What's the deal with epic food recipes

maczcoobb16_ESO

I have about 24 days /played time and haven't seen a single epic food recipe ( or at least not since the nerf a few weeks after release ). I have found about 10-15 rare motifs and countless green and blue recipes but no purple one. Now i understand that they should be rare, but does rare mean unobtainable? Nobody is publicly selling the food because the ingredients are only delivered by hirelings and they fail to do so most of the time (tomatoes and oats) and nobody is selling the recipe as far as i know.
Could we please get some information on this if they do drop or if there is some bug that makes them not drop at all?

Sharee

I have been playing since early access and i have exactly one purple recipe, so they indeed are rare.

However the ingredients for it are not exclusively from hirelings. I know some purple recipes are like that but mine isn't, so it's not universally true.

maczcoobb16_ESO

so what you're saying is not only are they incredibly rare but i also have to get lucky when i find one to not need any rare ingredients? hah great stuff.
btw when did you find the recipe? pre nerf?

Sharee

It has been a while ago, i do not remember exactly. It's a level 35 recipe found in Rivenspire when i was about level 30-35 (i'm VR3 now)

Gisgo

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

Pele

They do indeed exist, but they are rarer than an OP Nightblade.

I've seen the food for sale, and a few people selling the recipes. The lowest I've seen is 100k; the highest was 1,000,000—yes, one million gold.

Sharee

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

I agree. The purple food even has a disadvantage - while it raises all 3 stats, it raises them by less than the blue recipe raises two.

Like, you either get 180 to all stats, or 200 to two. If you don't care much for say stamina then blue magicka/health food is actually better for you.

Pele

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

I care because I'm a completionist, and I want to learn every recipe available, but I don't mind the rarity of the recipes. I can wait to obtain them either by looting or buying.

p_tsakirisb16_ESO

I only got 2 purple recipes since started playing on early access.

One was food level 40, the other is drink VR5. (which I found around level 30).

Blue cut it pretty well. Food we only need STA/MA because HP scales better with glyphs.

AreoHotah

Sharee wrote: »

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

I agree. The purple food even has a disadvantage - while it raises all 3 stats, it raises them by less than the blue recipe raises two.

Like, you either get 180 to all stats, or 200 to two. If you don't care much for say stamina then blue magicka/health food is actually better for you.

I got purple recipe that can give 259 for all 3 stats so what you are saying is... how should i put this... bs

Gisgo

AreoHotah wrote: »

Sharee wrote: »

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

I agree. The purple food even has a disadvantage - while it raises all 3 stats, it raises them by less than the blue recipe raises two.

Like, you either get 180 to all stats, or 200 to two. If you don't care much for say stamina then blue magicka/health food is actually better for you.

I got purple recipe that can give 259 for all 3 stats so what you are saying is... how should i put this... bs

The blue recipe would give you 312 to 2 stats so he is right.

Rosveen

AreoHotah wrote: »

Sharee wrote: »

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

I agree. The purple food even has a disadvantage - while it raises all 3 stats, it raises them by less than the blue recipe raises two.

Like, you either get 180 to all stats, or 200 to two. If you don't care much for say stamina then blue magicka/health food is actually better for you.

I got purple recipe that can give 259 for all 3 stats so what you are saying is... how should i put this... bs

Congratulations. You found a higher level recipe. It doesn't invalidate the post you quoted.

On level 35:
purple: 180 to all stats
blue: 211 to two stats
green: 246 to one stat

Robocles

Gisgo wrote: »

You dont need purple food, blue is good enough.
Purple is super rare, get over it guys, eventually they will fix it, or not.

Who cares, honestly.

He wasn't asking for your opinion on how he should play the game. He was asking for information on drop rate and why some recipe ingredients are so rare. Get over yourself.

To answer OP: I don't know why they are so rare. Your problem could be anecdotal, though. I have found 2 (one fairly early and one about a week ago), and I don't farm for them at all. I would doubt we will get any serious answer to this from ZOS right now, though. There are too many things just totally broken about the game that need to be fixed before food is, sadly.

maczcoobb16_ESO

yeah my guess is they will ninja fix it at some point and we will see them more often. let's hope it's happening soonish

crislevin

I never get any purple recipe drop, I got 3 out of 4 rare motif drop, but never purple recipe. Lol

I guess learn to live with blue food then, pretty good, and easier to make.

dragnier

Heh, I get blue recipes all the time. Never seen a purple one. I also have only ever gotten one rare motif, and it was a cheap one.

theyancey

I have a few blues but only one purple. Irks me.

david271749