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This is long but it says things I want you chefs to hear. I've been scanning these boards today and want to give you some thoughts from the perspective from a 100% combat oriented class.

Preamble:
I am a low lever bounty hunter.

I am a casual gamer so I only play a few hours a day.

I solo my marks using armor and no pets.

Ok on to my post.

Simply put I’m tired of my Star Wars experience tainted by being an alcoholic junkie. Before each mark I take a Tatooine sunburn and a hit of muon gold and I’m tired of it. I would use food buffs but they are worthless to me. This is not a flame to you guys as I would LOVE to use your goods but an observation from a combat class who needs intense short term buffs (which your foods could provide).

I have no need for doctor buffs. I don’t want to hunt down a doctor and I don’t need stats buffed for 30 minutes. I need them buffed for 5-10 which is how long it takes me to take down a mark. I thought I found an alternative with Corellian fried ice cream and that pasta dish that starts with a v but I can’t eat them both.

Food capacity in this game is either too low or I’m not thinking my buffs through. I would love to eat more food (which means more sales to you) but I can’t. Even when I forage (as a master scout) I can barely eat anything and the buffs that food provides just doesn’t do me any good since I can usually only eat 1 – 2 things, the buffs are minor and having a +100 stat buff for 2 minutes isn’t very helpful. Having a +400 multiple stat buff for 5 minutes is. I’m not asking for one mega food that does all however I would like a mixture of foods and drinks (that I could actually eat all at once) boost my secondary stats (especially my mind stats) for 400-500 for 5-10 minutes. Right now unless I’m missing something I can’t do that.

Having food for a long term buff is worthless to me. Other combat classes may disagree but for me personally a long term buff is no good to me. If food were to buff my stats for 150-200 pts for more than 15 minutes I’d never buy it. It wouldn't do me any good since I don’t need a buff for that long (and that minor of a stat increase). If I did need something that long and even if the food did exist I’d probably hunt down a doctor and forget the chef food buff entirely because the doctor could do more and I wouldn't have to worry about how much I could consume. If I were in a hunting party I wouldn’t really want a long term buff because I’m in a group and a good group supports each other with heals and assists and any good group has a good medic who keeps tab on the other players. Why use a buff if I’m getting healed when I get low?

What I would love is the ability to use FOODS and NON ALCOHOLIC beverages to boost my stats for about 400-500 for about 5 - 10 minutes. I could live with having to use a Tatooine sunburn (just keep telling myself its red bull or something ) but I want to do without the spice. The down time (which could put me in grave peril because when I’m done with a mark I’m already at less than 100% and in the middle of nowhere) coupled with the fact that I’m dependant on drugs kinda sucks.

While I totally agree that mega intense short term buffs should remain the realm of the spicer and the mixed drinks I would like a less intense but still viable short term buff for foods and regular drinks.

Right now it’s either worthless buff (food and normal drinks) vs. intense buff (spice and mixed drinks) and there is no middle ground.

This is my perspective from a combat class. I am using the alcohol and drugs but I would like more choices.

Keep these points in mind when you think about things for your class.

Thank you.

I dont quite get what you want us to do....

Sounds like he's asking for us to hear his perspective when asking devs for fixes to our class (like in correspondent reports).

Obviously there's a market for both short intense buffs and long buffs that are maybe not as strong. From the fantasy it would make more sense to me that spice be a short intense buff with side effects, and food be a longer buff, with drinks maybe somewhere in the middle. He's also saying he has a moral problem with drugs and alcohol, makingshort "unwholesome" buffs undesirable from his standpoint, which is an interesting point.. Though I wouldn't think a Bounty Hunter should be too concerned with morals.. .

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/agree

Yeah I thought about that too. I'm worried about using drugs and alcohol while going around taking out bounties on folks (remember there are no dead or alive bounties. . . only dead).

But I'm one of the GOOD guys. These are mean bad people who don't eat their veggies. . . they NEED to go down.

I'll have to remember what I'm asking for from you guys the next time I take a bounty from a hutt tokill offsomebody. On a side note the bounty messages always ends with a quote to tell the mark. From the hutt it's like "bantha poodo awwaa sleedo" or something

Regardless I would still like more food buffs. I wasincapped last night because I got hit with a spice downer in the middle of a fight with a sharnaff (10K HAM mob). I was helping some people kill them when boom spice downer hits and my mind pool drops to about 125 and my willpower and focus drop to about -125 or something (muon gold spice downer. . . gotta love it)

Needless to say one hit and I'm incapped. Should I have been more careful? Yeah, but I thought I could off the sharnaff before the downer kicked in. Then my beloved wrix dies and the sharnaff comes chasing after me.