120861-cooking

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So I'm sure most people won't look at this thread. Many gave up on cooking day 1. Point number 1) Technically, cooking is completely USELESS in this game. Seriously? Wtf were you thinking? Personally, cooking is always my favorite tradeskill, because it's usually useful, and farming can be very relaxing after a stressful week. But people get Festivals pretty much for free (compared to the pain of leveling cooking, definitely), and as some guildies like to point out you can buy it all off the vendor!
 
#2) Do you know how *cupcake*ING asinine it is to level cooking? What asshat came up with this system? I'm 1 point away from level 6 and want to shoot myself. My options are: grind for hours for one item of a very low drop chance item to try to get 50 craft of that particular food, or craft for hours for many low chance drop items to try to learn all the recipes that I then have to DISCOVER on a coordinate board. Sure, we have tech books that send us to the nearest discovery BUT THEY DON'T WORK (I wasted multiple last night, hoping it was fluke, since there were two unknowns...) But, ok, fine, I'll do it; I've done it all the way this far, why should it change...until.....
 
Farside: Seriously? One of the meats I need is a low drop from a FLYING creature, who btw, doesn't really want to fly close to the ground? My survivalist (pretty much a must for leveling cooking) is a STALKER. You know, those people who you keep giving a smaller and smaller telegraph to because apparently we're soo OP? Yeah, one of those. Though I'm not actually sure my spellslinger would have my more success hitting them....of course, I'd need to level survivalist on her, but it may still take less time than trying to actually hunt this birds.... 
 
Grimvault: Also requires killing flying birds. I may get lucky on these, some of them may be perching, but seriously?Galeras: Oh wait, MORE FLYING BIRDS!!!!!
 
Guess I'll try to go finish Wilderrun...It may be the only viable one left for this MELEE character....At least I can hit 50 cooked items for all the areas, right?
 
So yeah...thanks for making cooking a living hell and useless to boot....
 
 	
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			the cooking system itself is fine.It's really the droprates on certain items that make it so tedious.	
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			They just need to add a small main stat boost to cooking to anyone that reaches T7/8 and that would solve the issue imo. And like Olivar said increase the drop rate on a few items.	
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I'm waiting to see if we get fishing before I start cooking....then I'll show you how many useless hours I can waste lmao	
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Hi, I'm a stalker too and expert cook, I might be able to help.
 
Galeras: I assume you're talking about Gribbons or w/e they are called. There are 2 rocks in the north part of the canyon with ~15 Gribbon nests. Half of them have Gribbons in them and they respawn quick. Best area to farm the Gribbon breast, does not take long at all.
 
Farside: Steamgliders in the jungle Biodome? Can't say I had a problem with those, I found a good spot a bit to the left of the starting area between the elementals. They fly around in a set pattern, just identify the part of their path where they are close to the ground. Jumping with razor disk helps.
 
As for useless, with T6 cooking you can make 4 food per craft, and save on ingredients too. Our guild bank offers stacks of 20 food for 2 gold, which is quite a bit below vendor price. It definitely has some use, though I'll admit it's not proportional to the effort you have to go through to level it.
 
edit: Don't have to be a survivalist at all btw, I wasn't.	
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And why is it so hard for an experienced cook to cook old/low level items?  "Experience" doesn't seem to be accounted for.  This could easily be added by increasing both crafting and discovery target sizes for each cooking tier unlocked. 
 
 
Abbye	
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