Food and Drink Buffs

sflanagan21ub17_ESO · April 2014

I was thinking we had the ability to have both a food and a drink buff active, but after testing it yesterday I realized that only 1 was showing up on the character sheet as active.

Does anyone know if this is truly the case of only being able to have 1 active a time or am I missing something in the use of provisions?

If you can only have one active, why would this be the case?

Thanks in advance for any feedback or answers on this.

r0w3n · April 2014

Yea, I noticed this yesterday too. Only 1 active buff at a time. I am assuming this is intended, with the rumor of recipes that have multiple stat buffs in them.

Arunei · April 2014

For balance and to make you actually plan and strategize your buffs. Plus there are higher-quality recipes that buff more than one stat.

Mortuum · April 2014

Yes it works as intended, there can be only 1 active buff at time from either food or drink. If you have active effect on you, using another item will replace it with new effect.
But, there are better quality recipes(i have found 4 blue rec so far) which combine 2 effects, for example increase both magicka and stamina, or both health and stamina.
No idea if there are items which combine 2 different type buffs(increase from food and regeneration from drinks).

Palidon · March 2015

Drinks increase Regeneration. Food increases total Magicka, Stamina or Health. There should be no reason why players cannot stack the two for they are completely different buffs. Since we cannot stack, I do no waste my time putting skill points into the Drink Provisioning passives nor collect any drink ingredients to take away bag or bank space. The buffs from Food out weigh the buffs from Drinks and are much better. ZOS had in the past stated they were going to allow the stacking of Food and Drinks and later changed their minds.