Really? Most foods aren't expensive enough for this to even remotely be an issue, the exceptions being Gold recipes and the Orsinium blue Max Health+stam recovery food. I suppose it can seem expensive when first starting the game though. I have no opposition to such a thing.

Yep, I don't use food when questing. Craft a set of "training" armor for the XP boosts and don't worry about xp pots or scrolls. You'll level fast enough as is.

Jephre wrote: »

Thanks all! I'll work those provisioning recipes. I'm just lazy I guess and buy a stack of Crown meals which are expensive (i.e. real money) but the same logic applies to Crown XP boosters- basically anything with a timer from the Crown store (I realize there are many (the majority?) that think Crown store buffs are lame but again it's easiest for me. Happy adventures!!

Omg why would you buy crown store foods?! You can buy like 100 cp 160 foods for 2-3k in-game gold. Lower levels depend, can't always easily find your level but I've bought blue for like 900 gold per 100 food before. Never buy in crown store what you can buy in-game (including XP boosters).

I get it, there are better ways to increase stats through food buffs than the Crown Store and I will pursue these routes as have have been suggested however, pausing the timer on buffs - regardless of where they were acquired - remains, I believe, a good enhancement because it makes sense doesn't it? Why run a timer when not actually involved in combat or if to'ing and fro'ing across the land - e.g. reading lore or enjoying a quest conversation? This is really more the focus of the suggestion and not so much on which specific buffs I actually use. Seems a bit of a disservice to the voice artists and script writers who took the time to develop the dialogue and dream up the lore cannon. Appreciate the feedback!