Cooking leveling guide 1-300
The cheapest way from 1 to 300 in WoW Forever, with the game client's own recipes and skill colours: 7 steps and about 334 crafts. Each step says what to make, how many, what to buy and where to learn it. Enable JavaScript to switch to Horde, start from your own skill and get the shopping list for the rest of the way.
Level cap: Artisan Cooking needs character level 35, and the beta's cap is 30, so for now you can reach skill 225.
The route (Alliance)
- 1-65: Charred Wolf Meat. Make about 71 (66-76); orange to 45, grey at 85. Each needs 1 Stringy Wolf Meat. Learn it (learned automatically). Buy or gather: 71 Stringy Wolf Meat.
- Train Journeyman Cooking before skill 75: from skill 50 and level 10, 5s. Classic data.
- 65-103: Coyote Steak. Make about 40 (38-43); orange to 90, grey at 130. Each needs 1 Coyote Meat. Learn it (from a trainer for 1s such as Alegorn (Darnassus) (Classic data)). Buy or gather: 40 Coyote Meat.
- 103-150: Cooked Crab Claw. Make about 60 (53-67); orange to 125, grey at 165. Each needs 1 Crawler Claw, 1 Mild Spices. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Kendor Kabonka (Stormwind City)). Buy or gather: 60 Crawler Claw, 60 Mild Spices.
- Train Expert Cooking before skill 150: from skill 125 and level 20. Classic data.
- 150-187: Curiously Tasty Omelet. Make about 42 (38-46); orange to 170, grey at 210. Each needs 1 Raptor Egg, 1 Hot Spices. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Kendor Kabonka (Stormwind City); a quest reward: Ormer's Revenge). Buy or gather: 42 Hot Spices, 42 Raptor Egg.
- Train Artisan Cooking before skill 225: from skill 200 and level 35 (needs level 35: the beta cap is 30). Classic data.
- 187-233: Jungle Stew. Make about 52 (47-56); orange to 215, grey at 255. Each needs 1 Tiger Meat, 1 Refreshing Spring Water, 2 Shiny Red Apple. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Corporal Bluth (Stranglethorn Vale)). Buy or gather: 52 Refreshing Spring Water, 104 Shiny Red Apple, 52 Tiger Meat.
- 233-272: Spiced Chili Crab. Make about 40 (39-41); orange to 265, grey at 305. Each needs 1 Tender Crab Meat, 2 Hot Spices. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Kriggon Talsone (Westfall)). Buy or gather: 80 Hot Spices, 40 Tender Crab Meat.
- 272-300: Poached Sunscale Salmon. Make about 29 (28-31); orange to 290, grey at 330. Each needs 1 Raw Sunscale Salmon. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Gikkix (Thousand Needles)). Buy or gather: 29 Raw Sunscale Salmon.
Horde differences
- 90-167: Dig Rat Stew. Make about 138 (114-161); orange to 130, grey at 170. Each needs 1 Dig Rat. Learn it (a quest reward: Dig Rat Stew). Buy or gather: 138 Dig Rat.
- 167-190: Hot Lion Chops. Make about 27 (23-30); orange to 175, grey at 215. Each needs 1 Lion Meat, 1 Hot Spices. Learn it (the recipe is sold by Zargh (The Barrens); a quest reward: Elixir of Pain). Buy or gather: 27 Hot Spices, 27 Lion Meat.
Shopping list
- 52 Refreshing Spring Water
- 71 Stringy Wolf Meat
- 40 Coyote Meat
- 60 Crawler Claw
- 60 Mild Spices
- 122 Hot Spices
- 42 Raptor Egg
- 104 Shiny Red Apple
- 52 Tiger Meat
- 40 Tender Crab Meat
- 29 Raw Sunscale Salmon
How this guide is worked out
- Skill colours are the Forever client's (yellow and grey; green halfway between).
- An orange recipe always gives a point; from yellow to grey the chance is (grey - skill) / (grey - yellow): the standard Classic formula, our assumption for Forever.
- Forever has no auction house data, so nothing is priced from it: vendor materials count at the vendor's price, gathered and looted ones at 5 times what a vendor pays for them (or by item level), rarer herbs and ores more.
- Only recipes you can learn somewhere known count; trainers, recipe vendors and quests are Classic data (CMaNGOS classic-db) until players see them in Forever.