Best "All Purpose" Food For WvW?
I’m guessing generally for pugs?
Usually https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tray_of_Saffron_Bread
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feast_of_Seaweed_Salad are the go to general feast for defensive and offensive options.
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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pot_of_Lemongrass_Poultry_Soup
Is a good generic food for zergs for the extra health and condi duration reduction if they don’t want to use the more expensive stuff. The feast is sorta expensive so you may want to try the cheaper version https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pot_of_Poultry_and_Leek_Soup though don’t just randomly drop this as it may overwrite better food. Put it at the exits to spawn or near disorganized zergs with no food buff on.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tray_of_Saffron_Bread
Cheaper anti-condi/CC feast
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feast_of_Cactus_Fruit_Salad
Good for condi users or when you don’t have a zerg. It’s expensive as all hell though and is account bound, meaning you have to make it all yourself.
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(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
If you want a super cheap option, mango pies are decent.
ArchonWing summed things up pretty spot on.
My person preference is Saffron Bread because it’s cheaper than the lemongrass pot but also assists when getting CC locked briefly due to the damage reduction: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tray_of_Saffron_Bread
However if you find that extra vitality helps you by all means go ahead and try out the Lemongrass Poultry Soup: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pot_of_Lemongrass_Poultry_Soup
I rarely use anything else that is share-able due to accound bound restrictions.
While it is nice to share these foods with your allies I would recommend still running the usual account bound crafted food Plate of Mussels Gnashblade because that damage reduction, impo, is vital due to so much powercreep in the game (also the boon duration is nice): https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plate_of_Mussels_Gnashblade
I like the Saffron Bread for pugs also. Most of your experienced players will have their own food if it is better for whatever they are playing anyway.
I second the vote for mango pies.
i eat mango pies too
https://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Mango_Pie
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If you want to help everyone tray of saffron bread is the way to go. Its relatively cheap and has been a solid choice for even personal food in wvw for alonggggg time. Its very easy to craft yourself and probably already have the ingredients.
All these mango pie posts are giving me cancer. Please no. Only bad players would use that in WvW.
Saffron bread for defense. Seaweed salad (or asparagus and sage salad which is cheaper) for offense.
All these mango pie posts are giving me cancer. Please no. Only bad players would use that in WvW.
Saffron bread for defense. Seaweed salad (or asparagus and sage salad which is cheaper) for offense.
I’ve seen them use it on T1 servers when things get tight, but your suggestions are solid also. Not all foods work as well for all classes or builds. Mango has its place for those needing more vitality.
It’s just really hard to see how 85 hp/s is going to save anyone. I guess someone that is immune to condis and is plenty tanky already, but in those cases they’re probably better off adding something more group oriented or simply pile on more foods.
I really don’t see much of a point to mango pie myself. If you’re too poor for saffron bread, there’s always the ghetto Taragon Bread which is more or less free.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
It’s just really hard to see how 85 hp/s is going to save anyone. I guess someone that is immune to condis and is plenty tanky already, but in those cases they’re probably better off adding something more group oriented or simply pile on more foods.
I really don’t see much of a point to mango pie myself. If you’re too poor for saffron bread, there’s always the ghetto Taragon Bread which is more or less free.
Its listed in one of the meta’s actually or was for one of the classes I was looking up for wvw a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if that has change recently or not -shrugs-.
Personally I like the new foods but they are pretty expensive to make. -dmg% plus boon time is great…till someone strips ur boon lol.
1) The feast of mango pie’s biggest benefit is being effectively free it’s so cheap.
2) 700 extra health is nothing to laugh about.
3) People always look at small health regen and discount them. I’m going to use druid staff in PvP as an example, people discount staff skill 2 entirely. Yet it’s not just the staff skill 2, it’s also regen and live vicariously and dolyak runes and virtues and soothing mists etc. You add this stuff together and it gets to be extremely significant. If the regen from mango pie is useless, then basically so is healing signet. It’s not the main benefit, but it sure as hell has kept me alive.
Example: Tonight I survived a burst with 26 health and zero cool downs left and made it out alive.