Cooking in World of Warcraft: Forever
130 recipes in Forever, 41 of them (32%) new since Classic Era, reaching Iron Oven, Flank au Poivre, Sweetpaw Jam. What Cooking makes, what it buys, the cheapest way through each skill bracket, what of it sells, and every recipe with its reagents.
Cooking turns meat, fish, eggs and vendor spices into food and drink: meals that restore health or mana, and many that also give a buff for as long as you stay fed. It is a secondary profession, so every character can learn it beside two primary ones, and the meat for it drops from the beasts you kill while leveling.
On the auction house the raw ingredients trade more than the dishes. Fish and meat from high level zones, and the eggs and tenderloins a recipe needs in bulk, are where the money is; the food itself sells to the players who do not cook, which on a fresh economy is most of them for the first weeks.
What Forever changes about Cooking
Forever adds a good deal to Cooking; the count above is how many of its recipes are new since Classic Era. The new dishes start in the first brackets with teas and smoothies (Peace Tea, Venomous Smoothie, Sunny Tea) and run up to Flank au Poivre and the others listed below.
Cooking also makes things that are not food now: a Basic, Journeyman and Expert Campfire Kit, an Iron Oven, and a meal for a group, Cookie’s Feast. What each one does is on its item page, from the game’s own tooltip.
The highest-skill recipes new to Forever: Iron Oven (260), Flank au Poivre (245), Sweetpaw Jam (240), Bat Hachee (240), Bear Bruscitti (240). Everything new is also listed under New in Forever.
What Cooking makes, and what it buys
Paying now on Normal Horde US
11 of 23 Cooking recipes with every reagent priced pay at the median after the auction house cut. The best margin is Savory Deviate Delight at +41s 36c a craft (417% on its reagents).
From player scans, refreshed hourly. Every Cooking recipe ranked by margin, on any market, is on the crafting profit page; how the rest compare is in which professions make money.
Makes
130 consumable (41 new). 130 of the results can be listed on the auction house.
- Consumable130 · 41 new
Buys most
The reagents the most recipes call for, with the units those recipes consume between them.
Hot Spices29 recipes · 46 units- Soothing Spices27 recipes · 55 units
- Mild Spices24 recipes · 35 units
Refreshing Spring Water10 recipes · 14 units
Raptor Flesh6 recipes · 13 units
Small Egg5 recipes · 6 units
Ice Cold Milk5 recipes · 5 units
Mystery Meat4 recipes · 5 units
Leveling Cooking in Forever
Cooking is cheap to level from what you kill: most early recipes take meat or eggs that beasts drop and spices from a cooking vendor. Keep the meat as you level rather than selling it, and pair the skill with Fishing for the higher brackets, where fish replace meat.
The cheapest craft per bracket below is the one that uses the fewest reagent units. Grey and green recipes still give skill points less often, so the table shows where each recipe stops paying.
The cheapest craft in each bracket, by reagent units
- Apprentice 1-75
Basic Campfireskill 1, 1 × Simple Wood37 recipes - Journeyman 76-150
Dig Rat Stewskill 90, 1 × Dig Rat29 recipes - Expert 151-225Expert Campfireskill 165, 1 × Thick Logs38 recipes
- Artisan 226-300
Poached Sunscale Salmonskill 250, 1 × Raw Sunscale Salmon26 recipes
Fewest reagent units is not always cheapest in gold; it is the measure that holds on every market, scanned or not. The crafting table ranks every recipe by what it costs and what it makes at the current medians.
What a cooking sells
The ingredients first. A recipe that needs a dozen Darkclaw Lobster or a stack of tenderloin turns those into the commodity, and the fishermen and hunters who supply them are paid before the cook is. The live prices on the reagents below say which ones are scarce on your house.
The food sells to people who do not cook, and the buff food sells hardest on raid night. A dish that only restores health competes with the vendors; one with a buff does not.
Every Cooking recipe, lowest skill first
Apprentice · 37 recipesshowhide
Journeyman · 29 recipesshowhide
Expert · 38 recipesshowhide
Artisan · 26 recipesshowhide
Questions
- Is Cooking worth leveling in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Yes for almost everyone: it costs no profession slot, its ingredients drop while you level, and the buff food is what raids eat. For gold the money is in the ingredients more than the dishes, especially the fish and meat the top recipes need in bulk.
- What is new for Cooking in Forever?
- Teas and smoothies in the first brackets, campfire kits and an Iron Oven, a group meal called Cookie’s Feast, and new dishes up to Flank au Poivre. The count and the full list with skill and reagents are on this page, from the Forever game data.
Source: World of Warcraft: Forever game data, compared with the Classic Era catalog. Counts update with each game build.