Midnight Season 2

Midnight Cooking leveling, 1 to 100

The cheapest route from 1 to 100 Midnight Cooking: vendor biscuits to 25, a short fig detour to 35, then the Hearty Food bake-and-convert loop to the cap. Full material list, trainer location in Silvermoon City, and the best food buffs at max level.

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The short answer

Vendor biscuits to 25, figs to 35, then bake and convert on repeat.

Fifty Spiced Biscuits from vendor butter and spices take you to 25; ten Felberry Figs take you to 35, with Plant Protein the only Auction House trip in the route.

At 35 the Hearty Food recipe is learned automatically: bake batches of about 100 biscuits, convert them, repeat. Alternate baking and converting rather than baking the whole stockpile at low skill, because biscuits per craft scale up as you level.

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Where to learn it

Everything the route needs, and who sells what the trainer does not.

  • Sylann

    Cooking trainer

    Silvermoon City, inside the inn

    Teaches Midnight Cooking. The Cooking supply vendor near her stocks the butter, spices, vegetable assortment and essences the route needs.

Buy this once, for 1 to 100

Summed from the route below rather than quoted, so it cannot drift from the steps it is meant to pay for. The list stops at 100 because past that the cost depends on which recipes you own, and any single number would be invented.

The 1-35 list is exact: 60 butter, 150 spices, 100 Plant Protein, 40 Ripened Vegetable Assortment, 10 Mana-Wyrm Essence. The 35-100 Hearty Food loop repeats an unstated number of times, so its butter and spice lines show one ~100-biscuit batch - the derived totals of 260 butter and 750 spices count that batch once, not the full run.

MaterialQuantity
Pouch of Spices750
A Big Ol' Stick of Butter260
Plant Protein100
Ripened Vegetable Assortment40
Mana-Wyrm Essence10
The route

1 to 100, in order

Rows marked First craft are in the route for the Knowledge point, so craft those before you repeat anything. Quantities are already multiplied out. 0 first crafts in total.

1 → 25

Fifty biscuits from the vendor

observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

Fifty Spiced Biscuits from 50 butter and 150 Pouch of Spices. Both materials are on the Cooking supply vendor near Sylann - do not buy them off the Auction House. Stop when the recipe turns grey.

  • 50x

    Spiced Biscuits

    • 50x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter
    • 150x Pouch of Spices
25 → 35

Ten figs, one Auction House trip

observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

Ten Felberry Figs. The Plant Protein is the only material that is not vendor-sold, so buy it off the Auction House; the Ripened Vegetable Assortment, the extra butter, and the Mana-Wyrm Essence are all on the supply vendor.

  • 10x

    Felberry Figs

    • 100x Plant Protein
    • 40x Ripened Vegetable Assortment
    • 10x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter
    • 10x Mana-Wyrm Essence
35 → 100

Bake and convert on repeat

observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

At 35 the Hearty Food recipe is learned automatically, and it converts cooked food into heartier versions. Bake batches of about 100 Spiced Biscuits, convert them with Hearty Food, and repeat - alternate baking and converting rather than baking the whole stockpile at low skill, because the biscuits per craft scale up as you level. The recipe goes green for roughly the last 25 points, so the volume is high but the materials are cheap vendor goods. Hitting 100 awards the Cooking at Midnight achievement and a Midnight Cook's Shop Sign housing decoration.

  • 1x

    Hearty Food loop (one batch)

    • 200x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter
    • 600x Pouch of Spices

    One ~100-biscuit batch and its conversion. The loop repeats an unstated number of times to 100 - biscuits per craft scale with skill, so there is no fixed total. The shopping list shows this batch once; multiply by however many batches your skill needs.

At 100: what the food is for

Cooking has no specializations, so max level is a menu, not a second route. Feasts buff the whole group, master food is the best single-target buff, the +59 advanced foods are the cheap daily option, and the teas sell to gatherers.

Feasts

  • Blooming Feast

    Trainer recipes - buffs the whole group: +98 Stamina, +65 highest secondary stat

    1x Petrified Root, Herbs (Mana Lily, Azeroot, Argentleaf), Fish (Eversong Trout, Restored Songfish)

  • Harandar Celebration

    Trainer recipes - buffs the whole group: +98 Stamina, +50 primary stat

    1x Petrified Root, Herbs and fish per the recipe

  • Quel'dorei Medley

    Trainer recipes - buffs the whole group: +98 Stamina, +65 highest secondary stat

    1x Petrified Root, Herbs and fish per the recipe

  • Silvermoon Parade

    Trainer recipes - buffs the whole group: +98 Stamina, +50 primary stat

    1x Petrified Root, Herbs and fish per the recipe

Master food

  • Flora Frenzy

    Quest reward from the Gomphusta quest in Harandar - +65 highest secondary stat

    Herbs and produce per the recipe

  • Champion's Bento

    Trainer recipes - +65 highest secondary stat

    Produce and fish per the recipe

  • Impossibly Royal Roast

    Trainer recipes - +65 primary stat

    Meat and produce per the recipe

  • Royal Roast

    Trainer recipes - +65 primary stat

    Meat and produce per the recipe

Advanced food

  • Advanced food (crit)

    Trainer recipes - Arcano Cutlets, Sun-Seared Lumifin, Tasty Smoked Tetra: +59 crit

    Meat and fish per the recipe

  • Advanced food (haste)

    Trainer recipes - Crimson Calamari, Fel-Kissed Filet, Null and Void Plate: +59 haste

    Meat and fish per the recipe

  • Advanced food (mastery)

    Trainer recipes - Glitter Skewers, Warped Wise Wings: +59 mastery

    Meat and fish per the recipe

  • Advanced food (versatility)

    Trainer recipes - Braised Blood Hunter, Buttered Root Crab, Void-Kissed Fish Rolls: +59 versatility

    Meat and fish per the recipe

Teas

  • Azeroot Tea

    Trainer recipes - +50 Deftness, in demand from gatherers

    Herbs per the recipe

  • Argentleaf Tea

    Trainer recipes - +50 Finesse, in demand from gatherers

    Herbs per the recipe

  • Sanguithorn Tea

    Trainer recipes - +50 Perception, in demand from gatherers

    Herbs per the recipe

Things that change the bill

  • Buy vendor goods from the vendor

    observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

    Butter, Pouch of Spices, Ripened Vegetable Assortment and Mana-Wyrm Essence are all on the Cooking supply vendor near Sylann. Do not buy them off the Auction House - the only Auction House trip in the whole route is the Plant Protein.

  • Alternate baking and converting

    observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

    Do not bake the whole biscuit stockpile at low skill. Biscuits per craft scale up as you level, so bake a batch of about 100, convert it with Hearty Food, and repeat. Baking everything at 35 wastes the scaling.

  • Cooking takes no primary profession slot

    practice. Convention among strong players. Widely followed, but it is not a rule and it can be wrong.

    Cooking is a secondary profession, so it never competes with your two primary professions. There is no reason not to train it on every character that eats.

  • The 100 reward is housing decor

    observed. Read from live data at a stated time. It describes what players did, not what the game guarantees.

    Hitting 100 awards the Cooking at Midnight achievement and a Midnight Cook's Shop Sign housing decoration, with extra copies buyable for 5 gold from the supply vendor. Cheap as victory laps go.

Questions people actually ask

Where do I learn Midnight Cooking?
Sylann, inside the inn in Silvermoon City. The Cooking supply vendor near her sells nearly every material in the route.
How much does 1-35 cost?
60 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter and 150 Pouch of Spices for the biscuits, plus 100 Plant Protein, 40 Ripened Vegetable Assortment and 10 Mana-Wyrm Essence for the figs. Only the Plant Protein needs the Auction House; everything else is vendor stock. Past 35 the loop repeats vendor batches, so there is no single final total.
What is Hearty Food?
A recipe learned automatically at 35 skill. It converts already-cooked food into heartier versions - the 35-100 stretch is baking Spiced Biscuits and converting them, on repeat.
Does Cooking have specializations or Knowledge?
No. Cooking has no specialization trees and no Knowledge Point system, so there is nothing to plan around - the recipe order is the whole strategy.
Which food should I cook at max level?
Feasts for groups - Blooming Feast and Quel'dorei Medley for +65 highest secondary, Harandar Celebration and Silvermoon Parade for +50 primary, all with +98 Stamina. Master food for yourself: Flora Frenzy or Champion's Bento for secondaries, Impossibly Royal Roast or Royal Roast for primary. The +59 advanced foods and the gathering teas are the cheap daily options.
How do I get Flora Frenzy?
It is the one recipe the trainer does not teach: a quest reward from the Gomphusta quest in Harandar.
What profession equipment does Cooking use?
Two slots, both crafted by other professions: a rolling pin (Inscription) as the tool and a chef hat (Tailoring) as the accessory. Green and blue versions are tradable on the Auction House; epics are soulbound and need a Crafting Order. Cooking tools have fixed stats - no missives.

What we could not confirm

  • The 35-100 Hearty Food loop has no fixed total on the source: biscuits per craft scale with skill, so the shopping list shows one ~100-biscuit batch (200 butter, 600 spices) and the real count is however many batches your skill needs. Treat the butter and spice totals as a floor, not a sum.

  • Skill points per craft, and the level each recipe stops being orange at, are the community guide's figures. Blizzard does not publish skill-up tables, so these cannot be verified anywhere except in the profession window.

  • Endgame food buff values (+98 Stamina, +65/+59/+50 stats) are the source's figures for the current patch; tuning changes them.

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