History of The Cooking Profession In World of Warcraft

in this video we'll be talking about the history of the secondary profession cooking in world of warcraft from its release in vanilla wow all the way to the present day in shadowlands cooking was added right at the start of alpha wow all the way back in 2003 before even half of the original races were playable and has gone through a number of changes though remained relatively similar throughout in vanilla as with all secondary professions leveling it was not as simple as just going to a trainer and there was no spice bread to cook to get your skill to a quick 60. you had to get nine boar meat or stringy wolf meat to get to 10 skill and cooking then you could cook spiced wolf meat which would carry you all the way up to 50 cooking skill and it would have to because the next recipe you learned from the trainer was boiled clams and coyote steak at skill 50 though this could be supplemented with specific cooking quests from both factions alliance however were heavily favored in this as they had 14 faction-specific quests that gave them recipes while the horde had four in fact these quests along with the cooking recipe vendor and stormwind that sold the recipes from all these quests has been often cited as an argument that blizzard favors the alliance over the horde now if you didn't want to level cooking the traditional way you could also level it entirely through fishing all the way from one to three hundred but that's pretty boring so for the most part we'll stick to what the cooks of azeroth would train you in after getting the previous two recipes at 50 skill the next recipe you learned was crab cakes at skill75 dry pork ribs at 85 goblin deviled clams at 125 and spider sausage at skill 200. that for both factions is all that you could train from the trainers just seven recipes as most of your cooking recipes came as either whirl drops or from quests again unless you were alliance as with fishing in vanilla to learn expert cooking it required you to go out into the world and find a vendor that sold the rather cleverly named book expert cooking this was another place that the horde got a bit shafted with cooking as for the alliance the book was sold in the silverwind refuge in ashenvale but for horde it was sold in shadow prey village in desolace and you see the mobs in ashenville range from levels 18 to 30 while the desolus mobs are level 30 to 40. so the horde had to wait a whole extra zone essentially to learn expert cooking but that was probably okay as they had fewer options on what to cook especially if you were an orc or troll as leveling in duratar there were no wolves just lots and lots of boars so you're pretty much just cooking board meat all the way until skill 50 anyway this does all even out when we get to the quest for artisan cooking however as the quest clam let's surprise is a neutral request that comes from gadget sand and ternaris which is a level 40 to 50 zone and requiring 10 giant eggs 10 zesty clam meat and 20 fine aged cheddar and while you can buy the giant eggs off the auction house they only dropped from birds or owl beasts of above level 40. in patch 1.8 the minimum level requirement to get the quest was lowered to 35 but you'd still have a rough time actually getting the giant eggs if you wanted to farm them yourself and even with the level decrease you still had to have 225 cooking to get the quest it was worth noting however that all the recipes that only the alliance could get could be sold on the neutral auction house so that the horde could use them too as they weren't buying and pick up and fun fact this was the only way for the horde to have any use at all for any kind of spider meat so if you are leveling as a horde character on classic and are saving spider meat in your bags to later cook don't unless you plan to visit the neutral auction house and try to buy a recipe cooking was very useful when leveling unless you were a mage as in vanilla you would often be at low health after finding more than two moms at a time and it was also a good way to make money as cooked meats are worth usually twice as much uncooked when selling them straight to a vendor a particularly useful recipe is jungle stew which you can get in stranglethorn veil and for just one tiger meat one refreshing spring water and two shiny red apples you turn roughly one silver worth of ingredients into six and this is a really good way to make money solo when you're nearing 40 and trying to get your first mount in addition to the more traditional foods that healed you and gave you the well-fed buff which in vanilla only lasted for 10 minutes there were also a couple of special foods like the deviant delight which you could turn into either a pirate or ninja for an hour though druids and shamans shifting from forms lose the effect and before patch 2.3 and tbc if a shadow pre-switched shadow formed they too would lose the effect there is also a special recipe that only rogues could learn called thistle tea which required 60 cookie and function like a potion as when used it restored 100 energy and it also required swift thistle to create so really the only reason it wasn't crafted through alchemy was likely so that all rogues could pick it up and not just alchemist last but not least vanilla had the one and only epic rarity food in the form of durge's kikin's chimera chops which were added in patch 1.9 and were rewarded from one of the quests in the long chain to open the gates of aq40. moving on to the burning crusade cooking was increased to 375 and again you had to buy a book to learn the skill increase with the master cookbook but you didn't have a long journey to find it as it was sold from chef gatson and baxter in each of the faction's main hub and hellfire peninsula and unlike the recipes in vanilla in tbc all recipes had parody as while they were still all learned from quests each faction had the same quest just from different people and no the alliance did not have an extra vendor for these recipes both factions got spiced bread as an easy recipe to get to 60 skill as the materials required were bought from a vendor rather than farmed like in vanilla so the initial cooking grind was easier however you still had to go to ashenvale or desolas for expert cooking and do the quests and gadgets song for artisan so it was still a bit of a grind the most impactful change to cooking at the time was the change in the duration of the well-fed buff you'd get for eating the various stat foods as its duration was tripled from 10 minutes to 30. there was also some end game to cookie now as some dailies were added to shattrath in patch 2.3 they required level 70 to do but only 275 cooking which was pretty low considering most of them required outlined cooking recipes to actually accomplish the reward for the quest was your choice between a barrel of fish or a crate of meat each of which had a chance to contain uncommon or even rare cooking recipes like kibler's bits which would make your pet bigger or storm chops which gave you a chance to deal some lightning damage to your target even the delicious chocolate cake recipe which could drop in the future which would be part of no less than three achievements though those weren't added until later with wrath of the lich king the cooking skill increased from 375 up to 450 and with this all the levels of cooking became trainable at the cooking trainer so you no longer needed to go hunt down books in the world or do the quests and gadgets and gone were the days of learning your trade out in the open world centralization had come and now everything you needed was in the main cities the other main change of cooking dared wrath was the addition of the fish feasts into the game today we all know them and use them quite often in raiding but this was their introduction the first one called the great feast was learned at 375 cooking from a trainer for 4 gold and 75 silver as rath added all of the cooking levels to trainers it also added many new recipes to them as well as wrath cooking or as it was called grand master cooking was learnable at skill 350 it added upwards of 20 new recipes between skill 350 and 375 in addition to the numerous recipes from 375 up to 450. this is a trend that would repeat itself throughout the next few expansions however where tbc had most of the base recipes behind quests and the special recipes as random chances from the daily boxes wrath changed it up a bit and in the dalaran cooking dailies you got a chance at the rare recipes from tbc as well as currency and for three of the currencies you could just buy the recipes from a vendor which was a nice welcome change in patch 3.2 they also added the recipe for the captain rumsey's lager which was originally only obtained through the bag of fishing treasures and outlands in tbc to both the cooking daily bags from north rent as well as the crates of meats and barrels of fish from the outland cooking dailies and while the outland cooking dailies required level 70 and only 275 cooking the northrend cooking dailies only require level 65 but 350 cooking a bit of a strange choice but hey why not circling back to the topic of feasts there are three others added the fish feasts like the great feast gave a bunch of stats and again blizzard had buffed the well-fed buff so it now lasted for a full hour but the other two feasts are more interesting ones these being the small feast and the gigantic face in the same vein as a deviate delight from vanilla either made you bigger or made you smaller though unlike the deviant delight this one can be shared with all your friends the last substantial change to cooking was now many of the foods actually restored mana as well as health previously food would restore your health and drinks would restore mana with only a few that did both but now the majority of recipes you could do did both another quality of life feature added to the game through cooking they also had a hat available from cooking for currencies which made your cooking time take about half a second each cast being one of the most useful cooking items you could grab even to this day cataclysm again brought new recipes to cooking along with a skill increase from 450 up to 525 as the cataclysm didn't have a new continent but rather a new take on the old world instead of making the new cooking dailies higher level they took the entirely opposite track cooking dailies were added to the major cities and were now available from level 10 and gave a plus one cooking skill as well as a new currency called chef's award the cat cooking dailies did not give you a special bags to open with chances at recipes but if you didn't want to farm cooking mats and just do dailies for two of the chef awards you could buy a krato tasty meat which had cata cooking reagents within given how short the cataclysm segment was you think we're over the hum when it comes to cooking but this is not the case as you may recall mr panderia went and flipped cooking on its head first some of the more simple changes the dollar ran cooking award and the chef's awards were all replaced with a central currency in the epicurean award which could be obtained from both the dollaran and main city dailies as used for any of those recipes and if you're wondering what epicurean means epicure is one with sensitive and discriminating taste especially in food or wine the valley of four winds is basically an entire zone dedicated to farming and by extension cooking and the central hub half hill market added a whole system to cooking with a sunsong ranch you could now grow your own materials and there was a whole quest line and reputation related to that but also much like the crafting professions of vanilla you could now choose different ways to learn each with their own recipes and once you completely leveled up one you could start on another and when you leveled all six ways you earned the title master of the ways also unlike in the previous expansions you could now level up cooking from 1 to 600 all in the half hill market as they had recipes that required only vendor items and could teach you all the way up to 525 at which point they started to require mats from pandaria mr panderia also gave us a new currency for use in the halfhill market called the ironpod token with which you could buy a three-piece scent of an apron a rolling pin in a frying pan which when all equipped it gave you a plus 30 cooking skill though unlike the bonuses to fishing skill you don't really get a bonus from the cooking skill it's not like you make extra food with a higher cooking scale or anything but still an interesting bonus to have nonetheless you could also buy the portable refrigerator a 32 slot cooking bag but the most interesting thing that the half hill market gave us was our first interaction with nami in mr pandaria nami was a child who he mentored into becoming a chef and you could buy the cooking student bell which would allow you to summon him and while nowadays he is so much of a beam that blizzard has used him as a boss in stress tests at this point in time he was just a child warlords of draenor brought cooking up from 600 to 700 and for the first time since wrath you had to go out into the world to learn this expansion's cooking basically for all the professions of willard's draenor you got the scrolls to learn their highest level from random mob drops but the chance was really high so it was really easy to get them and fun fact cooking along with archaeology and first aid are the only professions that didn't get a garrison building dedicated to them but really there wasn't much added cooking the same type of basic recipes used for high-end content as we returned to our world for the invasion of legion cooking increased from 700 to 800 and we ran into our old student from mr panderia nami legion added a new system cooking with each recipe now giving three ranks from one star to 3 stars and for cooking this meant the higher ranks allowed you to make more of the food for the same amount of materials in addition to this it had an interesting way to increase the ranks of recipes instead of dailies like in the past which would give you all the currency instead you would farm cookie mats and then give them to your old student who was all grown up and stacks of five and he would spend an hour or so researching it and then you could open a box that would either have some food in a recipe in it or burnt food scraps and far more often than not you would just get the burnt food which began the meme that nami was basically just ragnaros and for a stress test on the 7.2 ptr blizzard let loose fire lord nami on the streets of dalaran letting players finally take out their frustrations on their former student for his innumerable failures there were a couple of interesting recipes from legion however everyone knows and bourns the bear tartare that was nerfed in bfa but fewer talk about the interesting ideas that the crispy bacon added where if you had a food buff and ate a slice of crispy bacon it increased the duration of the well-fed buff by an hour all the way up to 6 hours max although it only works on food from legion so unfortunately it doesn't work anymore but you do get an achievement for getting a well-fed buff all the way up to six hours battle for azeroth changed how professions worked instead of going from 800 to 900 or something it broke professions up to be by expansion so now you had vanilla cooking tbc cooking wrath cooking and so on and so forth it also retrained the three-ranked system of legion and the 5-7-10 amount per recipe there were a few interesting recipes like the hearts bane's hex wurst which like the deviant fish in vanilla transformed you into a pigheaded beast man which maybe isn't quite as cool as a ninja or pirate also with the release of mechagon cooks could now make the mecha doll's big mech a clear reference to mcdonald's and with nayalatha and the visions of n'zoth scenarios there were a few extra recipes that helped you in those specifically but for the most part business as usual raid buffs finally in shadowlands cooking has a 75 skill to level through they removed the free rank system from cooking and that's pretty much it a couple of feasts a large and small version of every stat food but the one welcome addition is the fried bone fish which while not as strong as a beer tartare is still a nice option for those in old content wanting to speed run through it unlike first aid cooking is still very widely used even today because of the extra stat buffs it gives so while its systems are a bit old and maybe even outdated it's not going anywhere anytime soon alright and that's the video if you liked it make sure to give it a like and if you have any ideas for future videos just like this one be sure to leave them in the comments down below or if you want to watch more videos about 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Length: 15min 39sec (939 seconds)

Published: Sat May 22 2021