Recent Accomplishment Thread

[Kinikki]

I felt guilty for stalking all the rogues but..

I love my turkey. ):

And yeah, best place to go is the starter areas cause loads of people making level 1s. (Especially orc and troll!)

[Patb]

I think I know a good spot to do it. I will give it a go after i do these cooking quests thats powerlevling me to like 300 easymode

Still pretty much a newb to WoW, but what quests for cooking are you talking about? I've started looking into leveling it and would like to do it as easy as possible.

[Sai]

Still pretty much a newb to WoW, but what quests for cooking are you talking about? I've started looking into leveling it and would like to do it as easy as possible.

The thanksgiving event can take you from 1-350+ cooking for dirt cheap. You just need to do a bit of traveling to the major cities

[Wintermute]

Finally bought my Epic Flying skill for 4k with Rep Discount and Tailored me up an Epic Flying Carpet to go with it. Good times.

[Plow]

Still pretty much a newb to WoW, but what quests for cooking are you talking about? I've started looking into leveling it and would like to do it as easy as possible.

Start in Stormwind, at the Thanksgiving event, obviously.


Buy the "Recipe book" thing from the barrels. If you don't have level 1 cooking yet, there's a trainer right there.


In Stormwind, at level 1, learn the first recipe. Also learn the spice bread recipe from trainer, if you haven't.

Make 60 spice bread. The Barrels sell the ingredients.

Then use those 60 spice bread to make 60 Spice Bread Stuffing. You may need to do a few more than 60 to reach the next recipe. (Make sure you're watching your skill, and talk to the trainer when you reach 50 so you can pass 75, etc.)

The next recipe will be pumpkin pie. Again, the Stormwind barrels will have all the ingredients. Make 60 pumpin pies, and then a few more more to get to the next recipe.


Now take the tram to Ironforge. Your next recipe will be Cranberry Chutney. The ingredients for this are all sold by the barrels outside Ironforge. Make enough of these (60-70ish) to reach the next recipe at 220. Again, don't be forgetting to uncap your skill.


Once you're finished there, you can use the Candied Sweet Potato recipe. Now you're going to hearth and go to Darnassus. All the ingredients for the sweet potatoes are sold by the barrels in Dalaran. Once gain, make enough of these to reach the next recipe, at 280.


At 280, you can use the final Recipe-- Slow-Roasted Turkey. Now you're heading back to Stormwind. Run around Elwyn killing Wild Turkeys until you have 80-100ish. Then go back to the barrels, the rest of the ingredients are sold from them.

Cook that all up, and ta-da, you're at 350+ cooking, with fairly minimal effort, with a grand total cost of like 2 gold. You've also got either a couple stacks worth of the stuff for bountiful feasts, or a couple days' worth of pilgrim dailies, whichever way you wanna use it.

You're on your own from here, though. Either be a fisherman, or be prepared to farm meat.


Perhaps someone else can fill in the details for when to go where if you're horde.

[Jodwahh]

For horde its a pretty similar, start at UC, then to orgrimmar then onto TB. This event is a proper gift thats to good to pass, the earlier levels of cooking are a complete fucker to grind through. Only reason I first leveled fishing was for cooking.

[Plow]

This event is a proper gift thats to good to pass, the earlier levels of cooking are a complete fucker to grind through.

This. Cooking is an incredible blessing, if no other reason simply for the extremely easy access to HP+MP food.

However, as it was, cooking was a tremendous bitch-- but not for anything really having to do with cooking.

See, with JC and etc., if you go out mining, you can go out specifically for what you want, and only get stuff that's useful for you.


Meanwhile, with cooking, you can't just go to one zone til you get all your stuff then move to the next. Not only do you have to travel all over just for the various meats or fish, no matter how you do it you'd get a ton of shit you don't need. Vendored easily enough, sure, but when you need 100 of x meat, you don't have space for the 50 billion different grey furs and bones and shit.


Altogether the low parts of cooking were not worth the trouble, at all, unless you happened to do it as you were leveling fishing or whatever.


Now, though, it's extremely worthwhile to do this short little adventure to end up with a decent "sub"-skill, which is, in my opinion, as it should be.

Plus 350+ is still a decent effort, provided you didn't have a ton of fish and meat sitting around.

[Correction]

350-400 is still a joke, since that's Dalaran Clam Chowder -> Kungaloosh then you start grinding the cooking dailies for the recipes to take you to Fish Feast.

[Tricen]

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zomgzomg

edit better pick

[Plow]

That implies you have the clams around, every piece of meat on Blackrock is like 2g per single piece at *least* (chilled meat is at 60+ a stack rofl) for the stuff above 350.

I was lucky, I spent a couple weeks ago trying to get turtle, so when I got to 350 I had a bunch of herring and goby around, and had some meat saved up for "when I level cooking someday" and only had to farm a little bit more meat for the 10ish great feasts to get to 400.

Now I just gotta do manta rays until I decide on a recipe to buy to get me to fish feasts, which is all I really care about anyway lol.

If I didn't have fishing, though, it would suck balls and I'd prob be sitting at 354 or whatever I got from turkeys.

[Correction]

I always have a surplus of clams and never knew their AH value as a result. Are those prices current? It might be inflation triggered by the sudden flood of new 350-level cooks.

[Plow]

Those prices were when I figured out that the purpose of the event was to give us free cooking skill within about 6 hours of it going live.

[[Cookies]]

Blizzard GMs are so awesome. One of the escort quests in Un'Goro Crater was bugged so I opened a ticket just in case he didn't reset.

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And the GM came and gave me some 5th anniversary cake. :D

[Guitarman]

fish up a ton of borean man-o-wars for the final stretch of cooking, black jelly takes you to like 415 or so.

[Plow]

yeah, that's what I meant, not mantas

I think for the final stretch I'm going to grab the herring recipe, they're just so damn easy to get and I still need the rare fishing achieve and my turtle. Only concern is spices, and thanks to the event I've got 3 toons doing cooking daily lol.

[Guitarman]

the 5 award quest item from the dal fishing daily is somewhat common too, i'd get about 1 a week. not much, but it helps keep you stocked if you're not doing that already.

[Jodwahh]

Loremaster get

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So fucking glad thats over, tedious as a veritable motherfucker getting the last 10 kalimdor Qs.

[Moosey]

Took all of about 2 hours, much quicker than I expected.

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[Correction]

Yeah this holiday is fantastic for rep grinding.

Two days of work, from Neutral:

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Also got a bunch of other reps pumped up to exalted, on my way to 30 exalted reps

[Blarg]

Do holidays give bonus rep?