Dalaran Cooking Daily Quests GuidePosted by xenith on May 26th, 2009
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If you are one of those people who thought that cooking is not for tough guys like you, you are missing out on a ton of gold. The Dalaran Cooking Dailies are your gateway to becoming a famous (and not to mention wealthy!) chef. These quests are the only way to get the highest level recipes and Northern Spices that you need to make them. And you want those recipes because some of those high level food items can really rake in the gold. As an added bonus, you also get some gold and Kirin Tor rep for completing these quests.
You will need to save up your cooking rewards to spend on the high level recipes. Some of the recipes are more *fun* than useful. Go for the useful ones that you can sell to raiders trying to eek out a few more DPS points. These people are desperate buyers! Spellpower food like Tender Shoveltusk Steak or Attack Power food like Mega Mammoth Meal are good ones. If you fish, some of the fish recipes sell very well too, like Dragonfin Filet.
You will make life easier for yourself if you keep a few stacks of Chilled Meat (from any Northrend beast) and Rhino Dogs (cooked from Rhino Meat from rhinos in Borean Tundra and recipe from any Grand Master Cooking trainer) in your bank to use for cooking dailies.
Cooking daily quests are given by Katherine Lee (Alliance) and Awilo Lon’gomba (Horde). Both are in their respective faction’s Inn. They will each give you one of five different quests:
Aged Dalaran Limberger
I groan whenever I see this one pop up as the cooking daily. Its not difficult but its a real pain in the ass. Thats because there can be a lot of competition for those half full glasses on wine. Get you trigger finger ready so you beat the 6 other people camping out in the Inn for wine glass spawns. Its so competitive because, even though the quest text suggests they are all over the city, in fact there are really only four main buildings where you can get them; those are your faction’s main Inn and the Legerdemain Lounge bar (on the corner opposite the cheese shop). There are a few in the Violet Hold area (62,66) and also in the Cheese Shop itself (55,34). Check both floors for both these buildings. The cheese spawns one of the tables inside the shop on the ground floor. I have seen it on the one straight in front of you as you enter and on the one to the rightof the door. Just look for sparklies. Once done, use the item the quest giver gave you, and then take it to Ranid Glowergold in the Legendary Leathers shop in the Magus Commerce Exchange area (37,29).
Infused Mushrrom
Here is where you will be happy if you followed my Chilled Meat in the bank advice. Grab two of them then head down into the sewers for the mushrooms. There are plenty of spawns, especially in the Arena area so you shouldn’t have much trouble. Combine them in the Meatloaf Pan given to you by the quest giver then turn it in to Orton Bennet in Curiosities & Moore (52, 55).
This is a nice easy cooking daily quest unless you have to go out to kill beasts for Chilled Meats. But thats what you get for not being prepared!
Another easy one if you have Chilled Meats in the bank. Grab four of them and whip up 4 tasty Northern Stews using your cooking skill. This recipe is a quest reward for the quest Northern Cooking (linked quest is from Valgarde but it is also available in Valiance Keep, Vengeance Landing and Warsong Hold). Head to the Cheese Shop (55,34) and pick up a jug of wine off the table (look for sparklies). Then just hike across the street and hand it over to to Arille Azuregaze at the Legerdemain Lounge(49,38).
Mustard Plant
This one is easy if you have Rhino Dogs or at least the meats to make them available. Otherwise its pretty annoying since you will either need to go kill rhinos or else port to an old world city and buy some on the AH. If you do need to go farm up some Rhino, try Borean Tundra around (47,40). The Wild Mustard plants grow in Dalaran in any grassy areas. Try Runeweaver Square(50,48) or around Krasus Landing(69,44) (convenient because that is where the turn in is).
Combine the items in the Picnic Basket given to you by the quest giver and hand it over to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus Landing. This is a nice Dalaran cooking daily quest to get because it gives two rewards instead of one. Its the only cooking daily quest that does this.
Crystalsong Carrot
Once again, you will need Chilled Meats, four of them in fact (didn’t I mention you should keep chilled meats in the bank?). And you will also need to port down to Crystalsong Forest to hunt for Crystalsong Carrots. This is the only quest that requires you to leave the city so its at iny but annoying. Just use the Portal Chamber in Runeweaver square as instructed by the quest text (cause I know you all read every word of that!) to get down, then use the crystal to get back up once you have your veggies. Finding the carrots is easy enough. They are on both sides of the river at the port in spot and are usually located near a tree. They are pretty small though so keep an eye out for
Once you have all your items, combine them in the provided Stew Cookpot then head down to the sewers and give them to Ajay Green at the inn down there (36,58).
And that’s it for our guide to Dalaran Cooking Daily Quests.
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