alternative power leveling method

[zenga]

The idea is to level through cooking with a repeatable quest, and you buy the mats of the AH. I'm playing on high pop realms, and there were barely enough mats to provide the 3x guys I took to 90. Took me roughly 40k gold in total and a good 10 hours while watching DVDs and doing other stuff.

Not gonna repeat the whole explanation here, since this comment on wowhead contains the info you need.

[djensen2010]

you got them from wat? 85-90?

[zenga]

yes 85 something to 90

[Owltoid]

It only took you 10 hours to go from 85-90? Wow, that's worth 40k gold for sure!

[lans83]

Not sure about using this method for leveling up, but I'll definitely check on it for using my tokens to resell the cooking ingredients from it like the Soy Sauce, Black Pepper, and Rice Flour.

[zenga]

It only took you 10 hours to go from 85-90? Wow, that's worth 40k gold for sure!

That was per character btw. But you get so many ironpaw tokens that you can use to buy other mats to sell on the AH, although I'm not very familiar with that market to estimate how long it will take before I make most of that back. Some people even report that they made crazy profits with this method, though I guess that's really server dependant.

And you can do it much faster than 10 hours btw, I was doing a ton of other stuff meanwhile.

[crowdx]

I presume this is 10 hours across multiple days?

[JohnGabriel]

Looks like something I can do to make some gold in the AH, and doing it on toons I am leveling is a bonus so the experience wont get wasted.

The comments on WoWhead say the quickest is 3.5 hours using the macro and having all mats already.

[zenga]

I setup 3 shopping lists in auctionator, based off that list on wowhead. One for 20 one for 60 and one for 100.
Then I made a few macro's with the /use empty bag name. Fairly easy to setup up a keymap in isboxer that ties those together.
This is the big job, gather the mats, stock them and process them.
For turning in I used that macro that is posted on wowhead together with IWT.
It's one big spamfest.

Also levelled my cooking meanwhile from zero to 525. It takes no more than 15-20 minutes and you just need to talk to that npc all the time and craft stuff. And it costs almost nothing, didn't really keep track of that but my guess would be a few 100 gold max.

Looks like this might actually turn out to be profitable for me. I bought my stacks at 20-30% of the price that black pepper sells for. Not sure how long it;s gonna take to unload 10k black pepper though

Honestly I think the most sane way to do this if you are not on one of the high pop realms, is for an alt team that you want to get to 90 over time, and do every day a little bit.

[crowdx]

Understanding this a little more now from reading. I am thinking this would also be a great fast way to get RAF characters from 81 - 85. From what you are saying in this thread, leveling cooking from 1 - 525 is currently painless? Correct?