Category:Cook (A)
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Cooking (Alliance)
Cooking, one of the three "free" professions. Everyone can take cooking and still pick two skills from the gathering and/or the crafting professions. You do not have to have the cooking skill to eat the things other players cook.
Uses
Cooking is useful to every class. At first you will be creating a lot of food that does nothing but heal damage while you eat it. The most widespread line of food is the kind that boosts your stamina and spirit by a certain amount for 15 minutes. However, there are foods that cause you to regenerate so many health and/or mana per second (during combat, not just while you're eating it), foods that can boost your strength, agility, and more! There's even a tea that can be made to restore 100% of a rogue's energy and can be gulped down in or out of combat. Good food can do so much for your adventuring spirit (among every other stat).
Benefits
The varied bonuses from eating the foods you cook are of course the biggest benefit, being able to make better use out of certain food drops (mostly meat recipes--sorry vegetarians), rather than selling them right away for a small amount of coin (though some choice meats will sell well at the auction house). Another benefit will be the opening of quests for cooks, most of these cooking quests are pretty easy experience and always end up giving you a new recipe to learn by the end. Someone without the cooking skill cannot even see the quest, let alone pick it up.
Drawbacks
The only drawback I can see is cooking certain meats to attain higher skill when you could make a decent price off of them at the auction house. However, only a few meats and fish will sell well enough for it to be a drawback, and some cooked products will sell even better. You can only have one food benefit at a time, but then I'm sure this is to prevent you from over-eating and becoming the size of an ogre. While learning your skill, storing meats and pieces of cooking recipes until you can use them can occasionally begin to crowd your bags and/or bank.
Tips & Suggestions
Definitely pick up fishing. Being able to fish and cook what you catch is a great way to increase your skill at cooking. Though most fish do not give benefits when cooked (other than restoring your health and/or mana at a quicker rate while eating them), if you make too many, you can always give them to the hungry or sell them to a vendor.
Stick to it, many of the later recipes are very useful, though the benefit they leave only lasts 10-15 minutes, you wouldn't have it at all without the food you can cook (unless you have someone kind enough to keep you supplied with the things they've cooked). Keep an eye out for those cooking quests, they're sprinkled all over the world at various levels.
There are many recipes specific to horde or alliance and the only way the opposite faction could learn them is if someone were to auction such a recipe at one of the neutral auction houses (these are located in Gadgetzan and Booty Bay), so if you don't want a recipe specific to your side, like "Kaldorei spider kabobs" you could always carry it around until you reach one of the neutral auction houses and try your luck selling it there. The neutral auctions houses are a good place to auction such white recipes for your side that are rare enough to be blue items for the other side. This works in reverse if you are the type that wants to have every recipe you can in your book.
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