Cooking Guide for The War Within
This page covers the most important aspects of Cooking in The War Within, including talent builds and suggestions on how to make gold with the profession.
Cooking in The War Within
Cooking makes combat stat-boosting food, such as Stuffed Cave Peppers, profession stat-boosting food, such as Ghoulfish Delight, and feasts that can be used by a full raid group, such as Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.
You can also condense 5 food into a Hearty version which persists through death with the Hearty Food craft, or 10 feasts into a version that also persists through death with the Hearty Feast craft. These abilities replace Dragonflight's Alchemical Flavor Pocket for The War Within.
Best Race for Cooking in The War Within
Pandaren have +5 skill to Cooking with the Gourmand racial, and also benefit doubly from being well fed due to Epicurean.
Also, due to its high world material requirements, Cooking pairs well with farmer characters, such as Guardian Druid and Beast Mastery Hunter with Skinning, who will naturally be killing beasts that drop many of the materials and meats needed. Characters dedicated to Fishing will also be able to help with Cooking materials.
Best Crafting Stats for Cooking in The War Within
Food has no Quality, making Ingenuity useless, but it is still worth analyzing what Multicraft and Resourcefulness can do for Cooking, and which is the best gear and consumables you can get:
Leveling Cooking in The War Within
Increasing your skill with Cooking is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, but the endgame of the profession is in the search for all recipes, most of which are sold by specific vendors.
Best Cooking Specializations and Talents in The War Within
Cooking has no Specializations.
Making Gold with Cooking in The War Within
Ideally, Cooking allows you to convert cheap meat and fish into expensive stat food and feasts. Due to food's commodity nature it is very likely that the market will quickly get loaded with foods that are only marginally more expensive than the materials used to create them, but there will be much more demand for basic ingredients than usual due to the best foods requiring a massive amount of other weaker foods to be used in their creation, thus using a huge amount of ingredients.
We have a specialized guide for The War Within gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!
Changelog
- 26 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 27 Aug. 2024: Added information on Hearty meals.
- 23 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within launch.
- 18 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2022: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 27 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight.
- 18 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- 30 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 17 Nov. 2020: Guide added.
This guide has been written by Seksi, member of Arctic Avengers and healing aficionado. You can find him answering questions and discussing Restoration Shaman gameplay on the Ancestral Guidance and Earthshrine Discords.
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