Guild Wars 2

Hi, just wondering what kind of food do you use in the explore modes.
Thank you!

Buy like ~100 any cheap food from trading post (just compare what gives something nice for best price). Also buy like ~50 cheap potions. Should be 1-10c each.

There are 3 main foods I use.

peach (or mango if you want them) pies.

pros: they give hp and hp regen. Both of these are fantastic for explorables. Having the extra hp to take hits, or the regen to counter poisons/bleeds comes in handy all the time

Truffle steak (not the upgraded varient. The one that’s just "Plate of truffle steak)

pros: 100 power and 70 precision? That’s some nice DPS boost. Ive used these on CoF path 1, and boy does it help when you need to go for that burn. The ugpraded version gives 200 power for 30 seconds on kill. Which may or may not be better for you, but imo has way less uptime and usefulness in dungeons

Fire salsa

Pros: 100% downed hp and 20% more damage while downed is crucial in certain fights where damage is nearly unavoidable. For example, the subject alpha fights in CoE. (not teleporter) I have yet to master dodging the earth spikes if alpha has his back to the wall. This means if im unlucky, I can be losing all 17k of my hp in a matter of seconds. Having double downed health and damage lets me find and rally off of undead tendrils that much easier.

additional:
peach tart/omnomberry bar

pros: gold and magic find
cons: not actually very helpful when it comes to finishing the dungeon

The game is still young, not so many are used to food. But ye, the food mentioned by Zenyatoo is a perfect example of good food who gives a big boost, on time and performance.

I have 400 Chef and regularly farm DEs in Orr, and as such come across all the Omnomberries I’ll ever need, so I pretty much always have the Omnomberry Bar buff up for +30% Magic Find and +40% Gold from monsters.

Aside from that, I either use:

A) Powerful Potion of X Slaying (where X is the relevant dungeon). They’re dirt cheap on the TP, or I can make them myself (also have 400 artificer). These give +10% damage vs X and -10% damage taken from X. They’re a little more expensive than the Tuning Crystals, though, and seem to disappear if you die (at least that’s happened to me many times now). I’m pretty sure the +% damage works the same way other +% damage buffs work, in that it does nothing with your condition damage, so I mostly just use it when I want more survivability.

or

B) Master Tuning Crystals for ~250 more condition damage (+6% of toughness to condition damage & +4% of vitality to condition damage). Can also make these, or buy them at ~2c a piece on the TP. Dirt cheap, and well worth your money if you’re running a condition spec. For power spec, there is a weaponsmith equivelent that gives power instead of condition damage.