Strength Food: The real 3.1 issue
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Feb 23rd 2009 at 3:00PM
The Banana Shoulders blog recently posted on a subject that is actually near and dear me as a Death Knight and Hunter: The dearth of available strength and agility food in Wrath. A lot of basic stats have a variety of tiers and ingredients to choose from. You can get fish or meat, a slightly higher stat or a slightly lower stat. Not so with strength. You'll take fishing and like it mister, because the only available strength food is Dragonfin filet. It's even worse, points out Big Bear Butt, since the only agility food in Wrath is also made from Dragonfin Angelfish -- and requires two of them, besides.It seems weird that Blizzard's done this. Perhaps they figured that pure stat food should be harder to get because of stacking with abilities like Blessing of Kings, but then again, pure attack power scales pretty well with buffs these days too, so it feels like leaving pure stats out in the food recipe cold is just an oversight that should be corrected.
If it's an oversight, maybe what we should expect to see is a bunch of cooking recipes that fill out some of the current stat gaps and give us obsessive daily completers a chance to spend all these extra Dalaran Cooking Awards. In the meantime, I'll be continuing to level my fishing so I don't have to spend all my daily money buying lunch on the AH.
Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Buffs, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Tremulant Feb 23rd 2009 3:12PM
Shhhh! Dragonfin filet is putting my kids through Gnome College.
Don't ruin a good thing! QQ
brucimus Feb 23rd 2009 4:53PM
yep same here....makes me more money than anything else
FlameFlash Feb 23rd 2009 5:31PM
Amen.
And here I just make nice profits usually on some favorite fishing spots for the raw mats. :)
jbodar Feb 23rd 2009 7:23PM
You are almost as awful as fishing itself... not that it's possible to eclipse "World of Bassmaster".
Andrew R. Feb 23rd 2009 3:12PM
The dearth? WoWinsider: Creating new words since 2004!
I kid of course
Mondryn Feb 23rd 2009 3:16PM
Congrats on your failure. Dearth is a real word that means exactly what Daniel intended to say.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dearth
Punjab Feb 23rd 2009 3:20PM
He was kidding.
AyaJulia Feb 23rd 2009 3:22PM
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=dearth
Anyway, regarding the OP... I'd like to see some more recipes that require chilled meat, even if they have to put some exorbitant amount in as a requirement. So far it's only useful for dailies, crappy feasts (as opposed to fish feasts), critter bites--who actually buys those, except for the one-time achievement--and Northern Stew, which is just a food to raise your HP, no stats. Meanwhile, my guildies know I'm a cook and keep sending me the stuff, so I have about ten stacks in my bank going a grand total of nowhere.
I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of "Northern Meat Pie" or something that requires 4-5 chilled meat and a northern spice and gives 40 Strength or Agility. Or perhaps some sort of "Aged Meat Stew" as an upgrade to the Northern Stew recipe, which could give a use for those stupid Old Spices.
AyaJulia Feb 23rd 2009 3:23PM
And in my defense for re-linking the dictionary, when I started typing that, no one else had responded. Damn real life for interrupting. :P
Aaron A. Mar 10th 2009 11:01PM
Ayajulia said:
"I'd like to see some more recipes that require chilled meat"
Second. I realize it shouldn't be as powerful as other meats and fish because it can be farmed from any ol' beast in Northrend, but as it stands, Chilled Meat is darn near useless. I like Ayajulia's idea of a dish that requires 4-5 Chilled Meat, or 2 Chilled Meat and a pinch of Lichbloom, anything that justifies farming the stuff when I could just as easily be farming Chunk o' Mammoth.
Also second the idea of more fishing dailies, or providing a reason (any reason will do) to fish the Frozen Sea.
Colin Feb 23rd 2009 3:14PM
As a feral druid, I've stockpiled up on plenty of the nummy Dragonfin Filet. However, the time I spent gathering all that fish was painful (fishing is just plain boring, as intended), and now that my supplies are running low after harder fights such as Sarth 2D (this past Sunday), I'm dreading having to go search out the pools again.
I'm sure they will create an equivalent in meat as opposed to fish; they did it with +hit food, so I don't see why they won't with strength and agility (and spirit, for that matter).
Hasteur Feb 23rd 2009 3:16PM
I don't know. Franky I'm glad to be done with repeating the cooking daily over and over to get the badges to get more recipes to get the Chef achievement.
flythebike Feb 23rd 2009 3:49PM
It took me about an hour yesterday to fish up two stacks worth of Dragonfin Fillet. My character has two crafting professions so fishing is the only gathering profession I have and my only option for moneymaking other than playing the AH/doing dailies. This situation is WAI.
vazhkatsi Feb 23rd 2009 3:20PM
using meat recipes seems to be discouraged in general, i just finished getting fishing to a respectable level and its annoying, i need 40 shoveltusk flanks, from mobs to low to farm shards off of, or i can get 20 glacial salmon in half the time.
bigjonno Feb 23rd 2009 3:21PM
I love cooking my own buff food, but hate fishing and I'm currently supplying my retadin. +str meat based food, please!
turkeyspit Feb 23rd 2009 3:30PM
I really don't think this is the real 3.1 issue.
Likely something more to do with Death Knights and people wearing iLV 226 gear who think Naxx is hard.
corvaal Feb 23rd 2009 3:33PM
Imagine the time it takes to fish up the fish to make 20 fish feasts for when we are in progression mode and hit a few wipes.
*shudder* takes ages.
Nigeluno Feb 23rd 2009 4:05PM
Just did that last week, what a snorefest, 40 Glacial Salmon, 40 Musselback Sculpin and 40 Nettlefish took several hours! On the plus side I did get my 1000 fish acheivement and a crapload of other fish to sell on the AH while doing it
Nigel
mentoku Feb 23rd 2009 4:30PM
If you have the Find Fish ability (learned from a journal fished up from wreckage/etc), then getting the specific fish you need for the feasts is quick and easy. Each one has an abundance of trackable pools, and you get 3-5 fish from each one. :)
groats Feb 23rd 2009 3:35PM
i find it very annoying that wotlk absolutely requires fishing to cook anything useful. i tried to level fishing but it is just definitely WAY too boring. even for a game that is built around grinding it makes me cringe to even think of how much time of my precious life i have to devote to, no, literally throw away, just in order to use another skill i leveled to max months ago...
in wotlk, chefs can cook a variety delicious meals out of fish but don't have even the faintest idea what to do with simple meat.
the deal is: fish or pay 110+ gold for a stack of fried/stuffed/poached dragonfin-anything.