Cooking Guide for Season of Discovery (SoD) Phase 8

Phase 8 of Season of Discovery retains the 300 skill cap introduced in Phase 3 for professions, allowing players to max out their crafting and gathering skills in case they haven’t already done so. For the Cooking profession, that means you’ll be able to cook up most of the recipes in the game.

Cooking Leveling & Trainers

Check out our Classic Cooking Guide for trainer locations, a leveling guide, and more. Everything in that guide applies to Season of Discovery. So far there have been no changes to the Cooking skill in SoD except for the level requirements for higher skill ranks (level 26 for Expert and level 41 for Artisan).

Learning Artisan Cooking

From Phase 3 onward, players were able to level their professions all the way to 300 skill, or Artisan level – the maximum skill for Vanilla WoW.

To reach 300 in the Cooking skill you’ll first need to complete the Clamlette Surprise quest to learn Artisan Cooking. This quest can be picked up from Dirge Quikcleave at Gadgetzan in Tanaris. You’ll need to collect three items to complete the quest:

• Alterac Swiss x20 – Sold by Ben Trias in Stormwind and Innkeeper Pala in Thunder Bluff, among other vendors
• Giant Egg x12 – looted from owlbeasts in The Hinterlands and rocs in Tanaris
• Zesty Clam Meat x10 – found inside Big-mouth Clam, which can be looted from many water-based enemies, including the turtles in Tanaris

When you turn these items in, you may want to buy Recipe: Tender Wolf Steak from the same NPC.

Phase 8 Cooking Recipes

Seven new Cooking recipes have been added in Season of Discovery in total: two in Phase 6 and five in Phase 8.

The new Phase 8 recipes are obtained via quests in New Avalon:

• Grand Lobster Banquet
• Specklefin Feast
• Filet o’ Flank
• Prowler Steak
• Sunrise Omelette

Both Phase 6 recipes are sold by vendors in Silithus:

• Darkclaw Bisque
• Smoked Redgill

All of the existing recipes from Vanilla WoW have been left unchanged. Here are the best available foods to cook in Phase 8.

Feasts

Stamina & Spirit Food

Item	Recipe	Materials
Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaerok Chops	Recipe: Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaerok Chops Complete the Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaerok Chops quest in Gadgetzan	Goblin Rocket Fuel x1 Hot Spices x1 Deeprock Salt x1 Chimaerok Tenderloin x1
Heavy Kodo Stew	Recipe: Heavy Kodo Stew Sold by: Janet Hommers in Stonetalon Mountains Kireena in Desolace Vendor-Tron 1000 in Desolace	Heavy Kodo Meat x2 Soothing Spices x1 Refreshing Spring Water x1
Monster Omelet	Recipe: Monster Omelet Sold by: Malygen in Darkshore Bale in Felwood Himmik in Winterspring	Giant Egg x1 Soothing Spices x2
Spider Sausage	Taught by most Cooking Trainers	White Spider Meat x2
Hot Smoked Bass	Recipe: Hot Smoked Bass Sold by Kelsey Yance in Booty Bay	Raw Summer Bass x1 Hot Spices x2
Spiced Chili Crab	Recipe: Spiced Chili Crab Sold by: Kriggon Talsone in Westfall Banalash in Swamp of Sorrows Uthok in Stranglethorn Vale	Tender Crab Meat x1 Hot Spices x2
Tender Wolf Steak	Recipe: Tender Wolf Steak Sold by: Truk Wildbeard in The Hinterlands Innkeeper Fizzgrimble in Tanaris Dirge Quikcleave in Tanaris	Tender Wolf Meat x1 Soothing Spices x1
Mightfish Steak	Recipe: Mightfish Steak Vivianna in Feralas Sheendra Tallgrass in Feralas	Large Raw Mightfish x1 Hot Spices x1 Soothing Spices x1
Cooked Glossy Mightfish	Recipe: Cooked Glossy Mightfish Sold by Kelsey Yance in Booty Bay	Raw Glossy Mightfish x1 Soothing Spices x1

Mana, Healing, & Spell Damage Food

Healers now have Smoked Redgill to increase their healing while caster DPS will go for Darkclaw Bisque to increase their spell damage. For mana food, most will go with Nightfin Soup, which offers 8 MP5, a step up from Sagefish Delight.

Item	Recipe	Materials
Sunrise Omelette	Recipe: Sunrise Omelette Quest reward for Wrangling Apples in New Avalon	Giant Egg x2 Holy Salts x1
Darkclaw Bisque	Recipe: Darkclaw Bisque Sold by Chief Expeditionary Requisitioner Enkles in Silithus Apothecary Quinard in Silithus	Darkclaw Lobster x1 Drinkable Stratholme Holy Water x1
Smoked Redgill	Recipe: Smoked Redgill Chief Expeditionary Requisitioner Enkles in Silithus Apothecary Quinard in Silithus	Raw Redgill x1
Nightfin Soup	Recipe: Nightfin Soup Sold by Gikkix in Tanaris	Raw Nightfin Snapper x1 Refreshing Spring Water x1
Sagefish Delight	Recipe: Sagefish Delight Sold by most Cooking Supplies Vendors	Raw Greater Sagefish x1 Hot Spices x1
Runn Tum Tuber Surprise	Recipe: Runn Tum Tuber Surprise Dropped by Pusillin in Dire Maul	Runn Tum Tuber x 1 Soothing Spices x 1

Strength Food

Strength users will want to use one of the following foods.

Agility Food

Agility users will look for Grilled Squid, which may be tricky to make since the fish that are used to create them are now out of season. You’ll probably be able to find some on the Auction House, but they are bound to cost a lot.

Miscellaneous Food

Dragonbreath Chili is an interesting recipe that gives you a 4% chance to breathe fire with each melee hit (so it will happen more often with faster weapon speeds). There are two other notable recipes you’ll have access to from Phase 1: Thistle Tea for Rogues and everyone’s favorite roleplay consumable, Savory Deviate Delight. (More about this one in our Deviate Fish Guide!)

Item	Recipe	Materials
Dragonbreath Chili	Recipe: Dragonbreath Chili Sold by: Helenia Olden in Dustwallow Marsh Ogg’marr in The Barrens Super-Seller 680 in Desolace	Mystery Meat x1 Small Flame Sac x1 Hot Spices x1
Thistle Tea	Recipe: Thistle Tea Reward from Rogue quests: Klaven’s Tower Mission: Possible But Not Probable	Swiftthistle x1 Refreshing Spring Water x1
Savory Deviate Delight	Recipe: Savory Deviate Delight World Drop	Deviate Fish x1 Mild Spices x1

Don’t Forget Your Cozy Fire

Remember that you can create a Basic Campfire with the Cooking skill, which applies the Cozy Fire buff to everyone nearby for 1 minute and allows you to cook wherever you are. You don’t even have to level the skill at all to use it, but you do have to carry around Flint and Tinder and Simple Wood, which will eat up two of your precious bag slots.

It’s also the perfect compliment to your Cozy Sleeping Bag. Who doesn’t love camping by an open fire?