Taste Identification

Summary

• Used to determine if a food item is Poisoned
• Also used in the Plant system where players use the Taste Identification skill and a Planter's Spade to attempt to determine the Ideal values for Heat, Water, and Soil
• Whenever players have Food Satisfaction from eating food, they gain increased mana regeneration & swing speed
• Skill Cooldown for using the TasteID skill on Food is 2 seconds

Poisoning and Taste ID

• Player-applied Poison (from spells or weapons) to a creature will have its damage increased by (100% * (Taste Id Skill / 100)) patch Feb 14,2020
• Player-applied Poison (from spells or weapons) to a creature will reduce that creature's Poison Resistance value to (50% * (Taste Id Skill / 100)) of normal (i.e. a Taste ID skill of 100 reduces a 50% Poison Resistance to 25% Poison Resistance)
• Will reduce the chance that a player's Poison spell is resisted by (50% * (Taste Id Skill / 100)) of normal (can stack with Poisoning skill effect)
• The Taste ID skill reduces the chance for a target to cure Poison by (50% * (Taste ID Skill / 100))
• Read more about this topic on the Poisoning page

Food Satisfaction

• Players can eat food every 60 seconds and upgrade their Food Satisfaction to a higher bonus type
• Satisfaction Bonuses received from Food will now use whichever skill is higher between a player's Cooking skill or Taste Identification skill
  • The Add. Bonus is not active while PvP Flagged

Mana Regen

• Food Satisfaction bonus is calculated by the Highest Skill between Taste Identification and Cooking.

Type	% Chance for 2 Mana Regen	Add. Bonus
Measly	2.5%	+ 5% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Paltry	5%	+ 10% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Meager	10%	+ 20% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Adequate	15%	+ 30% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Appetizing	20%	+ 40% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Delectable	25%	+ 50% * (Highest Skill / 100)

• If the player is actively Meditating, the chance is reduced to 50% of normal

Swing Speed Bonus

• Food Satisfaction bonus is calculated by the Highest Skill between Taste Identification and Cooking.

Type	Swing Speed Bonus	Add. Bonus
Measly	+0.5%	+ 1% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Paltry	+1%	+ 2% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Meager	+2%	+ 4% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Adequate	+3%	+ 6% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Appetizing	+4%	+ 8% * (Highest Skill / 100)
Delectable	+5%	+ 10% * (Highest Skill / 100)

Herbal Poultice Bonus

• Players with Taste ID gain a Herbal Poultice Bonus, they have a (50% * (Taste ID skill / 100)) chance to ignore any damage from a Poison, Bleed, or Disease tick
  • Currently there is sadly no way to see if the buff is active
• as of the Patch from January 26th you can no longer apply that buff to other Players and you can no longer target the Ground while using Taste ID

Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Use Taste Identification on food in New Player Dungeon
80-120	Use Taste Identification on food