Hi, I've been a member since 2008 on my other account Mitchy91 but had some problems gaining privileges since I became inactive after I took a break from WoW and made a new forum account instead. However I felt that I should make a contriubation in someway, and sice I'm not good at finding exploits I'd figure I'd go ahead and put together a guildline that I will follow regaurdless and post it here to try and help people out and possibly improve it.
Enough of my chitter chatter.
This guild is an outline on how to get 450-550 Cooking using some of the Pre-Cataclysm exploits to your advantage like fishing the new Cata fish in Tanaris/Uldum and Hyjal.
Now before I start the core of my guide I'd like to bring to your attention that if you are able to get your hands on any Lavascale Catfish Then you can use it to a large advantage since Lavascale Milestone. From what I have researched, this recipe will entitle you to a bypass right to level 520~525 saving you some time, thinking and Chef's awards.
Please not all recipes I mention are obtainable using the Chef's awards gained by complete the daily quests from Marogg (Horde) in Org, and (Unsure about the Ally Equiv). Also a very important addition (which I know has been posted before) to get a head start on cooking in Prep for Cata you should
COMPLETE THE DAILY COOKING QUEST ON ALL YOUR LEVEL 10+ ALTS AND BUY THE CRATE OF TASTY MEAT
and send the loot of meat to the toon that you plan on leveling cooking on.
Now if my research is correct you will only need a total of 9 Chef's Awards used to buy 3 different cooking recipes to get from 450-525
450-475
(Using Fishing)
Green@477 (Lightly Fried Lurker) 3 Tokens to buy recipe
Striped Lurker can be obtained in Hyjal, Look at the Exploit link above to gain pre-cata
*Total supply of Striped Lurker: 35-50
(Using Crates)
Green@477 (Salted Eye) 3 Tokens to buy recipe
Snake Eye obtained through Meat Crates from Cooking Daily, or A/H.
*Total supply of Snake Eye: 35-50
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**475-500
(Using Crates)
Green@597 (Hearty Seafood Soup) 3 Tokens to buy recipe
Blood Shrimp can be obtained through looting the Crate of meat, which is why it is useful to complete the daily on all of your alts, You could also try to trade other loot from the crate like [Delicate Wing] [Toughened Flesh] [Crocolisk Tail] for some in trade.
*Total supply of Blood Shimp needed: 30-45
-OR-
(Using Crates)
Green@597 (Tender Baked Turtle) 3 Tokens to buy recipe
Giant Turtle Tongue can be obtained through looting the Crate of meat, which is why it is useful to complete the daily on all of your alts, You could also try to trade other loot from the crate like [Delicate Wing] [Toughened Flesh] [Crocolisk Tail] for some in trade.
*Total supply of Giant Turtle Tongue needed: 30-45
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500-525
(Using Fishing)
Green@520 (Delicious Sagefish Tail) 3 tokens to buy recipe
Deepsea Sagefish Fish-able from the Tanaris/Uldum fishing area, as linked above.
*Total supply of Deepsea Sagefish needed: 35-50
(Using Crates)
Green@520 (Basilisk Liverdog) 3 tokens to buy recipe
Basilisk "Liver"obtained through Meat Crates from Cooking Daily, or A/H.
*Total supply of Basilisk "Liver" needed: 35-50
Thanks for taking the time to read my guide, if you have any suggestions or feel that I am incorrect about something that I posted please do not hesitate to post it here since I am not 100% on everything since it's just a guide and nothing is set in stone yet. Thank you!
*Total supply are just estimates
** Mix, and use both if you're supply is limited for 475-500