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.
Cooking Trainer Location
The Cooking Trainer for The War Within is Athodas, who is located downstairs in the Stonelight Rest inn, which is in central Dornogal. She is standing in front of the large cooking fire. Nearby, behind the bar, is the Cooking Vendor, Kronzon.
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Leveling The War Within Cooking
Profession Equipment
Before you start cooking, you may want to pick up some profession equipment. 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.
You can also enchant your weapon with Enchant Tool - Algari Resourcefulness, this gives you a chance to get materials back as you craft.
List of Materials Required
- Portioned Steak x 475
- Fresh Fillet x 225
- Spice Meat Stock x 225
- Chopped Mycobloom x 225
- Khaz Algar Tomatoes x 280 (Purchased from the cooking vendor)
- Granulated Spices x 110 (Purchased from the cooking vendor)
- Crunchy Peppers x 80 (Purchased from the cooking vendor)
- Twinned herbs x 300 (Purchased from the cooking vendor)
Cooking Level 1-35
To start with, you will learn 8 recipes which are split into Prepared Ingredients and Snacks. The Prepared Ingredients are ingredients for other food, so the first step will be to make these.
As meat is cheaper than fish or flowers, make Portioned Steak and Spiced Meat Stock until the recipes go gray at level 25. You will use both ingredients next, so cook a roughly even amount of both.
Once you reach Cooking level 25, you should craft Full Belly recipes, specifically the Marinated Tenderloins, until the recipe goes gray at level 35.
The Full Belly recipes all require vendor materials to cook, which can be bought from Kronzon (the Cooking vendor) behind the bar. Otherwise, you will just be using the ingredients you already cooked up to this point.
Cooking Level 36-60
At level 35, return to the trainer and learn the new recipes available.
Cook 5x Rib Stickers. They grant 2 skill each, and will take you to level 45. If you run out of your cooked ingredients you might have to make more here or purchase them from the Auction House.
Return to the cooking trainer and learn the new recipes available, then cook 5x Stuffed Cave Peppers, which brings you to level 55.
At this point the recipes start getting quite expensive and our suggestion is to keep cooking the Stuffed Cave Peppers for another 5 levels, until you reach level 60, at which point the recipe turns green.
Cooking Level 61-100
At level 60 the fastest and easiest way to level cooking is to craft the Everything Stew. The recipe can be purchased for 1000 Resonance crystals from Waxmonger Squick who is located in Gundargaz.
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This recipe requires 15 of each prepared ingredient and 20 Twinned Herbs: 15x Portioned Steak, 15x Spiced Meat Stock, 15x Chopped Mycobloom, 15x Fresh Fillet and 20x Twinned herbs.
You will need to craft 15x Everything Stew to hit 100. This means you will need a total of 225 of each prepared ingredient for this step (these are included in the shopping list at the top of the guide).
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.
