This Draenor Cooking leveling guide will show you the fastest way how to level your Draenor Cooking skill up from 1 to 100 as inexpensively as possible.
Where to learn Draenor Cooking?
You can learn Draenor cooking from The Joy of Draenor Cooking. The book can drop from any humanoid mob at Draenor, but fortunately, the drop rate is pretty high, you should get it after 20-30 kills.
The fastest way to reach humanoid mobs is to go to the Portal Room and take the portal to Warspear, Ashran. From there, use the portal to Lion's Watch (Alliance) or Vol'mar (Horde). Then head to the area in front of the Hellfire Citadel raid entrance and start farming mobs.
1 - 20
30x Grilled Saberfish - 150x Crescent Saberfish Flesh
While making these, you have a chance to discover new recipes randomly from 12 recipes. You can find a list of these recipes at the next step.
20 - 75
Pick two recipes from the same secondary stat group. You'll need both later to make another dish, so it's important they come from the same group.
If you didn't discover two from the same group, just keep making Grilled Saberfish until you discover the one you need.
Below is a list of all recipes grouped by secondary stat. You'll need to craft around 33 in total, but don't make all of them at once. Once your Cooking skill hits 50, you'll start getting 9 to 10 dishes per craft instead of 4. If you made all 33 of one recipe before reaching 50, you'd end up with something like 130 of one dish and 350 of the other. That's a waste and not useful for the next step, where you'll need both dishes in similar amounts.
To keep things balanced, Make 15 of each of the two recipes you picked, then make 18 more of each after your Cooking skill reaches 50.
You don't need to hit exactly 75.
- Mastery
33xFat Sleeper Cakes - 330x Fat Sleeper Flesh
33xBraised Riverbeast - 165x Raw Riverbeast Meat
- Versatility
33xSkulker Chowder - 330x Jawless Skulker Flesh
33xClefthoof Sausages - 165x Raw Clefthoof Meat
- Critical Strike
33xGrilled Gulper - 330x Abyssal Gulper Eel Flesh
33xBlackrock Ham - 165x Raw Boar Meat
- Critical Strike 2
33xFiery Calamari - 330x Fire Ammonite Tentacle
33xRylak Crepes - 165x Rylak Egg
- Stamina
33xSteamed Scorpion - 330x Sea Scorpion Segment
33xHearty Elekk Steak - 165x Raw Elekk Meat
- Haste
33xSturgeon Stew - 330x Blind Lake Sturgeon Flesh
33xPan-Seared Talbuk - 165x Raw Talbuk Meat
75 - 95
These are the recipes below that you discovered from making the previous dishes:
- Critical Strike -
Blackrock Barbecue
- Critical Strike 2 -
Calamari Crepes
- Haste -
Frosty Stew
- Versatility -
Gorgrond Chowder
- Mastery -
Sleeper Surprise
- Stamina -
Talador Surf and Turf
Use all the dishes you made between 20-75 to make around 45 from any of the recipes above.
You will need 45 from one of these herbs: Fireweed, Nagrand Arrowbloom, Frostweed, Gorgrond Flytrap, Starflower, Talador Orchid. (depends on which two recipes you chose previously)
It's not important to reach exactly 95.
95 - 100
Getting skill points from the previous recipes are pretty rare at this point, so I recommend making 5 or more from one of the following:
- 5x
Feast of the Waters - 50 Sea Scorpion Segment, 50 Abyssal Gulper Eel Flesh, 50 Blind Lake Sturgeon Flesh, 50 Fat Sleeper Flesh, 50 Fire Ammonite Tentacle, 50 Jawless Skulker Flesh
- 5x
Feast of Blood - 50 Raw Elekk Meat, 50 Raw Boar Meat, 50 Raw Talbuk Meat, 50 Raw Riverbeast Meat, 50 Rylak Egg, 50 Raw Clefthoof Meat
(you should have discovered both of these by now)