Professions

Learn how to quickly level Cooking and Fishing in World of Warcraft for daily quests. Discover tips for obtaining recipes, fishing rods, and baits to maximize your skill.

You may think I mean max your main professions, which is good, but I mean you need to get your cooking and fishing up ASAP to get in on those dailies ASAP.

Cooking is not too hard to max up. Start by travelling the few towns below level 40-ish for recipes, then hit up Tanaris, its port, Feralas, and Felwood; feel free to pick up doubles of each and sell them for 5 gold in the AH too, hint hint. Then you basically just need the buzzard recipe in Hellfire and then the ones in Nagrand. I had enough meats saved from questing that I just had to go all out and I was open to train in Dalaran for the final leg of cooking.

Fishing is a much different story. There's a +3 fishing rod in Auberdine and a +20 rod from a kid in Shattrath. You can also get several worms and other baits to increase your skill for a short time, and it does help. As of a patch you can now fish anywhere, but you increase your chance to get stuff if your skill is close to the level of the area you are in. Just keep fishing, really nothing else to do. Don't pick up the crap of course, and keep all but the lowest of fish. The skillup rate of fishing decreases as you level. One fish at a time will skill you up at first, then 5 for a time, and as high as 10 casts just to skillup near 300. Needless to say, it takes a lot of time to level this up. But as I said, your skill can be inflated and all it does is increase your chances of catching stuff, it's not a restrictive skill.

I should also mention riding, but it's really more about gold. Almost all gold you earn would go toward buying fast flying. But you must buy all the other levels of riding.

NOTE: I personally don't think it's too important. I would rather dual-spec and gear up for raids and heroics than get fast flying.

And yeah, your main professions are very important too. Gathering professions are guaranteed gold. Creation professions require Frozen Orbs, which drop from heroic end-bosses, bought with 10 emblems of heroism, or bought from someone else (should be 20-30 gold now). It is not easy to max out any of your professions, but it can net you nice gold and in most cases powerful buffs.

NOTE: I believe all crafting professions except JC have extra recipes to buy in Dalaran, the 78 gear and epics, but ALL professions have rep and vendor recipes to go grab, use the rest of the internet to find those.