Cooking in WoW Forever: leveling route and where the gold is

Cooking used to be the profession you leveled while bored. In Forever it's the one that builds the fire. Every camp feature in the game, from Mana Wells to Fish Bowls, needs a campfire nearby, and campfires are cooking recipes.

That turns the cook into the person a group waits for. It also gives a handful of very cheap reagents a market they never had before.

What's new in Forever

44 of 133 recipes are new. The big change is the campfire ladder. A Basic Campfire at skill 1 holds 3 more camp features, a Journeyman Campfire at 53 holds 5, and an Expert Campfire at 182 holds 10. Each one takes a single piece of wood (Simple Wood, Star Wood, Thick Logs).

On top of that you get Cookie's Feast at 137 for a Stamina spread, and an Iron Oven at 300 that the top recipes need. The new food covers Intellect and Strength dishes, plus two lines of teas and smoothies. That's a lot of buff food for a game that used to have very little.

Shopping list

Nothing on this list is rare, and most of it you'll pick up while questing. The one to watch is White Spider Meat: the route wants 110 of it for Spider Sausage.

ITEMVENDORMINMEDIAN

White Spider Meat1s 12c——

Stringy Wolf Meat4c——

Coyote Meat10c——

Tangy Clam Meat22c——

Hot Spices10c——

Boar Ribs15c——

Mild Spices———

Goldthorn1s 50c——

Refreshing Spring Water1c——

Raw Spinefin Halibut1s 60c——

Sandworm Meat1s 75c——

Soothing Spices40c——

Simple Wood9c——

— = no listings in the latest scan on US·NORMAL·HORDEPrices from AHledger

Skill route

The route is the familiar meat ladder: wolf, coyote, boar ribs, clams, spider. There's a new Spinefin Halibut step in the low 200s. Our data has nothing between 3 and 15, or between 260 and 295, so fill those with whatever recipe is still yellow for you.

1. 1–3
   3×Basic Campfire KitNEW

   3× Simple Wood

   1135learned automatically
2. 3–15 · no recipe for this range in our data yet
3. 15–65
   60×Charred Wolf Meat

   60× Stringy Wolf Meat

   15456585learned automatically
4. 65–110
   55×Coyote Steak

   55× Coyote Meat

   6090110130from the trainer
5. 110–140
   40×Dry Pork Ribs

   40× Boar Ribs40× Mild Spices

   90120140160from the trainer
6. 140–185
   55×Goblin Deviled Clams

   55× Tangy Clam Meat55× Hot Spices

   135165185205from the trainer
7. 185–203
   18×Goldthorn Tea

   18× Goldthorn18× Refreshing Spring Water

   185215235255from the trainer
8. 203–215
   14×Spinefin HalibutNEW

   14× Raw Spinefin Halibut

   203210215220from the trainer
9. 215–260
   55×Spider Sausage

   110× White Spider Meat

   210240260280from the trainer
10. 260–295 · no recipe for this range in our data yet
11. 295–300
    5×Smoked Desert Dumplings

    5× Sandworm Meat5× Soothing Spices

    295325345365from the trainer

Making gold while you level

Sell wood. Every campfire needs a piece of Simple Wood, Star Wood or Thick Logs, and so do half the camp features in other professions. If those turn out to be gathered rather than bought, a stack in launch week is worth watching.

Buff food has more buyers now. Intellect food, Strength food and the new teas fill gaps the old game left open. Raiders will want them, and so will people who just like sitting at a good camp.

Be the camp. A cook with an Expert Campfire is the reason a group's other camp buffs work at all. That won't put gold straight in your bags, but it gets you invited, and invites become sales.

Trainers and recipe vendors

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