Retail Midnight profession

Cooking: from raw material to finished item.

Turn fish, meats, herbs, and vendor goods into personal stat food, feasts, teas, and portable utility food for raids, Mythic+, PvP, and gathering.

Current as of July 26, 2026Retail recipe quantities and tuning can change through hotfixes. The profession journal is the final authority for exact quantities and quality thresholds.

Skill cap100

TypeSecondary / Consumables

Best pairFishing

TrainerSylann — Silvermoon /way #15969 56.4 69.8.

A-to-Z route

Level it with a purpose.

Do not craft random orange recipes. Pick a finished-item lane, secure the materials, and use first crafts, Knowledge, cooldowns, or server phase rules to advance.

1
1–25
Train Forager's Medley, Mana-Infused Stew, Portable Snack, Quick Sandwich, Silvermoon Standard, Spiced Biscuits, Bloom Skewers, and Farstrider Rations.
2
25–45
Cook fish/meat dishes such as Bloodthistle-Wrapped Cutlets, Eversong Pudding, Fried Bloomtail, Hearthflame Supper, and Sunwell Delight.
3
45–65
Use Spellfire Filet, Twilight Angler's Medley, Wise Tails, and Arcano Cutlets.
4
65–100
Cook Braised Blood Hunter, Crimson Calamari, Tasty Smoked Tetra, and feasts. Use Multicraft tool enchant and save expensive skill-ups.

Specialization / focus

Choose the lane you want to supply.

No specialization tree

Your first points should support the items you plan to craft or gather every week. Avoid spreading points across unrelated branches before your first market or guild-support lane is functional.

Production catalog

What you can make or gather—and how.

Each card shows the ingredient family, acquisition method, recipe source, and a repeatable production workflow.

Forager's Medley / Mana-Infused Stew

Ingredients: Midnight meat/fish + vendor seasoning
Get the ingredients: Loot beasts, fish pools, and buy seasoning from Cooking vendor.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 1
Why make it: Leveling food.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Bloom Skewers

Ingredients: Bloom/plant and meat ingredients shown in recipe
Get the ingredients: Farm herb/cooking side-gathers or AH.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 10
Why make it: Leveling/stat food.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Farstrider Rations

Ingredients: Meat/fish and vendor ingredients
Get the ingredients: Farm beasts/fish or AH.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 25
Why make it: Portable food.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Spellfire Filet

Ingredients: Fish fillets + seasoning
Get the ingredients: Fish target species, then use Thalassian Fillet; buy seasoning.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 45
Why make it: Stat meal.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Twilight Angler's Medley

Ingredients: Specific Midnight fish/fillets + seasoning
Get the ingredients: Target relevant pools; avoid open water if you need specific fish.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 45
Why make it: Stat meal.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Wise Tails

Ingredients: Warping Wise/related fish + seasoning
Get the ingredients: Fish Voidstorm Viscous Void or Oceanic Vortex pools.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 45
Why make it: Stat meal.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Tasty Smoked Tetra

Ingredients: Twisted Tetra/fillets + seasoning
Get the ingredients: Fish Harandar/Zul'Aman pools.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 65
Why make it: High-end stat meal.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Braised Blood Hunter

Ingredients: Blood Hunter + seasoning
Get the ingredients: Fish Zul'Aman/Voidstorm pools; kill spawned spirit for extra fish.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 65
Why make it: High-end meal.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Hearty Feast

Ingredients: Multiple cooked foods/fillets/meats
Get the ingredients: Build a guild shopping list; farm fish and beast meat before raid night.
Unlock / source: Trainer, skill 80
Why make it: Group feast.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Silvermoon Parade

Ingredients: Multiple high-end food inputs
Get the ingredients: Coordinate guild Fishing/Cooking; craft through current recipe journal.
Unlock / source: Feast recipe
Why make it: Raid feast.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Argentleaf Tea and other teas

Ingredients: Herbs + water/vendor reagents
Get the ingredients: Herbalism/AH plus vendor water.
Unlock / source: Trainer/recipe source
Why make it: Mana restoration and profession buffs.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Hobbyist Rolling Pin

Ingredients: 10 Azeroot + 1 Sienna Ink
Get the ingredients: Farm Azeroot; commission Scribe.
Unlock / source: Inscription
Why make it: Starter tool.

Open the profession journal and pin the recipe.
Collect or buy every listed reagent; compare Auction House cost against the finished item.
Use the correct profession table or tool and select optional/finishing reagents only after confirming the desired result.
Craft one test item, verify quality/effect, then batch craft or submit the Work Order.

Material acquisition

Farm, buy, disenchant, or commission it.

Use this source map before purchasing. Farm when the route also advances your character or weekly objectives; buy when opportunity cost is higher than the AH price.

Material	Method	Where / how	Used for
Tranquility Bloom	Farm	Herbalism nodes throughout Midnight zones; Lush versions yield more.	Alchemy, Inscription, Mulch
Argentleaf	Farm	Herbalism nodes; target Eversong and mixed Midnight routes.	Alchemy, Cooking teas, Inscription
Azeroot	Farm	Herbalism nodes; also used heavily by Alchemy and Inscription.	Potions, inks, profession tools
Mana Lily	Farm	Usually found near or in water; prioritize safe waterside loops.	Alchemy and Cooking
Sanguithorn	Farm	Herbalism nodes in Midnight zones; Wild variants may summon lashers.	Alchemy, Cooking
Nocturnal Lotus	Rare gather / AH	Rare side-gather from all Midnight herb types; improve Perception.	High-end consumables and crafts
Refulgent Copper Ore	Farm / AH	Mine Refulgent Copper nodes and seams.	Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting
Brilliant Silver Ore	Farm / AH	Mine Brilliant Silver nodes and seams.	Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting
Umbral Tin Ore	Farm / AH	Mine Umbral Tin nodes and seams.	Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting
Dazzling Thorium	Rare gather / AH	Rare side-gather from every Midnight ore type; stack Perception.	High-end tools, alloys, gear
Void-Tempered Leather	Farm / AH	Skin ordinary Midnight beasts; high-value beasts yield more.	Leather armor, profession equipment
Void-Tempered Scales	Farm / AH	Skin scaled beasts and dragonkin.	Mail armor, profession equipment
Bright Linen	Farm / AH	Loot from humanoids while Tailoring is learned; buy on the region-wide AH.	Bolts, armor, bags, profession hats
Eversinging Dust / Radiant Shard / Dawn Crystal	Disenchant / AH	Disenchant Midnight uncommon, rare, and epic gear.	Enchanting and cross-profession tools
Mote of Light	Infused gather / AH	Gather or mine Lightfused nodes in Eversong; catch lightfalls.	High-end tools, Alchemy, Cooking
Mote of Wild Magic	Infused gather / AH	Gather Wild nodes in Zul'Aman and defeat spawned creatures.	High-end tools and reagents
Mote of Primal Energy	Infused gather / AH	Gather Primal nodes in Harandar; manage the health-channel effect.	Alchemy and high-end tools
Mote of Pure Void	Infused gather / AH	Gather Voidbound nodes; escape the slowing field.	Alchemy, Enchanting, Engineering
Artisan's Moxie	Weekly / patron / first craft	Earn from profession activity and spend at profession vendors.	Recipes, knowledge books, tools
Fused Vitality	Soulbound / Work Order	Provide through high-end work orders; do not expect normal AH purchase.	Gilded profession equipment and endgame crafts

Profession equipment

Tools and exact known materials.

Tool or accessory	Crafted by	Materials / acquisition
Hobbyist Rolling Pin	Inscription	10 Azeroot, 1 Sienna Ink
Sin'dorei Rolling Pin	Inscription	1 Majestic Claw, 4 Codified Azeroot
Gilded Sin'dorei Rolling Pin	Inscription	20 Fused Vitality, 2 Majestic Claw, 4 Codified Azeroot
Chef's Bright Linen Cooking Chapeau	Tailoring	3 Silverleaf Thread, 2 Imbued Bright Linen Bolt, 2 Eversinging Dust

Quests & weekly work

Do these every reset.

Use Cooking weekly/event quests when available and complete the Darkmoon Faire Cooking quest for +2 skill.
Pair with Fishing so fish costs are controlled.
Create guild feast restock thresholds and craft after checking AH margins.

Buying rule

Never buy blind.

Pin the recipe and write down all reagents.
Check finished-item price, material price, commission, and expected quality.
Use Work Orders for soulbound reagents; do not expect them on the AH.
Craft one test item before a large batch.
Verify the tooltip before spending expensive currency.

Addon setup

Track cost, routes, and quality.

Auctionator

Auction House pricing and shopping lists

Install the version compatible with your client; run a full AH scan before buying materials.

TradeSkillMaster

Crafting cost, sale rate, and restock groups

Create one group per profession and import only recipes you actually sell.

CraftSim

Retail recipe quality, concentration, and profitability

Retail Midnight only; compare material quality before submitting work orders.

GatherMate2 + Routes

Gathering node database and route loops

Import or record nodes, then create clockwise loops by zone.

TomTom

Trainer, vendor, and farming coordinates

Paste /way coordinates from each guide and keep the arrow visible.

Final audit

Profession readiness checklist.

Trainer and current rank learned

Tool and accessories equipped

Primary production lane chosen

Material source list saved

Weekly quest and cooldown tracked

One profitable or guild-use craft tested

Retail recipe quantities and tuning can change through hotfixes. The profession journal is the final authority for exact quantities and quality thresholds.