Cooking in World of Warcraft is a secondary profession; this means that you can take it without sacrificing one of your main professions. In this wow cooking guide, I will tell you a bit about the wonderful world of cooking in the game and give you some tips on how to level up and profit from this unique profession.

To do anything as a cook in wow, you’ll need a few things: something to cook, something to cook, and something to cook, simple. For starters, you’ll gain the ability to make fire, so as long as you have some firewood, you’ll have something to cook with. Some recipes won’t require anything extra to cook once you have the ingredients, but if they do, you’ll only need one of them since they don’t run out. However, the ingredients are and can be the most expensive part of leveling the profession. Fortunately, cooking is not a profession that is especially in demand in wow, so the ingredients (or reagents) are usually not very expensive.

You may be wondering why you should cook, well there are a couple of reasons. Mostly, it’s a good source of perks as when you upgrade, you’ll be able to cook food that’s better than what you can buy or pick up. Also, food reduces leveling time, since you don’t need to wait for health to regenerate for so long.

It can be quite difficult to benefit from cooking as a profession, as most of the food items are fairly low in value, but in the new expansion packs there are a lot more novelty items that tend to have higher values. One such recipe is for Savory Deviate Delight. The recipe itself can be quite expensive to pick up (20g+), but if you side with the horde, you can farm it in the Barrens quite simply. You then need to combine your cooking with fishing and head to the Wailing Caverns instance, where you can catch Deviate Fish, which you can then cook into Savory Deviate Delight, which sells for up to 10 gold per stack. The whole process can be done by a level 15-20 character quite easily, so if you’re short on money, we recommend you give it a try.

Hopefully you’ve learned a thing or two from this amazing cooking guide, but, most importantly, you just need to get out there and cook things, after all, that’s the only way you’ll get better.