New Macc Food

tropical crepe

should bring down the price for marine stewpot by quite a bit. i'd say sad day for cooks but since the only new recipe cooks got from the shield KI was one that required fish... i guess a sad day for the fishboters.

This a great food for BLMs, RDMs and SCH. However, endgame trend tends to be more melee intense at the moment, so less usage of mage strategies. COR support is utilized much in Dyna D, so the 1 RDM support usually gets doused with the marine stewpot that the CORs use because Crocea Mors turns RDMs into melee support like melee BRDs and CORs. Melee support require both acc and macc of marine stewpots.

Some LSes are gravitating toward mage and marksmanship strategies. Dyna D bosses begin to murder melee DD toward the last 20ish% of health as the accumulated hate of each heavy DD does not dissipate with their deaths. So this new mage food should be a nice supplement for mage parties.

its pretty much the same macc bonus or even a little more as the marine stewpot yields so if you aren't after the acc+macc combo or want the group buffs for trusts there is little reason to buy the stewpot.

i wonder if you need the final or the one befor the final stage KIs to make the crepe.

if you don't then there is very little reason to get a stage 3 cooking shield. they also released a katana with cooking 2-3 which pretty much trumps the stage 3 shield.

New Hocho is MainHand Only, so it would work in concert with the shield, so unless that extra skill+1 from offhanding an old Hocho is breaking new tiers on high demand products you'd still be best off with the shield.

any idea on how to get the katana?

Drops from taisai's

A cheap macc food comparable to the acc on sushi? "About time" sums it up.

is this confermed? :)

hocho is +3 cooking skill and doesn't mention anything about main or offhand so you could equip the new one mainhand and the old hocho in offhand and end up with 1 more skill than phase 3 shield.

In all seriousness, this is the answer to your question:

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/53430/march-2019-version-update/7/#3416370

LVL 24-25 blacksmithing craft with cheap mats.

tyvm

lawl, thats such a slap in the faces of those who did a stage 3 shield.

There isn't much in the last 4 years that isn't a slap in the face. Every thing they do now slaps someone in the face.

(*) except bots

the cooking shield itself was already a huge slap in the face of cooks considering you have to do the exact same requirment for stage 4 even tho cooking offers no where near the gil potential other crafts do.

also you only get 1 extra recipe for each, the stage 3 and stage 4 KI. i think all the other crafts got multiple recipes and have less problems with competition.

Not even going to comment on the cooking shield, made it very clear how insulting that thing is plenty of times.

It's asinine.

While there was no change on our end, apparently the text for Hocho on the Japanese client now says:
Ｄ30 隔227 メインウェポン:調理スキル+3
Lv57～ 忍
Now, it's entirely possible that the mistake is on their end and not ours (though generally it doesn't play out that way), but assuming the error is on our end, that means there's no point to dual wielding hocho and debahocho. Also it means that since it's level 1 and all jobs (and easy to make) debahocho +1 basically invalidates the original hocho.

Not surprising. But also, there is nothing worth making (that I can think of) that +1 more skill would've broke a tier on anyway.

128 vs 127 Means you would've gotten t2 on nothing special, 95 (dragon steak) already t2 with +2 in the offhand.

(*)if marine stewpot is exactly 117 it matters, but we don't know its exact skill cap

Max is
110 skill
+3 for either katana
+2 for the shield or +3 for kupo shield
+1 for hat
+1 for body
+2 for neck
+5 for mega mog
+3 for advanced synth
So, 127 without kupo shield or 128 with it. But yes, 128 opens nothing of interest over 127.

(*) According to the jp wiki, Marine Stewpot is 116.