http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/cooking-guide Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:32:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-038-cooking-guide-addenda#post-2919 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:24:27 +0000 el 2919@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Thanks donquixote235. Some useful additions there. Cooking trout through to 350 is certainly a neat strategy.</p> <p>I've been stalling on updating the pre-Northrend cooking/fishing guide because every patch seemed to change the number of catches required.</p> <p>Generally, the guide does not use Spice Bread because you need far more catches to leveling fishing than you need fish to cook: There is no need to use non-fish materials to level cooking. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-038-cooking-guide-addenda#post-2918 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:34:21 +0000 donquixote235 2918@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Oh, another note: If you cook the Barbed Gill Trout, you can avoid fishing in Azshara with the exception of about five fish, to get your cooking skill up to 300. Once you have that you can run to your home city, cook your Lobster or whatever, cook your trout, and finish fishing from home until 350; this will let you get rested XP while you do this. This will also give you a chance to catch Crafty or Ironjaw while you level your fishing. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-038-cooking-guide-addenda#post-2904 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:28:11 +0000 donquixote235 2904@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I've been working fishing and cooking together on my Death Knight, since Blizzard saw fit to start both skills at untrained. In the course of using the Fishing and Cooking guide, I've decided to make some notes that El may (or may not) want to incorporate into the guide. Keep in mind that I'm using the Horde version for the Azeroth portion.</p> <p>* When you pick up the Cooking skill, be sure to learn Spice Bread as well, and purchase 60 each of Simple Flour and Mild Spices, and make three stacks of the food. This will give you a cheap head-start on your Cooking (about 40 points), and add a total of about a minute to your overall time spent.</p> <p>* To save time, pick up your Expert Cooking and Fishing guides before you start, so that you don't have to take a break to get them. Also if you're Horde (particularly if you're also a Death Knight, since you're right there) swing by the Hinterlands and pick up Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 to keep in your inventory if you don't already have it; this will save you unnecessary trips later.</p> <p>* In the Horde portion of the guide, I found a part of Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon Mountains where the inn runs very close to the lake. If you stand in the right spot you can gain rested XP while fishing.</p> <p>* The inn at Freewind Post in Thousand Needles sells the cheese needed for the Artisan cooking quest, and it's directly in the flight path from Mudsprocket to Gadgetzan, so I would recommend picking it up there rather than in Desolace as the guide suggests... particularly if you picked up the Expert Cooking Guide already, which would eliminate traveling to Desolace at all (with the exception of the Artisan Fishing quest).</p> <p>* In the Outland portion of the guide, it states that you should vendor/ditch all the <a href="/fish/?s=Barbed Gill Trout" title="Fish Finder - Barbed Gill Trout.">Barbed Gill Trout</a>. I would recommend instead picking up the recipe for Blackened Trout, which can be trained at 300 and can be purchased from Gambarinka (Horde, Zabra'Jin) or Doba (Alliance, Orebor Harborage). This recipe will stay yellow until 320 and green until 340, and since you'll be fishing up about 200 of them, there's no reason not to use this recipe. Also at around 315 or 320 Cooking (I don't remember which) Kylene &lt;Barmaid&gt; at the World's End Tavern in Shattrath sells a Stewed Trout recipe which will get your cooking up to 335 (Yellow) / 355 (Green).</p> <p>That's as far as I've gotten; right now I'm just trying to get my Fishing and Cooking skills comparable to my level (I'm 67 now, so about 335 skill). </p>