Why become a provisioner?Follow

Just wondering, i have decided to pick up a craft and was looking in the market of what makes the most money. I came across the food and was looking at from a non money maker stand point and thought to myself, why max out food skill? I mean the items never get any better than 30-40 per tick... unless i just missed the ones that do. Anyways, please tell me why people try to max out the food skill please.

A question; What's wrong with having an additional regen of "30-40 per tick"?

I have always felt that this game (and for that matter most RPG style games), is one of aggregate effect. You tend to gain in "little bumps" instead of "big chunks".

Meaning that no one item is going to make or break your character but if you work consistantly, the total of all the little bumps will add up to give you a whopping boost in the stat(s) you need.

As far as why a provie, see my thread HERE

I am convinced that provies have the best deal of all the trade skills. My provie is currently in T4 and nothing has occurred so far that would make me change my mind.

Provisioners (i am one myself) are awesome if what you are looking for is self-sufficiency. If you are looking to make loads of money, then you need either 1-An incredible amount of 'free' time or 2-A selection of friends that harvest for you.

Since provisioners dont get to work with rares such as ebon, pearls and the like, making money with provisioners means you wont make a single shot of 4 plats for 1 item, but it will rather be 4 plats for a lot ot items. Which means that in order to make money, you need to craft....alot. Thing is, gathering ressources for provisioners is the longest process among all gathering professions. While armorers get 3 of the same item per node, provisioners get one random item out of 6-7 out of ONE node, this is not counting animal dens for meat AND fish nodes. Since buying food ingredients is out of question (i mean, i wont pay 1 gold for one single little tiny wild apple), that means that you need a lot of time just to be out there in the field to gather what you need. Then the refining process starts. And then finition process.

It's not a complaint, but just a piece of advice to ppl that look at tier 6 drinks price on the broker and say...god ill become a provisioner ill become rich. You will if you have really a lot of time (Im lucky enough to have friends that harvest for me, that helps ALOT..even then i am not making no money since i am only doing writs with all of this food lol), if not, chose provisioner to save the cost of drinks and food on the broker by making these yourself.

The simple reason for maxing out food is to supply yourself, friends and guildies. It's not like you can use the same food forever, every tier has a whole new bunch of stuff.

It really does make a huge difference in your regen rates; I can always tell if someone I'm grouping with doesn't have the best food and drink for their level

Regen does get better then 30-40 a tick. You will see all the foods of your lvl and higher at the same regen because it is also a lvl based regen so that is all the higher your character can regen right now. Each food and drink also has a max regen depending on its level. For example lvl 10 foods max regen may be 20 per tick and lvl 50 may be 120 per tick but at lvl 20 ur max regen is 50 per tick. When you eat lvl 50 food you are only going to get 50 per tick so thats what the food says when you examine it. I am a 36 templar and I regen at around 60 per tick from drink.

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LONGRIFLE - did you mean that in a "who's your daddy" kind of way, or a "say my name" kind of way?

Just askin'...

..Ya know..Little bit of both.

I'm going to repeat and rephrase a few things that have been said here, because they bear repeating. There are two things to remember with regard to Provisioners and food.

First, the regen rates that you see on the broker are what the food items would do for you. If you're a Lv. 15 Scrub, and you're looking at Lv. 50 food, it's not going to do any better for you than Lv. 20 food will. However, it is capable of doing much more, if you're the right level range for it. Note that this also holds true for Poisons - their stated damage is how much it'd do in your hands, and if you're well below the level requirement for the poison, it may well state less damage than a poison that is level-appropriate for you.

Second, food and drink is an absolute necessity if you're going to be soloing on Whites or Yellows (or above, something I can't manage personally). Faster regen rates on Health/Power means less downtime. In many cases, if you have appropriate food on hand, your Health/Power will regenerate completely in the time it takes you to go from one encounter to the next.

I have a Provisioner alt. My partner and I live on the 3-hour and 5-hour recipes. My guildmates don't hate them, either. =^_^=

One last point: On some servers, a Provisioner can make a lot of money through the Broker, especially on Freeport-side. There are so few public provisioners, that the long-duration food items and especially the drink items can sell for quite a tidy sum, especially if you don't flood the market all at once.