Cooking in Chrono Odyssey

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Cooking is a core life mastery done at town Cooking Stations. It turns plants, meat, and fish into Food, Drinks, and Feasts that grant timed combat and utility buffs (regen, offense, defense, resistances, etc). Recipes support optional materials to tweak potency, a quantity slider for batch crafting, and a small gold fee per dish. Every craft awards Cooking Mastery XP and a bit of class XP, so Cooking doubles as progression and a staple prep step for raids, PvP, and long farming routes.

• Categories: Food, Drink and Feast
• Tier and level: shown per recipe (Tier 1, Lv. 1)
• Effect text and item cooldown (1.0)
• Rewards per craft: Cooking Mastery XP and class XP
• Optional materials slot (Mistshroom)
• Quantity slider for batch crafting
• Gold cost per craft and total for the batch

This is one of the many staple meals you can spam to level Cooking while keeping a cheap regen buff rolling.

• Effect: recovers HP and adds +6 HP/sec for 30 minutes
• Cooldown: 1.0
• Observed rewards: +30 Cooking Mastery XP, +11 class XP (Ranger in the capture)
• Optional material: Mistshroom (consumed if you slot it)
• Batching: quantity slider, total gold cost updates as you craft

Ingredients come from many ways in this game, largely by killing any kinds of animals, then looting them. This doubles as helpful, since you the skins from the animals are extremely important for other Life Skills as well. Fishing is another great way to obtain those poweful buffs, but alsoa cheap way to funnel your cooking. Make sure to keep a steady pantry by processing in town between sessions and remember that you can cook with the materials in your storage. You don't need to have the materials in your inventory.

• Plants/fungi using Sickle: herbs, grains, mushrooms
• Meat using Butchery Knife: raw cuts, looted from animals, then processed.
• Fish using Fishing Rod, whole fish into fillets, oils, other food.
• Processed reagents at the Processing Bench: oils, grits, syrups
• Optional materials or special items like Mistshroom to greatly modify outcomes

Leveling Cooking is one of the easier Life Masteries to level. You simply run a tight loop: stockpile common ingredients while questing and running around (herbs, mushrooms, basic meats, small fish), bulk process those reagents in town (oils/syrups/cuts), then batch cook the cheapest Tier appropriate recipe in stacks of 10–20 using the quantity slider. Favor recipes that use two common mats to avoid bottlenecks, craft directly from storage to skip bag shuffling, and cook during any downtime. Save rare ingredients and optional materials for the powerful dishes, so you can significantly buff yourself up before fighting those dangerous Chrono Gate bosses or once you reach higher tiers, where the same spend yields stronger dishes. If you hit an herb or meat shortage, pivot to another cheap recipe in the same tier instead of overpaying on the market; the goal is XP per gold, not perfection per plate.

1. Gather broadly while questing (plants, meat, fish)
2. Process reagents in bulk to stock a pantry
3. Batch cook with the quantity slider
4. Match buffs to content: raids (offense), PvP (DR/CC), routes (stamina or regen)

Some rules are visible now; others need confirmation as builds change.

• Items have a use cooldown (e.g., 1.0)
• Typical duration example: 30 minutes
• Stacking with drinks/feasts and death persistence: TBD

Cook what solves pain points. Offensive raid meals, DR/CC for PvP, and route foods for grinders usually move fastest.

• Price against materials and gold fees; batch to reduce friction
• Confirm Trading Post rules (bind on use/equip) before mass-cooking

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This Guide has been written by Crix, a long time tester for Ashes of Creation, with over 1,000 hours playing the game, and a majority of the time being spent on Mages. He is in the guild Enveus and hosts multiple PvP Tournaments. You can find his Ashes of Creation guides on YouTube and his stream on Twitch.