I you find any high level tomatoes you don't want I'll take them.

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Why does it matter so much if you get purple low-level recipes? How much actual use could you possibly ever get from them?

If it doesn't matter to you it may matter to others. Not to mention the illogic of this design simply hurts my brains. It's shoddy workmanship.

Srugzal wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Why does it matter so much if you get purple low-level recipes? How much actual use could you possibly ever get from them?

Having leveled several veteran characters, I can tell you that the purple recipes are something that you get used to. Eat it and forget it. A stack lasts a long time, and that pretty much makes up for the rarity of things like pepper and what have you.

So now that I'm leveling some new alts, I appreciate them for their utility. Sure, I'll level out of them, but once I've got them I can feed the next generation of alts, too.

So yeah, that. I haven't found any purples, but I do have some level 25 & 30 blues, and believe me, I use them. I also make tripots for those characters, too, for the same reason.

The lack of powerful food and potions made the early levels a lot harder for me than they should have been, back in the day. Now that I know better, I'm glad they're there.

Just my 2 Septim's worth. ;-)

Wow, an answer to the question rather than just a petulant, snarky response. See, it makes some sense now.

I can't put my finger on when exactly they changed it but as I recall initially food ingredients were tied to area not level.

Recipes where based on level and faction. If you where looking for a particular recipe you had to be within about 5 levels of it and in the corresponding faction. So if you were looking for "Squeak Soup" you'd have to be within the range of 15-25 on the EP faction to find it. However once you hit the lv40+ recipes faction is no longer a issue, the recipes are the same for everybody regardless.
This is still for the most part true. There have been occasional hiccups (I was finding lv10 EP recipes on a lv30 AD char on occasion a while ago) but it's more or less working as it should.

Ingredients where also partly based on faction (you could find kwama eggs on DC side but not very frequently) but instead of being tied to character level or provisioning skill they where largely based on the level of the area you where foraging in. Quality mats like red wheat, salt, onions, ect being the exception as they could be found universally. So if you where a v1 character in Stormhaven you would still find primarily venison and milled flour.

It was a fairly intuitive way of handling things more or less. However when it came to the vet level zones things ran into a bit of a snafu. Containers were almost exclusively dropping early tier ingredients like thin broth and drippings. Forcing veteran level players back to Coldharbor anytime they needed tier 5/6 ingredients.

This prompted a change in the way in which ingredients where handled to it's current state, which although well intentioned isn't without it's own flaws. Namely players wanting to start provisioning late game being forced to either buy the needed mats or suspend playing their main to level an alt to the appropriate level range of the needed mats.

Hopefully the proposed reworking of provisioning will address those issues when it's eventually released. Unfortunately until then prospective chefs are just going to have to make due as best they can.

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Srugzal wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Why does it matter so much if you get purple low-level recipes? How much actual use could you possibly ever get from them?

Having leveled several veteran characters, I can tell you that the purple recipes are something that you get used to. Eat it and forget it. A stack lasts a long time, and that pretty much makes up for the rarity of things like pepper and what have you.

So now that I'm leveling some new alts, I appreciate them for their utility. Sure, I'll level out of them, but once I've got them I can feed the next generation of alts, too.

So yeah, that. I haven't found any purples, but I do have some level 25 & 30 blues, and believe me, I use them. I also make tripots for those characters, too, for the same reason.

The lack of powerful food and potions made the early levels a lot harder for me than they should have been, back in the day. Now that I know better, I'm glad they're there.

Just my 2 Septim's worth. ;-)

Wow, an answer to the question rather than just a petulant, snarky response. See, it makes some sense now.

I can make the same accusation about your remark, since you chose to belittle and demean my concern.

Islyn wrote: »

make lowbie: Collect mats, drop in bank, craft on high lvl char.

I had to do the same made 50 in 3 hours.

Huh? They fixed mats, you can collect any level with any level character. However, they did not fix recipe drops.

Job half done.