What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

299g in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 167 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 176g.

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 · Legion Cooking · KR · prices as of 17:26 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Legion Cooking

299g in reagents over about 167 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 176g.

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

Falcosaur Egg×1081

214

×108214

Silver Mackerel×56515

×56584

Total299

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 20

Orange

Dried Mackerel Strips

needs the recipe item

About 19 crafts.14

per skill point75

Silver Mackerel×95

Step 2 · Skill 20 → 40

Orange

Dried Mackerel Strips

needs the recipe item

About 20 crafts.15

per skill point75

Silver Mackerel×100

Step 3 · Skill 40 → 80

Orange→Green

Dried Mackerel Strips

needs the recipe item

About 74 crafts.55

per skill point1

Silver Mackerel×370

Step 4 · Skill 80 → 100

Yellow→Green

Spiced Falcosaur Omelet

needs the recipe item

About 54 crafts.214

per skill point10

Falcosaur Egg×108

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Dried Mackerel Strips97512

121

975121

Spiced Falcosaur Omelet542

541

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

Back in your pocket176

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 299g in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 167 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 176g.
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.