Cooking in WoW Forever
Cooking is the heart of camping in Forever: the old Cooking Fire becomes the Basic Campfire every camp is built around. Cooks can upgrade it to a Journeyman Campfire at skill 90 and an Expert Campfire at 200, which hold 5 and 10 camp objects instead of 3.
Camp objects and buffs as on our WoW Forever professions and camping page, from Blizzard’s Deep Dive recap and Wowhead’s and Icy Veins’ beta guides; recipes from beta client build 1.60.1.69913. Last reviewed: .
What Cooking does in WoW Forever
Food changed too. Blizzard says almost all crafted food now gives stats plus a small experience bonus; the example shown at BlizzCon gave Intellect and 5% more experience from kills, with a 15-minute Well Fed buff after eating for 10 seconds.
Its tiers are campfires, so Cooking’s other two camp objects sit beside them: Cookie’s Feast, Stamina food for the camp, at skill 140, and an Iron Oven at 300 for the most advanced recipes.
Cooking camp objects
| Tier | Camp object and what it does | Skill |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Basic Campfire — the camp itself | 1 |
| Tier 2 | Journeyman Campfire, Cookie’s Feast — a bigger camp, Stamina food | 90 |
| Tier 3 | Expert Campfire, Iron Oven — the biggest camp, advanced cooking | 200 |
- The beta client (build 1.60.1.69913) has the campfires at skill 1, 90 and 200, Cookie’s Feast at 140 and the Iron Oven at 300.
- You need the profession to place an object, but anyone resting at the camp gets its effect. Objects can be traded, and crafting one makes two.
- How campfires, resting and the shared one-hour cooldown work: WoW Forever professions and camping.
Does the Cooking camp buff stack with class buffs?
Camp buffs are variants of buffs that classes already bring, and Blizzard says they don’t stack with them: a camp fills in for a missing class rather than adding a second buff.
None of our sources names a class buff that one of Cooking’s camp objects collides with.
New Cooking recipes in the beta client
The beta client (build 1.60.1.69913) has 39 Cooking recipes whose spells the Classic Era client (1.15.9.69722) doesn’t have. The Era client also carries every Season of Discovery recipe, so those don’t count as new here. This is client data, not Blizzard’s list: a recipe in the files can change or never ship, and the files don’t say where you learn it.
The groups are the recipe categories of the profession window. Yellow and grey are the skill at which the client turns the recipe yellow (a skill-up is no longer certain) and grey (no more skill-ups); the skill you need to learn it isn’t in these tables.
Among them are teas and smoothies, and food for Strength, Agility, Intellect and Stamina.
Everyday Meals (2)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Cleansing Stew | — | — |
| Clam Linguine | 200 | 240 |
Strength Food (5)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Bear Brisket | 200 | 220 |
| Plain Ol' Paletusk | 200 | 230 |
| Savory Stag Sliders | 225 | 255 |
| Steaming Stag Steak | 260 | 300 |
| Bear Bruscitti | 275 | 305 |
Agility Food (2)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Swiftstrike Steak | 175 | 205 |
| Flank au Poivre | 285 | 315 |
Intellect Food (7)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Tasty Raptor Bites | 35 | 75 |
| Twice-Spiced Raptor Slice | 115 | 150 |
| Raging Raptor Ribs | 185 | 215 |
| Raptor Rouladen | 225 | 250 |
| Prehistoric Pulled Raptor | 260 | 300 |
| Soaring Pamplona | 275 | 310 |
| Bat Hachee | 280 | 310 |
Miscellaneous Cuisines (4)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Pincer Bites | 30 | 55 |
| Critter Cookie | 80 | 85 |
| Savory Whimsyfin Delight | 125 | 165 |
| Sweetpaw Jam | 280 | 285 |
Stamina Food (4)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Skywall Souffle | 20 | 45 |
| Breakfast Omelette | 75 | 110 |
| Giant Scrambled Eggs | 195 | 220 |
| Savory Turtle Stew | 260 | 300 |
Spell Damage Food (1)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Briny Seafood Stew | 220 | 240 |
Fisherman's Delights (1)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Spinefin Halibut | 210 | 220 |
Delightful Drinks (6)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Venomous Smoothie | 5 | 15 |
| Slimy Smoothie | 85 | 95 |
| Mrrggl Smrrthle | 135 | 145 |
| Calcified Smoothie | 185 | 195 |
| Spicy Smoothie | 215 | 225 |
| Wicked Smoothie | 240 | 250 |
Soothing Drinks (6)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Peace Tea | 25 | 65 |
| Royal Tea | 85 | 125 |
| Root Tea | 155 | 185 |
| Triage Tea | 195 | 235 |
| Sunny Tea | 220 | 250 |
| Sage's Tea | 260 | 290 |
Armor Food (1)
| Recipe | Yellow | Grey |
|---|---|---|
| Plated Armorfish | 245 | 255 |
Blizzard counts 600+ new recipes across all professions; this list counts client records and leaves out the camp objects above, so the two numbers don’t have to match.
Cooking in the Legacy system
Forever’s account-wide Legacy system gives a Legacy Point the first time you take a tradeskill to 150, 225 and 300 skill, so Cooking alone is worth three. These perks touch it (first rank, as seen in the demo):
- Working Overtime (Professions tree): 4% higher chance of a skill-up from primary, secondary and class tradeskills.
- Dedicated Study (Professions tree): Raises your lowest primary or secondary tradeskill by 1. Once both primary tradeskills and all three secondary ones reach 300, it gives 2 to 4 random Elemental Essences instead. 25 sec cast, 23 hr cooldown.
- Master Chef (Professions tree): Cooking recipes have a 10% chance to make an extra item.
- Gourmand (Resourcefulness tree): Food buffs last 33% longer.
- Reagent Economy (Resourcefulness tree): Class abilities no longer need reagents bought from vendors, and Tier 1 camping features cost no reagents to craft.
- Field Guide (Adventure tree): The cooldown for adding camping features is 8% shorter.
- Permanence (Resourcefulness tree): Your long-duration party and raid buffs, and the benefits of resting at a camp, last 50% longer.
Every perk, its tree and where it was seen: WoW Forever Legacy system.
Not announced yet
- Where and how each new recipe is learned, and the skill it needs
- Which dungeon bosses drop the Blueprint recipes for advanced camp objects
- The final values of the camp buffs: these are beta numbers
- The profession skill cap
Sources
How we choose and check sources
- Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Deep Dive panel recap (camping, camp objects, professions, Legacy)
- Wowhead: changes and additions to professions (Classic system kept, 600+ recipes, Legacy milestones, starter manuals)
- Wowhead: Camping Overview guide, written from the beta client (camp object tiers, skill levels, tooltips, unlock quests)
- Icy Veins: Warcraft Forever camping system guide (rest timer, placement rules, Blacksmithing tiers)
- wago.tools: the beta client’s profession tables, build 1.60.1.69913, compared with Classic Era 1.15.9.69722 (new recipes, camp object skill levels)
- Wowhead: open-world roundup (camp buff table, the new Well Fed experience buff)
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