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by Alex Ziebart 
Aug 30th 2008 at 5:00AM
The latest beta patch brought a fantastic assortment of Cooking recipes, finally getting started on implementing that profession in full. Throughout The Burning Crusade, they really stepped up Cooking as something you want to learn. Wrath of the Lich King seems to be expanding that. Many of the cooking recipes are great for battle as usual, but they've also expanded on the Delicious Chocolate Cake bit and made some things that are just for fun, and there are also some cool things like gaining Tracking abilities from eating a specific food. Food for your pets has returned as well, bigger and better than ever, supplying Stamina and Strength instead of just one or the other.Honestly, despite all of the awesome stat food, I have to say my favorite recipe I've seen so far is Critter Bites. The description states, "Throw a critter bite to a critter to control it. Critters are small non hostile level 1 creatures." By 'control it' I suppose they could mean it becomes a pet like if you were to Mind Control a mob as a Priest, but it's more likely it becomes a temporary vanity pet. I haven't had an opportunity to try it yet, but you can be sure I'll run out and do it as soon as I get a chance.
The unfortunate part of this is that... a lot of the recipes are totally inaccessible, such as the Critter Bites I mentioned above. Like the Jewelcrafting gem cuts, there are daily quests implemented that award tokens, which in turn are exchanged for recipes. The quests are implemented, but the quest items are not, and thus the quests can't be completed. You can't buy anything from the vendors, either. The basic recipes are there for all to see, though, and for those of you not in the Wrath of the Lich King beta we have a Wrath Cooking gallery started up for you!
Edit: I forgot to mention, all of the recipes in the gallery I was able to learn with 375 Cooking. You can learn everything here essentially straight out of BC, so there's likely a lot more on the way.
Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dominace Aug 30th 2008 5:08AM
I don't raid to often so the buffs don't seem that compelling enough to want me to level cooking, though to its credit those say 'Requires level 70', so if that is what 70 food looks like them maybe I might end up leveling cooking.
mora Aug 30th 2008 5:30AM
Nice!
NeSuKuN Aug 30th 2008 5:49AM
At least the recipes doesn't require undead meat xD
Ety Aug 30th 2008 7:07AM
If this is the only way I can get my skunk pet, then it works for me! Well, that and I'll get several friends together so we can all tame a squirrel and I can have my squirrel army at last.
icer Aug 30th 2008 9:05AM
i wonder if we'll see those before LK is released?
Cetha Aug 30th 2008 10:02AM
i'm not sure that would matter much, since all of the reagents seem to be new meats that we don't have access to yet.
Balgair Aug 30th 2008 11:18AM
I see they've changed the default 2nd stat to stamina now instead of spirit - a much more useful one for most classes! My priest enjoyed getting spirit with everything, but all my other characters would far rather have had stamina with their attack power, spelldamage or whatever.
Baluki Aug 30th 2008 11:43AM
I was pretty excited to see a craftable drink (Kungaloosh!) but every single one of those foods restores mana anyway. Looks like I won't be carrying around separate food and drink anymore, which is nice. Of course, I usually just carry around drink anyway, since I can use my healing spells.
Jack Spicer Aug 30th 2008 12:06PM
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the best part of these new cooking recipes - namely that almost all of them restore health AND mana.
Joe P Aug 30th 2008 2:37PM
I'm liking the look of that feast! Does that mean cooks get a mage table like ability? If so I need to level my cooking!