110916-cooking-and-materials

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Hey,
 
Is it just me or is the cooking materials like meats etc is incredibly low drop ratings?
Yesterday, i killed over (Not exterigating got the achievement!) 1000 pinewraith dudes in Algaroc and got 11 Stumpkin Root's. 
 
Pretty please could you increase the drop ratings on the cooking materials, of course we would have to still farm them but instead taking hours to farm for 1 cooking discovery (if lucky).
Or add more to the Renown Bags, would rather farm for Renown then Dawngrazers and Pumera's for hours on end!
 
Thanks
 
 	
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			Exactly why I decided not to do cooking.  Just get a festival and you get the same dishes.	
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Hey all! Economy Systems Designer here, and for the past couple of weeks I have been reviewing the cooking system.
 
There are a few oversights I will be fixing in a "coming soon" patch. As previously stated every single recipe should be obtainable, so I will be doing a few things to address this. Faction specific recipes (such as Algoroc Soup) will have loot drop locations available for the opposite faction. Likewise it looks like some of the cooking recipes are Bind on Pickup when they should not have been. This will also be addressed so that harder to find recipes can be traded, or sold on the Auction House.
 
I am also currently reviewing things like: the cooking tech tree, survivalist meat drop bonuses, and the difficulty of hitting variant targets. No specific news on how these features will be updated yet, but we'll try to keep you posted on that. Thanks for your patience and all the feedback; it definitely helps.
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Welcome to cooking - The Final Boss. :angry:
 
While I like this type of crafting system and don't want to see it trivialized, it could do with some adjusments. The regional meats are too scarce.	
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Welcome to cooking - The Final Boss. :angry:
 
While I like this type of crafting system and don't want to see it trivialized, it could do with some adjusments. The regional meats are too scarce.
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I was actually thinking about doing a video guide to cooking but that would require me to level another character to 50.  Plus I'm not really sure if people want/need a cooking guide.
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It's not so bad once you get the right talents.
 
A Tier 1 talent makes discoveries easier
 
A Tier 2 talent gives a chance to return ingredients
 
A Tier 3 talent lowers the cost of meat/fish ingredients (in most regional recipes you'll only need 1 of each meat/fish - this is a big one!)
 
These 3 combined make cooking very bearable despite the low drop rates.
 
The problem is of course getting to the Tiers :P
 
Here's how I tackled it:
- I got the 50 special food talent without even trying, just making raid buff food for myself
- Go for the 300 meat/bug/vegetarian crafts. This seems counterintuitive because while you are killing stuff for regional drops, you will get tough meat/slimy bug meat etc, so you might think of doing them last. However, these things are cheap on the CX and you really want these talent points! On my server, poultry and fish is expensive so I've left them for now, if it's different on yours go for it.
- Do Cooking I through Cooking V. These use cheap ingredients, not the hard-to-obtain region specific ones.
 
So then you have 9-11 talent points and regional cooking is already a fair bit easier.
 
Idk how you could possibly get 11 stumpkin roots in 1000 kills, they were the common drop for me in Algoroc. Roan Meat was much less frequent (still not nearly as bad as 11 in 1000 though, I suspect you had a couple hundred kills already).
 
Also keep checking your Auction House for the stuff you need and put up buy offers	
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