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 95 and an Expert Campfire at 205, which hold 5 and 10 camp objects instead of 3.

Camp objects, their effects and the class buffs they don’t stack with come from the beta client (build 1.60.1.70755), the same data as our WoW Forever Camping Planner; recipes from beta client build 1.60.1.70755. 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 145, and an Iron Oven at 300 for the most advanced recipes.

Cooking camp objects

Cooking camp objects in beta client build 1.60.1.70755 (effects at level 60; hover or tap an icon for its tooltip)
TierCamp object and what it doesSkill
Tier 1 Basic Campfire — Builds a basic campfire that allows cooking and the placement of up to 3 additional camp features.1
Tier 2 Journeyman Campfire — Builds a journeyman campfire that allows cooking and the placement of up to 5 additional camp features.95 · Blueprint
Tier 3 Expert Campfire — Builds an expert campfire that allows cooking and the placement of up to 10 additional camp features.205 · Blueprint
Tier 2 Cookie's Feast — Lay out Cookie's Feast that contains Stamina-boosting food.145 · Blueprint
Tier 3 Iron Oven — Places an Iron Oven required for the most advanced cooking recipes.300 · Blueprint

Does the Cooking camp buff stack with class buffs?

The class buff that the beta client says Cooking’s camp buff doesn’t stack with.

None of Cooking’s camp objects names a class buff it doesn’t stack with in the beta client.

Cooking leveling route, skill 1 to 300

A route from skill 1 to 300 worked out from the beta client’s own tables (build 1.60.1.70755): 8 steps, about 469 crafts and 10 different materials. Each step names the recipe, how many times to craft it and what that takes; the shopping list adds it all up. How the route is chosen, and what the client can’t tell us, is under the route.

Skill 1–75

  1. 1 → 80

    Craft 124× Roasted Boar Meat

    Learned with the profession · yellow 45 · grey 85

    • 124× Chunk of Boar Meat

Skill 75–150

  1. 80 → 90

    Craft 10× Longjaw Mud Snapper

    Recipe item: Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper · yellow 90 · grey 130

    • 10× Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
  2. 90 → 169

    Craft 172× Dig Rat Stew (makes 2)

    Recipe item: Recipe: Dig Rat Stew · yellow 130 · grey 170

    • 172× Dig Rat

Skill 150–225

  1. 169 → 185

    Craft 24× Goblin Deviled Clams

    Trainer · yellow 165 · grey 205

    • 24× Tangy Clam Meat
    • 24× Hot Spices
  2. 185 → 215

    Craft 36× Plain Ol' Paletusk New in Forever

    Recipe item: Recipe: Plain Ol' Paletusk · yellow 200 · grey 230

    • 72× Chunk of Boar Meat
    • 36× Mild Spices
  3. 215 → 225

    Craft 12× Mithril Headed Trout

    Recipe item: Recipe: Mithril Head Trout · yellow 215 · grey 255

    • 12× Raw Mithril Head Trout

Skill 225–300

  1. 225 → 291

    Craft 82× Spotted Yellowtail

    Recipe item: Recipe: Spotted Yellowtail · yellow 265 · grey 305

    • 82× Raw Spotted Yellowtail
  2. 291 → 300

    Craft 9× Runn Tum Tuber Surprise

    Recipe item: Recipe: Runn Tum Tuber Surprise · yellow 315 · grey 355

    • 9× Runn Tum Tuber
    • 9× Soothing Spices
How this route is worked out
  • Skill ranges are the client’s: the skill where a recipe turns yellow and where it turns grey. The client doesn’t hold the skill a trainer asks before teaching a recipe, so a trainer recipe only counts from the skill where it turns yellow, unless the client gives a lower one. Recipes you learn with the profession count from the start, recipe items from the skill the item asks for.
  • Crafts per step use the Classic skill-up chance: every craft gives a point while the recipe is orange, then the chance falls from 100% at yellow to 0% at grey, (grey − skill) ÷ (grey − yellow). The expected crafts of each point are added up and rounded up; an unlucky run takes a few more.
  • Which recipe: at every skill point the route compares the recipes that still give skill-ups by the client’s base price of their materials times the crafts they take, and changing recipe counts as 3 extra crafts so the steps stay few. A recipe you learn from a recipe item counts at 5 times its value, so the route only takes one where it’s that much cheaper than the trainer’s recipes or where no trainer recipe gives skill-ups. The base price is a yardstick, not what you’ll pay.
  • Trainer means no item in the client teaches the recipe. The trainer’s list itself is server data and isn’t in the client, and the client marks a specialization (Armorsmith, Dragonscale, Gnomish and the rest) only on some recipe items and the devices they make, so check a step’s recipe with your trainer.
  • Left out: recipes with a cooldown and those that need a material only such a recipe makes (Mooncloth, Arcanite Bar), recipes the client ties to one faction or one specialization, taught by an item the client has no data for, camp objects and the Season of Discovery recipes the client still carries.
  • Materials: what one step makes and a later step takes is counted once. A material your profession can make itself is listed as it is, with the recipe that makes it; making it can give skill-ups the route doesn’t count, so you may finish early.

Where the new Cooking recipes fit, skill 1 to 300

The new recipes on the skill bands of the four training ranks, each placed at the skill where the client turns it yellow. Below that skill a recipe is orange or yellow and gives skill-ups; at grey it stops. Use it to see which band has something new to level with; the route between them is still the Classic one.

Not in this chart: the Classic recipes and where each recipe is learned. A full 1–300 route with Classic and new recipes, the crafts and a shopping list is the leveling route section, on the pages of the professions that have one.

New Cooking recipes by the skill where they turn yellow. New Forever recipes only
  1. Skill 1–75

    5 new recipes turn yellow here (at 30–40)
    • Soothing DrinksPeace Teayellow 30 · grey 45
    • Stamina FoodSkywall Souffleyellow 30 · grey 45
    • Delightful DrinksVenomous Smoothieyellow 30 · grey 45
    • Intellect FoodTasty Raptor Bitesyellow 35 · grey 75
    • Miscellaneous CuisinesPincer Bitesyellow 40 · grey 55
  2. Skill 75–150

    7 new recipes turn yellow here (at 80–135)
    • Stamina FoodBreakfast Omeletteyellow 80 · grey 95
    • Miscellaneous CuisinesCritter Cookieyellow 80 · grey 85
    • Soothing DrinksRoyal Teayellow 105 · grey 125
    • Delightful DrinksSlimy Smoothieyellow 105 · grey 120
    • Intellect FoodTwice-Spiced Raptor Sliceyellow 115 · grey 150
    • Miscellaneous CuisinesSavory Whimsyfin Delightyellow 125 · grey 165
    • Delightful DrinksMrrggl Smrrthleyellow 135 · grey 145
  3. Skill 150–225

    10 new recipes turn yellow here (at 155–220)
    • Soothing DrinksRoot Teayellow 155 · grey 185
    • Delightful DrinksCalcified Smoothieyellow 185 · grey 195
    • Stamina FoodGiant Scrambled Eggsyellow 195 · grey 220
    • Soothing DrinksTriage Teayellow 195 · grey 235
    • Strength FoodBear Brisketyellow 200 · grey 220
    • Strength FoodPlain Ol' Paletuskyellow 200 · grey 230
    • Fisherman's DelightsSpinefin Halibutyellow 210 · grey 220
    • Delightful DrinksSpicy Smoothieyellow 215 · grey 225
    • Spell Damage FoodBriny Seafood Stewyellow 220 · grey 240
    • Soothing DrinksSunny Teayellow 220 · grey 250
  4. Skill 225–300

    16 new recipes turn yellow here (at 230–285)
    • Intellect FoodRaptor Rouladenyellow 230 · grey 245
    • Strength FoodSavory Stag Slidersyellow 230 · grey 245
    • Armor FoodPlated Armorfishyellow 245 · grey 255
    • Delightful DrinksWicked Smoothieyellow 255 · grey 270
    • Soothing DrinksSage's Teayellow 260 · grey 290
    • Intellect FoodBat Hacheeyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Strength FoodBear Bruscittiyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Everyday MealsClam Linguineyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Intellect FoodPrehistoric Pulled Raptoryellow 280 · grey 310
    • Intellect FoodRaging Raptor Ribsyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Stamina FoodSavory Turtle Stewyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Intellect FoodSoaring Pamplonayellow 280 · grey 310
    • Strength FoodSteaming Stag Steakyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Miscellaneous CuisinesSweetpaw Jamyellow 280 · grey 285
    • Agility FoodSwiftstrike Steakyellow 280 · grey 310
    • Agility FoodFlank au Poivreyellow 285 · grey 315

1 more new recipes have no skill-up range in the client tables and aren’t placed.

Cooking recipes in the beta client

Every Cooking recipe in beta client 1.60.1.70755: 120 recipes, 39 of them new in Forever. Filter by category, search a recipe or a reagent, and read the skill colors left to right: learnable, yellow, green, grey.

Among them are teas and smoothies, and food for Strength, Agility, Intellect and Stamina.

  • Cleansing StewNew

    Stag MeatGiant Egg

    1———

    Trainer
  • Peace TeaNew

    Refreshing Spring WaterPeacebloom2

    1303745

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Skywall SouffleNew

    Small Egg2Simple Flour

    1303745

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Venomous SmoothieNew

    Refreshing Spring WaterMild SpicesSmall Venom Sac

    1303745

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Tasty Raptor BitesNew

    Raptor EggMild Spices4

    1355575

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Pincer BitesNew

    Crawler ClawSimple Flour

    1404755

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Brilliant Smallfish

    Raw Brilliant Smallfish

    1456585

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Charred Wolf Meat

    Stringy Wolf Meat

    1456585

    Trainer
  • Crispy Bat Wing

    Meaty Bat WingMild Spices

    1456585

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Gingerbread Cookie

    Small EggHoliday Spices

    1456585

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Herb Baked Egg

    Small EggMild Spices

    1456585

    Trainer
  • Roasted Boar Meat

    Chunk of Boar Meat

    1456585

    Trainer
  • Slitherskin Mackerel

    Raw Slitherskin Mackerel

    1456585

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Kaldorei Spider Kabob

    Small Spider Leg

    1507090

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Spiced Wolf Meat

    Stringy Wolf MeatMild Spices

    1507090

    Trainer
  • Beer Basted Boar Ribs

    Crag Boar RibRhapsody Malt

    16080100

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Scorpid Surprise

    Scorpid Stinger

    16080100

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Egg Nog

    Small EggIce Cold MilkHoliday SpiritsHoliday Spices

    17595115

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Roasted Kodo Meat ×2

    Kodo MeatMild Spices

    17595115

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Breakfast OmeletteNew

    Small EggMild Spices4

    1808795

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Critter CookieNew

    Simple Flour5

    1808285

    Trainer
  • Smoked Bear Meat

    Bear Meat

    180100120

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Boiled Clams

    Clam MeatRefreshing Spring Water

    190110130

    Trainer
  • Coyote Steak

    Coyote Meat

    190110130

    Trainer
  • Fillet of Frenzy ×2

    Soft Frenzy FleshMild Spices

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Goretusk Liver Pie

    Goretusk LiverMild Spices

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Loch Frenzy Delight

    Raw Loch FrenzyMild Spices

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Longjaw Mud Snapper

    Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Rainbow Fin Albacore

    Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item
  • Strider Stew ×2

    Strider MeatShiny Red Apple

    190110130

    Recipe itemRecipe item

Client data, not Blizzard’s list: a recipe in the files can change or never ship, and where a recipe item drops or is sold isn’t in the client. Blizzard counts 600+ new recipes across all professions; this count leaves out camp objects, so the two don’t have to match. 7 Season of Discovery recipes are still in the beta client but not confirmed for Forever; switch them on to see them.

Cooking in the Legacy system

Forever’s account-wide Legacy system gives tradeskill Legacy Points only for primary professions that aren’t gathering ones, so Cooking earns none. These perks still 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 of a random Elemental Essence 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.