Is cooking useful? Should I be looking into this more, or is it really just an RP/something-to-do thing?

As it seems now, potions are far superior to the few things I've been able to cook up, so I no longer even bother to pick up food from barrels.

Its more of a Role-play thing.

You can use it to abuse shield bashing; so you can stun lock and kill most enemies fairly quickly. Faster than using destruction magic at least. :laugh:

If you like to roleplay a bit, then you should look more into this, because as far as i know, this is more of a RP thing than a normal usefullness thing.