Chef Archive

I think less than .20%

I've had 3 people contact me on my server all looking for advice because they were all holocron chefs.

Exactly.

How many have been on this board in the last few weeks?

I dont know but its starting to piss me off, the dev's come up with the stupidest ideas I have ever seen, this Holocron crap rates up there as their worst idea. My cat is more clever.

There are only 3 active master chefs on Flurry. There are (that i have counted) 4 more chefs which are holocron hunters.

There are more people than you can imagine who are blindly following the holo carrot. I'm certain they are skewing the numbers of novices in professions like Chef, Squad Leader, etc where one player can actually affect the percentage.

Recently I've seen 2 active masters, and 4 holocron novices on Ahazi. These numbers could be low on either side, because I'm not all seeing (but almost!). There are probably a couple 2nd account mules in there that have master chef that i don't know about also.

Nah, I doubt holocron chefs really scew the numbers much. I doubt there are enough people taking up classes because of holocrons to really make a difference in the numbers and even if they are, they're taking up all kinds of professions, not just chef.

Yeah, I agree with all of this. Every time I come here and read a "plz give me advice; I'm a 13 year old with an atst who farmed a holocron," it makes me want to scream. I play this profession because I like it, not because I'm going to get some tangible benefit and am using it as a stepping stone.

I think it goes deeper than that, though. I was under the impression that this magical, mystical way to unlock a fs slot would make me go, "Oh, man, what a GOOD IDEA." But mastering a bunch of professions? Screw that. That's not cool, or interesting, or whatever. Boooooo to the devs. I've read a lot more creative things on the forums for "what unlocking the fs slot could be" than what it actually is.

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RoseMercedes wrote:

Yeah, I agree with all of this. Every time I come here and read a "plz give me advice; I'm a 13 year old with an atst who farmed a holocron," it makes me want to scream. I play this profession because I like it, not because I'm going to get some tangible benefit and am using it as a stepping stone.

I think it goes deeper than that, though. I was under the impression that this magical, mystical way to unlock a fs slot would make me go, "Oh, man, what a GOOD IDEA." But mastering a bunch of professions? Screw that. That's not cool, or interesting, or whatever. Boooooo to the devs. I've read a lot more creative things on the forums for "what unlocking the fs slot could be" than what it actually is.

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I said it once I will say it again, my cat is more clever, and she spends all day throwing up and licking her butt.

I'm actually sort of a Holocron chef on Flurry. I originally started as a Chef and got to Entrees II before abandoning the profession to take up architect. I'll probably start the slow progress through chef when I finish DE which I'm slowly going up the skill trees on by making and selling droids/chasis rather than doing any grinding. Chef was ugly back when I first played with it and it doesn't appear it's gotten any easier. I hate grinding with practice on but it appears to be the only realistic way to do Chef.

All my friends laughed when they found out I got Chef as it's very ironic that it was my original profession. After I'd finished DE I was thinking of taking it up again even before I used the Holocron just cause I really liked making food before, but just hated the insane grind to reach mastery.

If only Tatooine Sunburns had been common knowledge back in the first 2 weeks the game went live I'd have probably stuck with Chef, but I didn't ever see a mention of it and it was very depressing how bad the food buffs were at novice and in the first two Entrees boxes.