by Gregg Reece

As a dungeon runner, you don’t have the high requirements usually associated with raids, but there are a couple things you’ll want to keep an eye on. You’ll want to keep reasonably buffed, have some useful macros to fall back on, and have some addons to help organize some of the more procedural steps. Let’s take a look after the break.

Consumables:
For leveling up, generally you’ll just want to keep a good stash of food and water. I recommend learning to cook so that your food will at least boost your stamina up a little bit. Most low level food is primarily stamina and spirit buffs and a lot of them are rather lacking. There are exceptions to that rule, but generally that’s what you’ll see. A lot of holiday food items are pretty good as they will usually scale with your stats. Some holiday food items even have unique buffs to things like hit and defense.

Fishing is helpful for getting something to put over the cooking fire especially if you’re a die-hard dungeon runner and is pretty easy (if not boring) to skill up in and will keep you up to date with cooking supplies.

For secondary buffs on higher end food, if you need more hit, go with hit foods. If you need more threat, go with strength or attack power foods. Otherwise, use whatever consumables you have at your disposal. If you happen to be an alchemist, then try to make some potions, elixirs, or flasks that are useful to you. If you’re an engineer, then lob some dynamite during pulls. Blacksmiths, use those Sharpening Stones and get a little extra threat. Scribes can use the scrolls that they made for skill ups. For leveling dungeons, use what you have available to you. For raiding, you’ll probably want to be a little more precise about your choices.

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How you profit from the Cooking Profession will depend on which recipes you have chosen to buy and whether you have Fishing leveled along with Cooking.

The key to profiting from Cooking is the timing in which you use to sell your food. People will be interested in buying food for raiding and running instances, so ideally you want to place them for sale around 3pm-7pm server time as that is when the highest population is active. For the most part, it is generally not a good idea to advertise you are selling something via Trade Channel, but when it comes to food, it is recommended you advertise if done in the 3-7pm bracket. If you advertise during off-peak times, you may end up with more competition than sales.

Spending roughly 10 to 30 minutes a day gathering will keep the cashflow fruitful. Sometimes, if you have excess of one meat, you can sell the raw product along with cooked goods. There are always people leveling their cooking skill, and some willing to pay you for farming the stuff for them.

With Fishing

While you may be tempted to farm one specific type of fish, it is recommended that you farm multiple types for maximum profit. You will also need Northern Spices from the Cooking Dailies in order to combine these recipes. It shouldn’t take too long to fish up a stack or two per fish type, if your fishing skill is maxed. Spend roughly half an hour fishing and it should turn a very nice profit.

The more profitable Cooking with Fish recipes:

Firecracker Salmon / Snapper Extreme / Spicy Fried Herring / Spicy Blue Nettlefish / Poached Northern Sculpin / Dragonfin Filet / Cuttlesteak / Blackened Dragonfin

Along with the single-person buff foods listed above, the Fish Feast is easy to fish for and is very popular on raids. You can farm all that you need to make Fish Feasts in Wintergrasp (southern area suggested for least conflict from enemy players), you can farm enough fish to make a 20-stack of Feasts within roughly 20 minutes. Be sure to use a Fishing Lure to avoid wasted time fishing up Junk items.
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by Allison Robert

If you’ve leveled Cooking solely through the Pilgrim holiday, your character’s probably sitting on around 350-ish Cooking, give or take, and completing the meta is well within your grasp with some hard work and perseverance.

Grand Master Cook

You’ll need at least 350 Cooking Skill to train up the last rank, but as soon as you do, achievement — simple as that.

The Cake Is Not A Lie

For better or for worse, getting the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe is pure RNG (and until recently a buddy couldn’t complete the meta purely because she hadn’t gotten it to drop after more than a year). It’s a random reward from any of the Outland or Northrend Cooking dailies, so you can increase the odds of getting the recipe by doing both every day and just hoping it eventually shows up.

Once you’ve learned it, you’ll need the following:

• 8 Simple Flour: Purchased from any Cooking vendor.
• 4 Ice Cold Milk: Purchased from most innkeepers and lots of food vendors across classic Azeroth.
• 4 Mild Spices: Purchased from any Cooking vendor.
• 8 Small Egg: For Alliance, the most convenient place to farm these is off the moonkin in the caves east of Auberdine (Darkshore). For Horde, the most convenient place is off the dragonhawks in Eversong (outside Silvermoon).
• 1 Flask of Port: Purchased from most bartenders or alcohol vendors — hit the closest tavern.
• 3 Mageroyal: Herbalists can get these on their own, but otherwise, just hit the auction house.

All set? Bake it up, and you’ve got your achievement.

On a time-sensitive note (as I write this on December 1st), because Small Eggs are required for the upcoming Winter’s Veil dishes Gingerbread Cookie and Egg Nog, you may want to set a few aside for yourself if you haven’t already done the Winter’s Veil meta-achievement. They also sell very well during Winter’s Veil, so you can even stock up on them to make a killing on the AH as the holiday approaches.

Kickin’ It Up a Notch

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You are required to gather 4x Crystalsong Carrot and combine them with 4x Chilled Meat using the Stew Cookpot given to create Vegetable Stew.

The carrots can be found below Dalaran in Crystalsong Forest. You can fly down or take the Teleport to Violet Stand Crystal located in The Violet Gate (57, 46) in Dalaran. Once you have teleported down, you will want to scan around the trees closest to the river in the Western part of Crystalsong Forest, a prime location for Carrots is at the river’s bend (27, 43). Once you have gathered 4x Crystalsong Carrot, you will need to make a fire and combine them with 4x Chilled Meat using your Stew Cookpot. You can then fly or Teleport back up to Dalaran, located in the Violet Stand (15, 42) in Western Crystalsong Forest.

Once you are back in Dalaran, you will need to make your way to the Underbelly (Sewers) and hand your quest into Ajay Green (35, 57) at Cantrips and Crows.

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You are required to gather 4x Wild Mustard to combine with 4x Rhino Dogs using the provided Empty Picnic Basket to complete this quest.

The Wild Mustard can be found in the grassy areas throughout Dalaran:

• Krasus’ Landing (70, 44) in Eastern Dalaran
• Runeweavers Square (49, 46) in Central Dalaran
• The grassy areas surrounding The Violet Citadel (36, 49) in Western Dalaran

You must now combine 4x Rhino Meat into Rhino Dogs and use the Empty Picnic Basket to combine everything together to create the Mustard Dog Basket!.

Once you have the Mustard Dog Basket!, make your way to Krasus’ Landing (70, 44) in Eastern Dalaran to hand your quest in to Archmage Pentarus.

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You are required to gather 4x Infused Mushroom to combine with 2x Chilled Meat over a fire to complete this quest.

The Infused Mushroom are trackable by herbalists and can be found in the Dalaran Sewers. You can gain access to the Sewers through the tunnels (60, 47) and (35, 45) as well as down the Well located outside the North Bank (48, 32). Once you have made your way into the Sewers, you can search for the mushrooms, they are easily spotted as they are a blue-gray color. Once you have collected your mushrooms and have the Chilled Meat, you can combine them over a fire to create an Infused Mushroom Meatloaf.

Once you have the Infused Mushroom Meatloaf made, you must make your way to Curiosities & Moore (48, 57) in Southern Dalaran to hand your quest into Orton Bennet, he can be found upstairs.

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This Daily Cooking Quest requires you to have done the Northern Cooking Quest. You should have the ability as a cook to be able to make 4x Chilled Meat into Northern Stew. You will need to track down the Jug of Wine, which can be found on the floors or crates inside and outside of the shop “One More Glass” (53, 33) in Northern Dalaran.

Once you have picked up a Jug and made 4x Northern Stew you can go to the bar, The Legerdemain Lounge, directly across from the wine shop (48, 37) and hand your quest into Arille Azuregaze.

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You are required to gather 6x Half Full Glass of Wine and 1x Aged Dalaran Limburger and combine it with the provided Empty Cheese Serving Platter, given upon reciept of the quest.

The Half Full Glass of Wine can be found on tables and crates in various shops in Dalaran:

• The Legerdemain Lounge located in Northern Dalaran (50, 37) don’t forget to look upstairs as well
• One More Glass located in Northern Dalaran (53, 33)
• (Horde) The Filthy Animal (63, 32)
• (Alliance) A Hero’s Welcome in Southern Dalaran (43, 62)

You will also find the required Aged Dalaran Limburger in the One More Glass shop – look for a small cheese wheel on the tables. Once you have gathered the Wine and Cheese you can combine them with the provided Empty Cheese Serving Platter to make the Wine and Cheese Platter required for quest completion.

Once you have made the Wine and Cheese Platter, you must make your way to Ranid Glowergold located in Legendary Leathers (36, 28) in Northwestern Dalaran.

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Just follow this step-by-step guide and you got it! Note that this is form a horde POV, the alliance is very similair just with different names. If your looking for a spice that you cant find then mouseover it and it will usually tell you wheres its sold. Like “Sold by the Pilgrim’s bounty vendor in Mulgore”

STEP 1: Talk to the cooking trainer (there’s one available right outside Orgrimmar for the event) and learn the Spice Bread recipe — buy the needed Simple Flour and Mild Spices (sold by the Pilgrims Bounty ingredient vendor nearby), and cook at least 80 bread. The recipe turns gray at 40, but don’t worry about that — be sure to save all the bread you make, as you’ll need it for the next step.

STEP 2: Go to a Pilgrim’s Bounty recipe vendor and purchase the Bountiful Cookbook for 1 silver, and in it you’ll find the Spice Bread Stuffing recipe — learn it, buy Autumnal Herbs, and make the stuffing until you get to 100. Reminder: When you reach 50, go back to your cooking trainer and get Journeyman in cooking so you will continue leveling to 100.

STEP 3: Learn the Pumpkin Pie recipe, buy ripe pumpkins and Honey, and make the pie until you get to 160. (Note: The necessary Ripe Trisfal Pumpkins are only available from a Pilgrim’s Bounty vendor outside Undercity.) Reminder: When you reach 125, go back to your cooking trainer and get Expert in cooking so you will continue leveling past 150 and up to 160.

STEP 4: Learn the Cranberry Chutney recipe, buy tangy cranberries and honey, and make the chutney until 220. (Note: The Tangy Southfury Cranberries required for the recipe are only available from a Pilgrim’s Bounty vendor outside Orgrimmar.) Reminder: When you reach 200, go back to your cooking trainer and get Artisan in cooking so you will continue leveling past 225 and up to 300.

STEP 5: Learn the Candied Sweet Potato recipe, buy the sweet potatoes, honey, and autumnal herbsand make the potatoes until 280. (Note: The Mulfore Sweet Potato required for the recipe are only available from a Pilgrim’s Bounty vendor inside Thunder Bluff. Be sure to get extra sweet potatoes here, as you’ll need them for step 6 also.) Reminder: When you reach 275, go to your cooking trainer in Outlands and get Master in cooking so you will continue leveling past 300.

STEP 6: Learn the Slow-Roasted Turkey recipe, buy the sweet potatoes, and honey, kill Wild Turkeys until you have enough whole turkeys, and cook until you get to 350. (Note: Wild turkeys required for this recipe are only found in Tirisfal Glades.)

I estimate this will cost under 10g, significantly cheaper and easier than leveling your cooking under the usual circumstances.

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