Originally posted by Smetrix:

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Dodging, footwork, root harnesk, bonemass power and frost weapons exist. If you're doing two stamina foods, you should not be trying to parry each blow from high rank mobs in mistlands. The choice is yours.

Or they could reward good parrying regardless of what foods you are using, instead of forcing meta playstyles just to have a semi decent time.

Using appropriate amount of appropriate type of food is not metagaming, it's core gameplay feature.