111991-i-tried-to-cook-today

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			Arch uses the same dart board. It blows.	
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Arch uses the same dart board. It blows.
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			Quality design, that.	
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Quality design, that.
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Cooking is the worst crafting skill I have ever experienced in any MMO, possibly in any game period. 
 
They need to up the zone/mob specific cooking materials drop rate by at least x3, possibly more.  I farmed Cuboars for 40m or so for a Hellrose once.  I had 14 cubacon at the end. 14!  That's maybe 3 combines!	
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Cooking is the worst crafting skill I have ever experienced in any MMO, possibly in any game period. 
 
They need to up the zone/mob specific cooking materials drop rate by at least x3, possibly more.  I farmed Cuboars for 40m or so for a Hellrose once.  I had 14 cubacon at the end. 14!  That's maybe 3 combines!
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			As for OP's picture, you have to look at the circles, not the arrows. Knowing that, there's quite a big gap between cirlces where the discovery is. Aim for the gap, respec talents if you have to.	
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As for OP's picture, you have to look at the circles, not the arrows. Knowing that, there's quite a big gap between cirlces where the discovery is. Aim for the gap, respec talents if you have to.
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When I farmed Cuboars for around 30 minutes at the Cuboar farm in Auroria, I got 20 Cubacon.
 
Cooking has a slow start but once you have some talent points it speeds up nicely.
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I got my expert cooking last week Tenner, the droprates are very manageable, certainly if you need less of each ingredient due to talent points. It's an achievement to be proud of, but no need to make it look too hard ;)
 
Checking jabbithole, the colossals have 10% chance to drop cubacon, the normal ones between 8 and 8,50% 
it's entirely feasible to kill slightly over 200 cuboars in 30 minutes, they die in 1 shot and there's plenty of them at the cuboar farm spawn.
So no, I did not get lucky.	
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 the droprates are very manageable
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Pfft three words:
 
Pure
Gribbon
Meat
 
Bonus points: Playing a melee class.
 
 :P
 
(Yeah okay cubacon was mostly annoying because I was Exile and had to travel all the way to Auroria to farm it)
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Shellark Meat.... Those damned things are so annoying to get. 
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From what I've seen of cooking, it sure seems needlessly hard for what amounts to nothing useful outside of a fun pastime.  The Festival makes the craft pretty much pointless unless you eat more than it provides.
 
Stuff like the OP picture should not happen at all with a hobby skill.  I can't imagine that is fun for anyone involved, but then again some people like autoerotic asphyxiation and Adam Sandler movies.. so to each their own.	
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			Heh, I still haven't made it past girrok chuck.	
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