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A friend of mine cooked up some Ormachek for me and I decided to give it a test. I normally love xp bonus stuff in MMOs, but my conclusion here is that this stuff is too weak to compete for space in my stomach with the defensive foods. For anyone that wants to do tests, if you click on Ormachek while you still have grants left then you get a message saying that you still have some active and can't eat it; if you click on Ormachek after your grants are expired then it will say you are Full and can't eat it. So you can easily track whether you have used up all your grants.

I had several Ormachek that each gave 4% for 15-16 xp grants. I went out to fight my favorite target: Gaping Spiders on Dathomir (high xp, vulnerable to my weapon, no ugly specials, give meat I need). Here are the answers to some of the questions I had:

1) Even if you are capped and don't get xp, it still counts as a grant. I'm capped on scout xp, but if I went into a group of aggressive creatures while /masked, it ate up my grants quickly. Harvesting also ate up my grants even though I didn't get xp because of the cap.

2) The Combat xp that I get in addition to the 2-Handed Weapon xp is counted separately, so 16 grants will give a max of 8 creatures.

3) Killing babies (I know, I'm going to Hell) does not count as grants.

For each dose, I was able to get about 1600 extra xp, but to get that I had to not mask, harvest or trap. While any extra xp is appreciated, I am better off with something more defensive in order to reduce downtime (Vegesparine is what I'm going to use, I believe). A note on the timer: It disappears when you finish your grants but not reliably so. Of four times, it twice disappeared as soon as my grants were finished, once disappeared about 1 minute after my grants were finished, and once stayed active for over 10 minutes after my grants were finished.

It does not work for crafting. Politician is an interesting question, however.

The only things that I can see using this for are professions where you are not fighting or crafting. Squad Leader is the most obvious (for those squad leaders that sit at Tusken Fort getting spammed by 20K xp grants), possibly ID since there isn't any other food that would be helpful I don't think. Maybe if you are a Ranger grinding scout xp with /mask? Entertainer and Medic types all have stuff that will help a lot more than a small xp buff.

And Apprenticeship XP

Maybe survival exp. I think it could be a useful item, but it does look like it needs to be situational. Also if you are capped in a certain area and can't gain xp, then it shouldn't count as a grant.

I'll try to test the politician side, but it wont be until saturday - is someone else could test apprentice XP though...