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Skills to Pay the Bills: Cooking
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Skills to Pay the Bills
is a three-part feature that will cover the important details of leveling the secondary tradeskills of Fishing, First Aid and Cooking in Wrath of the Lich King. These posts are written for the player entering Northrend with all secondary professions already maxed (at 375 skill). For information on leveling tradeskills prior to 375, check out the
Profession Leveling Guides
sticky on our
forums
!
Part 3: Cooking
Before I become the
Cooking Mama
of Northrend for you, I'll get my opinion right out, right now - leveling
Cooking
is at least five times more annoying than it ever was before Wrath of the Lich King.
Once upon a time I had this fantasy of becoming the
Realm First! Cooking Grand Master
on my realm, being the first player to reach 450 cooking. This dream was shattered by a terrible cooking leveling system relying on reagents and recipes obtained only via completing daily quests and a (now hotfixed) awful specialized meat drop rate. Early in Wrath, nearly every beast-type mob dropped
Chilled Meat
at a very high rate. As a result, the specialized types of meat (such as Shoveltusk Flank or Worm Meat) had a significantly lower drop rate (like 10-20% depending on the type of meat). What did this mean for our intrepid hero aiming to be the Iron Chef of Northrend?
FARMING. And LOTS of it. (Yeah, yeah - I know they removed that awesome 'Iron Chef' title, too.)
Since every recipe that actually levels your skill past 415 requires specialized meat (and in the case of the '
Feasts
', requires a
lot
of it) I found myself farming literally 10-12 hours a day in obscure locations trying to obtain enough meat for MAYBE one or two skill points. Since every recipe in the game goes green by 437 skill, I can't even express how frustrating it was to farm materials for 30-40
Small Feasts
and get one, maybe two skill points because Blizzard decided (for whatever reason) to make these last few points as excruciating as possible. Now, thankfully, you guys won't have it nearly so bad - though it's still bad. Most mobs which drop specialized meat have had the Chilled Meat completely removed from their drop tables, and as a result will now have a higher chance of dropping the meat you actually want. This should cut the time required to gather materials for crafting significantly, though you are still stuck with green recipes.
Now that you've gotten an idea of the lovely world of cooking in Wrath of the Lich King, here's how you, too, can be on your way to wanting to shove Chilled Meat in the ears and nose of every Blizzard developer. I kid, I kid. (OR DO I!)
Becoming a Master Cook!
Upon arriving in Northrend at either
Borean Tundra
or
Howling Fjord
, you can find a
Grand Master Cooking Trainer
inside the Inn. The trainer will teach you Master skill of cooking provided your skill is 300 or higher. Since this guide is aimed at those who have already previously mastered the culinary arts, I'm going to assume you have 375 skill going into it. The trainer will also give you a quest,
Northern Cooking
, which simply requires 4 Chilled Meat, found on nearby beasts. Completing this quest will teach you how to create
Northern Stew
, a very simple recipe that goes green at 365 skill but will be required to complete a later Cooking daily quest. Upon completing this quest and training the recipes available to you - congratulations, you've learned every trainer recipe. You won't find any other recipes on trainers or normal vendors anywhere in Northrend. Every cooking recipe beyond this point will be purchased with
Dalaran Cooking Awards
, which are obtained by completing the daily cooking quest given by the
Grand Master Cooking Trainers of Dalaran
,
Katherine Lee
(Alliance) or
Awilo Lon'gomba
(Horde). And you're going to need them and a ton of
Northern Spices
to level past 425 skill.
The Easy Part (375 - 415)
The Cooking trainer will teach you a plethora of recipes which will go green at 382 skill and finally gray at 415 skill - any of these recipes will have the same chance of skilling you up. These recipes require only 350 cooking to learn so you can pick any one of them to level from. Ideally, if you happen to also be a fisherman (of 380 skill or higher) you could go with a fishing recipe such as
Grilled Sculpin
(if you started in Borean Tundra) or
Pickled Fangtooth
(if you started in Howling Fjord). You will probably catch other fish in the area that can also be cooked for skill-ups. If you're not much of a fisherman, you can just as easily farm mobs for meat (which should be easier now with the Chilled Meat change) and should craft either
Shoveltusk Steak
(Howling Fjord) or
Rhino Dogs
(Borean Tundra). You should find the different types of specialized meat much eaiser to farm now, I haven't done it since it was excruciatingly terrible and you can't make me go back! Every recipe you know will now be gray except for
Feast
- which will be green until 425 skill but requires a ton of meat per craft. You won't get a skillup on every green craft (maybe once every 10 if you're lucky), so I'd recommend avoiding taking this painful path to 425 and simply completing the cooking dailies to purchase new recipes beyond 415 skill.
The Hard Part (415 - 450)
Once you've reached 415, you've pretty much exhausted your options of skilling up off trainer-taught recipes (with the exception of Feast, but Feast sucks). Also every recipe will be green, which means a drastically reduced chance of earning skill-ups.
Cooking Supplies
vendors found near the Cooking daily questgivers in Dalaran sell new recipes that can be purchased for 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards. As I mentioned above,
Dalaran Cooking Awards
are awarded for completing one of the five new Cooking daily quests (one daily even awards two) which can be obtained by anyone with 350 Cooking or higher. You also have a small chance of receiving a additional Dalaran Cooking Awards out of the
Small Spice Bag
rewarded by the quests. These spice bags will also usually contain Northern Spices, a necessary reagent for the crafting of any Cooking recipe past 400 skill. If you want to reach 450 Cooking, expect to complete the daily every day in order to obtain the Spices necessary to cook the plethora of food required for those skill points. The Northern Spices are not BoP so you can complete the daily on other characters or have some guildmates help out (if they actually have the 350 cooking skill required). At this point, every single recipe will be either green or gray (which is totally useless) so expect to do a lot of farming for a lot of meat/fish for your skill points. You can also expect to regularly run out of Northern Spices - so keep doing the daily!
Cooking Dailies
There are five Cooking dailies total, one of which will
randomly
be available each day:
Cheese for Glowergold
This quest asks you to collect 6
Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses
and
Aged Dalaran Limburger
for the provided
Empty Cheese Serving Platter
to create a smelly, half-consumed platter of joy for
Ranid Glowergold
at Legendary Leathers. The wine glasses are found with most abundance resting on tables at the Legerdemain Lounge, and the cheese can be looted off tables at One More Glass, the shop right across the road.
Convention at the Legerdemain
This quest asks you to bring 12
Northern Stew
and a
Jug of Wine
to
Arille Azuregaze
at the Legerdemain Lounge in Dalaran. In order to have the recipe required to complete this quest you must have completed the
Northern Cooking
quest offered by a Master Cooking Trainer. Easy quest, though it will require 12 Chilled Meat. The Jug of Wine can be looted from any sparkling
full jug of wine
found in Dalaran's cheese shop, One More Glass.
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf
This quest asks you to use 4
Infused Mushrooms
and 2 Chilled Meat with the provided
Meatloaf Pan
to make some tasty
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf
(yuck) for
Orton Bennet
at Curiosities & Moore. The mushrooms can be found anywhere around Dalaran's Underbelly as lootable objects, and are generally pretty easy to find unless there are a lot of people working on the quest at the same time.
Mustard Dogs!
This quest asks you to use 4
Rhino Dogs
(requiring 4
Rhino Meat
) and 4
Wild Mustard
with the provided
Empty Picnic Basket
to make a delicious basket of Mustard Dogs to bring to
Archmage Pentarus
at Krasus' Landing. The Rhino Meat can be found on any rhino in Northrend and the
Wild Mustard
is a lootable plant found in grassy areas of Dalaran. This quest can be exceptionally annoying as there are only a few spawn points throughout the city, so you may have to wait for plants to respawn. It's worth it, though, as this quest awards two Dalaran Cooking Awards instead of one!
Sewer Stew
This quest asks you to fill the provided
Stew Cookpot
with 4
Crystalsong Carrots
and 4 Chilled Meat, and bring it to
Ajay Green
located in Dalaran's Underbelly. I
hate
this quest. The
Crystalsong Carrots
can be found as lootable nodes normally located below Dalaran, by the river in
Crystalsong Forest
and can be obscenely difficult to see, even with the sparkles. Also, they seem to have a bit of a respawn time so be prepared to fly (or walk) around quite a bit if other players are working on the quest at the same time.
So once you've started doing the cooking dailies you will be earning Dalaran Cooking Awards which you can use to purchase new recipes. Basically every recipe has the same chance of earning you skill-ups, with the exception of the
Gigantic Feast
and Small Feast recipes which don't go green until 437 but require 425 skill to learn. The "higher level" green recipes (ie. the higher level at which the recipe went green) will be more likely to give you skill-ups than a "lower level" one, however, the materials required for the Feasts can lead to a lot more farming.
As I mentioned before, you will need Northern Spices for every recipe beyond 415, be sure that you are completing the Cooking daily quest every day in order to build a decent supply of the spices (you will get anywhere from 2-5 per day). Also, if raising your skill is your main priority you can purchase 10 Northern Spices at the recipe vendor for a cost of one Dalaran Cooking Award. Be sure that you have first purchased the recipe(s) you would like to make in order to raise your skill! At this point you're basically cooking whatever you prefer (and ideally, since you're using Northern Spices, something you can sell/use) so good luck on getting those last points!
Cooking Achievements
Dalaran Cooking Awards
This achievement has 5 ranks and will be awarded for obtaining
one
,
10
,
25
,
50
and finally
100
Dalaran Cooking Awards
. Hope you get lucky with your
Small Spice Bag
!
Grand Master Cooking
This achievement has five ranks and will be awarded for each level of Cooking that you train -
Journeyman
,
Expert
,
Artisan
,
Master
and finally
Grand Master
!
Captain Rumsey's Lager
For this achievement, you must "brew up" some
Captain Rumsey's Lager
. This recipe can randomly be contained in the
Bag of Fishing Treasures
awarded by
Old Man Barlo
's
fishing daily quests
, which can be obtained outside of
Shattrath City
.
Chef de Cuisine
This achievement has five ranks, awarded for learning 25 (
Lunch Lady
), 50 (
Short Order Cook
), 75 (
Chef de Partie
), 100 (
Sous Chef
) and finally 160 (
Chef de Cuisine
) cooking recipes. At this time, there are not 160 cooking recipes available in-game so this achievement cannot be completed. However, when Patch 3.0.8 goes live two "missing" recipes will be added to the game and this achievement will be possible.
Critter Gitter
This achievement is rewarded for using
Critter Bites
on 10 critters within 3 minutes of less. A relatively easy achievement, though the
Recipe: Critter Bites
must be purchased using
Dalaran Cooking Awards
so you will either have to purchase it yourself or have another cook craft the Bites (which require 400 skill). This achievement can easily be compeltely in critter-crowded zones such as the Deeprun Tram or
Howling Fjord
/
Borean Tundra
.
Dinner Impossible
This achievement is rewarded for presenting a
Great Feast
in each of the 5 PVP battlegrounds. Since the Great Feasts are Bind on Pickup you will have to learn and cook them yourself. This recipe (
Feast
) is obtained from any
Grand Master Cooking Trainer
at 375 skill.
Kickin' It Up A Notch
This achievement is awarded for completing each of
The Rokk
's four cooking daily quests. The Rokk can be found in
Shattrath
's Lower City and all of the quests require Burning Crusade meat and traveling. Hopefully you'll get lucky and get all of the quests you need for it in a short time.
Our Daily Bread
Same deal as above, only this time you must complete each of the five
Dalaran
cooking daily quests, which are given by
Katherine Lee
(Alliance) or
Awilo Lon'gomba
(Horde). Another random chance achievement, so the only difficulty is in getting lucky with the randomized daily quests.
Second That Emotion
For this achievement you must eat each of the four "emotion" foods which added in Wrath of the Lich King:
Bad Clams
,
Last Weeks Mammoth
,
Haunted Herring
,
Tasty Cupcake
. The recipes to craft these (*cough*useless*cough*) snacks are Bind on Pickup random world drops with a rather high drop rate. Unlike the Feasts, these food items do not bind when created, and each craft creates five, so you may be able to score a food you don't have from a guildmate or other player.
The Cake Is Not A Lie
(Insert obligatory Portal joke here.) For this achievement, you have to cook a
Delicious Chocolate Cake
. This achievement is probably one of the harder ones to get just because of the completely random chance of receiving
Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake
from the cooking daily quest rewards. This recipe can be found in the
Barrel of Fish
or
Crate of Meat
rewarded for completing
The Rokk
's cooking daily quests. It also can be found inside the
Small Spice Bag
rewarded by the Dalaran cooking dailies, so at least you have two shots at getting the recipe!
The Northrend Gourmet
This achievement has three ranks, awarded for cooking
15
,
30
and finally
45
Northrend cooking recipes. This achievement suffers the same problem as
Chef de Cuisine
- there simply aren't enough recipes available in-game to be able to complete this achievement at this time. As such, you currently cannot complete the title-granting achievement
Hail to the Chef
.
Note: This is set to change in the upcoming patch, 3.0.8.
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The Outland Gourmet
This achievement requires that you cook
every
Outland cooking recipe - including those randomly looted from the
Shattrath City
cooking and fishing daily quest rewards.
The Rokk
's cooking daily quests are your only shot for
Recipe: Broiled Bloodfin
,
Recipe: Kibler's Bits
,
Recipe: Skullfish Soup
,
Recipe: Spicy Hot Talbuk
, and
Recipe: Stormchops
.
Recipe: Captain Rumsey's Lager
can only drop from the Shattrath fishing daily's
Bag of Fishing Treasures
and the
Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake
, as mentioned above, can be received from either the Shattrath or Dalaran cooking daily quest reward container. Thankfully, this achievement can actually be completed.
Hail to the Chef
Show the world your mad culinary skills by completing this achievement and you will be granted the title "Chef." It won't come easy, however - this achievement requires the completion of 11 Cooking achievements (20, if you count the prerequesite meta-achievements), one of which cannot currently be completed. :(
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