Your guide to dailies: Cooking
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While the cooking quests do not award as much money as other dailies (only 7g 59s), and therefore may not be high on your list of priorities, there are several non-monetary benefits to completing them. First of all, they are fun. Currently, there are four separate quests, and they rotate, so you are not completing the same monotonous tasks day after day.
Secondly, they award your choice of fish or meat, which not only helps if you're an avid cook, but also gives you a daily crate of food for your pet, if you are a hunter. In addition, you can acquire random recipes, some of which are quite nice, including the hunter pet food buff [Recipe: Kibler's Bits]. Many of the reward meats and fish can be cooked up and/or sold for a tidy profit as well. All quests are given by, and handed in to, The Rokk in Lower City.
While several of the quests will require the use of a flying mount, this can easily be avoided by doing the quests in a party with a warlock willing to summon you. In addition, although the dailies often require a very high cooking skill level, this can be circumvented by purchasing the cooked meats on the Auction House, or by having your companion cook your meats for you. You will, however, require 275 cooking skill to gain access to the quests. Should you be in need of leveling your cooking skill, Lisa Poisso's got the inside scoop on the most effective ways to grind it up.
Quest: Manalicious
The objective here is to collect 15 [Mana Berries] from any of the eco-domes in Netherstorm, except the area surrounding the Stormspire. Eco-Dome Farfield in the far north contains mainly raptors, and although you can reach it easily with a flying mount, it is somewhat more difficult on foot, as it is surrounded by colossi. It also seems to have less competition, so if you can fly, take the extra few seconds to head up north. If you cannot fly, my recommendation is to head up to Eco-Dome Midfield, located roughly in the middle of Netherstorm. It contains crocolisks and lynxes, and is easier to get to on foot, especially if you're coming from Area 52.
Once in the eco-dome, start looking around for sparkling shrubbery. Once you've found one or two of these bushes, your eyes will adjust and you'll start seeing them everywhere. If you have the herbalism skill, you will be able to track the bushes. This quest can easily be soloed, and does not require the use of a flying mount, unlike many daily quests, including several of the other cooking quests.
This quest can be completed without the use of a warlock summon, a flying mount, and only the 275 minimum cooking skill.
Quest: Revenge is Tasty
This is my personal favorite. Not because I enjoy doing it, but because I gain a certain amount of satisfaction from having a reason to kill the Monstrous Kaliris that litter the Skettis landscape. I delight in watching others, in Skettis for the same reason as I, pound them into the ground for their [Giant Kaliri Wing]s.
In order to complete this quest, you or a group member will need a minimum cooking skill of 325 and either your very own flying mount, or a warlock bud to summon you to Skettis. You will need one [Giant Kaliri Wing], which drops from the Monstrous Kaliris quite readily. You will also need to cook up three [Warp Burger], requiring three [Warped Flesh], which drop from warp stalkers, blackwind warp chasers, and the like.
You will likely get your wing by completing your other Skettis dailies, as you are quite likely to be assaulted by several of the birds, and the drop rate is high. In the event that you are skipping such dailies for whatever reason, or are not randomly attacked (like that happens), there are other ways to lure the birds from the sky. If you have any ranged attacks at all, try perching yourself on one of the uninhabited towers and targeting them as they fly by. One method I use, although it does require a flyer, is to fly around Skettis, keeping to the sides near the mountains. Every once in awhile, deliberately fly into or very near one of the kaliris, then turn sharply and land on the virtually empty mountainside.
If you are having trouble finding warp mobs in the mountains of Skettis, simply head down to the grasses of Terokkar, and you'll find plenty more. The drop rate on the meat is somewhat lower, but once you've started to do the daily cooking quest with any regularity, you can begin to save piles of the meats you know you'll be needing. Once you have your ingredients, head over to any cooking fire and cook up your burgers. Then, simply click on the pot that The Rokk gave you, and you'll have your very own bowl of [Kaliri Stew]!
Quest: Super Hot Stew
This quest will also require the use of a flying mount or a handy warlock summon, as it requires you to go to Forge Camp: Terror in Blade's Edge Mountains, south of Ogri'la, and kill an Abyssal Flamebringer. You or a group member will also need a minimum cooking skill of 335.
You are being asked by The Rokk to make him [Demon Broiled Surprise], which requires two [Mok'Nathal Shortribs] and one [Crunchy Serpent]. You will need to kill raptors for two [Raptor Ribs] as well as wind serpents for one [Serpent Flesh]. My favorite spot to hunt both at once is Razor Ridge, which spans vertically down Blade's Edge Mountains on the east side, and does not require flight to reach. Once you have these materials, simply head to any cooking fire and make your ribs and crunchy snack.
Now for the fun part. You need to head over to the Forge Camp, which you would be doing anyway if you have access to the Ogri'la dailies. Once there, all you need to do is kill one Abyssal Flamebringer, aka non-elite giant flaming demon, and right click the cooking pot that The Rokk gave you to cook up your surprise. Yum!
Quest: Soup for the Soul
Once again, you will be asked to head out with The Rokk's cooking pot. This time, your destination is Nagrand, and this quest is possibly the easiest and least-time consuming of the four. You will not need a flying mount, but you or, again, a group member, will require a minimum cooking skill of 325, as you will be cooking up four [Roasted Clefthoof] from four [Clefthoof Meat], which are dropped by none other than your friendly neighborhood clefthoof.
Once you have killed a few clefthoof, which are abundant throughout northern Nagrand although they can be spotted all over the province, head over to the Ancestral Grounds, located just southeast of Forge Camp: Fear. Simply kill a few mobs standing around a fire, walk up to their fire, roast up your meats, then right click on the trusty cooking pot. Now you have soup!
Possible recipes found in your reward crates:
- [Recipe: Stormchops] from a [Crate of Meat] or [Barrel of Fish]
- [Recipe: Kibler's Bits] from a [Crate of Meat] or [Barrel of Fish]
- [Recipe: Broiled Bloodfin] from a [Barrel of Fish]
- [Recipe: Spicy Hot Talbuk] from a [Crate of Meat]
- [Recipe: Skullfish Soup] from a [Barrel of Fish]
- [Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake] from a [Crate of Meat] or [Barrel of Fish]
- [Warped flesh].
- [Clefthoof meat].
- [Buzzard bites], either to be sold as is, or cooked into [Kibler's Bits] and consumed, or sold.
- [Lightning eel]. These can be cooked into [Stormchops] and eaten or sold, or sold as-is.
- [Crescent-tail skullfish]. These can be cooked into [Skullfish Soup] and eaten or sold, or sold as-is.
- [Raptor ribs].
- [Serpent flesh].
- [Talbuk venison]. This can be cooked into [Spicy Hot Talbuk] and eaten or sold, or sold as-is.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Oct 14th 2008 11:05AM
You don't have to kill mobs around a fire in the Ancestral Grounds - you just have to do the cooking in the Ancestral Grounds, meaning that once you enter the area, you can build a cooking fire, cook, and be on your way in 30 seconds.
Brittany Jan 7th 2009 2:52PM
Hey im kinda new to the whole cooking dailies thing. Im kill lvl 380 in it. Im doing the outlands dailies and dalaran ones but I can only get one (The murshroom meatloaf for dalaran and the super hot stew for outlands.) How come I cant do any of the others?
MENNONH Nov 29th 2007 1:25PM
Im sure alot of other people noticed, but earlier this week I mentioned in my guild.
I mentioned: His name is The Rokk, and he is cooking.
Can you smell what the rock is cookin!?
seankreynolds Nov 29th 2007 1:12PM
For Super Hot Stew, you don't actually need to kill your own Abyssal Flamebringer to cook the food, you can use the corpse of one killed by another player. Doesn't even have to be from your party or your faction.
Val Nov 29th 2007 1:26PM
Dailies = Blizzard bribing you to keep doing boring things.
Death to dailies!
webrunner Nov 29th 2007 1:36PM
The alternative to dailies is there being no quest at all to do those things. How is having a daily to do it worse?
JPN Nov 29th 2007 1:28PM
I would have preferred Rordon Gamsay instead of the Rokk (a la Haris Pilton) but I digress...
You shouldn't have any trouble finding warp chasers in Skettis. They are all over the place, but almost always located in the areas between the birdmen and the structures. They're all over Skettis; you shouldn't have to leave to find them. The quicker the better as these do get a little repetitive even though there's four of them...here's hoping they'll change them up every so often!
BillDoor Nov 29th 2007 1:31PM
So, once you have the Skullfish Soup and the Boiled Bloodfin (ugh, terrible recipe) recipes, is there any reason to take the Barrel of Fish? I often save the meat from the Crate of Meat for another day's cooking quest, but there aren't any quests that would require the contents of the Barrel of Fish.
I wish there were a few quests that actually required fishing. The four that we have currently are a good start though.
Dave Nov 29th 2007 1:51PM
It really kinda depends on what you need. If you need fish (and I personally like getting the fish for the +spell damage buffs and healing buffs) then take the fish.
Some buffs you only get from fish or meat, not both. If you don't care which you get, it doesn't matter.
Practically though, getting meat is always the best, because there's a decent chance you'll get meat that will satisfy the other cooking quests in a greater quantity than you'll ever need. I've got a full stack of warp meat and clefthoof meat for those two dailies and I shouldn't have to kill another one of either again. There isn't a daily for cooking fish (and perhaps rightfully so) so the fish barrels aren't going to give you anything except food for personal buffs.
I'm actually really disappointed that there are only 4 of these dailies (especially with all the kinds of animals in outland) and that one of the 4 doesn't even involve cooking. Mana berries? It's just a fetch quest! I'm a little disapointed overall in the lack of variety in all the daily quests where they could have done more, but that's what you get when the game focuses on the top %10 who raid and that's mostly it.
Turall Nov 29th 2007 3:27PM
I always take the fish. You have a chance of getting rare fish that are used in the +30 stam recipes and such (i.e. Huge Spotted Feltail), and you can even get the Golden Vendorfish, which sells to vendors for 6g.
All the meats are super easy to farm anyway.
Yishua Jan 29th 2008 2:06PM
U can get electric eels from the barrals (needed 4 stormchops). I have found that these eels r the worst/most boring of items 2 farm. So far my drop rate is 1 out of 9 catches is an eel & that is on a good day.
Doyce Nov 29th 2007 2:24PM
Quick note: Kibbler's Bits and Sporeling Snacks will buff warlock pets as well.
Schadenfreude Nov 30th 2007 12:18AM
re: #5-- Furious Crawdads can actually drop from the barrel of fish, so it may be worth choosing even after you've got all the recipes, since you can cook them up into +30 stam food and sell them for a tidy profit.
Blake Nov 29th 2007 1:50PM
I'm loving this quest. Not only does it provide a nice reward, but you can keep your food rewards for future quests which will then only involve you going to Nagrand, Blade's Edge, or killing a Kaliri. Plus, nice recipes. I'm only looking for Stormchops now, and will continue doing the daily quest until I have it and even after. As a mage, the mana berry quest is the easiest. Fly up, gather in a couple minutes, port back, and you're done. As a completionist too, these quests are fun and break up the monotony...for example, I just went to DM to get Rum Tum Tubers last night. http://wowtid.com/
Evil M Nov 29th 2007 1:53PM
I like how the new dailies have are randomized. It really makes the daily quests more interesting because you're not sure which one will occur. Besides, the cooking ones are my favorite, they're simple, fun and fairly creative. The 7g is a bonus if I get 10 or 15 warp stalker or Talbuk meat to boot.
Valerya Nov 29th 2007 2:02PM
A little tip for the warlocks:
The so-called "hunter pet food buff" isn't just for hunters. I cooked it with my warlock and successfully used it and my demon pet got the buff.
JPN Nov 29th 2007 2:16PM
lol @ 9
Flavio Nov 29th 2007 2:49PM
Please fix:
[Buzzard bites], either to be sold as is, or cooked into [Kibler's Bits] and consumed, or sold.
to [Buzzard Meat] :)
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=43772
seankreynolds Nov 29th 2007 3:12PM
{is there any reason to take the Barrel of Fish?}
Free fish to cook for buffs? I think the special reward recipes are random rather than being part of loot tables specific to the crate and barrel (I have 3 cooks doing the dailies and I haven't kept track of what comes from which) so just pick whichever type of food gives you the stuff you want. Plus if you're like me and teach all your alts cooking (eventually I'll have 9 toons at 70 able to do the cooking quests) you'll need those fish or meat for skillups.