I usually pick the Blackberry Pie since it is cheap and does 40% chance of life leech + 60 Precision and it has no ICD. Just what the Sigil of Blood should really do tbh.
With a GS it means a constant trickle of HP but it also hurts the mob for about 400 HP (as much as we are healed, sorta). So it serves as both offense and defense, and works well for those condition heavy dungeons where the trickle of gained HP counters the trickle of lost HP.
Pretty cheap too.
Now that I switched to the Staff I find that the lack of multi-hitting reduces its usefulness.
I’ve looked into the different foods but am at a bit of a conundrum.
The obvious choice to replace the Blackberry Pie would be the Mango Pie. It heals 88 per second and has 70 Vitality. Every ten seconds that’s 880 HP recovered so it is a nice HP recovery considering we are not supposed to be taking frontal damage.
The other option would be the Rare Veggie Pizza with 70 condition damage and 40% condition duration, but most of my conditions come from my clones (I don’t use the phantasm) and they do not use condition duration.
The third option is the Bowl of Truffle Risotto with 100 condition and 70 precision, both stats we and our clones will enjoy. A tad expensive at nearly 4s though. Bowl of Mushroom and Asparagus Risotto is much cheaper and provides 80 condition and 60 precision.
The Master Tuning Fork works well for an offensive boost but it can be a bit expensive too, so the Quality Tuning Fork is what I use.
The reason I do not bother with the best consumables is that A) the boost they bring is small and only adds up over a long period, and
the game is not so hard that they are a necessity a la WoW raids.