Article by Sam K. Ward
Cooking as a profession became more popular with the WOTLK and BC expansions. Together with the First Aid and Fishing, Cooking belongs to the secondary professions and because of that it is purely optional, however, to level up Cooking can be really fun and this is the main reason why many WoW players decide to take it.
Why is cooking so interesting?
There is a number of players who want to level up Cooking for fun, to be able to make the best food in game, to do cooking achievements and receive the famous “Chef” title, and of course, because Cooking is a quite profitable profession. As you are able to notice, Cooking will give you many possibilities and fun things to do.
A perfect couple
Many players will tell you that Fishing and Cooking are indeed a perfect couple. These two professions, when paired, will speed up the levelling of Cooking and can bring you loads of profit even though you can level them both separately.
Become a Chef!
Chef is a popular title among the WoW players, however, it isn’t very easy to get it. If you are going for this title keep in mind that you will have to accomplish a list of different cooking achievements. Some of these achievements will require you to learn many recipes in Northrend as well as in Outland and to devote some time into doing the daily quests.
Why are the dailies so important?
In the BC expansion players were introduced to the cooking dailies which gave some gold and nice rewards to anyone who was regularly completing them. With the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, future Chefs were given new daily cooking quests found in Northrend’s capital Dalaran. An npc Katherine Lee found in the Silver Enclave is the one you should seek if you are and Alliance player who is up for doing dailies, while if you are a Hordie try visiting Awilo Lon’gomba in the Sunreaver’s Inn. These two npcs will offer you five different quests on a daily basis: Infused Mushroom Meatloaf, Cheese for Glowergold, Convention at the Legerdemain, Sewer Stew and Mustard Dogs!.
These quests will have some gold to offer you as a reward as well as the Small Spice Bag and a Dalaran Cooking Reward. In the bag you will always find a surprise such as an extra Dalaran Cooking Reward, Northern spices and sometimes you will be even lucky enough to receive a recipe. Sometimes you will be able to find some different kinds of spices like Baby Spice. This spice doesn’t have any practical use and is used just for fun since it can resize a targeted player and make him tiny!
All of the Dalaran Cooking Rewards you collect you are able to spend while purchasing new powerful cooking recipes. With a 100 of these you will be able to buy a special item the Chef’s hat and accomplish one of the cooking achievements – Cooking with Style. It might seem a bit expensive, but still, the Chef’s hat will allow a cook to prepare his food much faster. The Dalaran Cooking Rewards could be also used for purchasing more Northern spices which you need for your high level cooking. The food which you can make with the use of Northern spices is the best food in game and therefore it is worth quite a bit if sold on the Auction House.
Tips for fast dailies
Even though cooking dailies are random, it is nice to have some stacks of meat prepared in your bags. For the Mustard Dogs! daily you should have some Rhino Meat stacked and for the rest, plain Chill Meat will do just fine. If you farm these meats in advance you will surely save some time while doing dailies. If you manage to have these meats prepared, cooking dailies will take just a few minutes of your time.
If you want to get the most out of Cooking as a WoW Profession, then check out our WoW Cooking Guide for more on leveling your character and making tons of Gold, plus a video review of Dugi’s Dailies and a link to Penn’s Professions Guide one of the most comprehensive and coolest World of Warcraft Professions Guides available.
About the Author
Sam Ward writes articles and reviews for mywowlevelingguide.com on all aspects of WoW gaming. Sign up to our WoW Guide newsletter and 10 part mini course and receive a FREE 34 page Auction House Mastery eBook!
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