Guild Wars 2

TLDR: Omnomberry bar is best food, balance pl0x? (Don’t be lazy, read the rest :P)

I’m a little disappointed with the food system because it’s so interesting and versatile … but I only every use omnomberry bars and think poorly of people who don’t use them (or comperable mf / gold find food). As a disclaimer, I’m only talking about PvE (mostly dungeons).
Omnomberry bars give 40% more gold find, and they usually cost 3s-4s as of right now. Most dungeons have a first boss that drops around 10s, so with 40% more that’s around 14s. The cost of it is covered in just the first boss! After that, you get a significant amount of extra profit from the rest of the bosses (and trash).
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed 30% extra mf making a difference for me, but how can you go wrong with the best mf you can get on food? (besides +MF when you have a boon food)
The only other food I use is +endurance regen occasionally for CoE when I need to dodge a lot, and mango pies for jormag. I think this is a bit of a shame because there’s so many cool things to use, but none of them seem good enough to drop the +40% more gold and 30% mf for most of what I do.
I don’t think these are great suggestions, but if all foods were to give some +gold find and/or some magic find then I would probably use way more than 3 different ones. Or maybe if there was a different consumable type for mf/gold find (right now there is food and sharpening stones/oil/crystals that you can use at the same time) If they made it so you could use 3 things at once, one being mf/gold find, then they would of course have to remove some or all of the mf/gold find on the other consumables.
I don’t think any of those suggestions would really work, so I would hope that they could rethink the system in some other way. Of course, I’d rather them work on major game issues right now and work on polish like this later, but I hope that they can keep this in the back of their heads.

I don’t think you’ve seen all the food and its effects. Omnomberry bar may be good for gold and mf but your food can cover your weaknesses. E.G I’m using food that gives life steal on crit with my berserker build which grants me more survavibility. Or if you’re running a condition build, you eat rare veggie pizza. Food is awesome.

But I agree with you magic find and gold find are stupid stats and they should be erased from the game.

SSalp.6423:

I don’t think you’ve seen all the food and its effects. Omnomberry bar may be good for gold and mf but your food can cover your weaknesses. E.G I’m using food that gives life steal on crit with my berserker build which grants me more survavibility. Or if you’re running a condition build, you eat rare veggie pizza. Food is awesome.

But I agree with you magic find and gold find are stupid stats and they should be erased from the game.

No, I really want MF and gold find to stay, I don’t think I ever said that I want them gone, although I do think there are a bunch of problems with MF (covered in other ppl’s posts). But what I’m saying is that even if other food helps to cover your weaknesses, it’s not worth taking instead of 40% more gold in dungeons (that’s a lot of gold o.o).