After learning the cooking skill, don't walk away and immediately talk to the cooking trainer to learn the spice bread recipe. This is a new cooking leveling recipe added at a later stage, and the required ingredients - sweet spices and flour - can both be purchased from the vendor next to the trainer at a 1:1 ratio, and the price is extremely cheap, allowing you to level your cooking right up to level 40.
If you purchased the Recipe: Mourning Pastry Recipe at the Harvest Festival, you can make it just as well, with the required ingredients of chilled milk and flour; the only trouble is that you need to purchase chilled milk at the inn, which is not as convenient or practical as the Spice Bread.
Level 41~150 cooking main recipes are: recipe: delicious small fish (level 1~95), recipe: long-mouthed loach (level 50~130) and recipe: spiny whiskered catfish (level 100~165). The reason why I chose these recipes is because as long as you are fishing level 1, you can catch the above 3 types of fish in the pools of the major main cities, which usually takes only 30 minutes, and you can catch enough fish to rush your cooking to level 150, it just takes some time to buy the recipes.
RECIPE: Delicious Small Fish: Sareon Bodine of Shining Gold in Aelwyn Woods, Greta Gantt of the Spirits Village of Danmoro, Suva Mistwalker of Thundercliffs, Naiomar of the Dolanar Village of Tyndar Hill, Lizbeth Cromwell of the Magical Quarter of the City of Ghosts, Kathryn Liran of Stormwind City, Hahn Longline of the Bloody Hoof Village of Mogore, and Martin Tabré of the Woodlands of Tirisfal.
RECIPE: LONG-MOUTHED MUDBUCK: Sareon Bodin of Shining Gold in Aelwyn Woods, Nal Mistwalker of Thundercliff, Tans Mudbubbles of Ironforge, Naiomar of the village of Dolanar in Tadasil, Lizbeth Cromwell of the Magic Quarter of the City of Ghosts, and Hahn Longline of the village of Bloodhoof in Mogoray.
RECIPE: Thornbeard Catfish: available at Catherine Leland in Stormwind, Suva Mistwalker and Nar Mistwalker in Thundercliff, and Ronald Birch in Darkon.
At this stage, the other recipes we can learn can be used as well, except that the ingredients are all available at the auction house unless you hit them while practicing, but the prices are hard to beat, and not nearly as real as the 3 low-level fish.
Level 150~175 is a major difficulty. 100 level recipes can't be leveled up anymore, and most of the 150-ish recipes require extremely specific materials that need to be specialized to fight for them. We have a good choice here: go to the Bleak Lands, find the super merchant in the goblin caravan type 680 to buy the recipe: skinny wolf steak, level 125 recipe, the material is generally in the auction house also has a long-term supply, and want to fight on their own, the Twilight Forest, Shadow Tooth Castle, Grey Valley has a large number of wolves, the drop chances are also quite high, brush Shadow Tooth with a small number of the mages can give you a large number of them. This recipe is timed to refresh one, so if you don't get it you'll have to wait.
There is another recipe that is also very suitable: Recipe: Delicious Omelette, purchase location Horde side of the town of Arash Heights Fallen Hammer Kina, Thorn Valley Gromgao camp Nerist, the Alliance side of the only in the old town of Storm City, the Pig and Whistle Inn of Kendor Kabunka sells this recipe. Requirements for materials for raptor eggs, Alashee Highlands and the Valley of Thorns have had the experience of practicing players must clearly remember how many raptors we will kill there, and raptor eggs and meat drop chances are high, this recipe is also easy to get, quite suitable for rushing to cooking, you can directly rushed to the 200 level cooking.
Level 175~-250 cooking, if you do not know how to fish, this stage should be a good plan, recipe: stone scale cod (175~210 level), recipe: silver head salmon (175~235 level), recipe: deep fried blush fish (225~260 level), recipe: speckled yellowtail (225~260 level) can get you through this stage. This is when you realize that the fishing profession is the best match for cooking; all of these low-level and cheap ingredients are contributed by the fishing congregation, and the recipes only require you to make one run to Treasure Bay to buy them from Kelsey Yancey inside the Port Authority, and they're unlimited.
Well, you really, really don't know how to fish, so there's only another way to go, using Recipe: Carrion Feast (level 175~235), Recipe: Spicy Wolf Chop (level 175~235), and Recipe: Tender Wolf Chop (level 225~260) are all good choices.
Mysterious meat drops from animals around level 40, and the auction house price is not very high because of the large yield, while tender wolf meat and red wolf meat can both be dropped from level 40+ wolf monsters, and the wolves in Tanaris, Sintran, Cursed Lands, Faywood Forest, and Burning Plains all drop with a not-so-low yield.
Level 250~280, all the fish in Firas is a no-brainer, there isn't much useful low-level cooking anyway, and cheap materials are king. Horde and Alliance players can buy Recipe: Night Scale Fish Soup (level 250~285) and Recipe: Boiled Yang Scale Salmon (level 250~285) from Gikosis in Hot Sand Harbor of Tanaris, after which you can catch both of the above fishes along the inland rivers of Firas.
Non-fishing players will have no choice at all, the good thing is that there are suitable recipes - Recipe: Juicy Bear Burger (level 250~285) and Recipe: Bear Skewer (level 250~285), alliance and horde players can look for Thorned Branches Woodland Marigane in the Forest of Fellwood and Bail in the Blood and Poison Outpost, respectively, to get the recipe, and the cooking ingredient Bear Loin Meat has a high drop rate from the bears in the Ferwood Forest, but it's a little harder to buy at the auction house if you want to.
Level 280~300, Ferris Feathermoon Fortress of Viviana and Moxacher camp of Shyndra Deepgrass respectively for the Alliance and Horde players to sell four 275 level cooking recipes, but from the price of raw materials, can be caught in Ferris fresh white scale salmon price is cheap and sufficient, so the recipe: grilled salmon (level 275~315) is the fishing department players of the choice, until level 300 is the fishing department of the player It's a 100% upgrade until level 300, and one set will solve everything.
You're a non-fishing player and you don't happen to have any fresh whitefish for sale at the auction house? Only have trouble with that. You have 2 options - Doomhammer East End Kid Boss drops Recipe Recipe:Lorntam Potato Chunks or Hylissus Cooking after level 280 via a simple quest for the Desert Meatballs recipe. The bottom line is that you have to prepare the ingredients needed for both recipes yourself. Lorntam Ground Potatoes will be available in Doomhammer East, while the only way to get the meat of the sandworms is to fight the sandworms in Hylissus, with a drop chance of about one out of three.
When the cooking level reaches 300, you will enter the Outland Cooking stage.
Level 301~350 Outland cooking recipes are generally more complicated, scattered in various villages, different merchants in the same village sell them, and you want to level up cooking, which is still a must to go buy. A part of the recipe also belongs to only through the quest to obtain. It is recommended to collect these recipes before rushing cooking. Outland Meat Recipes Recipe:Delicious Vultures Quest:Foolproof Recipe:Predator Hot Dogs Sid Libardi / One-Eyed Cookie Recipe:Mussel Willow Mecca Recipe:Spore Snacks Mecca Recipe:Smoky Lizards Provisioning Officer Mills / Innkeeper Grielka Recipe:BBQ Split-Hoofed Beef Uliku / Butcher Nurra Recipe:Relocated Beasts Burgers Provisioning Officer Mills / Innkeeper Grielka Recipe:Tabbouleh Steaks Uliku / Butcher Nurla Recipe: Crispy Snake Thurlinsa Ebony Recipe: Moknasa Rib Chops Thurlinsa Ebony From the Outlands, cooking is easy, if you're not fishing for the meat you need above, find the Alliance/Horde corresponding recipe vendor to buy the recipe, and then punch it up with the corresponding meat afterward. In comparison, all the meat or fish from the Outlands are not expensive and not in high demand. The meat you get during leveling is almost enough to upgrade your cooking. Upgrade in the following order: Recipe: Predator Hot Dogs/Recipe: Delicious Vultures (Level 300~330) - Recipe: BBQ Split-Hoof Beef/Recipe: Tabbouleh Cutlets (Level 325~350). As long as you get to level 350, you can just use meat from Northrend. Outland Fish Recipes Recipe: smoked salmon dubar/gabarinka Recipe: tasty devil tail fish dubar/zulai Recipe: smoked spore fish kino dufry Recipe: grilled mud fish uliku/butcher nurra Recipe: poached bluefish uliku/butcher nurra Recipe: golden fish fillet innkeeper beribee/lengel Recipe: spicy crayfish innkeeper beribee/lengel If you go along with the fishing upgrade, this route: Recipe: Smoked Salmon/Recipe: Delicious Devil's Tail Fish (300~330) - Recipe: Golden Fish Fillet/Recipe: Roasted Mud Fish (Level 325~350) will be your best choice for rushing 350 cooking.
Level 351~450
Level 350 cooking can start to be upgraded by utilizing ingredients from Northrend. As far as the current situation is concerned, Northrend's ingredients are produced in large quantities and are cheap, whether it's fish or meat, whichever route you choose is viable, and the method of upgrading is undoubtedly to upgrade with whichever ingredients are available. Also, when you first set foot in Northrend, you can learn all the cooking recipes for levels 350~400.
Generally speaking, cold meat yields the most and is the cheapest, so if you're mainly buying ingredients, then using all of it to make Northrend Stew is the best option, while Northrend Stew is also an item needed for one of the daily quests in Dalaran Cooking, so it's a good idea to make more of it and take it to sell. The only thing you need to be aware of is that you need to first use Rincewind Fjord or Northwind Tundra Landing Village to find an Expert Culinary Trainer and complete the quest Northrend's Chef quest with 4 pieces of cold meat to get the Northrend Stew recipe.
When your cooking level reaches 400, all recipes will be grayed out and you will only be able to trade in the following recipes for upgrades after obtaining the Dalaran Cooking Medal through the Dalaran Cooking daily quests. You will also need a lot of Northland Spices, so buy them at the Auction House.
Finally, it should be noted that above level 425, all level 400 recipes will turn green, requiring much more materials and less effective upgrades, so it is recommended that you use Recipe: Small Feast and Recipe: Bountiful Feast to level up to level 450. Of course, you can invest a lot of Arctic spices, directly with green recipes to level 435 or so, according to calculations, in fact, the cost of these two methods is almost the same, the only difference lies in the consumption of spices in the North. If you have a lot of Northland Spice in stock, you can use the green formula to rush to the level.