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As a PLD if things get out of hand i always pull hate and tell the party to zone. I'm not bragging, but if i were to buy food it wouldn't do me any good to buy it then die later. I expect to die when i go into the pt, so food really is just BS to me. Plus i'm in Valkrum ><

[eriatarka]

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you wont die so easily if you use food /slap

once you get out of dunes atleast..

[Aeni]

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As a PLD if things get out of hand i always pull hate and tell the party to zone. I'm not bragging, but if i were to buy food it wouldn't do me any good to buy it then die later. I expect to die when i go into the pt, so food really is just BS to me. Plus i'm in Valkrum ><

In order of expendability ...

Tank
Every other melee (Except THFs, because SE gave them flee for a reason and so like the cowards they really are, they should just look after themselves and get out of harms way)
Every other mage that do not have raise II or III
WHM

If a WHM dies first in battle, I don't say ...

"Tank, you have failed."

I say ...

"Party, you have failed."

But, just because a WHM shouldn't be dying, does not mean that the WHM shouldn't at least attempt to provide support for as long as it is feasible before getting the Dickens out of there so that you can return and raise the party.

Of course, if you're in the middle of magic aggro land, then you're screwed. {Homepoint}{Yes, please.}