Cooking in WoW is a great skill to earn, and although it’s not completely necessary, it does mesh well with several other professions, such as a fishing. You can actually earn a moderate amount of gold with your cooking skill and you don’t have to put forth a lot of effort, making it a lot fun for most players to give it a try. If you are looking to change things up, this is a skill that is more than worthwhile to learn.

In the past, most people didn’t even give this profession a second thought, but with Burning Crusade a lot more opportunities opened up that required this skill and more people are now giving it a try. You can actually make some things that other players really need, so this is a good way to get extra gold and have fun while you’re doing it.

Getting Started

Once you decide that you want to give cooking a try, you’ll need to have fire. This requires the items: Flint and Tinder as well as Simple Wood. These are of course, pretty easy to find, so you shouldn’t need to work too hard to get them. Once you have these items, you’ll need to open up your Spellbook. All players have the ability to make the Basic Campfire, so you won’t need to worry about additional training at this point.

You’ll also find your cookbook in your Spellbook. Go ahead and open it up to see which recipes you would like to try. Please keep in mind that your fire will only last for a few minutes. Since you do have to buy wood, it’s a good idea to only start a fire when you are actually ready to start cooking. Click on the appropriate ingredients that are required for each recipe and you’ll be cooking in no time at all.

You may notice that the recipes require a few other items in order to complete. Here’s a sample recipe for Crocolisk Steak. You’ll need to have one Crocolisk Meat and one set of Mild Spices. These can be purchased from a vendor, or you can go out and buy your own.

Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you’ll be ready to move forward. Items that you do not have can be purchased from a cooking trainer, so you may need to spend a little to make a little at first. However, once you advance and go through more quests, you’ll have easy access to the items that you need for your recipes.

Advancing

When you start out, you won’t have a lot of what you need to make more advanced recipes. Here’s a quick way to progress in skill from 1 to 375 with very little effort. You’ll need to start in Ironforge. Here, you can purchase one flour and one mild spices to make your first recipe of Spiced Bread. This is very simple and will help you advance to 40. Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to get 30 mild spices as well as some more wood. Now, get to Auberdine and find a Moonkin. Keep killing it until you have around 20 eggs or more. This will quickly take you to skill level 60.

You can then go south to Ashenvale where you will be able to find the Crawlers which will drop clams. Pick up as many as you can and then head back to Ironforge. Cook up the eggs that you got from the Moonkin and sell them. You’ll need to then find a cooking trainer and learn more skills so that you can cook the clams you found. By now, your skill level will be up to 130. Get the expert cookbook and you will be well on your way to getting up to 375.

  

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First aid cannot be overlooked by any player. No matter how good you are, chances are that you are going to sustain some type of damage to your character at one time or another. If you don’t know first aid, you’re going to have a much harder time recovering after a battle. Here are some tips on how to quickly and effectively perform first aid not only on yourself but on other characters as well.

Your first aid skill is considered a secondary skill, which means that you can combine it with any other profession. It’s probably the best secondary skill you can learn and can really come in handy. Here’s how to get started.

First, there are two main components or items that you will need. Bandages or anti-venoms are required for all first aid skills. When you first get started, you’ll get rudimentary bandages, but you will need to find anti-venom or complete quests to get that particular item. There are numerous kinds of anti-venom that are incredibly useful and different situations will call for different types of this item.

This is a skill that players can start right off the bat at level one. Granted, you won’t have the best bandages yet, since they will only be available once you advance in skill, but they are better than nothing. Start out by getting your apprenticeship from a trainer. You can always go back to learn more, but this will get you started.

Now, you will need to purchase the Expert First Aid – Under Wraps item. If you are a member of the Alliance, this can be found in the Arathi Highlands. Horde players can find theirs in Dustwallow Marsh. Once you purchase this item, you will be able to progress past skill level 150. Your goal is to get to 375, so by this point, you’re well on your way.

Once you’ve worked your way up to level 225, you’ll need to complete the Triage Quest which will quickly bump you up to 300. Keep in mind that once you reach 240 you can go back to your trainer to learn advanced bandage wrapping to quickly move up in skill.

Anti-venoms are available as you progress in skill. At level 80, you’ll be able to get your first one from your trainer. This costs about 1 silver piece and 50 coppers, depending on where you get it. After you hit level 130, you’ll be able to purchase the strong anti-venom which usually retails for about 2 silvers and 50 coppers.

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Currently, there are 20 World of Warcraft Guides in Killer Guides in one package. The package includes extensie guides for every class as well as ebooks for raiding, guild management and strategy, and the recent addition of a surprisingly good alliance leveling guide.

Here are the reviews of each guide as well as their rating:

Guide	Rating
Alliance Guide	- 5/10
Burning Crusade Guide	– 7/10
Death Knight Guide	- 9/10
Druid Guide	– 8/10
Engineering & Mining Guide	– 8/10
Gold Guide	– 7/10
Hunter Guide	- 8/10
Mage Guide	– 8/10
Paladin Guide	- 8/10
Priest Guide	- 8/10
Profession Guide	- 7/10
Professional Guild Management Guide	- 5/10
PvP Guide	- 6/10
Raiding Guide	N/A
Rogue Guide	- 9/10
Shaman Guide	– 7/10
Strategy Guide	- 6/10
Warlock Guide	– 9/10
Warrior Guide	- 7/10
Wrath of the Lich King Guide	– 7/10

The best part is the class guides, in my opinion. The gold guide, while only rated 7/10 here, might deserve a higher rating. It s just that other gold guides are even better, but this one delivers many solid tips too.

When it comes to value for money this guide package is 10/10! The price can t be beat considering that you re getting a ton of great information, ALL future updates as well as coming guides. For example, they will keep making guides for new expansions.

If you re into WoW for the long term, or want to explore many aspects of the game, this is for you.

They did have a problem keeping their guides updated when the Burning Crusade came out. But lately, they have been much more responsive with updates after new patches and expansions.

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