Drinks = Useless?

morvegil · October 2014

Ive seen purple drinks go fro like 8+ regen..that seems pretty crappy compared to the benefit of purple food!!!

AshySamurai · October 2014

I've heard that ZOS planning to apply both food and drink buff in one time.

KenjiJU · October 2014

As a healer I actually use mana regen drinks, just the crap you pick off of tables. My survivability's pretty good otherwise. But yea, if I was just about anything else, I'd still go for food over drink.

eNumbra · October 2014

AshySamurai wrote: »

I've heard that ZOS planning to apply both food and drink buff in one time.

I don't think they ever confirmed that as what was being planned. It was addressed recently from the guild summit and the Zenimax rep stated that it would be looked at but they though "balancing issues" would arise.

A somewhat obvious attempt at being able to deflect accusations of broken promises, considering end level characters pushing 130+ regens, another 8 isn't going to break anything. Since, however the max stat buffs also buff damage (they're increasing the food buffs soon too) to answer the titular question, yes. Drinks are useless.

starkerealm · October 2014

AshySamurai wrote: »

I've heard that ZOS planning to apply both food and drink buff in one time.

That's been kicking around as a rumor in one form or another since launch... I want to believe, but right now there's not much support for it.

Yeah, drinks are mostly worthless. If you're not using food there's no reason not to pop one... but... *shrugs*

reften · October 2014

yeah not sure why they can't just allow 1 drink and 1 food at the same time. PvP wise would be the same, not real high barrier to get drinks, even the green ones with magicka regen bonus would be good...I'd probably just use a blue + Stam + Magicka.

AshySamurai · October 2014

Guys! I remembered where I saw about stacking drink and food buffs! Provisioning Revamp

The regeneration benefit of drinking will now stack with food benefits (some balancing changes may occur)

AlnilamE · October 2014

I prefer food, but I have a friend who swears by drinks.

Being able to stack both is going to be nice.

eNumbra · October 2014

AshySamurai wrote: »

Guys! I remembered where I saw about stacking drink and food buffs! Provisioning Revamp

The regeneration benefit of drinking will now stack with food benefits (some balancing changes may occur)

nice spot.

Now to just wait with the hundreds upon hundreds of drink ingredients and half dozen purple drink recipes for the first day they stack

Weberda · October 2014

If the info from the guild summit is correct then it appears they have tabled the idea of stacking which will leave most with a useless skill in provisioning as well as tons of unneeded ingredients. I rarely take issue with the game design but I find this to be a very big flaw in crafting.

Gilvoth · October 2014

oh, so thier NOT going to be adding food and drink together now?

reften · October 2014

Weberda wrote: »

If the info from the guild summit is correct then it appears they have tabled the idea of stacking which will leave most with a useless skill in provisioning as well as tons of unneeded ingredients. I rarely take issue with the game design but I find this to be a very big flaw in crafting.

yeah that is so weird. Just like alchemy's snakeblood...can waste skill points on something that literally does nothing.

Nestor · October 2014

If the Regen was significant enough then it would mean something. But, the most I have seen is 10 points (from stuff I pick up) so I can't imagine brewed things are much better.

The only time I can see Regen being of benifit on my character is if I have 2 rings and 1 necklace that give me an extra 36 points or so. Even then, it just means I wait less time between mobs for my pools to fill up, does not seem to help during the battle. Except that I can keep Sea of Flames going for quite a long time with some good Regen Buffs.

eNumbra · October 2014

Nestor wrote: »

If the Regen was significant enough then it would mean something. But, the most I have seen is 10 points (from stuff I pick up) so I can't imagine brewed things are much better.
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Top level drinks are +13 Green, +11 Blue and +8 Purple.

Elf_Boy · October 2014

I'm still in pvp world and have not yet had the need to worry about food v drink.

Based on a casual look is it resource regin vs a large buff to a resource?

SteveCampsOut · October 2014

I'm always going to choose a large increase in my health, stamina or magicka pool over a small increase in recovery rates.