Patch 3.1 to make Cooking easier
by Alex Ziebart 
Mar 6th 2009 at 6:30PM
It's being reported that high end Cooking has received a bit of an overhaul in the latest Patch 3.1 PTR build. Well over 20 recipes have been changed so they won't go grey quite so early, making the trip to 450 Cooking a much easier process.The test realms haven't actually come back up yet so I'm unfortunately unable to get a list of recipes that have changed, but it sounds like leveling Cooking will suck much less. I think my it took my Priest longer to hit 450 Cooking than it took my Paladin to hit 450 Blacksmithing. After grinding through that, I never want to make another Feast again. Unfortunately, I'm sure I'll be making them by the dozen when Ulduar rolls around. Sigh.
I would do a great many things to be able to summon Jillian on demand.
Filed under: Cooking, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zerokku Mar 6th 2009 6:34PM
Hope I don't sound picky but is Overall meant to be overhaul? Just had to reread that a couple times cause I didn't catch what was being said >.
Alex Ziebart Mar 6th 2009 6:37PM
Yes, apologies. I wasn't paying enough attention to my spellchecker.
Ugru Mar 6th 2009 6:35PM
OMG take that yummy shot of Kobe beef down before I nom my computer.
Jamesisgreat Mar 6th 2009 6:50PM
It was hard to level cooking?! I never had any problems at all, although I did level fishing at the same time which I hear makes it a lot easier.
Now making fishing easier to level - that would be very nice.....
asdf Mar 6th 2009 7:21PM
It wasn't hard so much as irritating: 100+ small/gigantic feasts to get from 448 to 450. /shudder
ustilago Mar 6th 2009 8:28PM
To asdf:
Either your exaggerating to Hell and back or you have the worst luck of any person on the planet.
Balius Mar 7th 2009 12:41AM
Getting to 425ish isn't too hard, but after that it's only novelty feasts to max, which is ridiculous.
Deb Mar 6th 2009 7:55PM
The test realms haven't actually come back up yet so I'm unfortunately unable to get a list of recipes that have changed, but it sounds like leveling Cooking will suck much less.
Why publish this if you don't know?
Alex Ziebart Mar 6th 2009 7:56PM
I know there were changes. I don't know the exact recipes.
Aaron Mar 6th 2009 8:41PM
There's no important need to be at 450 though is there? The highest recipe requirement currently in game to learn it is 435 no?
Kvothe Mar 6th 2009 8:58PM
Fish Feast requires 450 still, and it's pretty much the best food in the game, considering you can feed it to your entire raid.
Faar Mar 7th 2009 12:52AM
I don't like the artificial limitation on the supply of northrend spices. Remove THAT, if anything needs to change...
It's bad enough that most recipes require doing the same 5 cooking quests over and over and over for two bloody months straight to get enough badges for the recipes, then I must continue to be allowed to buy spice too? Makes no sense whatsoever.
Garbanzo Mar 7th 2009 4:17AM
I'd like to remind everyone that there is no need to level Cooking if you don't want to. Farm the ingredients, and pay a cook to do the cooking for you. You can buy spices on the Auction House if the cook doesn't have a supply.
Ragvel Mar 7th 2009 7:41AM
never had any problems levelling my cooking since, when i first created my first main i was steady levelling both fishing and cooking , only hard thing was the amount of gigantic feast you had to make just to get the last tic to 450 , WTb more high lvl (useful) cooking recipes from 425 + plz ;)
ColdChillin Apr 16th 2009 12:33AM
What addon is that in the screenshot?