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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I
have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and
the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have
use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important
and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I
should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just
ignoring it?
Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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10-09-2006, 09:03 PM
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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just ignoring it? Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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First Aid is an absolute essential for every class, even healers imo.
Its a fast way to get your health up while you're doing whatever,
especially for a rogue who can get a bandaid on during a stun, or
warlock during a fear etc.
Cooking becomes really important for raiding or serious pvp. When you
need every buff you can possibly get your hands on, that extra stam or
mana regen is great. Otherwise, its just nice to have if you want to
spend the time getting recipes and getting ingredients.
Goes hand in hand with fishing, but these are skills that you can
easily level up once you're a higher level if you're concerned about
how much time you're spending on it. Thats assuming you dont enjoy
cooking or fishing, some people get a kick outta it.
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10-09-2006, 10:08 PM
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Hornet ytrede sig i
<1160456624.124055.162230@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.c om> med dette:
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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just ignoring it? Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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First Aid is an absolute essential for every class, even healers imo.Its a fast way to get your health up while you're doing whatever,especially for a rogue who can get a bandaid on during a stun, orwarlock during a fear etc.
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When hit by some AOE, it's often important that the healers can bandage
themself, so they don't waste their mana. Ex. the first boss in AQ20
have a sand-bomb attack, that silences you, but it's possible to
bandage, so all casters are required to bandage when silenced, so
healers only need to concentrate on the 2-3 tanks.
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Cooking becomes really important for raiding or serious pvp. When youneed every buff you can possibly get your hands on, that extra stam ormana regen is great. Otherwise, its just nice to have if you want tospend the time getting recipes and getting ingredients.Goes hand in hand with fishing, but these are skills that you caneasily level up once you're a higher level if you're concerned abouthow much time you're spending on it. Thats assuming you dont enjoycooking or fishing, some people get a kick outta it.
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Fishing+Cooking are practically required for Hunters, and Fishing is
connected to Alchemy too (just look at the prices for Stonescale Eels).
If you want to do some of the Argent Dawn: Craftmans Writ quests, the
easiest and cheapest is definitly the fishing ones (Stonescale Eels,
Plated Armorfish and Lightning Eels).
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10-09-2006, 10:28 PM
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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just ignoring it? Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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Cooking is pretty well not that important. I've never leveled up in it and
never missed it. I have a 60 hunter with a cat and for quite awhile fishing
was very good for feeding the pet cheaply but now the only thing that keeps
her happy is roasted quail so I don't fish much anymore. First aid is
always good and should be trained fairly high.
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10-10-2006, 01:09 AM
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SCraig wrote:
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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just ignoring it? Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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__________________ Cooking is pretty well not that important. I've never leveled up in it and never missed it. I have a 60 hunter with a cat and for quite awhile fishing
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I never leveled up in alchemy and never missed it. That is until I saw
alchemy in endgame ...
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was very good for feeding the pet cheaply but now the only thing that keeps her happy is roasted quail so I don't fish much anymore.
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Bingo !!
Cooked food usually gives your pet more happiness than uncooked food.
Also check out Grilled Squid: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=10066, 10 Agi
for ten minutes or stuff like Mightfish Steak (10 sta), Runn Tum Tuber
Surprise (10 Int), poached sunscale salmon (6hp5), nightfin soup (8mp5),
tender wolf steak (12 sta+spi). Or Deviate Surprise for some fun 
And the EPIXX: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=52487 : 25 stamina for 15mins
as with most things in WOW, cooking can help you in some tight
situations. You can't beat some though mob? 10 agility means 20 RAP
means 3-4 DPS more, some more crit, some more dodge, etc.
Your MT having 12 Stamina more in a new fight on top of a flask of
titans might well be a crucial amount (i.e. look at Lashlayer mortal
striking for 6000 and stuff like that).
Naturally, you don't have to cook yourself, you can have somebody else
cook it for you.
Urs
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10-10-2006, 05:08 AM
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Right now I have all the secondary profession that I can but so far I have only found useful the fishing (because of the items I can get) and the first aid mostly to help others. I don't mean they don't have use at all but is just that they don't appear to be that important and sometimes there are basically just time taking.So I wonder if I should dedicate any real time on cooking or I should be fine just ignoring it? Tawnos -Level 29 Mage, Staghelm Realm <Band of Pirates>
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Every alt I start has been taken to a capital city by lvl 6-10 and
trained in the two profs that I happen to want to do and then cooking,
first aid, and fishing. I buy a crap load of linen and wool and get my
first aid up to heavy wool bandages. Makes killing much faster if you
can restore all your health in a 2-4 seconds... 
I use the bank to store ingredients and other regents until I get bored
from questing and then I level the other skills.
Having 12 slot bags by level 10 is a MUST imo.
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10-10-2006, 05:43 AM
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Urs Steiner <invalid@darkstone.ch> writes:
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Squid just came back in season; you can only catch it for 6 months
of the year. I had some stacks left in the summer, and when it's out
of season you can sell a stack of squid for e.g. 15 gold. Now it's
about 2-3 gold for a stack.
The other seasonal fish is summer bass, totally worthless.
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10-10-2006, 07:05 AM
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Also check out Grilled Squid: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=10066, 10 Agifor ten minutes or stuff like Mightfish Steak (10 sta), Runn Tum TuberSurprise (10 Int), poached sunscale salmon (6hp5), nightfin soup (8mp5),tender wolf steak (12 sta+spi). Or Deviate Surprise for some fun
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All great things. I'm looking forward to squid season coming around again,
so all the rogues in the guild will be at my mercy.
Where does this drop? I've heard of it, but never found the recipe. It's
one of the few things I can't make. Cooking is VERY handy. *
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* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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10-10-2006, 01:22 PM
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urs.steiner@switzerland.org writes: Where does this drop? I've heard of it, but never found the recipe. It's one of the few things I can't make. Cooking is VERY handy.
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Go to CH in Silithus, and find an elf near the horde flight point with
the quest "What Tomorrow Brings". Then follow your nose.
Note: you'll need a raid of about 10 to get the quest items for that
recipe.
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10-10-2006, 03:09 PM
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On 10 Oct 2006 14:22:14 -0700, paul.brinkley@gmail.com wrote:
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urs.steiner@switzerland.org writes: Where does this drop? I've heard of it, but never found the recipe. It's one of the few things I can't make. Cooking is VERY handy.
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Go to CH in Silithus, and find an elf near the horde flight point withthe quest "What Tomorrow Brings". Then follow your nose.Note: you'll need a raid of about 10 to get the quest items for thatrecipe.
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Umm, you will need a bit more than that...
The cooking recipie is a part-way reward from the "open Ahn'Qiraj"
questline.
First go talk to that guy in Silithus, he sends you to look at
Anachronos in Tanaris, and then into BWL to collect the head of the
Broodlord.
After that you need to build rep with Brood of Nozdormu (full hated to
neutral - some 42000 rep all in all). One way is to gather 42000
silithid carapaces by killing the elite bugs in Silitus, another way
is to kill stuff in Ahn'Qiraj (20 gives piddly amounts, 40 gives
lots).
After you reach neutral you are send to speak to Anachronos, and he
sends you to gather three shards.
One you have to get from Azuregos (talk to him), but he has given it
to a fish (a minnow if I remember correctly) and you then have to do a
big quest in order to get hold of that fish.
Part of that quest is to get a 500 pound chicken, and you do that by
gathering Chimaerok Tenderloin and grabbing the carcas of the
Chimaerok boss - then you cook that (involves Goblin Rocket Fuel  ),
and finally when you turn the 500 pound "chicken" in you get that
cooking recipei as a reward.
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