This thing is basically a psycological trick in order to always get the conjured food from mages.
Personally I do lots of PVP nowadays farming BG's and arena but dueling most of my time to up my skill. However I am a lazy farmer and don't have much food which I use HEAVILY.... crba to buy it...
Usually when you ask a mage to trade food, they will tell you either: nothing by not replying OR 100g or some other crazy amount OR fck off OR they can give it to you if they are friendly ( not trying to be a sarcast but most of them never give you without giving you trouble ).
What I found works 100% of the time ( never had it rejected ) is to duel a mage on purpose even if you don't want to fight him at all, and before the duel starts you say " trade food or else can't fight " , and you will ALWAYS get the food which you can use for the rest of your duels with other people and save gold on it. twocents
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