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Everyone knows that Brandy and Canape are a great combination to boost your mind stats. But with the upcoming CURB, we MIGHT see that the mind pool isn't the end-all to your combat woes.
I recommend a variety of alternatives for more leisurely activities.
For a Scout, harvesting that new shift of Carnivore meat on Yavin IV, I recommend:
Food:
Veghash - To improve your creature harvesting intake.
Dweezel - To improve Trapping. I can't imagine anyone voluntarily using traps anymore, but it should help in helping traps stick to higher level creatures while you're grinding Scout or Ranger.
Terratta - To improve Camouflage, for Rangers that are into that kind of thing.
Drink:
Jawa Beer - To improve your Mask Scent Mod. If you live by Mask Scent, you might want to ask your neighborhood Chef to whip you up a Crate. (Note that this is granted in Dom. Arts in Artisan, a Master Artisan could craft this better than a Chef that did not have the Engineering line. It uses Artisan Mods, not Chef-granted ones)
Gralinyn Juice - Improves your Creature-to-hit mod.
For Crafters, there are:
Food:
Chandad - Improves your Survey skill. While this may not be terribly useful, it should help grind up that tree (if you need to).
Pyollian Cake - Improves your Assembly Roll.
Drink:
Bespin Port - Improves your Experimentation Roll. This will NOT give you an extra point to experiment with, but it will improve your chance at getting an Amazing Success experimentation.
For Pilots!
Believe it or not there is even food to help you in space.
Food:
Gorrnar - Reduces the wounds incurred while cloning. You can't save your clone data in space, so you always recieve wounds when you die. This will reduce the wounds you take, if you know you're going on a dangerous mission, or helping a friend out with a taking down a tough Lambda by "Zerg Rushing" it.
Ormachek - Increase experience earned by a small percent. (Will not work for any kind of Crafting xp)
And for RPing, a couple crates of Aitha or Caf sitting in your Yacht or YT-1300 would be fitting.
For Fighters, besides the usual suspects, you might also want to consider these fine culinary products.
Food:
Dustcrepe - Reduces DOT duration. Perfect for fighting those spiders on Yavin, or Rancors on Dathomir. You don't have to have it before the poison or disease is applied to you. If you eat it after, it will reduce the remaining duration of the DOT by the % that the food lists. (DOT = Damage Over Time, just incase anyone doesn't know. This would work for Bleeding, Poison, and Disease attacks. And note that this is also granted in Artisan, not Chef)
Smuggler's Delight - Reduces the Downer Period for those Spice Junkies. Makes waiting out those Pixie and Muon downers a bit faster.
Cavaellin Creams - Reduces Incapacitation recovery time.
For those defence stackers, or Initiate Jedi, looking to tighten their defenses against status effects, chefs can offer a full line making it more difficult for any status effect to stick on you.
Drink:
Deuterium-pyro - Def. Vs. Intimidate
Corellian Brandy - Def. Vs. Knockdown (Thakitillo is a food that can also improve your defense to this)
Durindfire - Def. Vs. Stun
Ithorian Mist - Def. Vs. Dizzy
Veronian Berry Wine - Def. Vs. Blind (For those annoying birds on Endor that always blind you)
Food:
Trimpian - Def. Vs. Fire
Blood Chowder - Increases Def. Vs. Bleeding Attacks
Cho-Nor-Hoola - Increases Def. Vs. Poison and Disease Attacks
(not as helpful as top-of-the-line Doctor Buffs however, but useful if you need them on-the-go)
Understand however that these foods do not offer 100% protection from status effects, they merely make your defense against them a bit higher.
For Medics, instead of stocking up on Brandy and Canape, you also might want to consider the following as an alternative. (Possibly cheaper too!)
Drink:
Blue Milk - Heals your Mind pool. Instead of taking Brandy, Blue Milk might be more useful in the field by instantly giving your more energy to revive that silly Carbineer. I would also recommend using Vagnerian Canape and/or Ahrisa in conjunction with this. (You might also consider asking around for Duration BE Tissues, to make the buff last longer instead of it giving a larger boost, though it would depend on your initial stat setup...)
Happy Eating!  Message Edited by Gizmarke on 03-01-2005 07:54 AM
-Castin Donn
...has mastered the Pilot profession
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