Profession Guide · Prices from November 11, 2026 (10:43 PM scan)
Cooking turns raw meat and fish into food buffs. This route uses fish because raw fish is the cheapest thing on the auction house to cook, and Fishers can catch all of it themselves. I went through every Cooking recipe in the game and priced each material at whichever is cheapest: the auction house on the US PvP ruleset, a vendor, or making it yourself. Each step uses the recipe with the lowest cost per skill point, counting the crafts that don’t give a point.
At a glance
1–300 ~4gSteps 5
- Fishers can catch every fish on this route.
- Recipes on this route are cheap on the auction house, or sold by cooking vendors.
- Train the next rank before you reach each cap at 75, 150 and 225.
Oils: Cooking is already at 300 / 300.
1–150: Apprentice and Journeyman
1–50Slitherskin Mackerel
- Craft: about 50
- Each needs: 1 Raw Slitherskin Mackerel
- Buy: Raw Slitherskin Mackerel: auction house, 45c
- Recipe: Recipe: Slitherskin Mackerel, from the auction house (about 3s)
- Est. cost: 25s 17c (45c per craft)
50–122Longjaw Mud Snapper
- Craft: about 103
- Each needs: 1 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
- Buy: Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper: auction house, 5c
- Recipe: Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper, from the auction house (about 5s 94c)
- Est. cost: 11s 6c (5c per craft)
122–175Bristle Whisker Catfish
- Craft: about 98
- Each needs: 1 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
- Buy: Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish: auction house, 24c
- Recipe: Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish, from the auction house (about 14s 98c)
- Est. cost: 38s 45c (24c per craft)
150–225: Expert
175–227Rockscale Cod
- Craft: about 113
- Each needs: 1 Raw Rockscale Cod
- Buy: Raw Rockscale Cod: auction house, 6c
- Recipe: Recipe: Rockscale Cod, from the auction house (about 28s)
- Est. cost: 34s 77c (6c per craft)
225–300: Artisan
Unlocking Artisan
- Quest: Clamlette Surprise, from Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan, Tanaris
- Needs: character level 35 and skill 225
- When to go: stop at 225 and do the quest. The Rockscale Cod step runs to 227, and you can’t pass 225 until the quest is done.
- Materials: 12 Giant Egg (auction house, 1s 64c), 10 Zesty Clam Meat (auction house, 84c), 20 Alterac Swiss (vendor, 7s 20c, cheaper than the auction house). About 1g 72s, not counted in the total above. Amounts are the classic ones.
- Oils: already 300/300, so this is done.
- Forever is new, so confirm in game.
227–300Filet of Redgill
- Craft: about 118
- Each needs: 1 Raw Redgill
- Buy: Raw Redgill: auction house, 66c
- Recipe: Recipe: Filet of Redgill, from the auction house (about 2g 20s)
- Est. cost: 2g 97s (66c per craft)
Shopping list: 1 to 300
| Material | Amount |
|---|---|
| Raw Redgill | 118 |
| Raw Rockscale Cod | 113 |
| Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper | 103 |
| Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish | 98 |
| Raw Slitherskin Mackerel | 50 |
How the costs are worked out: material prices come from the latest auction house scan on the US PvP ruleset (the 7-day typical price for anything not seen in the last few days), the vendor price, or the cost to make it yourself, whichever is cheapest. Orange recipes always give a point; yellow and green ones give a point less often as your skill rises, so the craft counts and costs include the extra crafts that don’t give a point. Recipe colors are the ones Forever uses, not the classic ones. These are averages, so your counts may differ by a few.