Cooking at 300?

[Drago Goldenwing]

I don't have the expansion, so am I in trouble?
I ask because I bought some 300 recipes - Clam Bar and Buzzard Bites, mainly. I bought them because my next-best recipes I got at 250 cooking and only restore around 1300 health. That's not even a full heal from half health for me anymore. They don't even give my pets double-digit Happiness. >_> I was thinking 'Well, they are level 300 recipes, that's top-end for people without the expansion. Surely Blizzard would put the ingredients for the level 300 recipes in places that I can get them even without buying Burning Crusade.'

But apparently I was wrong. I checked Thott after buying the recipes. It has Jaggal Clam Meat as mostly dropping in Zangarmarsh, and Buzzard Meat as mostly dropping on Hellfire Peninsula. Neither item was listed on Thott as dropping anywhere outside Outlands, that I could find.

So am I stuck with useless food and a pointless skill now? Is there a cooking recipe I missed somewhere? Did I read Thott wrong? >_> I hope so, because my sudden lack of ability to produce usable food is starting to have an impact - I kind of counted on the extra Stamina.

[det]

Well, yes - without the expansion that is a problem. The best food on this side of the AQ opening chain which yields an epic cooking recipe is Desert dumplings that you get as a quest from the inkeeper in Cenarion Hold in Silithus.

[XxLankyxX]

I don't have the expansion, so am I in trouble?
I ask because I bought some 300 recipes - Clam Bar and Buzzard Bites, mainly. I bought them because my next-best recipes I got at 250 cooking and only restore around 1300 health. That's not even a full heal from half health for me anymore. They don't even give my pets double-digit Happiness. >_> I was thinking 'Well, they are level 300 recipes, that's top-end for people without the expansion. Surely Blizzard would put the ingredients for the level 300 recipes in places that I can get them even without buying Burning Crusade.'

But apparently I was wrong. I checked Thott after buying the recipes. It has Jaggal Clam Meat as mostly dropping in Zangarmarsh, and Buzzard Meat as mostly dropping on Hellfire Peninsula. Neither item was listed on Thott as dropping anywhere outside Outlands, that I could find.

So am I stuck with useless food and a pointless skill now? Is there a cooking recipe I missed somewhere? Did I read Thott wrong? >_> I hope so, because my sudden lack of ability to produce usable food is starting to have an impact - I kind of counted on the extra Stamina.


Have you checked the AH for the ingrediants you need? Maybe have a friend or guildmate that can supply you? Or, not trying to be sarcastic, why not just go out and get the expansion? Experience everything that Blizzard intended.

[Drago Goldenwing]

Gold Pal det: I have that recipe, but Sandworm Meat is incredibly time-consuming to farm in any kind of quantity and it provides Strength as the bonus stat - As I'm a Hunter, about all that would do is raise my pet's strength a couple of points. Which was why I went hunting for better 300 recipes.

XxLankyxX: I did indeed check the AH. There was no Jaggal Clam Meat for sale, and the only Buzzard Meat was a stack of 17 or so for 7 gold buyout. I was informed that the 300 ingredients are highly overpriced by people selling them because they want to catch people who just got BC and want to level their cooking. And I haven't been in a guild since I started; For one thing, they usually go 'Hunter eww' or 'All our Hunter spots are full.' For another, I've never met a guild that I liked. >_> Most of the ones I looked into turned out to be peopled by immature people who I would not have gotten along with.
And I don't get BC mostly because of the price. I have an income of precisely 0. Just coming up with the 20 to buy WoW and the 30 for a 60 day card broke me. It's been two months since I got both of those things, and I've barely scraped together ten dollars in that timeframe.
You see the problem here. >_>

[PTiger]

Lemme do some quick math. You bought a 60 day card. It's been two months since then. You now have 10 dollars.

Pardon me for saying it, but your biggest problem isn't finding materials for your new cooking recipes. Your account will run out in a day or so and then you won't need any new materials! Problem solved!

[Drago Goldenwing]

Actually I have a month left, subscription runs out May 8th. I'll get money May 16th. Yay for planning ahead.