Daily Cooking quests from the Wrath beta
by Alex Ziebart 
Sep 10th 2008 at 3:00PM
We've added the Cooking quests from a recent Wrath of the Lich King beta patch to our Wrath Cooking gallery, and I have to say that I've really enjoyed them so far. The quests are more involved and entertaining than the ones from The Burning Crusade, I think. They require more than running to your guild bank, withdrawing 4 Warp Burgers, then depositing whatever random meat you get out of your crate.They have sort of a fun dynamic: You're helping the chef in your faction's inn supply meals for the denizens of Dalaran. You generally don't need to travel all over the world gathering materials or anything like that. Most of your supplies are right there within Dalaran, and you deliver your meals as needed. You need to pop down into Crystalsong Forest to beat up a few animals for some of the quests, but that only requires clicking on a crystal to deliver you down below Dalaran. If you want to, you can even stock up on the Chilled Meat some of these require. By the time you've leveled to 80 you'll probably already have a ton of it since it drops off of almost every beast in Northrend.
I'm not sure why, but it feels much more satisfying to assemble meals right there in/around Dalaran rather than flying around the entirety of Outland gibbing killer birds and using demons as fire. You would think the whole 'I cooked this upon the corpse of a demon' dynamic would be the more entertaining of the two.
These are daily quests, and at the level cap they reward roughly 15 gold and a Dalaran Cooking Award which is used as currency for buying new recipes.
Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hehe Sep 10th 2008 3:23PM
In norwegian, and swedish and danish too I guess, "Limburger" will translate to glue burger :F
Tolwynd Sep 10th 2008 3:30PM
Chilled meat, huh? You'd figure after a few hours in your bank you'd wind up with [Odor of Rancor] or something like that...
Zoidberg Sep 10th 2008 3:35PM
Do you get to choose which quest you do, or does everyone try to do the same quest each day?
Alex Ziebart Sep 10th 2008 4:12PM
I'm not sure what the implementation will be when it goes live, but right now on Beta they're all available but you can only do one of them per day.
That might be for testing purposes, or it might not be. We won't know for sure for awhile yet.
Fletch Sep 10th 2008 3:45PM
I quite like the idea that most of the ingredients are local as I wasn't keen on all the trekking around Outland for the Burning Crusade cooking quests. That said I'm not sure if this will cause an increased problem of gathering some ingredients as maybe more people will be doing the quests now, especially with the new token system for getting new recipes.
DJScythe17 Sep 10th 2008 5:16PM
While the quests are fun, it seems that the tokens you recieve are also used to buy the new spice, "Northern Spices". It puts to use excess tokens when all recipies are purchased, but it seems like quite a drag when trying to level cooking.
bugmaster Sep 10th 2008 4:04PM
new foods look good and all but wonder how much itll matter with the new buff system
Balius Sep 10th 2008 4:08PM
I like cooking as a rogue leatherworker. It lets me help prepare the raid in ways my professions and class don't. I'm glad to see some interesting ideas being thrown at it.
Noobies Sep 10th 2008 4:53PM
As of current beta build.
There are ~6 cooking quests which give 1 or 2 cooking award marks. You can use award marks to buy cooking recipes (about ~16, 3 marks each) or Northern spices (10 for 1 mark). I think all these recipes use Northern Spices. You can do only one cooking quest a day.
email Sep 10th 2008 5:05PM
Actually, I never minded the travel much. I usually let the cooking daily decide what other dailies I do that day... Netherstorm, Ogri'la, Nagrand or Skettis. I don't try to do all 25 of my dailies every day, but the cooking one plus the 2 to 4 the region it comes from always decided for me... never got bored with it.
I hope they group up dailies a bit like this. I know i got really sick of the Shattered Sun stuff after doing the same quests for 25 days straight.
Sayce Sep 10th 2008 5:43PM
So, are we really not going to see any more food buffs for healing and other specific bonuses?
Zakk Sep 10th 2008 10:17PM
Those cooking marks look really cool. Should be fun collecting the new recipes.
ryan Sep 11th 2008 8:34AM
I just levled fishing to 325 and cooking to 369 in 3 days on one of my toons to get to max before Wrath and I must say while I enjoy cooking fishing is well uhm boring. Now that I can do the daily fishing quest it's much better. So, why not give daily fishing and cooking quests to all levels as an incentive to level the two professions. The rewards don't have to be the same but it would take some of the boredom out of leveling them. Just my opinion...
ClayMask Sep 19th 2008 2:02PM
I'm wondering whether there is any way to get Northern Spices besides the cooking daily. I don't really like the idea that people will only be able to make a maximum of 10 food items per day.