MrTarkanian48 wrote: »

I am relatively new, but at VR 2 I have found provisioning extremely useful. I am a stamina nightblade and bought a recipe for a VR1 level Blue Food item that significantly boosts my Max Stam and Max Health for an hour. This equates to increased damage and more survivability. Now that I have the recipe, I do not loot many drink ingredients. I just pick up game, corn, and millet (the three ingredients for this recipe). I took the passive that allows 4 food items per recipe made. I make more whenever I have all three ingredients and basically can stay boosted at all times.

The effects do not stack. If you eat something, and then eat or drink something else, the effects are gone from the first item you consumed, and you only have the effects from the 2nd item

I am also a stamina nightblade archer. I've found a lot of blue foods that I eat on a regular basis, I just have not been creating ANY.

Any tips for getting started in provisioning at my level? honestly I think its at like 7 right now, haha. Everything else is around 35-40.

Deltias Gaming has a good guide for leveling. https://youtu.be/CUzTMIgm02Y

I found it to be one of the easiest to level actually (1st one to 50). I put one skill point into Recipe Quality to get blue recipes unlocked. And always put skill points into recipe improvement as you level up. Then turned auto loot on, and hit every crate and barrel while questing. When your inventory is full, hit a cooking fire and craft the highest level food and drink recipes that you can (they give the most experience, and when you level it up to 30-40, level 1-20 recipes dont give much xp at all). You'll pick up recipes over time, just make sure you learn every one you pick up. Keep creating the highest level recipes until you hit 50. After I hit 50 I stop looting everything, and only pick up the ingredients I need to make specific recipes. I also invested skill points into Chef at that point so you can make more of the ones you want. I dont bother with drink related passives since I dont plan on using drinks.

I dont plan on bothering with unlocking purple recipes until end game. They boost all three stats, but it appears that blue provides a bigger boost to the two stats. Plus purples require a 4th ingredient which are kinda rare and hard to come by. Since I dont care much about Magicka, I use Blues that boost health and stamina

Thanks for all the help everyone! I'm still learning the ins and outs of this game despite being pretty far into it. I need to get some PVP action going.....

Anyways, this was are quite useful! Thanks again, guys!

BowD wrote: »

Just a couple of comments related to this

• Many prefer food over drinks because some abilities are affected by attributes
• Even if you don't want to craft, you may want to do to unlock the crafting passives that make food/drink last longer and affect potion use (alchemy).

Gotcha.

Its not that I son't want to craft, I just have not done it yet. I just use the Curried Kwama Scrib Stew to add some health when I dive into a dungeon.

Would like to get to the point where I can easily make items that boost all three attributes, just need to get out of the gate first! Haha.

I use food/drink buffs all the time on all toons at all levels.
- For dps blue food.
- For tanks either epic drink in pledges or food in trials.
- For power leveling blue/epic drinks.

Provisioning and food-use are both extremely useful. I haven't been without my food bonus for 30-40 levels (I'm at v10 right now). If you have the patience to get your mats you should certainly at least try provisioning. I will always be disappointed by the lack of skooma though.

mklundub17_ESO wrote: »

If you plan on doing high level pve content, want to min/max for pvp content or just make money then having provisioning is very much worth it.

• Crafting your own food is cheaper if you have the skills invested to get more food from the same amount of ingredients
• Provisioning daily writs are easy and one of the most profitable ones, recipe fragments sell for a good amount
• The passive bonus makes your purple food last longer, so it's a better investment
• The hirelings are worth as much, if not more, than any other profession hirelings
• Could, if you chose, create Psijic Ambrosia (+XP drink) on the cheap

The major negative is you'll get in the habit of getting into all barrels, sacks, baskets etc and it's hard for me to break that habit, which is a huge inventory killer. I fondly think back to the pre-provisioning days when I never bothered to look into anything other than backpacks, lockboxes, nightstands and desks.

Im still in those exact same "pre-provisioning" days, haha. I do go through a lot of things and ALWAYS pick up wood, ore, and currently kreshweed along with runes. Just never bothered to start scrounging through barrels and what not for food. Going through things is not a negative though, its a big reason why I love these types of games.

After reading most of these comments though, I need to start going through EVERYTHING. Most of my other skills are around level 40 so hopefully I can cap them soonish and concentrate on provisioning and PVP.