Food ingredients in Phantasy Star Online 2: NEW GENESIS are abundant, to the point where a Quick Food guide may be in order, so:
What’s the deal with Quick Food in PSO2:NGS?
Who needs over 70 ingredients for “QUICK FOOD”?? Especially with the limited storage we get as Free-to-Play players! I’m not keeping all that food, and neither should you!
Halpha’s food Game
All across Aelio, Retem, Kvaris and Stia, you’ll find plenty of food to clutter your storage. It wasn’t quite obvious to me at first (there was probably an in-game guide explanation that I read and then forgot, thanks ADHD!) but each food does something different, and it’s good to know why.
No, I don’t mean to min-max your Quick Food (although you’re welcome to do so), but you may need some stats more than others, or you may feel lacking in some areas, in which case, using the right food may help greatly!
The Basics of Phantasy Star Online 2: NEW GENESIS Food
First off, let’s talk food category: Vegetables, Fruits, Seafood, and TAMES Meat. Each of the 4 categories are available from each region in all kinds of flavors.
I’d like to go on a short but necessary rant: Tomatoes are NOT vegetables! Darnit, SEGA!
…Anyway. Each offers a specific buff. Vegetables offer Damage resistance, Fruit will give you more PP, Seafood will give you more HP, while TAMES Meat will give you more Potency.
It will be up to you to pick and choose how much of which stats you want! However, quick food only takes 10 items at a time, which gets tricky with the flavors.
Are They Really Flavors, Though?
No, I guess not, but I don’t really know what else to call this, so “flavors” will have to do. On top of the food type above, you will find 4 “flavors” for each type of food, for each region.
And that’s how we get to the insane amount of different food stacks that will plague your storage.
The Flavors
The “Robust” food variety, or flavor, will increase your HP recovery.
The “Rich” flavor will reduce your PP consumption.
The “Crisp” flavor will increase your damage output to weak points.
The “Light” flavor will increase your PP recovery.
About These “Flavors”
The additional “flavor” buff will only come into effect if you add 4 items with the same flavor name in it. It doesn’t have to be the same item, however: using one of each “Rich”-labelled food would still give you the 4 items you need for the extra “Comfort” buff to kick in.
See also: PSO2:NGS – Daily Valuably Items to pick up for N-Meseta
Time to Make Some Terrible Food Mix N’ Matching
While it probably won’t sound like anything you’d want to ingest, you can mix any and all of these ingredients together for the food boost you want. However, to make the most of it, you’ll want to keep in mind one key thing: the Region-Matching effect.
If you’re hanging out in Kvaris, using foods from the Kvaris region will cause your “flavor” buffs to get a Region-Match effect, which will double your buff. That is a considerate extra boost! Once you have figured out your best mix of ingredients, I suggest registering a pre-made recipe for each region, using region-specific foods.
The Region-Match effect only takes into account the time you’re making your Quick Food; you can change regions – the buff will follow you!
As for which foods YOU will want to keep for your recipes, that is up to you. There are many, many food combinations to try, but once you have a recipe that you like, you can ditch the other ingredients and focus on gathering the ones you want to keep.
PSO2:NGS Food Buff Tips
If you’re unsure where to start, here are a few things I learned so far:
- The food buffs from ingredient types (veggie/fruit/seafood/meat) have drastic boosts by adding 1 or 2 of the item. Any extra item after 2 gives significantly smaller gains. Example: adding one fruit gives you +10PP, a second fruit brings it to +12. After that, each extra fruit only gives you +1PP. Because of that, I like to include all 4 food types. The original buff is a bigger boost than min-maxing for 3 extra PP (in my humble opinion, of course)
- Reducing PP consumption (“Rich” flavor) is better than increasing PP recovery (“Light” flavor) as it effectively gives you more for your max PP amount. That does not mean that PP recovery is bad, though.
- Increasing weak point damage (“Crisp” flavor) is most likely a better option, rather than increasing PP or HP recovery, especially if you’re a heavy damage dealer.
- HP recovery is a rather insignificant boost, considering that PSO2:NGS doesn’t give HP recovery other than through Restasigne.
If you don’t want to have all 4 food types in a recipe, I recommend this order of importance:
- Meat (Potency%)
- Vegetables (Damage resistance%)
- Fruit (+PP)
- Seafood (+HP)
The importance may vary depending on your character’s needs, so make sure to test things out for yourself. For example, having extra PP may be a lot more useful to you if you find yourself running out of PP often!
What About the Region Mag Wish List?
Feeding the Region Mag with “Wish List” items only fills up the level gauge more quickly. It can give a +50% or +200% point boost for your items, so one item will either give 20 points, 30 points, or 60. You need 400 points to get your personal boost to max, and the “Wish List” items will get you there using fewer items.
While it’s nice to need fewer items to start up your Region Mag boost, I’d rather free up 30-40 storage slots by selling my unwanted food types! Not everyone can afford fancy-schmancy Premium Storage, after all.
Speaking of money, how about some tips on making more N-Meseta? Take a look: Making N-Meseta in PSO2:NGS – (100% free-to-play)
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