alternative power leveling method

[heyaz]

Wait, it was 10 hours per character from 85-90 with cooking? So 50 hours for a 5-box team? And 5x the gold I guess?

There are better ways if you want to get a single toon. There are several mob tagging areas, one in kunlai that'll get you a level an hour almost if you have a boxer friend (or your own 90 toons) to burn the mobs.

Then again.... 10 hours just cooking stuff and using macros, not having to deal with mobs or quests? Actually may be a great alternative.

[zenga]

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?

Leveling cooking from 0 to 525 took like 15 maybe 20 minutes (and hardly no gold). And easy to do on all your toons at the same time. Talk to that trainer, learn recipe, buy the mats from the same trainer, then cook an item that gives you 5 points. Incrediblly fast.

Wait, it was 10 hours per character from 85-90 with cooking? So 50 hours for a 5-box team? And 5x the gold I guess?

I lvl'd 3 toons simultaneously, within approximately a 10h timeframe. I say 10h timeframe cause I watched the last season of the wire meanwhile, which is 10 episodes long.

There are better ways if you want to get a single toon. There are several mob tagging areas, one in kunlai that'll get you a level an hour almost if you have a boxer friend (or your own 90 toons) to burn the mobs.

Then again.... 10 hours just cooking stuff and using macros, not having to deal with mobs or quests? Actually may be a great alternative.

It's definitely not the most efficient/fastest way, but it can be a good alternative if you are tired of aoe killing/questing. And depending on your server economy you can make a buck or two.

[Lyonheart]

Leveling cooking from 0 to 525 took like 15 maybe 20 minutes (and hardly no gold). And easy to do on all your toons at the same time. Talk to that trainer, learn recipe, buy the mats from the same trainer, then cook an item that gives you 5 points. Incrediblly fast.



I lvl'd 3 toons simultaneously, within approximately a 10h timeframe. I say 10h timeframe cause I watched the last season of the wire meanwhile, which is 10 episodes long.



It's definitely not the most efficient/fastest way, but it can be a good alternative if you are tired of aoe killing/questing. And depending on your server economy you can make a buck or two.

This will be good to do on Sunday when i watch Football.. (GO BRONCOS!) But i prefer the tagging for single alt PLing. I have not tagged in MoP yet though. Need to research that.

[Lyonheart]

Looks like this went viral lol..price of mats are too high for profit. the mats you can buy with the tokens are selling for 250ish, and a stack of 20 meat..fish or 100 vegis selling for 300+ a stack 8( .. I got all the mats that where at cost or less and only had about 10 turn ins with them. ( Nazgrel server )

Does the auction addon search and buy stacks at a predefined cost for you? so if you want to buy any of the needed stacks at at least 10% profit ..it will buy 20 meat for you? ( for example )

[Multibocks]

On a pvp server you get ganked a lot here. Not sure you could do it at 85 without dying every time a 90 glanced your way.

[zenga]

Looks like this went viral lol..

haha yeah, that's why i tend to share stuff only after I' done. Talked to a couple of people on my realm, made a couple of posts as well on forums where there are people from my realm, but that was only after buying out all cheap mats and relist them big time

[Lyonheart]

The hardest part ( after buying the mats ) is the long cast time on combining the mats into the basket.. the turn in with that macro is super easy!

[Sam DeathWalker]

Of course as the cost of the food items goes up so does the sale price of the pepper and stuff you get from the tokens.

For clarity you should point out that first you have to have cooking somewhere over 500, then do some five quests "master of the wok" or something etc. then do some small quest from the same npc then you can finally do the grocery bag turn ins.

The guards do attack anyone who attacks you, but ya I can see where a pvp server is going to have some well ... pvp.

[Lyonheart]

Of course as the cost of the food items goes up so does the sale price of the pepper and stuff you get from the tokens..

No.. because so many people are doing this now.. the mats are high to make to baskets and the token items are going down because a lot more people are getting them from leveling up. At least on my server.

[JohnGabriel]

Like most hidden gems in WoW, they start out profitable but eventually settle into a sweet spot where both selling the mats or the item made from the mats would earn you about the same amount of gold.