What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

5.1kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 122 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:26 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Dragon Isles Cooking · KR · prices as of 17:26 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Cooking

5.1kg in reagents over about 122 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 5kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Pebbled Rock Salts×1164

578

×116578

Temporal Dragonhead×509

477

×50477

Cerulean Spinefish×228

190

×22190

Thaldraszian Cocoa Powder×301

×3057

Salt Deposit×8647

×8640

Conveniently Packaged Ingredients×152

×1539

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×7740

×7730

Thousandbite Piranha×221

×2224

Serevite Ore×868

×866

Refreshing Spring Water×271

×2727

Total5,079

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 27

Orange→Yellow

Zesty Water

needs the recipe item

About 27 crafts.11

per skill point42

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×27

Refreshing Spring Water×27

Step 2 · Skill 27 → 60

Orange→Green

Impossibly Sharp Cutting Knife

needs the recipe item

About 43 crafts.47

per skill point1

Salt Deposit×86

Serevite Ore×86

Step 3 · Skill 60 → 75

Orange→Green

Timely Demise

needs the recipe item

About 25 crafts.747

per skill point49

Temporal Dragonhead×50

Pebbled Rock Salts×50

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×50

Step 4 · Skill 75 → 95

Orange→Yellow

Thousandbone Tongueslicer

needs the recipe item

About 22 crafts.3,178

per skill point158

Thousandbite Piranha×22

Cerulean Spinefish×22

Pebbled Rock Salts×66

Islefin Dorado×22

Step 5 · Skill 95 → 100

Orange

Ooey-Gooey Chocolate

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.1,096

per skill point219

Conveniently Packaged Ingredients×15

Thaldraszian Cocoa Powder×30

Pastry Packets×20

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Timely Demise10020

10020

Thousandbone Tongueslicer8820

8817

Zesty Water1085

1085

Impossibly Sharp Cutting Knife436

432

Ooey-Gooey Chocolate520

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket5,033

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 5.1kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 122 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 5kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:26 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.