Cooking Fish, Putting It All Together
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Lawbringer under General Tips
We did a post on the Artisan cooking quest, as well as a two-part guide to the Artisan Fishing quest. There was a bigger purpose to all of that. Some of the best raid buffs come from cooked foods, and even more specifically, cooked fish. We don’t want you to have to always buy everything from the AH, so here’s how to put those two secondary profession skills together to make leveling cooking a breeze.
(We have yet to find a way to make leveling fishing faster, so you’ll just have to grind that one out)
Cooking fish is the easy way to get from 1-375. The recipes are easier to find, the mats are easier to get. It’s is much faster to fish up 3 or 4 stacks of fish than to grind out 3 or 4 stacks of raptor eggs.
To find where to go to get each type of fish, just click the Thottbot link and then sort the fishing list by clicking the Drop % on the list with the header that says “From Fishing.” These pages will give you the very best location to catch the maximum number of each fish per type.
1 – 50: Brilliant Smallfish = 80. Mats (1 Raw Brilliant Smallfish)
- 80 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
51 – 100: Longjaw Mudsnapper = 80. Mats (1 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper)
- 80 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper
101 – 175: Bristle Whisker Catfish = 120. Mats (1 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish)
- 120 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
175 – 225: Rockscale Cod = 80. Mats (1 Raw Rockscale Cod)
- 80 Raw Rockscale Cod
Here you’ll go do your cooking and fishing quests.
226 – 275: Spotted Yellowtail = 80. Mats (1 Raw Spotted Yellowtail)
- 80 Raw Spotted Yellowtail
Before you move on to the next step, go get the Master Cookbook so you don’t have to stop and run all over the world to go get it in the middle of cooking.
276 – 325: Your Choice – or combination of the following = 80.
- Mightfish Steak. Mats (1 Large Raw Mightfish, 1 Hot Spices, 1 Soothing Spices)
- Baked Salmon. Mats (1 Raw Whitescale Salmon, 1 Soothing Spices)
After you reach 325, go get all of the Outlands fish recipes:
- Blackened Trout – Mats (1 Barbed Gill Trout)
- Feltail Delight – Mats (1 Spotted Feltail)
- Blackened Sporefish – Mats (Zangarian Sporefish)
- Grilled Mudfish - Mats (1 Figluster’s Mudfish)
- Poached Bluefish – Mats (1 Icefin Bluefish)
- Golden Fish Sticks – Mats (1 Golden Darter)
- Spicy Crawdad – Mats (1 Furious Crawdad)
Seriously, that’s all there is to it. The Trout and Feltail will get you to 340, the next four to 365, and Spicy Crawdads to 375. Short and sweet – and very Dominating!
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I’d like to point out that you can level fishing 1-375 in any major city that has water. You do not level fishing based on the level of the water, but on the quantity of caught fish. This is represented by the following equation:
(current unmodified fishing level) / 25 = total # of fish required to level, with a minimum of 1 fish per catch
This means that even if you catch 3 fish in a cast, only one of them will count.
Also, I highly reccomend farming the golden darter. Golden Fish Sticks are often REQUIRED by for all raid healers, and therefore sell very well.
Blackened Basilisk is also a fantastic alternitive. Their eyes sell as an average of 1g each (on my server) as they are used in converting scryer rep into aldor rep, and their meat is used for a popular +23 spelldamage food.
You do not get blackened basilisk from fishing. This article was specifically designed with fishing and cooking combination in mind. On top of that the blackened sporefish also provide the +23 spell damage. This article is especially good for those who may need the items for raiding or for a person who is just burnt out of questing and pvping and needs a lil time out on the lake. Keep up the good work guys
If you are going to level up fishing, you might as well fish things that will be useful to some of your characters (For example sagefish) or fish that will make you money. (Deviate fish for example). Fishing is too tedious to not get anything out of it besides skill ups.
Don’t forget the fishing daily that is available at level 70 - the “Crockolisk in the City” quest can be done at any fishing level as it involves fishing in one of the major cities - this is a nice way to gain a few skill-ups on fishing and make a couple extra gold (and possibly a few other goodies such as sharpened fishing hooks which provide a +100 fishing skill when applied).
Honestly I’ve never fished, had a lame attempt at cooking, and neither have any appeal. I mean, if you’re going to spend so long sitting at your computer that you’re performing virtual fishing, I think it high time you bought an actual rod, found a friend with a boat and actually go fishing.
This post will not make me popular, but I cannot think of anything more mundane and lame than seeing some tier4 uber-geared 70 pally sitting at the Forgotten Pools in Barrens with a rod and a faraway gaze…
leveling fishing is very boring, I think it is best to do in after 70 when you have a fast mount, don’t have to watch out for mobs around the area, and not rushing to level. High lvl fishing have good buff, and your fish sell good in AH too.
The only problem I have when I take fishing is getting the +fishing items, I have no luck at all, so I just keep using the bait.
For those who felt that basalisk from fishing- never had to clear around terrokar to fish a school. I would call basalisk a by product
As for things to fish for..try nagrand for bluefish- makes a spell damage buff food; mudfish makes an agility one; interesting to note than no one mention pure water- fish for motes of water…while you cant cook them they certainly will earn you the ever sought after gold. A by product of fishing these schools in nagrand is clefthoof meat with a strength buff. look for all those things and the day ends up very proofitable if only for your guild banks for raid buffs. Happy farming
Ahh i left out a couple words- for those who felt that basalisk didn’t come from fishing - sorry for my error
Another note for those faint of heart about fishing…with all the flaoting debri out there to get heaven only knows what out of- it is a fun way to lvl nad get things that are salable- not just cookable. zangarmarsh is a good example as is theramore isle - perhaps that will help you enjoy leveling fishing more
i personally found fishing very boring. the best 3 things fishing gets you are the golden darter (for healing buff.. very very useful) and the furious crawdad.. (as far as i know, the only+30 stam buff) . and skullfish soup (20 spell crit.. found doing cooking daily in barrel of fish).. those are awesome and un comparable to any meat recieved from any beast… stormchops are cool.. and are both fish and beast meat.. but. killing animals is by far the fastest way ive found to level cooking to 375. a) u get experience doing it if ur not max level, b) u skin them more $.. c) they drop other things(like the occasional rare item) d) many of them u have to kill as you are questing
however to get the fish i listed above u have to level up fishing to get them
This is for folks that are working on fishing and cooking. Although some folks may not like fishing, this article is meant to help.
Fisherman’s Feast also gives you +30 stam buff, which is cooked from Huge spotted feltail.
Blackened Sporefish gives you 20 stam and 8mp5, not 23 Spell damage. Blackened basilisk does give +23 sdmg, however, so does poached bluefish.
I’m convinced. You’ve turned me round and now I’m throwing a rod into every ripple I can find. However only catching mudskipper and sickly fish can be a tad disheartening…