Profession leveling
Cooking leveling guide, 1 to 300
15 steps · about 486 crafts
Train Journeyman Cook to go past 75
1 → 77
Roasted Boar Meat≈ 107 crafts
Reagents:
107 × Chunk of Boar MeatNeeds Cooking Fire
Learned with the profession
77 → 80
Longjaw Mud Snapper≈ 3 crafts
Reagents:
3 × Raw Longjaw Mud SnapperNeeds Cooking Fire
From
Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper, at skill 5080 → 84
Spiced Wolf Meat≈ 20 crafts
Reagents:
20 × Stringy Wolf Meat, 
20 × Mild SpicesNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 50, where it turns yellow
84 → 90
Longjaw Mud Snapper≈ 6 crafts
Reagents:
6 × Raw Longjaw Mud SnapperNeeds Cooking Fire
From
Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper, at skill 5090 → 115
Coyote Steak≈ 39 crafts
Reagents:
39 × Coyote MeatNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 90, where it turns yellow
115 → 131
Crab Cake≈ 21 crafts
Reagents:
21 × Crawler Meat, 21 × Mild SpicesNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 115, where it turns yellow
131 → 147
Dry Pork Ribs≈ 32 crafts
Reagents:
32 × Boar Ribs, 32 × Mild SpicesNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 120, where it turns yellow
Train Expert Cook to go past 150
147 → 165
Dig Rat Stew≈ 59 crafts
Reagents:
59 × Dig RatNeeds Cooking Fire
From
Recipe: Dig Rat Stew, at skill 90165 → 192
Goblin Deviled Clams≈ 44 crafts
Reagents:
44 × Tangy Clam Meat, 
44 × Hot SpicesNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 165, where it turns yellow
192 → 210
Mithril Headed Trout≈ 18 crafts
Reagents:
18 × Raw Mithril Head TroutNeeds Cooking Fire
From
Recipe: Mithril Head Trout, at skill 175210 → 215
Spinefin Halibut≈ 7 crafts
Reagents:
7 × Raw Spinefin HalibutNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 210, where it turns yellow
Train Artisan Cook to go past 225
215 → 240
Goldthorn Tea≈ 39 crafts
Reagents:
39 × Goldthorn, 
39 × Refreshing Spring WaterNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 215, where it turns yellow
240 → 267
Spider Sausage≈ 44 crafts
Reagents:
88 × White Spider MeatNeeds Cooking Fire
From your trainer: counted from 240, where it turns yellow
267 → 289
Filet of Redgill≈ 34 crafts
Reagents:
34 × Raw RedgillNeeds Cooking Fire
From
Recipe: Filet of Redgill, at skill 225289 → 300
Poached Sunscale Salmon≈ 13 crafts
Reagents:
13 × Raw Sunscale SalmonNeeds Iron Oven
From
Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon, at skill 250
Everything to gather
- 107 × Chunk of Boar Meat
- 88 × White Spider Meat
- 73 × Mild Spices
- 59 × Dig Rat
- 44 × Tangy Clam Meat
- 44 × Hot Spices
- 39 × Coyote Meat
- 39 × Goldthorn
- 39 × Refreshing Spring Water
- 34 × Raw Redgill
- 32 × Boar Ribs
- 21 × Crawler Meat
- 20 × Stringy Wolf Meat
- 18 × Raw Mithril Head Trout
- 13 × Raw Sunscale Salmon
- 9 × Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
- 7 × Raw Spinefin Halibut
Made along the way
Nothing
How the plan is made
The cheapest plan from 1 to 300, computed from the profession’s 121 recipes in the WoW Forever beta client: 15 steps, about 486 crafts. Change the start, keep or leave out recipes learned from an item, or set one aside: the plan follows.
Playing WoW Classic? This plan is worked out from WoW Forever’s recipes (build 1.60.1.70245), and Forever changed some of them: its skill colours and the recipes that raise the skill are not always Classic’s, so the steps may differ there.
While a recipe is orange, every craft raises the skill. From yellow to grey, the odds fall in a straight line, from certain to none: Classic’s rule, which the plan assumes for WoW Forever too.
The client doesn’t say at which skill trainers teach a recipe, so the plan counts trainer recipes from the skill where they turn yellow. Trainers usually teach them earlier, and an orange recipe raises the skill every time: the plan’s counts are a ceiling.
Reagents are weighed by their vendor price: exact for what vendors sell, like vials and thread, a stand-in for what you gather, and fifty times as much for what a recipe on a cooldown makes, like Mooncloth. So the plan saves reagents, not gold at the auction house.
Left out: 0 recipes on a cooldown, 0 recipe items tied to a reputation or a holiday, and 0 recipes of a specialization or taught by a character rather than a trainer.
Where a recipe item comes from, a vendor, a drop or a quest, isn’t in the game’s files. By default the plan only uses one where no other recipe raises the skill at least one time in three; check before you count on one, and set it aside if you can’t get it.
Making a reagent, like a bolt of cloth, raises the skill too. The plan doesn’t count those points, so you’ll get there a little sooner.
Recipes, skill thresholds and reagents from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70245.
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