Leveling Cooking On A Character

[I Change My Name]

How do you guys do it? Normally I just buy whatever is needed from the AH and boom. Job done.

Currently my servers been on the decline and I'm finding it really hard to keep this up but I don't really know what to do. Do I really need to get my butt out and level up cooking? Can anyone think of another way that might be quicker?

[Venziir]

It's not too bad really. Sure it takes some time but the materials are often quite easy/cheap to get and can often be gained from fishing. And if your cooking is below 300 using the errrrrr Pilgrim Fest can really boost it in a matter of seconds really.

[Regen]

Yeah, I've been trying to do it through the AH (really want cooking, have around 100k gold and I'm lazy) but I'm finding that to be difficult. I think I might pick it up and do it alongside fishing just to get the grind out of the way on both...

http://www.elsanglin.com/fishing_and_cooking_horde.html

Seems to be a great guide (change horde to alliance as needed).

[Somebodyelse]

quicker ? How lazy must you be to complain about that......It's not 2005 anymore...If you have an 85...Farming for cooking to patch what you can't get at the ah means roughly 4 hours of farming...Big freakin' deal...........

[shokter]

If you can put it off a bit I suggest waiting for the Thanksgiving festival...it basically spoonfeeds 1-300 (and who knows- the next one might go even higher) cooking skill.

[Laqweeta]

If you can put it off a bit I suggest waiting for the Thanksgiving festival...it basically spoonfeeds 1-300 (and who knows- the next one might go even higher) cooking skill.

Exactly. Get cooking as high as you can on all of your alts on this holiday. Or.. You can just google "Cooking and Fishing leveling guide 1-525" It'll give you guides on leveling cooking and fishing together.

http://www.almostgaming.com/wowguide...-cooking-guide <---

[Hoticehunter]

How do you guys do it? Normally I just buy whatever is needed from the AH and boom. Job done.

Currently my servers been on the decline and I'm finding it really hard to keep this up but I don't really know what to do. Do I really need to get my butt out and level up cooking? Can anyone think of another way that might be quicker?

Unless you REALLY need cooking NOW, I would suggest just waiting until the Thanksgiving event which gives you 430 cooking (possibly higher this time since we'll have a higher cooking cap by the time it rolls around again) for "free".

[Rackfu]

Unless they change it, the trainer in Halfhill (the place where all the cooking dailies are) can train you and sell you the mats to level cooking to 525

[Hoticehunter]

Unless they change it, the trainer in Halfhill (the place where all the cooking dailies are) can train you and sell you the mats to level cooking to 525

Whoa, really? That's pretty sweet. Now if only they would do something similar for First-aid...

[Daetur]

I always wait til the Pilgrim's Bounty holiday, and then level cooking through Outland level on any toon that doesn't have it. I just don't have the patience to level it any other way.

For the Northerend through Cataclysm stuff, I usually farm my own mats. I'm pretty cheap.

[Laz]

http://www.wow-professions.com/wowgu...ing-guide.html is a great resource and they have guides for all professions.

[roahn the warlock]

How do you guys do it? Normally I just buy whatever is needed from the AH and boom. Job done.

Currently my servers been on the decline and I'm finding it really hard to keep this up but I don't really know what to do. Do I really need to get my butt out and level up cooking? Can anyone think of another way that might be quicker?

wait untill thanksgiving. it's practically free

[Kurzior]

As others have said, wait until Pilgrim's Bounty. The recipes have been updated to allow you to get to 425 with minimal expense, although you do have to kill a lot of turkeys.

As a side note, if you intend to level it, you should start doing dailies in Dalaran and Stormwind for the cooking awards. That will allow you to buy the recipes you need to get to max as soon as you want to, and you'll get a few levels for free.

Alternatively, you can do fishing/cooking together. There are enough fish recipes that this works out, but it will take a good chunk of time to do.

[smegdawg]

Unless they change it, the trainer in Halfhill (the place where all the cooking dailies are) can train you and sell you the mats to level cooking to 525

This sounds like something they will be changing and is just implemented in beta so people who made premades, or pandas can level cooking fast and test the new content.

Waiting till Pilgrim's bounty may mean you have to put less time into it, but it will not be quicker as you will have to wait till November before you can even reach 525, much less 600 in mists.

Put a little time into it now and be ready for mists. If you are going to level cooking I'd advise doing fishing as well.

[Jailbuild]

When I played wow I used to wait until Pilgrim's Bounty, and get all my raiding toons cooking up

[jimbo5d412]

ah is overpriced sometimes! i farmed a few meats on my toons

[Deleted]

I did level cooking mostly through the ah, but if there was not enough to buy you could try to farm it with a higher lvl char, attleast thats what i did besides fishing. But fishing is a love/hate thing i presume. Love in my case

[Jerbs]

ah is overpriced sometimes! i farmed a few meats on my toons

mmmm bear flank

[I Change My Name]

Thanks for the disucssions guys. I have indeed just have to go out and farm the mats which is annoying but fine. I wish I could wait till MoP but we still have no ETA.

[stomination]

I end up doing dailies while occasionally farming mats. I would suggest keeping some of the items from the daily ppl for mop