WoW Cooking Leveling Guide

This WoW Cooking Leveling Guide will show you the fastest way to level your cooking skill from 1 to 450. I recommend everyone level their cooking to 450 as it allows you to make food that is extremely helpful to you and your groups. You should pick up cooking as soon as you possibly can while leveling your character (there are usually cooking trainer in every inn).  The benefits include additional stamina (health) and spirit (health and mana regeneration).  At later levels the recipes you create will also provide spellpower, attack power and strength among other things.

This WoW cooking leveling guide uses a lot of vendor bought recipes... so be prepared to travel a lot because you have to buy cooking recipes and farm meats, eggs, etc. while you are leveling this profession.

Blizzard recently did away with the use of spices in cooking, so you won't have to worry about picking those up anymore.  I think this is great, as it saves you money in the long run.

Getting Started

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The first thing you'll need to do while using this WoW Cooking leveling guide is to visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth and train Apprentice Cooking- just ask a guard where the Cooking Trainer is, head over to them and learn Apprentice Cooking.  Trainers can also be found in just about every Inn in the game if you aren't near a major city.

1-80

• 1 - 40 - 60 x [Spice Bread] - 60 [Simple Flour], 60 [Mild Spices]

If you're Horde and plan on questing around Silvermoon City and The Ghostlands, I would recommend picking up the [Recipe: Lynx Steak] from Landraelanis in Eversong Woods. You'll be getting plenty of [Lynx Meat] while questing around out there.

• 40-80 - 40 x [Smoked Bear Meat] - 40 [Bear Meat]. Wolves and bears usually inhabit the same areas in Azeroth, so kill both and you can cook [Spiced Wolf Meat], also.

  At 75, you have to visit your trainer in order to to learn Journeyman Cooking.

80 - 225

• 80 - 130 - Go to Ashenvale, and head to the Zoram Strand, where the sea is (north-west area of the map).  Kill the Naga and other creatures on the beaches to collect clams which will contain clam meat.

  [Boiled Clams] - 1 [Clam Meat] , 1 Refreshing Spring Water - Clam Meat can be found in [Small Barnacled Clam]
  [Crab Cake] - 1 Crawler Meat

  Alliance: Alliance players can buy the recipe for Cooked Crab Claw, because the Crawlers you will kill drop [Crawler Claw] as well. Don't sell the Crawler Claw!

  [Cooked Crab Claw] - 1 Crawler Claw

• 130 - 175 - The Raptors in Stranglethorn Vale, The Wetlands and Arathi Highlands will drop [Raptor Flesh] and [Raptor Eggs] so don't sell or destroy the Raptor Flesh, because you will need those in the next step of the Cooking guide. In the meantime, collect 50 Raptor Eggs so make: 50 x [Curiously Tasty Omelet] - 50 [Raptor Egg], 50 Hot Spices

• 175 - 225 - Now it's time to cook 50 x [Roast Raptor] - 50 [Raptor Flesh] to get you up to 225

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At 200, go to your cooking trainer and learn Artisan Cooking.

• 225 - 250 - 25 x [Monster Omelet] - 25 Giant Egg
• 250 - 285 - 40 x [Juicy Bear Burger] - 40 [Bear Flank]
• 285 - 300 - 15 x [Smoked Desert Dumplings] - 15 [Sandworm Meat]

To get this cooking recipe, you have to complete a quest chain first.

Go to Outland and learn Master Cooking from Gaston in Honor Hold, Hellfire Peninsula (Alliance) or Baxter in Thrallmar, Hellfire Peninsula (Horde).

• 300 - 325 - Now you'll have to buy a [Master Cookbok] in order to continue this Cooking guide.

  30 x [Ravager Dog] - 30 [Ravager Flesh]

  or

  30 x [Buzzard Bites] - 30 [Buzzard Meat]

  You have to complete a quest chain for this the Buzzard Bites recipe.

  1. Ravager Egg Roundup
  2. Helboar, the Other White Meat
  3. Smooth as Butter

• 325 - 350

  You have 3 choices now. I say, farming Talbuk Venison and Clefthoof Meat is a lot easier than the Warped Flesh, because they are both in Nagrand, but you might need the Warp Burger for raiding.

  35 x [Talbuk Steak] - 35 [Talbuk Venison ]
  35 x [Roasted Clefthoof] - 35 [Clefthoof Meat]
  35 x [Warp Burger] - 35 [Warped Flesh]

Go to Nothrend and learn Cooking from any of the Grand Masters.

• 350 - 365 - Get the Northern Cooking quest and complete it. It requires 4 Chilled Meat. Completing this quest will teach you how to create [Northern Stew]

  20 x [Northern Stew] - 20 Chilled Meat

• 365 - 400 - The Cooking trainer will teach you a lot of recipes which will go green at 382 skill and grey at 415 skill. Any of these recipes are good for skilling up Cooking, but I recommend [Rhino Dogs]. There are a lot of Rhinos around Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra, and they respawn really quickly.

  50 x [Rhino Dogs] - 50 [Rhino Meat]

• 400 - 425 - Every cooking recipe beyond this point will be purchased with [Dalaran Cooking Awards], which are obtained by completing the daily cooking quest given by 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.

  You should cook the recipe that you will use for raiding. Choose one recipe from these, and make that until you reach 425. The recipes are sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) and Misensi (Horde).

• 425 - 450 - [Gigantic Feast] or [Small Feast]. Both recipes are sold by the NPCs mentioned above.

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