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Thread: Grinding to the top.
or.. try this. Has everything you need.. http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=chef&message.id=30185
Yes please read the FAQ's as we get sick of answering such questions.
I am in a good mood, however, so I'll give you a brief strategy.
Blap Biscuit to Desserts 1.
Pastebreat to Desserts 3.
Kiwik Clusjo Swirl to Master.
They all are fairly easy to gather resources for.
How to Grind Chef *
Ok, I achieved Novice Chef, crafted some more food, but I'm not getting any xp. *
The Chef profession uses a different type of experience than Artisan, only food schematics you gain from Chef skills give "Food Crafting" xp. Once reaching Novice Chef, you're limited to Air Cake, Alcohol, Almond Kwavuu Biscuits, Blap Biscuits, Medium Food Additives, and Soypro to earn Chef xp.
There is also a bug reported by several crafters after Publish 6 (2/12/04) where experience does not get added no matter what you craft. This appears to simply be a display problem; your earned xp is being tracked, just not added to the experience monitor. One workaround is to log out for 5-10 minutes, and log back in. At this point, you should show the xp that wasn't showing up before.
What gives the best xp? *
Novice Chef: Soypro, 10 cereal, 10 vegetable, 80 xp (84 in practice mode).
Desserts I: Pastebread, 20 wheat, 10 oats, 10 water, 160 xp (168 in practice mode).
Entrees I: Synthsteak: 20 vegetables, 20 cereal, 5 hide, 180 xp (189 in practice mode).
Desserts III: Kiwik Clusjo Swirl: 40 berries, 20 fruits, 20 water, 260 xp (278 in practice mode).
One trick to get faster xp at Novice is to actually create the soypro (don't use practice mode), then after you've made up a bunch, eat them all. Soypro is a component, so it has 0 filling, and you get UXP for eating the last dose of your own food. So instead of getting 84 xp by grinding in practice mode, you'll get 120 by crafting and eating it.
The simplest grind path is Soypro -> Pastebread -> Kiwik Swirl. I just threw in the synthsteak in case you happen to have a bunch of hides lying around and already have Entrees I.
What resources will I need? *
For soypro, vegetables and cereal. For Pastebread wheat, oats, and water. For Kiwik Swirl berries fruits and water.
To get from Novice Chef to Desserts I by grinding soypro in practice mode requires making 391 soypro, requiring 3910 vegetables and 3910 cereal. If you do the "craft and eat" method (getting you 120 xp instead of 84), you will make 267 soypro requiring 2670 vegetables and 2670 cereal.
To get from Desserts I to Desserts III grinding pastebread requires making 610 breads. This means you will need 12200 wheat, 6100 oats and 6100 water.
To get from Desserts III to Master Chef grinding Kiwik Swirl requires making 2464 swirls. So you'll need 98560 berries, 49280 fruits, and 49280 water.
So, the total grind resources are:
3.9k vegetables
3.9k cereal (any type)
12k wheat
6k oats
98.5k berries
49.3k fruits
55.4k water
Grisbane wrote:
Will the flood of Flavor of the Month Chefs ever end?
Well, Monday is a new month, maybe we'll get a new flavor.
I'm hoping for Chocolate.