Food and Nutrition
You can craft it, buy for karma at some heart vendors, or buy from the trading post. Crafting low level stuff from stuff you gather is a good way to start and gives you experience in the process.
Buy it a the trading post, most foods sell for about 1 copper because there is no demand and a lot of supply. It doesn’t matter what kind if you only want the xp bonus (its not really that huge that you have to worry about, 10% to kill xp, which is the lowest xp income by far), just make sure its for your level and you’re set.
If you want I can probably send you some in game as well, just drop Snow.2048 a mail and I’ll send you some cheap stuff I have laying around when I get on.
The wiki is the best friend of the new player!
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chef
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Food
There should be anything you may need to know about the basics of food and cooking.
For leveling, I would suggest Candy Corn Almond Brittle. Buy it off the trading post.
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org
If you want an additional XP boost, look into the oils/sharpening stones/tuning crystals from the weapon-crafting professions. The benefits stack with food, so you can be running around with a +20% bonus.
That should make the level grind a little easier.
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
In addition to the food giving you a little exp boost, I’d like to mention that, unless something’s changed I’m unaware of, events are among the best ways to get exp. You kill the mobs you normally would, but with the added event experience (which is often a solid chunk).
Crafting is designed for gear accessibility, not profit.
I usually just look on the trading post, and before level 80, buy food that is no more expensive than 10 copper.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I usually just look on the trading post, and before level 80, buy food that is no more expensive than 10 copper.
With all due respect, this is bad advice.
The food I mentioned above lasts 45m (some cheap food lasts 20 or 30 minutes) and includes 10% gold find and 18% magic find as well as 15% experience boost (compared to the standard 10%.)
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org
CCAB is also level 45 food. >.>
Might be worth it if it’s cheap on the Trading Post by then, but sub-40, I’ll roll with a Loaf of Bread and Maintenance Oil.
Especially since MF is a placebo~
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
CCAB is also level 45 food. >.>
Might be worth it if it’s cheap on the Trading Post by then, but sub-40, I’ll roll with a Loaf of Bread and Maintenance Oil.Especially since MF is a placebo~
Ha, I don’t know about placebo, but 18% isn’t a lot. Just remember that 10% gold find means it pays for itself if you can earn 6.5 silver / 45m from monster kills. (Or 8 silver/hour). And offers more experience.
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org
I usually just look on the trading post, and before level 80, buy food that is no more expensive than 10 copper.
With all due respect, this is bad advice.
The food I mentioned above lasts 45m (some cheap food lasts 20 or 30 minutes) and includes 10% gold find and 18% magic find as well as 15% experience boost (compared to the standard 10%.)
Most experience doesn’t come from kills, it comes from hearts, exploration, and events.
Event chests and bags aren’t affected by MF.
Open world monsters don’t drop enough gold and aren’t dense enough.
Yes, it’s more convenient, but the length just requires slightly more clicking.
I would rather take http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grape_Pie or http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cherry_Pie and allow myself to just dive into the nearest events and finish them a little faster. You’re better off moving faster.
Heck, I still use similar things like these on my level 80s since open world isn’t worth using any food of value except for world events. Also, a couple of silver is nothing to a level 80, but it’s several upgrades for a lowbie, not to mention they’re going to have to save up every single copper they can get because of the way traits work now.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
I’d be curious to compare experience gain from different things. My feeling is that event rewards give the best experience, followed by kills, exploration, and then hearts dead last.
I’m not going to argue that, though. Just a gut feeling.
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Here is a good searchable tool for food buffs. Just pick the buff you want from the drop down list, can also sort it by level.
http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index.php/Guild_Wars_2_Nourishment_Database
I’d be curious to compare experience gain from different things. My feeling is that event rewards give the best experience, followed by kills, exploration, and then hearts dead last.
I’m not going to argue that, though. Just a gut feeling.
Events with lots of killable mobs. (Junkyard, Harathi, etc)
Best of both.
To be honest, the game could use more long-chain events like pre-patch Ulgoth. Something that gives you a reason to follow the event train in a path around the zone would give players something to do when they come in and even tell a little zone meta-story as they follow the arc from start to finish.
Of course, that’d take some extra development time. :\
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
Yea, the combo is the best. If a heart takes too long to do, I skip it and try to find hearts that have events near them. You can end up with double credit (event + heart) and whatever mobs you ended up killing.
The exp rewarded for just running into new areas is quite a big chunk, so I prefer to move fast and only stop for events/hearts/dailies. Hearts are the lowest priorities since there’s way more than enough to reach 80.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I started enjoying the game WAY more when I started ignoring the hearts. I’d just run around, explore (by uncovering map, getting WPs POIs and vistas), and kill stuff/do events along the way.
Leveling went faster. Enjoyment went through the roof.
Hearts are, to me, a very unfortunate addition.
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Hearts are, to me, a very unfortunate addition.
They aren’t all bad. They make great junk vendors!
Sometimes, I finish a heart just so I can sell my greys.
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
Some hearts are good, some hearts are bad. Since I only care about getting my characters to 80, I simply ignore the boring ones.
A lot of hearts can be done just by doing stuff in the area though, so no big deal.
Most of the leveling process is simply acquiring commonly used waypoints and dealing with stuff on the way.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
CCAB is also level 45 food. >.>
Might be worth it if it’s cheap on the Trading Post by then, but sub-40, I’ll roll with a Loaf of Bread and Maintenance Oil.Especially since MF is a placebo~
Ha, I don’t know about placebo, but 18% isn’t a lot. Just remember that 10% gold find means it pays for itself if you can earn 6.5 silver / 45m from monster kills. (Or 8 silver/hour). And offers more experience.
But its only for killing mobs, if I eat some food and traveling the map to finish it to 100%, I’m not fighting 24/7, because I travel, do vistats, do POI’s and more.
So when its the best time to eat, and what is the best food I should buy concerning the money/xp I get from it, I mean not expensive food that gives bad xp boost.
CCAB is also level 45 food. >.>
Might be worth it if it’s cheap on the Trading Post by then, but sub-40, I’ll roll with a Loaf of Bread and Maintenance Oil.Especially since MF is a placebo~
Ha, I don’t know about placebo, but 18% isn’t a lot. Just remember that 10% gold find means it pays for itself if you can earn 6.5 silver / 45m from monster kills. (Or 8 silver/hour). And offers more experience.
But its only for killing mobs, if I eat some food and traveling the map to finish it to 100%, I’m not fighting 24/7, because I travel, do vistats, do POI’s and more.
So when its the best time to eat, and what is the best food I should buy concerning the money/xp I get from it, I mean not expensive food that gives bad xp boost.
it does not matter, food – beside the sought after few lvl 80 recipes – is so cheap you won´t even notice it. Have it running all the time. I don´t think there is an xp difference in any kind of food (could be wrong though). What to choose: that really is up to you and your build.