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Cooking

Official Updated Sep 28, 2026

Skill tiers

tiers: rank: Apprentice; skill_range: 1-75; min_char_level: 5; rank: Journeyman; skill_range: 75-150; min_char_level: 10; rank: Expert; skill_range: 150-225; min_char_level: 20; rank: Artisan; skill_range: 225-300; min_char_level: 35 expert_225: Expert Cookbook (1g): Shandrina, Ashenvale (A) / Wulan, Shadowprey Village, Desolace (H) (Classic-baseline) artisan_300: Quest 'Clamlette Surprise' from Dirge Quikcleave, Gadgetzan (level 35; 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat, 20 Alterac Swiss) (Classic-baseline) confidence: Classic-baseline

Forever changes

• Cooking Fire becomes the Basic Campfire, the foundation of the Camping system (Official) • Upgraded Campfires hold 5 or 10 objects vs 3 on a Basic Campfire (Official) • Almost every cooked meal grants a small XP-from-kills bonus plus stats (Official); demo tooltip: 5% more XP from kills for 15 min, e.g. Tasty Raptor Bites (Reported, Icy Veins/ForeverChanges) • 6 new Smoothie recipes on ACA vendor giving Spirit + XP Well Fed: Calcified, Mrrggl Smrrthle, Slimy, Spicy, Venomous, Wicked (Reported, Warcraft Tavern); no Cooking title item • Other reported new foods: Black Coffee, Juicy Bear Burgers, Bone Meal, Cooked Molten Skullfish, Crestfall Crab Tacos (Reported, Zockify only - low confidence) • Legacy: Master Chef (10% chance extra result/rank, 5 ranks) and Gourmand (food buffs last 33% longer, 3 ranks) (Reported) • [Sept 28 research] Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid remain secondary professions in Forever and do not count against the two-primary-profession limit, so both a Shaman and a Skyborne Druid can hold both a full pair of primary professions plus Cooking and Fishing simultaneously. • [Sept 28 research] Crafted food that grants the Well Fed buff now also gives a 5% bonus to experience gained from kills for the buff's duration, in addition to its stat bonuses; this applies even to low-skill early recipes, not just endgame food. • [Sept 28 research] The Well Fed XP buff from cooked food lasts about 15 minutes and the eating animation takes about 10 seconds, per Icy Veins' write-up of the BlizzCon Deep Dive reveal. • [Sept 28 research] Basic food stat values were reduced relative to Classic in current beta builds: one beta forum poster (CameronWoof, Sept 19 2026) reported plain food dropping from 2 Stamina + 2 Spirit to about 1 Stamina, or 1 Agility, or 2 Attack Power, and reported that Sagefish-type food lost its combined Health+Mana restore and now only restores Health. This is beta feedback, not a patch note, and may change before launch. • [Sept 28 research] Cooking recipes learned at skill 1 unlock the ability to place a campfire and start a campsite; higher Cooking skill unlocks Journeyman and Expert campfire kits that raise the number of other players' objects a campsite can hold. • [Sept 28 research] Over 600 new crafting recipes were added across all professions and level ranges in Forever; Cooking's specific share is not broken out in any source found, though one SEO guide (zockify, unverified) claims 44 new Cooking recipes specifically. • [Sept 28 research] Six new 'smoothie' recipes were added (Calcified Smoothie, Mrrggl Smrrthle, Slimy Smoothie, Spicy Smoothie, Venomous Smoothie, Wicked Smoothie), each granting varying amounts of Spirit plus the new Well Fed kill-XP bonus; recipes are sold by NPCs of the Azeroth Commerce Authority faction (a repurposed Season of Discovery faction). Exact Spirit values and skill/level requirements were not published in the source article. • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Master Chef (Legacy Professions tree): Cooking recipes gain a chance to produce an extra result. Warcraft Tavern reports 5 ranks totaling a 30% chance at max rank; Icy Veins reports Rank 1 alone gives a 10% chance (implying roughly 3 ranks to reach 30%, not 5). Rank count conflicts between sources; treat as Reported, not Confirmed. • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Gourmand (Legacy Resourcefulness tree): increases the duration of beneficial effects from eating food. Warcraft Tavern gives a specific figure of +100% duration at 3 ranks; Icy Veins confirms the effect exists (one of seven Resourcefulness-tree perks) but does not give ranks or percentages. • [Sept 28 research] Perk: Permanence (Legacy Resourcefulness tree): extends both (a) long-duration party/raid buffs granted by class abilities, and (b) the duration of benefits gained from resting at a campsite. Warcraft Tavern: 2 ranks, +100% to class buffs and +50% to camp benefits at max rank. Icy Veins: Rank 1 alone already gives +50% to both class buffs and camp benefits, which does not reconcile cleanly with Tavern's numbers - flagged as a conflict. • [Sept 28 research] Leveling: No official or corroborated Horde-side 1-300 Cooking leveling path/recipe list was found in the researched sources; several SEO sites (expcarry, kingboost, classicwowforever, wowtbc.gg, foreverchanges.pro) claim to have full 1-300 guides but their content was not verified against a credible source in this pass and should be treated as Unverified. • [Sept 28 research] Leveling: The overall food-XP change is described by Warcraft Tavern-adjacent site lfcarry as 'the change that touches every hour of the 1 to 60' for a leveling character, i.e., cooked food's kill-XP bonus is expected to meaningfully speed leveling throughout the leveling range, not just at max level.

Key products

• Basic and Upgraded Campfires (Official) • XP food for leveling (Official) • Stat food for raids (Classic: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops, Grilled Squid, Nightfin Soup) • Basic Campfire Kit (Cooking skill 1) - the foundational campfire object every other camping feature depends on; crafted from Simple Wood; allows 3 additional player-placed objects at the campsite; ~5 minute cooldown per source, though other sources describe campfire objects generally as 1-hour cooldowns per player contribution - treat the exact cooldown as unresolved (see conflicts). • Journeyman Campfire Kit (Cooking skill ~90) - upgrade allowing 5 additional objects at the campsite; crafted from Star Wood. • Expert Campfire Kit (Cooking skill ~200) - upgrade allowing 10 additional objects at the campsite; crafted from Thick Logs. • Cookie's Feast (Cooking skill ~140) - a placeable campsite food object giving a Stamina-boosting food buff to those at the campsite; crafted from Mystery Meat x2, Heavy Kodo Meat, Soothing Spices. • Iron Oven - a higher-tier Cooking campsite object described as required for some advanced recipes; details beyond its name and gating are unconfirmed.

Trainers

horde: Orgrimmar: Zamja; Thunder Bluff: Aska Mistrunner; Undercity: Eunice Burch alliance: Stormwind: Stephen Ryback; Ironforge: Daryl Riknussun; Darnassus: Alegorn note: Blue Tracker list (Classic/TBC)

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