102266-cooking

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A few things about cooking I would love to see changed.  I know one of which will never happen " the lack of leveling "
 
There is no real liniar path in cooking which kinda stinks to me. I like knowing i have ot get to level X to make my food buff. I like the variations in the cooking and descovering though, I like finding recipies off mobs and stuff...
 
However, Finding the mats for cooking even in very low level zones its literally taking me hours with the help of jabbithole. This isent fun. I find myself quickly getting bored and giving up to go do something that gives more reward... Right now id rather farm herbs and vendor them then kill low level wolves for a 10% drop chance of a piece of meat that i need 20+ of to make sure that i will hav enouch changes to descover the recipies.
 
Jabbithole says 10% but it feels more like 2%. I have been online farming for about 3 hours now to make " Darkspire Dinner"
 
It takes 2 spider meat, 2 dagun meat, and 2 ravenok thighs. I can  make 1 dish with those but i also need to descover 2 other dishes. We all know you wont get them right away and if you dont have enough resources then you lose your place on the grid and have to start all over again...
 
 
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a few things that could be done to improve this... Higher drop rate on already fairly rare materials for cooking, SAVE our plots on the crafting grid.. this would eliviate a lot of the issues. if i fail and go oh well... when i come back ill just do it again and pick up where i left off rahter then  " dang it.. when i close this window i wont know where to put the next point ... "
 
Another thing..  I know some cooking is gated but most of what you need can EASILY be learned and made after gaining reputation.  But... why bother, why would you make it and gather and farm for hours... and hours... and hours......... when you can just buy it from the rep vendor that sold you the recipie AFTER you were already able to buy it.
 
The crafted ones are no more powerful than the vendor ones and my time is worth more than my plat. I can make a few plat a day and i can buy a weeks worth of food for raids with less than a plat.
 
Maybe make the food thats crafted more powerful ( like a lot cuz if its just a little i still wont waste my time ) or take away the ability to buy it from a vendor.. that will ruffle some feathers tho with more casual players and i cant say that i would actually aprove of it.. but as it stands cooking is obsolite and literally only valuable as a time sink if you are a completionist and you care about such things.
 
 
Also in the future when/is fishing reappears if it coinsides with cooking it would be great... I would very much like ot se WoW style fishing or even like rifts. I however DO NOT want to see anything like what i heard on another forum about fishing boats..... the only fishing boats i want  to see are mounts that allow me togo on the water and fish... not a boat that goes and fishs for me.. thats just stupid.	
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Many hours later  I have decided to give up. Cooking is NOT worth the effort involved. IMO save your time/money and do something else.
 
I spent hours gathering just to fail at most of the lower level crafts due to RNG and spices unable to reach a desired point. There is littel rhyme or reason as to why putting hte same spices into something should not ALWAYS = the same outcome.... thats why we have Recipies....
 
I failed to descover Peppered Roast... one of the simplist things i could think of.. it takes 2 corncorn and 4 toughmeat.. i had like 100 tough meet and corn yet i still managed to not find it.
 
 This is anything but fun imo... im done with this useless profession... not even gonna do it for the achievements...it has literally no value in this game. take it out or fix it seriously.	
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This is SO much fun...
 	
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This is SO much fun...
 
 
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			haha i had to upload a picture of what i was talking about but ya im still farming... but not for that one. i gave up on that one	
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Oh by the way, you ain't seen nothing yet. It gets a whooole lot worse later. Have fun! :P
 	
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			Ya I am a technologist... I got almost everything done in that one. it was painful at some points i jsut wish the difficulty to hit points scaled better and there was less RNG and more " skill " in this game... this is one of hte few things in the game i think should not require skill....or rng...	
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It takes 2 spider meat, 2 dagun meat, and 2 ravenok thighs. I can  make 1 dish with those but i also need to descover 2 other dishes. We all know you wont get them right away and if you dont have enough resources then you lose your place on the grid and have to start all over again...
 
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			^ good to know. I have just been going  thru the tree trying to complete them for achivements. I went to Ellevar then auroria to try and complete those zones first thinking " low level zone... low level requirement right? "	
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			There should only be a challenge in crafting when there are varying ranges of quality.. for cooking and technologist this system is just tediously boring and unrewarding.	
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Finding the mats for cooking even in very low level zones its literally taking me hours with the help of jabbithole. This isent fun. I find myself quickly getting bored and giving up to go do something that gives more reward... Right now id rather farm herbs and vendor them then kill low level wolves for a 10% drop chance of a piece of meat that i need 20+ of to make sure that i will hav enouch changes to descover the recipies.
 
Jabbithole says 10% but it feels more like 2%. I have been online farming for about 3 hours now to make " Darkspire Dinner"
 
It takes 2 spider meat, 2 dagun meat, and 2 ravenok thighs. I can  make 1 dish with those but i also need to descover 2 other dishes. We all know you wont get them right away and if you dont have enough resources then you lose your place on the grid and have to start all over again...
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I still need one Mammodin Flank product and currently only have 3. So, I need to go farming again to make sure I have 10 or so when I go to discover the last recipe. Even then, this leaves me very short from being able to cook the 50 products to get Deradune Chef.
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