El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Training // Fishing and Cooking 1-450 Part 2 (Outland and Northrend)

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  This page continues the detailed guide to leveling fishing and cooking skills together. This is the second part. Do not start here: first read either the Alliance or Horde starting guides. On this page:

  • Outland
  • Terokkar Forest
  • Howling-Tundra
  • Dalaran
  • The Frozen Sea
  • Fast Alternative: Single Dish
  • Hardcore Alternative: Wintergrasp
  • Reference: Recipes
  • Learn More

Outland

1. Head through the Dark Portal, to Cenarion Refuge, Zangarmarsh, Outland.
2. Train Master Cooking from Naka ("Cooking Supplies") in the inn.
3. Train Master Fishing from Juno Dufrain, by the lake.
4. Cook any remaining Darkclaw Lobster or Large Raw Mightfish.
5. Alliance: Buy the following recipes (either by visiting the vendor in Outland, or via the auction house):
   • Recipe: Blackened Trout and Recipe: Feltail Delight - sold by Doba ("Cooking Supplies") in Orebor Harborage, Zangarmarsh. Requires neutral reputation with Kurenai.
   • Recipe: Golden Fish Sticks - sold by Innkeeper Biribi in Allerian Stronghold, Terokkar Forest.
6. Horde: Buy the following recipes (either by visiting the vendor in Outland, or via the auction house):
   • Recipe: Blackened Trout - sold by Gambarinka in Zabra'jin, Zangarmarsh.
   • Recipe: Feltail Delight - sold by Zurai in Swamprat Post, Zangarmarsh.
   • Recipe: Golden Fish Sticks - sold by Rungor ("Trade Goods") in Stonebreaker Hold, Terokkar Forest.

Terokkar Forest

1. Travel to any open water in Terokkar Forest, except the elevated lakes (Blackwind, Ere'Noru, Jorune) or Silmyr Lake. I recommend the small lake next to the graveyard, outside the eastern exit from Shattrath City.
2. Fish open water in Terokkar Forest from fishing skill 275 to 310. You should catch at least 20 Golden Darter, 70 Barbed Gill Trout, and 15 Spotted Feltail.
3. Learn the recipe for Feltail Delight, and cook all the Feltail.
4. Learn the recipe for Blackened Trout, and cook Blackened Trout until your cooking skill is at 320.
5. Visit Kylene, the barmaid in the inn on the north-east side of the Shattrath's Lower City. Train Stewed Trout. Cook all the remaining Trout as Stewed Trout.
6. Learn the recipe for Golden Fish Sticks, and then cook Darter until your cooking skill is at least 350. You must reach at least 350 cooking skill. If not, keep fishing in Terokkar Forest.

Anglers who are not feeling the Wrath of the Lich King should stop following the guide here. You cannot train Grand Master fishing or cooking ranks. You can continue to fish and cook up to 375 skill. Try buying and learning Recipe: Spicy Crawdad (sold by Biribi for Alliance, Rungor for Horde), and then fishing the elevated lakes of Terokkar Forest for Furious Crawdad. Kylene will also be able to teach a few extra recipes for off-hand fish (such as Fisherman's Feast) at 350 cooking skill.

Howling-Tundra

1. Alliance: Travel to Valiance Keep in Borean Tundra. If you have not visited before, take a boat from Stormwind. Find the cooking trainer, Rollick MacKreel (with the other profession trainers, on the southern side of the Keep).
2. Horde: Travel to Vengeance Landing in Howling Fjord. If you have not visited before, take the zeppelin from the tower outside the Undercity. Find the cooking trainer, Thomas Kolichio.
3. From the cooking trainer, train Grand Master Cooking. Also train recipes for Baked Manta Ray, Dalaran Clam Chowder, and Smoked Rockfin.
4. Fish open coastal water from fishing skill 310 to 355. You must fish a named area of coastal water: Alliance can fish within the dock area of Valiance Keep. Horde can fish next to Vengeance Landing's fishing trainer, on the pier. If you start catching Bonescale Snapper, you are in the wrong place! You should catch at least 39 Borean Man O' War, 20 Darkwater Clam (open to reveal Succulent Clam Meat), 40 Imperial Manta Ray, and about 100 Rockfin Grouper. In addition, about 10% of your catch will have a Pygmy Suckerfish attached. This fish cannot be used for cooking, but can be sold to alchemists (to make Pygmy Oil).
5. Cook all the Rockfin Grouper into Smoked Rockfin. Your cooking skill should rise to about 375. Then cook all the Imperial Manta Ray into Baked Manta Ray, and Succulent Clam Meat into Dalaran Clam Chowder. Each Clam Chowder uses 2 clam meat. Your cooking skill must rise to at least 400, probably about 405. Both Dalaran Clam Chowder and Baked Manta Ray are valuable buff food, that should sell for over 1 gold each at auction.
6. Return to the cooking trainer, and learn to create Black Jelly. Then cook all your Man O' War into Black Jelly. Each Black Jelly uses 3 fish. This should take your cooking skill to about 415. Black Jelly gives no buff when eaten, but does restore a lot of health and mana, so may sell to auction.
7. Train Grand Master Fishing, from the nearest fishing trainer: Old Man Robert, for Alliance (next to the cooking trainer). Angelina Soren for Horde (on the docks).

Dalaran

Dalaran Cooking Awards are used to buy all the recipes that improve your cooking skill beyond 425. Dalaran Cooking Awards are rewards for completing the Dalaran daily cooking quests. All those recipes also require Northern Spices. Northern Spices can be traded, so you can buy them from the auction house. But Northern Spices also all come from Dalaran daily cooking quests: Purchased using Dalaran Cooking Awards (10 spice per award), or found in Small Spice Bag, an extra reward for completing the daily quest.

To advance your cooking to 450, you will personally need to complete some daily quests, to allow you to buy at least 1 high-skill cooking recipes. You can start performing these daily quests at personal level 65, with 350 cooking skill, but can only complete 1 quest per day. For a full guide to the Dalaran daily cooking quests, read the Dalaran Cooking topic.

At this point in your cooking and fishing career, you are able to produce dishes that can be sold at auction. Rather than rush to 450, it might be better to start producing valuable dishes. 3 alternative methods of reaching 450 cooking and fishing are described below, but these do not need to be followed.

The Frozen Sea

This method uses a fairly low number of Northern Spices to reach 450, and is not especially dangerous for the angler. It require 2 recipes to be bought with Dalaran Cooking Awards - 6 awards in total, taking several days to gain. And one of the items produced, Gigantic Feast, is (effectively) worthless.

Fish will be caught from The Frozen Sea, which requires 575 effective fishing skill to avoid junk: You will catch a lot of junk, but will still reach 450 cooking skill before 450 fishing skill. If you want to reduce the amount of junk you catch, and get 450 cooking faster, use lures and gear with bonuses to fishing skill.

1. Vendors for high-skill cooking recipes are next to the cooking trainers, in the inns in the faction-only areas of Dalaran: Alliance on the south-west side of Dalaran, Horde on the north-east side. Buy and learn Recipe: Cuttlesteak. This recipe costs 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards (described earlier).
2. Travel to the The Frozen Sea. The closest part of the sea to Dalaran is off the southern coast of Dragonblight. Location is very important: The bobber must land in water called "The Frozen Sea".
3. Fish open water in the Frozen Sea from 355 to 430 fishing skill. You need about 80 Deep Sea Monsterbelly, 80 Moonglow Cuttlefish, and 80 Rockfin Grouper. You will catch many more Rockfin Grouper than you need. Consider a mix of open water fishing and pool fishing (Deep Sea Monsterbelly School and Moonglow Cuttlefish School).
4. Cook Cuttlesteak until your cooking skill reaches about 430. Each dish requires Northern Spices. The Cuttlesteak recipe "turns green" at 420 cooking skill, so skill-ups come slowly. You must reach at least 425 skill.
5. Return to Dalaran, and buy and learn a second recipe for 3 awards: Recipe: Gigantic Feast. This recipe remains "yellow" from 425 to 450 skill. It uses more fish (and meat) per dish, but uses Northern Spices very efficiently. Gigantic Feast is a party food with no (useful) buff - not very useful.
6. Meat? Each Gigantic Feast uses Chunk o' Mammoth, which can be cut from the corpses of dead mammoth in Northrend. Mammoth are found in many Northrend zones. You will need about 80 Chunk o' Mammoth.
7. Cook Gigantic Feast until cooking skill 450. Each dish requires Northern Spices, 2 Chunk o' Mammoth, 2 Deep Sea Monsterbelly, and 2 Rockfin Grouper.
8. Finally fish anywhere to raise your fishing skill up to 450.

2 alternatives to the Frozen Sea method are described below.

Fast Alternative: Single Dish

This alternative will raise your cooking skill from about 415 to 450 in the shortest time possible, if you are able to gain lots of Northern Spices (normally at the auction house). All the dishes created can be sold, so you should be able to earn back the cost of the spices.

Simply buy one high-skill cooking recipe with awards, catch the fish used to make it, and cook that dish until you reach 450 cooking skill. I will use Dragonfin Filet as an example, because it is normally sells well at auction. You can select any one dish from those trained from award-recipes (at 400 minimum cooking skill).

Recipe: Dragonfin Filet costs 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards. The recipe "turns green" at cooking skill 420, but still gives skill-ups at 450 cooking skill. Using one recipe to reach 450 means you only need 3 awards. Those only take 1-3 daily quests to gain (quest rewards are not constant). Skill-ups will be slow close to 450 - expect to cook several hundred dishes.

You can fish open water - inland water in Borean Tundra and Dragonblight contain Dragonfin Angelfish. But you will catch a lot of fish you do not need. Gain the fish you need quicker by fishing Dragonfin Angelfish School.

Just keep fishing and cooking your catch, until you reach 450 cooking skill. Then if your fishing skill is still below 450 (which it probably will be), fish anywhere to raise it to 450.

Hardcore Alternative: Wintergrasp

The final alternative method catches fish in Wintergrasp. Wintergrasp is a combat zone, so you are likely to be attacked while fishing. This option is far more dangerous than the first option (Frozen Sea), but is much quicker because almost all the fish you catch is used to level cooking. Otherwise, the method is similar to the Frozen Sea: 2 recipes to be purchased, 1 which makes an (almost useless) feast dish.

1. Buy and learn Recipe: Poached Northern Sculpin, which costs 3 awards.
2. Travel to Wintergrasp and fish open water from fishing skill 355 to 400. You must catch about 80 Glacial Salmon, 80 Musselback Sculpin, and 80 Nettlefish. To reduce junk catches, consider using lures and fishing gear.
3. Cook Poached Northern Sculpin until about cooking skill 430. Each dish requires Northern Spices. You must reach at least 425 cooking skill.
4. Buy and learn Recipe: Small Feast. Like Gigantic Feast, this also requires meat. Rhino Meat. Gather about 80 Rhino Meat. From rhinos, obviously. Ice Steppe Rhino (and Bulls) in Storm Peaks are easily "farmed".
5. Cook Small Feast until cooking skill 450. Each dish requires Northern Spices, 2 Glacial Salmon, 2 Nettlefish, and 2 Rhino Meat.
6. Finally, fish anywhere to raise your fishing skill to 450.

Reference: Recipes

The cooking recipes used are listed below for quick reference. The vendor shown is the one recommended in the guide above. Some recipes are sold by several other vendors:

All the high-skill cooking recipes bought with Dalaran Cooking Awards are sold by:

• Derek Odds, Dalaran (Alliance).
• Mera Mistrunner, Icecrown Argent Tournament (neutral).
• Misensi, Dalaran (Horde).

Learn More

• The Burning Crusade - Fishing changes in the first expansion.
• Dalaran Cooking Quests - How to complete the Dalaran daily cooking quests.
• Wrath of the Lich King - Preview of the 2nd expansion.
• WotLK Fish - New fish and catches in WotLK.
• Dalaran Fishing - Complete guide to fishing in Dalaran. Including Giant Sewer Rats, Rusty Prison Keys and fountain coins.
• Pools and Wreckage - Further information about fishing pools, including locations and spawning.
• Also in the Training chapter: Ranks, Developing Skill, 1-450 Fast, 1-450 with Gold, 1-450 Cooking for Alliance, and 1-450 Cooking for Horde.