WoW Fishing and Cooking Guide

The guide can be used until fishing skill 260 after that the information is fals.
Fishing in azshara effectively needs 400+ fishing skill.

Thanks for the quick and simple guide, i really appreciate it
and now both my fishing and cooking are maxed out after only a week of grinding

thanks again!

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260 at Scalebeard's Cave (an eastern island in Azshara) does not work. It will tell you your skill isn't high enough. You CAN however fish directly off the coast of Azshara. I went back and forth every 5 skill points to the cave to check if I could fish there and at 290, I still couldn't. Just stick with the coast and you can get to 300 np.

If you fish at night, do Nightfin Soup (recipe also sold by Gikkix in Steamwheedle Port) instead of Poached Sunscale Salmon for cooking 250-275. Sunscale Salmon are rarely caught at night (and Nightfin rarely during the day).

Fishing in Azshara is not 260...more like 300+. I'm 260 with 25 pole and 100 lure, and still miss more than I catch.

Followed this guide to a T, until 345. Than i just went into Wailing Caverns and fished my way to 375, takes the same amount of time, if not quicker since you never lose a fish. Plus I wound up with 10 stacks of deviate fish. The way to go IMO. Thanks for the guide, very helpful.

yeah, I figured that out the hard way. It makes sense though. Duh! ><

Ur site is freaking amazing man!! Thnx a lot 48 hours and i was from 1-375 for both cooking and Fishing (did not sleep tho:P) But fishing makes u really nutter when spending so much time @ it in a short period, used the +20 pole and the +75 buffs and the only place that was quite hard is the final place in terrokar, the finding fish ability will show up some schools with the crab in, very useful for cooking and selling, really a superb leveling guide and i thnk u m8:)
The Aszhara is not a prob either just fish on the big coast in the middle there and u will be fine:)

Good luck all!

"Some NOOBs don’t realize that Fishing and Cooking are made for one another. If you do one without the other you’ll be wishing you hadn’t later on. As with any profession, Cooking and Fishing can sometimes dig a hole in your pocket."

I only do fishing and I don't consider myself a NOOB. I could care less about the recipies, I just want to make money. I can make a lot more off of the furious crawdads raw than I could cooking them and selling them. So I feel like fishing is a good way to make money without cooking. I was thinking about picking up cooking, but you are even saying that it can sometime dig a hole in your pocket, so I think I will pass.

There are lots of raid buff foods yo ucan cook with a 375 cooking plus a cooking daily so doing fishing without cooking is your own lose imo

cooking only really starts to be worth the effort after lvl 300. The +agil/strength/stam/AP/DPS/Heal comes in useful in raids and heroics when a little extra of any of these stats can make PVE life easier

its not a golden bullet that will cover you from not knowing how to play your class properly and its pretty much wasted in PVP as the buff doesnt last through death (unless your full S3 arena gear and haven't died since lvl 40 in Stranglethorn vale when you came a 40 man ZG raid by mistake)

Worth leveling if your into PVE, spend your cash on gear if your into PVP

....as for fishing.....its easier AOE farming with my mage for meat

im a mage aswell but the comment towards raids buff is more towrds selling than using myself, aoeing mobs for meat takes minutes and i can have a stack of say basilisk, that on my server the cooked basilisk sells for 20 ~ 25g a stack and i could do that for an hour and make a potential profit of 150g+ or do dailies and make a max of 200g in the 3 hours it takes for me to do them
i was just looking at it from a potential profit pov

If you are fishing/cooking to make money, then the Feltail is absolutely your best bet. Also, if you want to keep your cooking/fishing on somewhat the same level, go with the Feltail. However, if you are looking to powerlevel cooking, the trout is the way to go because you catch about 5 trout for every Feltail (at least in my experience) in Zangarmarsh.

This guide is awesome though. It only took me about a week of grinding to get cooking/fishing to 375.

Great job.

Thanks!

You can lvl up fishing to 375 in Azeroth, which means you don't need to buy lures.
I found this out by accident helping a friend get fish for cooking. I went to Theramore and got my last few points to 375 there. o.O

As far as the comments about fishing at scalebeard's cave...
I did it at 275 with a Big Iron Fishing Pole and a bright bauble and had no problem catching the fish.
If you're not using lures you're not gonna catch much of anything out in zangarmarsh, either.

This is not true. Fishing in Azshara does not require 400 fishing. I believe the fishing requirement here is 330, so w/ a lure you can easily fish the waters here. I just did it a few days ago on Drenden.

This guide rocks. I have been following it for just a few hours, and I have already increased my cooking from 99-180, and my fishing from 123-190. Thanks for the time you put into it :)

Excellent thats what I need

The best fishing and cooking guide yet. I also want to add to the guide that setting the auto loot corpse will make it much faster for fishing. And I also wanted to add that there are now fishing dailies from the new patch 2.4.

Well, I'm on the side that says some of this is bogus. I think you are sending to Azshara a little too soon. I was at the cave and definitely missed over twice what I caught at lvl 260... and yes, I was using +75 lure. Also, I leveled to 300 but only caught 5 of the Raw large mightfish. I caught over 100 of the darkclaw lobster... mayber that should be the leveling recipe instead. The recipe is sold from the same vender in feathermoon (alliance) for same price. It requires same level cooking, but the reagents are a lot cheaper, just one spring water per lobster.

Ok, I fished right on the Island in Azshara. I think 260 is too low to fish the area for mightfish as I missed waaaay more than I caught at level 260, with a +75 lure. Only did slightly better with + 100. You can fish off the north side of Island at lower level, but don't think any of the good fish drop there. I did level to 300, but only caught 5 of the large raw mightfish. I did catch over 100 of the darkclaw lobster. Maybe that would be the better cooking recipe to level with. It costs the same amount from the same vender in feathermoon (alliance). Its reagents are also cheaper (only 1 spring water) and is the same cooking level. Might be best to fish first and then decide which recipe works best for you.

I can not agree with last statement. I have used it leveling from 225 to 356 following it to the letter in 2 days..strongly recommend it!!

260 with lures? Or just 260? Every guide I've read says use lures and Big Iron fishing pole to push your fishing higher than 290 or 300 in order to catch fish in Scalebeard

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You can get 375 cooking without much expense, the worst thing you have to do is the quest to get artisan.
Rest of the time you can mostly cook some fish up and level it up.
You can make a lot of money cooking, too.
Any of the below consumables can sell for as much as 25g a stack because raiders will load up on them and don't mind paying for them. All of them require only the fish you catch as mats. I personally buy the stam and agi foods for different runs - stack at a time at around 20-25g per stack. In general the "raw fish" sell for half of what the "cooked version" sells for.
So it's really an investment.

Cooking 320 - Feltail Delight - 20 stam/spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27662
Cooking 320 - Brioled Bloodfin - 20 stam/spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i33867
Cooking 330 - Blackened Sporefish - 20 stam and 8 mp5 for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27663
Cooking 335 - Skullfish Soup - 20 spell crit and spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i33825
Cooking 340 - Grilled Mudfish - 20 agi/spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27664
Cooking 340 - Poached Bluefish - 23 spell dam and 20 spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27665
Cooking 345 - Golden Fishsticks - 44 healing and 20 spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27666
Cooking 370 - Spicy Crawdad - 30 stam and 20 spi for 30 mins - http://thottbot.com/i27667

True...fished up to 260 and went to Azshara. Couldn't catch a Mightfish to save my life. Fortunately, cooking was already near 300 so I went for other fish.

HELP!
How do I get past 225 fishing?
Is there a book or what?
I have caught dozens of ..no more than that and I
don't go up..not even by one point after 50 fish..what am
I doing wrong..:(
bummin at the fishin hole
suz

Things Change
Suzanna Sinister

Have you done the artisan fishing quest from Nat Pagle, he can be found at 58:60 Tidefury Cove? You get the quest to go see him from:- For Alliance, Grimnur Stonebrand in Ironforge in The Forlorn Cavern. For Horde, Lumak in Orgrimmar in Valley of Honor. Need 225 to be able to start the quest.

26, 76 = Desolace
62,51 = Feralas
80, 94 = Swamp of Sorrows
34, 31 = Stranglethorn Vale

The location of where you need to fish to catch the quest fish. Takes a few casts to get them, if you dont have luck in about 10 casts, move slightly and try again.

This is a awesome Guide! I just had one problem! I couldn't really figure out where to get the next training level at times! but I found a great web site if anyone has the same Problem here it is: http://www.bookofwarcraft.com/guides/fishing/fishing.htm-great help! If you need me names Smallipops on Emerald Dream -alliance

for the one above i messed up the URL- http://www.bookofwarcraft.com/guides/fishing/fishing.htm no -great!

Not true at all.

oha amına koyim what for 400? 300 maybe mostly who are you siking young man?

An alternative to Azshara/Bay of Storms area is to fish in Darrowmere Lake in Western Plaguelands. You can fish for either Sunscale Salmon (during the daytime hours) or Nightfin (during the nighttime hours) and either of these can be used to level the cooking at the appropriate level. You should be able to fish in Darrowmere with a nice lure (like shiny baubles) beginning at around 260 base fishing skill. When you hit 290, I recommend hopping over to Eastern Plaguelands and fishing for Whitescale Salmon, which you can use to level cooking from 295 to 300 (note that cooking, unlike fishing, requires you to be at 300 skill on the nose before you can read the Master Cookbook). This all works with a Strong Fishing Pole (Darkwood is better if you can find one), and is much more convenient than hiking around Azshara.

There is some good fish off the bay on the new island to be caught, giant sunfish i think they called, but there does'nt seem to be a recipe for cooking em yet. But they are perfect if ya wanna send em to an alt as they are 7500 HP regen and a low lvl cap of 55. Unlike lvl 65 like the other 7500 food. so hopefully when a recipe comes out it'll have a nice buff. =D

I have leveled 4 toons to 375 fishing and cooking with this guide and the only thing I would change is what most people have said or come to realize when you are in Azshara. The Lobster's you catch will get you to 300 just as easy as the might fish. So cook the Lobster's first then cook the might fish.

I had an issue with fishing this cave also. I applied "Sharpened Fishing Hooks" on my pole and could fish from it. I believe the fishing requirement is 320/330.

Strange. I fished off a rock in front of Scalebeards cave with a +25 fishing pole and bright bauble lures which are +75 until I hit 276 and then I was able to fish scalebeards cave and Bay of storms. Maybe I am special :)

Actually the fishing part of this guide is completely off. You can max out your fishing skill in ANY CITY you can fish in. It's not the level of the fish that matters, it's how frequently you're catching fish. I have 2 characters that I've maxed their fishing skill completely in Orgrimar...

This guide is a good base to work from, but it's by no means exact... I mean a prime example is how it has you running all over the free world to max your fishing skill. Waste of time. You can max your fishing skill in any major city (confirmed). I have 2 characters with their fishing skill maxed, one completely in Orgrimar, the other in Org/BootyBay/Ratchet. It's not the level of fish you catch that matters, it's how fast and how often you're catching fish that matters... Going to a high level fishing area seems pretty pointless if you're only going to catch 1 in 5, when you can just stay near the starting cities where you can consistantly and constantly catch a continuous string of fish...

No, the fishing part of this guide is not completely off. If you read the 2nd paragraph it says quote:

It is important to note these instructions are just one method of leveling fishing. Fishing can be leveled in all sorts of ways, if you want you can catch fish entirely from Orgrimmar's noobie pond, or Ironforge's. It does not matter where you fish, the chance you level per catch is based on your fishing skill level. The only benefit to following the following instructions is to have the neccessary fish to level cooking in parrallel or to sell valuable fish on the Auction House. unquote.

The last sentence tells why this guide was written. Please ltr before knocking someones hard work.

0-375 in both fishing and cooking in less then half a day. gg ty

For Cooking 275-300/Fishing 260/300 I think it's better to cook Darkclaw lobster, because I usually catch way more lobster than Mightfish.

Other than that, this is a great guide and very usual!

400 plus, huh?

Yes scalebeards cave is way to high NEVER go there. just fish off the coast of azshara or keep fishing in felwood at talonbranch for fishing skil up. for cooking u can get it pretty. head to azshara for cooking up once fishing is like 275 from felwood and i repeat DONT go to scalebeards cave