Guild Wars 2

Truly, no one can explain such discrepancy between level 80 food’s stats.
We have a food that gives naught but 50 ferocity(Fire Veggie Chili is horrible without any decent reasoning), as well as food that gives 70 ferocity and 100 power. And both are level 80.
The only thing worse than that is… condition duration food.
There are different foods that provide 15% duration increase to burning/poison/chill respectively, as well as providing 70 regular stat points. Sounds pretty decent huh?
Well there’s also food that gives 70 of the same regular stat points, but ALSO provides 40% condition duration increase. How do we compare 15% increase to a specific type of condition to 40% increase to all of them? … Shouldn’t the increase to all conditions be 10% while to specific – 20%? That would be balanced for once, but right now the food that provides 40% condition duration increase is simply superior to food that provides 15% burning duration increase(and to basically any other food too^^. But relative superiority and absolute superiority are different things)… Well in any case there’s definitely something wrong with it.
Links to food for comparison:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Fire_Veggie_Chili
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Curry_Butternut_Squash_Soup
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Koi_Cake
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chocolate_Omnomberry_Cake
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Fire_Meat_Chili
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fancy_Truffle_Burger

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Are they possibly tooltip errors? Just a stab in the dark, this game is known for tooltip errors :P

OldSomalia.6180:

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

Flissy.4093:

Are they possibly tooltip errors? Just a stab in the dark, this game is known for tooltip errors :P

I’ve tried them myself ^^ They’ve worked just as promised and that’s quite sad :P

Evalia.7103:

OldSomalia.6180:

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

In the case of Koi Cake, it’s because they were an event item rather than a crafted one.

Evalia.7103:

OldSomalia.6180:

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

I think his explanation regarding the price as a consequence of the rarity of the ingredients involved made a lot of sense. Might not be true for all consumables, but certainly explains some cases.

zoejo.2317:

I think his explanation regarding the price as a consequence of the rarity of the ingredients involved made a lot of sense. Might not be true for all consumables, but certainly explains some cases.

Demand and rarity are two factors you have to consider, naturally. Because some ingredients are incredibly common, even good food can be cheap, and such is the case with event food made out of zhaitaffies(except for Dragon Revelry Starcake which has extremely limited recipe and requires a lot of ingredients)
… But why are we talking about this once again>? Do you not agree that all level 80 food should be somewhat equal in stat value gain, just like gear is?

Evalia.7103:

OldSomalia.6180:

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

And those are event foods, which have no crafting cost and dropped by the millions, daily.

If you played GW before GW2, you’d also know to stock up on the good event foods while they still cost copper in the single digits. Candied Dragon Rolls, Dragon’s Breath, etc, versus their Chef-crafted, IDENTICAL counterparts.

Go look up whatever the equivalent of a Koi Cake is, if there is one, and you’ll probably find it falls in line.

Evalia.7103:

zoejo.2317:

I think his explanation regarding the price as a consequence of the rarity of the ingredients involved made a lot of sense. Might not be true for all consumables, but certainly explains some cases.

Demand and rarity are two factors you have to consider, naturally. Because some ingredients are incredibly common, even good food can be cheap, and such is the case with event food made out of zhaitaffies(except for Dragon Revelry Starcake which has extremely limited recipe and requires a lot of ingredients)
… But why are we talking about this once again>? Do you not agree that all level 80 food should be somewhat equal in stat value gain, just like gear is?

If level 80 food is repeating the benefits from lower level food then there’s no point. If not, it’s cheaper (sometimes) options for people who rather save some money than max out their numbers.

Evalia.7103:

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

The crafted equivalent of koi cake is rare veggie pizza, with the veggie pizza lasting 10 minutes longer than the koi cake does, not the burger thing. As for the cost difference, as others said, it’s because koi cakes were an event food that dropped for close-to-free.