Cooking may not sound as exotic as Alchemy or have the obvious military applications of Weaponsmithing, but the food and drink a Cook creates is far from ordinary. Even the basic recipes available to a beginning Cook fortify the body, sharpen the mind, and fill the consumer with magical potence. And eating the delights of a Master Cook--dishes made with rare spices and the meat of dragons--will restore Divine Power, improve Elemental Defenses, and provide other benefits.

 

 

To become a Cook, give 3,500 Kinah to Hestia (in Sanctum) or Lainita (in Pandaemonium) to learn the skill. The price varies slightly depending on the current influence ratio. Once you’ve done so, you’ll see a Cooking experience bar in the Crafting tab of your Skills window, and you start with 1 Expertise Point out of 99 possible. Each time your experience bar fills up, you gain another Expertise Point until you’ve hit your current maximum. More Expertise Points mean better recipes--and eventually more powerful creations.

 

The Cooking Master immediately teaches you a recipe: Roast Conide (Asmodian) or Roast Inida (Elyos). The master also offers you the "Gritty Conide Supply" or "Gritty Inida Supply" work order. You obtain additional recipes through questing, looting fallen enemies and from merchants such as Luelas (Sanctum) and Daraia (Pandaemonium). As you gain Expertise Points, Diana and Honir offer work orders that are more difficult--and more rewarding.

 

Whenever you reach the maximum possible Expertise Points, return to Hestia or Lainita and pay enough Kinah to raise the ceiling on your Expertise Points, according to the table below. Note that prices may vary somewhat depending on your faction’s current influence ratio. You get one Expertise Point immediately, which moves you up into the next tier.

 

Skill Tier	Expertise Points	Cost to Obtain
Lesser	1 to 99	3,500 kinah
Regular	100 to 199	17,000 kinah
Greater	200 to 299	115,000 kinah
Quality	300 to 399	460,000 kinah
Expert	400 to 450	Reach level 29 to obtain Expert Quests from your Crafting Master. You won’t have to pay kinah to reach this level.

Whenever you make food or drink with Cooking, you have a random chance to make a Tasty version that is more potent and offers better bonuses than the ordinary version.

Cooks gather berries, fish, and shells for their food and drink. Depending on your Extract Vitality skill

level, you can gather from many nodes. A list of nodes and the skill level required for each is coming soon.

* Cooking Work Orders -By Skill Level

* Cooking Designs 

* Cooking Materials

 

A list of Cooking recipes--with Expertise levels and required materials--is coming soon.

 

"Tasty food? We’re battling for our very survival in the Abyss, and you offer us tasty food?"

--Kinterun, Armorsmithing Master of Pandaemonium