Cooking

Cooking has always been one of the most sought-after professions. At the same time, the profession is quite simple to level and to use afterwards, which makes it ideal for newcomers and for players who want to always have a relevant profession that allows you to earn gold nicely.

In particular, cooks can craft some of the most important consumables in the game — food that boosts various character stats. These can be feasts for raid groups (Silvermoon Parade), as well as food for a single character, which can either raise stats or grant another temporary effect.

Cooking has neither specializations nor a quality system for the items you craft. All trainer recipes will be available at skill level 85.

You can learn the profession from the cooking trainer in Silvermoon.

Sylann — Silvermoon

We've tried to provide you with the fastest and most economical way to level the profession, but you may need a bit more resources, since leveling a profession has a small degree of randomness. Some yellow and green recipes may not give the desired result, so keep a close eye on how many resources you have left after learning a given recipe.

To level up, you'll need to obtain the following ingredients:

1. A Big Ol' Stick of Butterx918
2. Pouch of Spicesx2724
3. Plant Proteinx100
4. Ripened Vegetable Assortmentx40
5. Mana-Wyrm Essencex10

A Big Ol' Stick of Butter , Pouch of Spices , Ripened Vegetable Assortment and Mana-Wyrm Essence can be bought from the cooking supplies vendor next to the profession trainer. This will cost you less than the auction house. At the auction house you'll only need to buy Plant Protein.

Once you have all the necessary ingredients, we start leveling the profession. You'll need to craft the following dishes:

• Level 1-35 Spiced Biscuits x43

You'll need A Big Ol' Stick of Butter x43, Pouch of Spices x99

• Level 36-75 Hearty Food (from Spiced Biscuits)

At skill 35 Hearty Food unlocks — the recipe takes 5 units of finished food and turns them into a "hearty" version. Keep baking Spiced Biscuits and converting them through this recipe. At skill 50 it will turn yellow, so alternate batches of biscuits and their conversion.

The cheapest way to push the skill to 100 is the same combo of Spiced Biscuits and Hearty Food. At skill 75 the recipe turns green, so you'll need a lot of biscuits — for the whole stretch of 36–100 it takes about 875 of them. Alternate crafting a batch of 50 biscuits and converting them into 10 portions of hearty food until you reach 100. Also at skill 75 you can learn Royal Roast and level through it — it's not faster, but along the way you make useful food to sell.

All the listed recipes are learned from the trainer in Silvermoon, except Flora Frenzy — it's granted by the quest Gomphusta in Harandar.

Feasts (learned at skill 85). They buff the whole group and are mandatory in a raid: they give +98 Stamina and either +50 to your primary stat or +65 to your highest secondary.

• Silvermoon Parade — +50 to your primary stat
• Harandar Celebration — +50 to your primary stat
• Blooming Feast — +65 to your highest secondary
• Quel'dorei Medley — +65 to your highest secondary

Food for your primary stat.

• Royal Roast / Impossibly Royal Roast — +65 to your primary stat
• Champion's Bento — +65 to your highest secondary

Food for secondary stats (+59 to the corresponding stat each).

• Critical Strike: Arcano Cutlets, Sun-Seared Lumifin
• Haste: Crimson Calamari, Fel-Kissed Filet
• Mastery: Glitter Skewers, Warped Wise Wings
• Versatility: Braised Blood Hunter, Buttered Root Crab