Just race changed to Earthen after completing the quest and noticed that the active variation of the racial Ingest Minerals is not in the spell book and can’t be activated using /cast Ingest Minerals. Has anyone else run into this issue yet or have a fix?
Edit: Not a bug. Only cut gems can be ingested by Earthen. Raw gems must be cut before ingested.
It’s not an active ability. It just lets you eat certain gems to change which stat your always-on well fed buff gives. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
ah okay. It has to be a cut gem of a certain color. I tried using a raw onyx and it wasn’t usable. Thanks!
Yeah it’s a bit confusing. I haven’t started one yet. Are you completely unable to eat regular food? If so how can you recover health/mana out of combat?
atm it won’t let me eat or drink items bought from the innkeeper. The message “Earthen cannot consume traditional food or drink.” appears. Mage food might be different though
Yeah I read that as well on icy veins. That would seem to put you at a disadvantage recovering health/mana out of combat though. There must be something else you can do.
eating cut gems restores health and mana, but it’s definitely a lot pricier than regular food/water lol
Right, but the cut gems also change your well fed buff. Maybe I’m missing something…like how they’re supposed to recover out of combat. You can’t stop and drink for mana in a dungeon as a healer.
So?
so this is not a bug. The topic can be closed
so, how can I recover mana as a healer in a dungeon? they cant expect me use gems for it right?
If mana only food does not work, and mage food does not work, then you gotta gobble up some rocks.
Does the quality of the gem affect anything?
This racial only allows you to gain secondary stats or stamina but food this expansion allows one to gain primary stat. Given that you can’t eat either it appears that being Earthen is a literal throughput loss. Any plans to address this?
Mage food works, just confirmed it. No other food seems to work though, nor water. I have no idea how were going to get mana back if we need it.
Yeah no not being able to drink for mana in dungeons is absolutely awful, also the feasts giving primary stat and earthen buff only giving secondary is insanely bad. Blizzard needs to change this asap
how difficult is this going to make soloing as a warrior who can’t self-heal?
Right now, you can’t. DO NOT play an Earthen as a healer. The only viable class right now is mage, because I hear they can eat mage food.
Yeah, but what about outside of battle near death? you need to wait 35 seconds to be at 35% health, and then another 20 seconds to be at full health? that’s a lot of down time.