Food and Potions

Quickly I would like to mention how great I think it is that AoC makes food and potions immediately and easily available, being purchasable from vendors everywhere at every level.

However, I find it sad to see players not making use of it.. I don't know if its overlooked or if people are just being stingy. Anyway, food buffs last an hour and give +max and regen out of combat. You can get them in the flavors of Health, Stamina or Mana (which is useless, for us, and doesn't even show up in the tooltip). Potions give an initial burst of a stat, health or stamina, then provide a 1 minute buff of regen (including in combat).

And the best part is, they stack. You can have one food buff for health and health regen and one for stam and stam regen. You can also pop a health and stamina potion at the same time, the over time regen stacks and they do not share a cooldown.

There are different varieties of foods, offering various balances of +Stat and Regen.. some having +100 stat and 5 regen, some having +80 stat and +15 regen. I tend to favor those that give the most +max as I can always rest out of combat to regen, and having a bigger stam pool gets things dead faster :P

One of the EASIEST ways to give your barbarian a nice advantage is to always have your food buffs up and use potions liberally. They're cheap. You have nothing better to spend your money on.