Using More than one food at a time

DawnsLight65

Noob here, can you take a health boost food, a stam boost food, and regen foods for both all at the same time? I noticed that I took a health boost food after a stam boost food, and it didnt boost my health.

Nestor

Each one you eat cancels out the previous one.

Now, Blue Foods boost two attributes, Purple boost 3. So you can boost two or three stats. And Drinks do the same, but for Regen. Gold foods boost combos of attribute and regen

DawnsLight65

so, can't stack them like Skyrim. Ok, so only eat blue, purple or gold food if I want to boost both Health and Stam, (or more). All others get rid of.

One more question @Nestor : Can you eat a food, and drink a potion? Or will those cancel each other out as well?

kringled_1

Potions don't conflict with food or drink, they are separate. The only food/drink that you can stack with other foods AFAIK is psijic ambrosia and it's cousins (experience boost).

Tarukmockto

Nestor wrote: »

Each one you eat cancels out the previous one.

Now, Blue Foods boost two attributes, Purple boost 3. So you can boost two or three stats. And Drinks do the same, but for Regen. Gold foods boost combos of attribute and regen

it's important to note, that each level boosts more passives, but to a lesser degree. Blue food boosts two attributes, but at a lower amount of boost than just a single green boost to a single attribute.

Same with the Purple food. The amount of a boost to all three is significantly less than boosting a single with green or two with Blue.

DawnsLight65

What does AFAIK mean @kringled_1 ?

Karm1cOne

Shorthand for As Far As I Know. Acronyms are harsh on new players.

DawnsLight65

I'm learning! Thanks for the help @Karm1cOne

croakie

Thanks for this. I’ve been stacking them not realizing they camcel.

cjhhickman39

One other thing about foods and drinks, you want to spend a few skill points into crafting them because of passives.
One makes the effects last longer
One gives you more food produced per ingredient
One lets you hire someone to go find ingredients for you,‘‘this is also the only way to get frost mirrium and breve juice other than buying from other players

DawnsLight65

@cjhhickman39 Thank you for that...I've been trying to figure out how to get breve juice to craft my furniture. I guess I'll just have to find more skyshards to get that passive (I use my skyshards and other bonus skill points on crafting-the ones from leveling up I use on combat, etc)

mikecrci

Sorry, but drinks cancelling out food is just dumb.

Food and drink GO TOGETHER, geniuses.

DawnsLight65

@mikecrci, are you saying because I asked if they cancelled each other out I was asking a dumb question? That's pretty unfair dude.

I could care less about its designation of whether food or drink, its effect is the question & whether or not the two impact each other on use. And its a legit question since 1) I'm a new player to ESO, and 2) despite having played all previous ES games that allowed stacking of foods and drink effects, I just discovered that food effects don't stack in ESO.

So yes, in order to be properly informed, I am going to logically continue the question line to make sure I have the right idea about how food and drink actually work in ESO, and asking if food and drink effects , (and potion effects), cancel each other out is a natural progression of that.

Feric51

DawnsLight65 wrote: »

@mikecrci, are you saying because I asked if they cancelled each other out I was asking a dumb question? That's pretty unfair dude.

I think he was simply stating that ESO's logic that a food's effect cancels out a drink's effect, and vice versa, is what is dumb - not your question to determine if cancelling out actually takes place.

But, yes, to corroborate what others have said: in ESO you can only have one attribute-boosting effect active at a time, regardless if it comes from food or drink. The only exception to this is the crafted drinks that increase xp gain (the ambrosias) which can be combined with other food/drink effects.

DawnsLight65

Thanks for the clarification @Feric51 . @mikecrci if I misunderstood, I apologize.

Nestor

Buy the purple mats in the guild kiosks, it usually sells pretty cheap.

As for Food canceling out Drinks, it makes sense as resource management (attribute pools in this case) is a key element in the game. We were at point a year ago where attribute pools just did not matter and you could spam damage skills without a care in the world. You can still do that now, just not while also having maximized damage stats.

DawnsLight65

Makes sense for an MMO, where you need to more or less keep a level playing field on the growing attribute dynamics for a large group Thank you @Nestor

Tevalaur

cjhhickman39 wrote: »

One other thing about foods and drinks, you want to spend a few skill points into crafting them because of passives.
One makes the effects last longer
One gives you more food produced per ingredient
One lets you hire someone to go find ingredients for you,‘‘this is also the only way to get frost mirrium and breve juice other than buying from other players

Actually it's one of two ways to get the purple food ingredients -- you can also get them as rewards from doing provisioning writs.

ghastley

Tevalaur wrote: »

Actually it's one of two ways to get the purple food ingredients -- you can also get them as rewards from doing provisioning writs.

I believe this is level-dependent. You won't see those ingredients in the lower level packs. Although it could be the main passive for recipe level. I tend to advance the passive to keep up, so the two would be the same for me.

Jayne_Doe

ghastley wrote: »

Tevalaur wrote: »

Actually it's one of two ways to get the purple food ingredients -- you can also get them as rewards from doing provisioning writs.

I believe this is level-dependent. You won't see those ingredients in the lower level packs. Although it could be the main passive for recipe level. I tend to advance the passive to keep up, so the two would be the same for me.

I've seen purple ingredients drop from Tier 1/2/3 writs, where most of my alts do them (for the recipes). Not as often, but overall I get them quite a lot and I've only one character doing top tier provisioning writs.

DawnsLight65

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

ghastley wrote: »

Tevalaur wrote: »

Actually it's one of two ways to get the purple food ingredients -- you can also get them as rewards from doing provisioning writs.

I believe this is level-dependent. You won't see those ingredients in the lower level packs. Although it could be the main passive for recipe level. I tend to advance the passive to keep up, so the two would be the same for me.

I've seen purple ingredients drop from Tier 1/2/3 writs, where most of my alts do them (for the recipes). Not as often, but overall I get them quite a lot and I've only one character doing top tier provisioning writs.

@Jayne_Doe when you say 'drop' from a writ....does that mean that after you accept a daily writ, then ingredients related to that writ are easier to find in the wild, or that they actually are delivered WITH the writ?

Tevalaur

DawnsLight65 wrote: »

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

ghastley wrote: »

Tevalaur wrote: »

Actually it's one of two ways to get the purple food ingredients -- you can also get them as rewards from doing provisioning writs.

I believe this is level-dependent. You won't see those ingredients in the lower level packs. Although it could be the main passive for recipe level. I tend to advance the passive to keep up, so the two would be the same for me.

I've seen purple ingredients drop from Tier 1/2/3 writs, where most of my alts do them (for the recipes). Not as often, but overall I get them quite a lot and I've only one character doing top tier provisioning writs.

@Jayne_Doe when you say 'drop' from a writ....does that mean that after you accept a daily writ, then ingredients related to that writ are easier to find in the wild, or that they actually are delivered WITH the writ?

They're given in the reward sack for completing the writ.