What is more sort after, food or drink?

UnholyPerfection · June 2014

I have 90+ unique items that I am storing for Provisioning, it's getting a little out of hand haha. Combined with the price of recipes at later levels it seems more and more efficient to just choose one type.
What is more sort after/useful?

Thanks for your help

phairdon · June 2014

Only uses food & food recipes when I can find them or the ingredients.

LordEcks · June 2014

Food.

The word your looking for is "sought" not sort.

On topic I'd go with food personally.

UrQuan · June 2014

I'm seriously on the fence about this. I used to always prefer food, but I've been rethinking that lately.

Braidas · June 2014

Food.

bahaha "sort" after

khele23eb17_ESO · June 2014

Food.

Its like this: food is like the cloth/staff builds, drinks are like... everything else builds. Its all perfectly balanced... -_-

redspecter23 · June 2014

Food.

When you have to come up with fringe case scenarios in which maybe, drinks might be slightly better if all the stars align for a single encounter, then there is some imbalance.

I'm not going to get into all the things that could be done to balance them out as it's been discussed elsewhere. Let's just say that I really hope they address the issue at some point. The only legitimate use for drinks is for leveling up provisioning. Actually using the drinks is almost never the right choice.

badmojo · June 2014

Food.

I feel like drinks have their place, but my staple diet will always end up being food.

I use drinks at lower levels where a bit of regen will go a long way. Also, I've found drinks are great if you ever run around and farm crafting materials. Since you're constantly sprinting from node to node, it helps with the stamina regen penalty, and it kicks in nicely while you're stopped, digging up a plant or scraping out a runestone.

I just prefer the food because the game allows you to wait between fights in PvE, so I feel like regen isn't going to help as much as a bigger bar.

nan.jieb17_ESO · June 2014

Food.

Regen give basically 2% per 2 sec (without any +xx% regeneration), with 257 extrastats (purple food) it is 5 points per 2 sec more right? Thats the minimum what food gives passively. And drinks gives 6. .....

isengrimb16_ESO · June 2014

Food.

Food just seems more useful. I learn my drink recipes just in case, of course, but I usually have enough food to not worry about picking up drink ingredients.

khele23eb17_ESO · June 2014

Food.

Either balance them or just allow the use of both at once... problem solved.

UnholyPerfection · June 2014

Food.

LordEcks wrote: »

The word your looking for is "sought" not sort.

On topic I'd go with food personally.

Ah yes it is. I thought it looked wrong but night shift will do that lol.
Um how can I view the results without voting?

Pele · June 2014

Equal.

I use both; it depends on what I need at that particular time.

UnholyPerfection wrote: »

Um how can I view the results without voting?

89% Food (33 votes)
0% Drink
10% Both (4 votes)

Auralia · June 2014

Food.

Food, I only ever use food, drink seems not as good, as I'd rather take the bigger health bar over the regen when questing.

Fablelost · June 2014

Food.

Drinks are useless atm.
Food is at least 20 times more effective.
Purple V5 food do increase your health, mana and stamina by a good ammount even pass softcaps. (+ DPS, + surviveability, + dodgeability, + little portion of attribute regens based on attribute value)
Purple V5 drink increase all your regens by... 6? Are you kidding? It's 3 regen per second (And it's without softcaps).
The only way to make Drinks useful - the ability to use Food and Drinks buffs at once.

phaneub17_ESO · June 2014

Food.

Drinks if you're a Templar. Food if you're anything else. Why? Templars seem to be the only class without class specific magicka/stamina regen passives that other classes have thus seek out more regen where possible. There are class abilities that do give magicka and stamina regen, true, but that means you give up an action slot or two to use them and require deep push into the healing tree to gain access. One of which is a morph and doesn't provide much magicka in return for the cost required to cast it.

Fablelost · June 2014

Food.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Drinks if you're a Templar.

No. I'm raiding Templar. Top-8 Hel Ra. And i do laugh at people who say that templar has poor mana regen.
And i do laugh twice at people who say that drinks are useful.

DeLindsay · June 2014

Food.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Drinks if you're a Templar. Food if you're anything else. Why? Templars seem to be the only class without class specific magicka/stamina regen passives that other classes have thus seek out more regen where possible. There are class abilities that do give magicka and stamina regen, true, but that means you give up an action slot or two to use them and require deep push into the healing tree to gain access. One of which is a morph and doesn't provide much magicka in return for the cost required to cast it.

Or, use Food for the higher healing throughput (and Health to survive a few hits) and wear gear with regen on it, not sure how that's hard to figure out for some folks. I'm not saying you're incorrect specifically but overall with the game in it's current state it's ABSURDLY easy to reach regen cap, even on a Templar. If you use the +11 regen drink and you're already over cap you get what, 5 of that every 2 seconds. How can that remotely compare to +312 (blue food) pool, when even if you're already capped you'll still get ~160 Magicka out of the deal. 5-6 Magicka every 2 seconds won't save anybody from anything. 150+ Magicka giving you higher healing throughput on every cast is far more valuable.

That said, I'd like ZoS to allow us to eat food and drink simultaneously. It's not like we're going to be all the sudden OP by added +1-6 regen and it would give those Provisioners with the Epic Drinks that nobody wants something to sell lol.

Sharee · June 2014

Food.

Depends on situation. Simplified example:

Lets say food increases magicka by 300, and drink increases magicka regen by 15.

For the drink to give you as much total magicka as the food, the regen would need to tick 300/15=20 times. Regen ticks once every 2 seconds, that means it will take more than 40 seconds of combat for a drink to give more magicka than food.

Of course that does not include other factors like stat caps etc. But in general, drinks tend to be better for long boss fights, otherwise use food.

UnholyPerfection · June 2014

Food.

Thanks guys, pretty conclusive poll.

DeLindsay · June 2014

Food.

I totally agree with the concept that regen should outweigh a resource pool on a long fight. The problem is most players are just looking at food vs drink from a regen perspective and not really taking into account the higher damage/healing output the food gives you for that fight duration. Regen does nothing but allow you to manage said resource better. Also take into account things like the +10% Magicka from the 3rd tick of a Resto staff, Siphon Spirit morph in Resto tree, Sorc's Dark Conversion, Mage's Guild (certainly inferior) Spell Symmetry morph, etc.

Resource management isn't really as big an issue in ESO as ZoS wanted it to be. It's for that reason that Food is on top right now. Hell most casters anywhere close to VR12 are so far overcharged for regen that drinks are nearly useless. But to each their own, if a player believes that regen helps them then drinks are available for them and it's great that we have a choice, when some games don't give you any choice.

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