World of Warcraft: Forever Cooking Guide

Cooking is a secondary profession that turns meat, fish, and other ingredients into food and drinks. This guide explains how to cook, how food buffs work in WoW Forever, which recipes are useful, and where to learn each Cooking rank. It also covers Cooking's campfire items and the Legacy perks that improve crafting, food buffs, and camping.

Cooking lets you prepare food that restores health or mana and provides temporary bonuses to your stats. As a secondary profession, you can learn it alongside both of your primary professions and the other secondary professions. You do not need Cooking to eat already prepared food, so you can make meals for yourself, share them with other players, or sell them on the Auction House.

WoW Forever gives many foods new bonuses, including an experience buff that makes Cooking useful throughout leveling. Later recipes provide stronger combat buffs, while others improve a profession or grant a special effect. Cooking also makes the campfire kits that let players establish and expand camps.

Learn Cooking from a trainer, open the Cooking window, and select a recipe you know. The recipe shows its required ingredients and how many items you can make with the materials you have. Most recipes require a nearby cooking fire; fireplaces, stoves, and other suitable fires can be found in towns and near Cooking trainers. You can also carry a Basic Campfire Kit and place your own campfire when you need one outdoors.

Meat usually comes from beasts, while fish come from Fishing. Some recipes use herbs, eggs, or other materials instead which are looted from monsters. Cooking Supplies and Trade Supplies vendors sell common ingredients such as Mild Spices, Hot Spices, and Soothing Spices. Check a recipe before buying materials, since not every dish requires spices.

Trainers teach some recipes, but many others come from recipe items sold by vendors, awarded by quests, or dropped by enemies. Learning the profession or a new rank does not automatically teach every recipe available at that skill level.

Cookie's Stirring Rod increases your Cooking speed by 25% while equipped. It drops from Cookie in the Deadmines and requires Level 17. As a wand, it can only be equipped by classes that can use wands.

The Master Chef Legacy perk gives your Cooking recipes a chance to produce an extra result, reaching 50% at maximum rank. This helps you get more finished food from your ingredients.

There are two additional Legacy talents that also help with Cooking. Working Overtime increases your chance to gain a profession skill point by up to 20%, and Dedicated Study grants one point in your lowest primary or secondary profession on a a 23-hour cooldown; it will increase your Cooking if Cooking is your lowest level profession.

Ordinary food and drinks must be used while out of combat, where eating restores health over time, and drinks restore mana. Many Cooking recipes also grant a longer-lasting benefit after you spend at least 10 seconds eating or drinking; wait for the buff to appear before moving on as using the item and immediately standing up will not give you the benefit.

Most food buffs last 15 minutes and the food's tooltip lists its specific bonus, so choose a meal that suits your class or current activity. For example, a damage dealer may want attack power or spell damage, while a player gathering herbs may prefer a Herbalism skill bonus.

Most foods in WoW Forever also grant Well Fed XP Boost, increasing experience gained from kills by 5% while the food buff is active. This bonus only applies to kill experience, rather than quest rewards. Look for the experience bonus in the item's tooltip when choosing food for leveling.

The Gourmand Legacy perk increases the duration of beneficial food effects by up to 100%. At maximum rank, a 15 minute food buff lasts 30 minutes; it extends the duration without increasing the amount of stats the food provides.

Cooking makes the campfires that other players can build around. Larger campfire kits allow more features to be placed at the same camp, giving the group room for additional buffs and profession services. Sit or craft near a camp for 1 minute to receive the benefits provided by the added features.

Carry finished campfire kits with you if you wish to set up a camp while traveling. Making a Basic Campfire Kit takes Simple Wood and requires a Flint and Tinder tool in your bags; the wood will be consumed when crafting the kit while the Flint and Tinder can be reusable.

Item	Effect	Required Skill	Source
Basic Campfire Kit	Creates a cooking fire with room for 3 additional camp features.	1	Cooking trainer.
Journeyman Campfire Kit	Creates a cooking fire with room for 5 additional camp features.	140	Blueprint: Journeyman Campfire, dropped by Lord Serpentis in Wailing Caverns.
Expert Campfire Kit	Creates a cooking fire with room for 10 additional camp features.	220	Blueprint: Expert Campfire
Cookie's Feast	Places a feast that supplies stamina-boosting food.	140	Blueprint: Cookie's Feast, dropped by Cookie in the Deadmines.
Iron Oven	Provides the workstation required by advanced Cooking recipes.	300	Blueprint: Iron Oven

Place camps outdoors while out of combat; they cannot be placed in dungeons or raids. Campfire kits share a 5-minute cooldown, while adding features such as Cookie's Feast or Iron Oven shares a 1-hour cooldown with other camp features.

Several useful foods require an Iron Oven, including Grilled Squid and Baked Salmon. You can cook beside an oven placed by another player as long as you know the recipe and meet its Cooking requirement; you will need 300 Cooking and the recipe if you want to place the oven yourself.

The Permanence Legacy perk increases the duration of benefits gained from resting at a camp by up to 100%. Field Guide reduces the cooldown on adding camp features by up to 25%, bringing the normal 1-hour cooldown down to 45 minutes. These perks improve camping benefits and feature cooldowns, while Gourmand improves the duration of the food you eat.

Bring the following ingredients to Dirge Quikcleave. You can collect or buy them before accepting the quest, allowing you to complete it as soon as you arrive in Gadgetzan.

Material	Quantity	Source
Giant Egg	12	Large birds, including rocs in Tanaris, or the Auction House.
Zesty Clam Meat	10	Open Big-mouth Clam from aquatic creatures, or buy the meat on the Auction House.
Alterac Swiss	20	Food vendors, including Ben Trias in Stormwind City and Innkeeper Abeqwa in Thousand Needles.

After turning in the ingredients, check that your Cooking skill cap has increased to 300. You can then continue learning and making recipes above 225 Cooking.

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