In the World of Warcraft, Cooking is a great skill to learn, and while it is not utterly needed, it could match well with many other professions, like fishing. Actually, you could earn substantial amounts of gold with cooking skills and you won’t have to put so much effort, making it enjoyable for many players to try out. If you want to change the way you play, this skill is very much worth your time.

Before, a lot of gamers just brush off this profession, but after the coming of Burning Crusade, various opportunities started to spring up that demand for this skill went up resulting in people venturing into it. You can really do lots of things that other players won’t really need, but Cooking remains to be a good way to have extra gold and to enjoy while you’re at it.

Getting Started

Fire is an important must-have once you have decided on cooking as a skill. Aside from this, you will need the following: Simple Wood, Flint, and Tinder. These items are relatively easy to find, so it should not be much of a problem to get them. Once you have all of the items, you have to open your Spellbook. Since most players know how to make a Basic Campfire, you don’t really need extra training at the moment.

The cookbook can also be found in the Spellbook. Open it up to take a sneak peak at the recipes you may want to try. However, bear in mind that your fire will not last too long. Since wood is needed to start a fire, only do so when you are about to start cooking as not to waste the fire or the wood for that matter. Just choose the suitable ingredients that you will need for each recipe, and find yourself cooking in an instant.

You may notice that the recipes require a few other items in order to complete. Here’s a sample recipe for Crocolisk Steak. You’ll need to have one Crocolisk Meat and one set of Mild Spices. These can be purchased from a vendor, or you can go out and buy your own.

Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you’ll be ready to move forward. Items that you do not have can be purchased from a cooking trainer, so you may need to spend a little to make a little at first. However, once you advance and go through more quests, you’ll have easy access to the items that you need for your recipes.

Advancing

As you start out, expect that you won’t have more of what you actually need in order to prepare advanced recipes. Here now is a fast approach of progressing in skill from level 1 to 375 easily. You have to begin in Ironforge. Here, you could buy one flour and a set of mild spices in order for you to prepare your first recipe of Spiced Bread. This recipe is very simple and would help you advance to 40. Once you’ve finished that part, you will need getting 30 mild spices and some more wood as well. Now, go to Auberdine to look for a Moonkin. You have to keep on killing it until getting around 20 eggs or even more. This task bolsters your skill level to 60.

After this, you can go down south to Ashenvale where you could find the Crawlers that drop clams. Get as many as you could and afterwards return to Ironforge. Cook up the eggs from the Moonkin and sell them. Next, you would need to look for a cooking trainer to learn more skills and eventually cook the clams you have found. At this point, your skill would have leveled up to to 130. Have with you the expert cookbook and you will surely be on your way to reaching 375.