Cooking in The War Within (Khaz Algar Cooking) has become more intricate than it was before. Our Cooking profession guide will help you to understand the changes and lay out a step by step crafting path to get you to level 100 Cooking.
The War Within Cooking Changes
The main change to cooking is that the recipes are interconnected and most cooked dishes become ingredients in other dishes. In earlier expansions this has only been the case with feasts needing other cooked dishes to create. Now, almost every recipe requires a previously cooked dish as an ingredient.
This means you will no longer be crafting dishes you just sell to the vendor, which is nice. But it also means you have to cook a very large amount of gray quality food while you level up just to get enough ingredients for the recipe you actually want to craft.
Keep a keen eye on the Auction House to see if some people are selling their dishes for cheap, especially before everyone catches on that everything you cook is a useful ingredient for better recipes.
Cooking Trainer Location
The cooking trainer for The War Within is Athodas, she is located in the back room of the Stonelight Rest inn, which is in central Dornogal. She is standing in front of the large cooking fire.
Leveling The War Within Cooking
Since all the recipes are interconnected, no food is useless to cook. Every single dish you can cook is an ingredient for one or more of the best feasts. Since you need to level the last levels to 100 through making feasts, this guide is focused towards making the ingredients needed for the first feast available from the Cooking trainer: The Sushi Special. There are other feasts, but you need to gain those recipes from dailies, world events and reputation vendors.
Considering the amount of materials you need to get to 100, you should expect Cooking to be a very expensive endeavor if you level it early in the expansion; or it will take you a long time to farm all of the ingredients.
Profession Equipment
Before you start cooking, make sure to get a decent set of profession equipment. Any multicraft or resourcefulness you can get is valuable. Visit the auction house for the uncommon equipment: Weavercloth Chef’s Hat and Burnt Rolling Pin; or put in work orders for the rare equipment: Artisan Chef’s Hat and Inscribed Rolling Pin. However, the rare equipment requires Artisan's Acuity and that could be better spent early on in the expansion for your primary Professions.
Level 1-35
To start with you will learn 8 recipes, split into 2 sections: Prepared Ingredients and Snacks. The Prepared Ingredients are required to make the snacks, so you craft those first.
Craft Chopped Mycobloom and Fresh Fillet until the recipes go gray at level 25.
You will use both ingredients, and will have to make much more later on, so it doesn’t matter which one you cook or how much.
Note: For later recipes, you will need some Portioned Steak and Spiced Meat Stock so you can also craft these, but you will not need these in the same high quantities as you need Chopped Mycobloom and Fresh Fillets.
Once you reach Cooking level 25, you should craft Roasted Mycobloom and Skewered Fillet until those recipes turn gray at level 35.
Level 36-45
At level 35, return to the trainer and learn the new recipes.
For level 36-45 you will be cooking Deepfin Patty, Salty Dog and Ginger Glazed Fillet; these are the three ingredients needed for Angler’s Delight which is a recipe you can learn at level 45.
To get the materials for these three recipes you have a lot of gray quality cooking to do, so make sure to check the auction house for cheaper finished ingredients.
Craft Deepfin Patty, Salty Dog and Ginger Glazed Fillet until you reach cooking level 45, you will need to craft 3 times more Deepfin Patty than the others as the recipe in the next step of the guide (Angler’s Delight) requires 3 times more.
The following breaks down how to craft each of the recipes for levels 36-45.
Deepfin Patty
- Turn Roasted Mycobloom into Panseared Mycobloom.
- Craft Deepfin Patty
Salty Dog
- Turn Roasted Mycobloom into Panseared Mycobloom.
- Craft Salty Dog
Ginger Glazed Fillet
- Turn meat into Portioned Steak.
- Turn Portioned Steak into Unseasoned Field Steak.
- Turn Spiced meat stock into Simple Stew.
- Make Hallowfall Chilis
- Turn Skewered Fillet into Flash Fire Fillet
- Craft Ginger Glazed Fillet
At level 45 these recipes turn gray.
Level 46-60
At level 45 you can learn the Angler’s Delight recipe from the Cooking Trainer. It requires 3 Deepfin Patty, 1 Salty Dog and 1 Ginger Glazed Fillet, which we made in the step before this one.
Craft Angler’s Delight until level 60.
Level 61-65
At level 60 you should learn new recipes from the trainer.
If you are buying dishes on the auction house rather than cooking every ingredient yourself, you should buy 3 Sizzling Honey Roasts and create 3 Jester’s Board which will take you to level 66.
If you are crafting everything yourself, just continue making Angler’s Delight, even if it’s now a green recipe, up to level 65 when you will be able to learn The Sushi Special. Expect to in total have about 100 Angler’s Delights in your bags when this step is finished. If you end up using less Angler’s Delight in the next step, you can sell the leftovers on the Auction House.
Level 66-100
At level 65, or 66 if you crafted Jester’s Board above, you can learn The Sushi Special, which will take you to level 100 Cooking. You will have about 50 crafts worth of Angler’s Delight from the previous step, and The Sushi Special recipe goes yellow at 80. If it doesn’t take you all the way it will at least get you very close.
Note: The two highest level feasts, which drop from World Events, will stay orange until 100. The Feast of the Divine Day requires Angler’s Delight, whereas the Feast of Midnight Masquerade doesn’t. If you manage to learn one of these they are probably worth crafting instead of the Sushi Special.
Darkmoon Faire
When Darkmoon Faire is active you can gain 2 skill points by completing a short quest from Stamp Thunderhorn .
We recommend leaving this as late as possible to get the most value out of the increased skill points.
