Drinks or Food?

Hypertionb14_ESO

What buff do you prefer and why?

As i see it, Food is universally better, since with multi stat boosting food you not only get the damage boost, but some extra HP to survive bigger hits. Drinks in my eyes dont give enough returns to be useful, particuarlly since HP regeneration is so low anyways.

nerevarine1138

Food for bonus damage and pools

Level 1-50: Drinks.
VR1-12: Food.

By the time I hit VR, I found that I was overcharged (or right on the cusp) on my recharge stats, so food became more valuable. Up to that point, recharge is almost always more valuable.

crislevin

Food for bonus damage and pools

Food, most fight won't be long enough for drink to make sense.

Falmer

Food for bonus damage and pools

Definitely food for me... through all levels. Few fights are long enough to warrant drinks being all that useful.

Difference between a 40 mana recovery and a 48 mana recovery.... is only 8 mana every 2 seconds. A typical spell costs 140 magicka at that level, which takes 18-20 seconds to achieve with that bonus to recovery.

How many fights truly last that long? Might as well eat the food and get the full 140 bonus right from the get go.

Sharee

Food for bonus damage and pools

crislevin wrote: »

Food, most fight won't be long enough for drink to make sense.

This.

Take food bonus, and divide it by halved (because regen ticks once every 2 seconds) drink bonus. That is how many seconds the fight needs to last for the drink to give more stat than the food.

For example, 300 magicka from food, vs 10 magicka regen from drink:

300/(10/2) = 60.

So in this particular case, the fight would have to last a full minute for the drink to overcome the food benefit(and this does not even take into account the damage bonus food gives).

In a long keep siege where you spend long periods of time in-combat, or in a long boss fight, i can imagine choosing drink(maybe). Other than that, food.

DigitalHype

These should never have been mutually exclusive.

RatsnevE

Food for bonus damage and pools

Foods I can self-find but not drinks. I know it is a shallow opinion but that's what it is so far...

someuser

Food for bonus damage and pools

As many others pointed out, it makes more mathematical sense to use food. The higher end food will also buff multiple stats making it even more useful.

Personally, I think in order to make drinks viable they (Zenimax) should either allow drinks and food to be used simultaneously > Buff Drinks > Nerf food.

KariTR

Food 1-50 but mainly for main story boss fights.

I don't use either for VR as nothing I play requires it. If I was PvPing or group dungeon crawling, perhaps something that included stamina recovery (I am primarily magicka), as my other 2 recoveries are at soft-cap.

Hypertionb14_ESO

Food for bonus damage and pools

wow... 17 to 1 so far... and no posts really supporting drinks.

jdroebuckb16_ESO

I bin all drink ingredients and save food ones...

Catches_the_Sun

Food for bonus damage and pools

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

What buff do you prefer and why?

As i see it, Food is universally better, since with multi stat boosting food you not only get the damage boost, but some extra HP to survive bigger hits. Drinks in my eyes dont give enough returns to be useful, particuarlly since HP regeneration is so low anyways.

You're going to exceed the softcap on regen without drinks, so they are currently useless. Food is by far superior.

someuser

Food for bonus damage and pools

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

wow... 17 to 1 so far... and no posts really supporting drinks.

Now 26 - 1.

I think the issue has been settled lol

kimboh

Food for bonus damage and pools

Food, I don't even bother collecting the mats for beverages.

jimfopao2

Exactly why can't you use both. Have you ever sat down to a meal without having both ?
Another *** facet of a broken game.

FrauPerchta

Food for bonus damage and pools

Food, I sell all the Drink I make so it's worth gathering and crafting time for the profit.

Ragekniv

Food for bonus damage and pools

ESO's take on provisioning buffs is confounding. How hard is it to simply allow all players to utilize both a food and drink buff?

DenverRalphy

I can't vote because there's no "Depends on the situation" option.

If I'm in a group, I'll sooner use drink buffs before food buffs. Especially if there's a rather good healer in the group.

KariTR

jimfopao2 wrote: »

Exactly why can't you use both. Have you ever sat down to a meal without having both ?
Another *** facet of a broken game.

Nope. It isn't good to dilute food your stomach is trying to digest.

Drinking prior to or after is the way to go

Hypertionb14_ESO

Food for bonus damage and pools

45-2..


And people were saying there is no need to give drinks any kind of buff..

i made a topic about a simple buff to drinks drinks-need-a-buff-and-i-have-the-perfect-one-in-mind and so far most have flat out rejected the idea..

if you feel that drinks need a buff feel free to post there. if not, then the opinion would still be welcome.

Bash-ley

Food for bonus damage and pools

Food, old thread but still seems to be the same result a year later!

Moonscythe

Food for bonus damage and pools

I really hate that most of the lootable containers are full of drink mats. I just searched half of Auridon to find a potato for a writ. I finally found one on a dinner table in Mathieson. Had I not been able to make the Rye drink I could have stolen some from half a dozen kegs and had what I needed for the writ. That is just stupid, ya know?

Warraxx

Drink for improved sustainability

Drink for stam builds. u can stack moar weapon dmg instead of stam regen with armor/weapon sets

Scyantific

Moonscythe wrote: »

I really hate that most of the lootable containers are full of drink mats. I just searched half of Auridon to find a potato for a writ. I finally found one on a dinner table in Mathieson. Had I not been able to make the Rye drink I could have stolen some from half a dozen kegs and had what I needed for the writ. That is just stupid, ya know?

You do realize you can buy potatoes from certain grocers right? Cicero's in Coldharbour.

Also I roll food, even on my NB tank (Hello Siphoning Attacks).

Bash-ley

Food for bonus damage and pools

@moonscythe I know what you mean dude, it sucks finding decent ingredients for food! Got hundreds of drink ingredients though!

Ace_of_Destiny

Food for bonus damage and pools

DigitalHype wrote: »

These should never have been mutually exclusive.

I actually thought my game was bugged the first time I noticed that using a drink took away the benefits from the food I had eaten.

WebBull

Drink for improved sustainability

Drink for regen in PvP.

traigusb14_ESO2

Food for bonus damage and pools

Since pools = resource + damage bonus...almost alwasy food.

If pools were only pools and didn't equal a damage/heal bonus there would be a lot more leeway.

Food has 2 effects, drink only 1

UrQuan

Food for bonus damage and pools

Um guys, this is a necro'd thread that is over a year old. In the time since then the system has been changed so that there are no longer softcaps. That change alone, let alone any other things that have changed in the meantime, means that any results of the poll are going to be invalid, because who knows whether any of the people who voted over a year ago would vote differently today with the system so different.

LaughingJack

Drink for improved sustainability

i use drink almost exclusively. my reasoning is this: for me - pop a food buff and i end not being able to recover it all quickly enough. pop a drink buff and i have extra recovery even if it's only for an unbuffed amount. i find this to be slightly better for me, particularly in delves etc.. i run a drink buff constantly so i get a "permenant" recovery buff, essentially.

but soon we get to stack one of each, so this poll will end up redundant

starkerealm

Food for bonus damage and pools

UrQuan wrote: »

Um guys, this is a necro'd thread that is over a year old. In the time since then the system has been changed so that there are no longer softcaps. That change alone, let alone any other things that have changed in the meantime, means that any results of the poll are going to be invalid, because who knows whether any of the people who voted over a year ago would vote differently today with the system so different.

The first warning was seeing Neravarine1138 and his Guar avatar.