WoW Classic WotLK Cooking Guide: Leveling, Materials, & Recipes (2024)

Cooking sits alone as World of Warcraft's most unique profession. Solely focusing on creating and crafting food, it's an incredibly potent profession that many look at throughout the expansion as it provides unique character enhancements.

This type of benefit can be expected come Wrath of the Lich King Classic's release, as this cold-hearted expansion will have tons of new recipes to learn and foods to create.

With that in mind, here's an in-depth guide for Cooking in WotLK Classic.

WoW Classic WotLK Cooking Guide

As one of the professions that provide character enhancements via consumables, Cooking can provide a wide variety of buffs for every type of class. Because of that, it always brings something new and exciting for players every expansion.

In this guide, we'll take a look at what the profession offers in the upcoming WotLK Classic expansion, provide a leveling guide from Vanilla to WotLK, and list out some recipes to look out for that will be highly sought after in the new expansion.

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What does Cooking offer in WotLK Classic?

Once WotLK Classic launches, there will be tons of items and other features players can benefit from.

Apart from giving players health and mana, the profession can craft food that gives buffs. Food buffs are some of the most basic character enhancers in the game. Not only are there plenty of them, practically one for every class and spec, but they also grant an extra boost of Stamina.

From the Great Feast to personal foods such as Mega Mammoth Meal, Tender Shoveltusk Steak, Spice Worm Burger, and more, there is plenty to gain for players.

How to level Cooking in WotLK Classic

Unlike players who hold Jewelcrafting or Alchemy, professions where materials can be easy to farm as each one has a corresponding gathering profession, Cooking relies on items sold by NPCs or meats dropped by beasts.

Knowing that it can be fairly straightforward, if you have the funds, to just buy the ingredients from the Auction House and begin leveling the profession.

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Required Materials

Here are the approximate materials to level up Leatherworking for WotLK Classic. This includes materials for Vanilla, The Burning Crusade Classic, and WotLK Classic

Vanilla

• 60x Simple Flour
• 60x Mild Spices
• 40 – 70x Stringy Wolf Meat
• 15 – 30x Clam Meat
• 30x Refreshing Spring Water
• 15 – 30x Crawler Meat
• 30 – 45x Crawler Claw
• 40x Dig Rat
• 50x Raptor Egg
• 50x Raptor Flesh
• 25x Giant Egg
• 40x Bear Flank
• 15x Sandworm Meat

TBC

• 30x Ravager Flesh
• 35x Talbuk Venison or Clefthoof Meat

WotLK

• 20x Chilled Meat
• 13 – 15x Rhino Meat
• 50 – 60x Tundra Berries
• 25 – 30x Savory Snowplum
• 35x Northern Spices

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Cooking Leveling Guide

Here's how to use the materials to level Cooking.

Vanilla (1-300)

1-40

• Spice Bread (40x Simple Four, 40x Mild Spices)

40-80

• Spiced Wolf Meat (40x Stringy Wolf Meat)

From 80 to 225 faction-specific recipes will begin to get involved.

80-130 (ALLIANCE)

• Boiled Clams (50x Clam Meat, 50x Refreshing Spring Water)

80-90 (HORDE)

• Smoked Bear Meat (10x Bear Meat)

90-130 (HORDE)

• Dig Rat Sew (40x Dig Rat)
  • Obtained via Quest offered by Grub near Crossroads / Sold by Grub for higher level players

130-175

• Curiously Tasty Omelet (45x Raptor Egg)
  • Recipe by Kendor Kabonka in Stormwind (Alliance) / Recipe by Keena at Hammerfall in Arathi Highlands and Nerrist at Grom'gol Base camp in Stranglethron Vale (Horde)

175-225

• Roast Raptor (50x Raptor Flesh)
  • Recipe by Corporal Bluth at Rebel Camp in Stranglethorn Vale, Hammon Karwn at Refuge Pointe, Arathi Highlands, and Helenia Olden at Theramore Isle in Dustwallow Marsh (Alliance) Recipe by Ogg'mar at Brackenwall Villages, Dustwallow Marsh, Keena in Hammerfall in Arathi Highlands and Nerrist in Grom'gol Base camp in Stranglethron Vale (Horde)

225-250

• Monster Omelet (25x Giant Egg)
  • Recipe by Malygen in Felwood (Alliance) / Recipe by Bale in Winterspring (Horde)

250-285

• Juicy Bear Burger (35x Bear Flank)

285-300

• Smoked Desert Dumplings (15x Sandworm Meat)

TBC (300-350)

300-325

• Ravager Dog (25x Ravager Flesh)
  • Recipe by Sid Limbardi at Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula (Alliance) / Recipe by Cookie One-Eye at Thrallmar in Hellfire Peninsula

325-350

• Roasted Clefthoof (25x Clefhoof Meat)
  • Recipe by Uriku at Teelar in Nagrand (Alliance) / Recipe by Nula the Butcher at Garadar in Nagrand (Horde)

WotLK (350-450)

350-365

• Northern Stew (15x Chilled Meat)

365-375

• Rhino Dogs (10x Rhino Meat)

375-400

• Kungaloosh (50x Tundra Berries, 25x Savory Snowplum)
  • Complete the Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor quest given by Grimbooze Thudnerbrew at Nesingwary Basecamp at Sholazar Basin. Upon completing the final quest, The Taste Test, you will learn the recipe.

400-450

• Buy cooking recipes from Derek Odds (Alliance) and Misensi (Horde) in Dalaran. They will be bought with Epicurean's Awards
  • Epicurean's Awards are earned via daily cooking quests given out by Katherine Lee (ALliance or Awilo Long'gomba (Horde)
    • All of these recipes will require at least one Northern Spices. These can be bought from the Auction House or from the vendor near your cooking trainer at Dalaran for Epicurean's Awards

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Cooking Recipes to look out for in WotLK Classic

As stated at the top of the article, Cooking is a great way to get character enhancements.

That being said, here are some to look out for and where to find them.

Great Feast

• Sold by Katherine Lee in Dalaran and Rollick MacKreel in Borean Tundra (Alliance) / Sold by Awilo Lon'gomba in Dalaran, Thomas Kolichio in Howling Fjord, and Orn Tenderhoof in Howling Fjord (Horde)

Mega Mammoth Meal

• Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) / Misensi (Horde) in Dalaran

Tender Shoveltusk Steak

• Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) / Misensi (Horde) in Dalaran

Spiced Worm Burger

• Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) / Misensi (Horde) in Dalaran

Very Burnt Worg

• Sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) / Misensi (Horde) in Dalaran

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