The last couple of days I’ve been working on my cooking skill. Why? Glad you asked! Cooking is a profession that I haven’t been paying much attention to up until now. Some of the Burning Crusade buff foods like Ravager Dog (+ 40 Attack Power bonus) and Warp Burger (+ 20 Agility bonus) are definitely appealing, but other things were always higher up on my list of things to do.

That has changed, however, because of one particular recipe, which will become available with the soon to go live patch 2.3: Spicy Hot Talbuk (+20 Hit Rating bonus). This is the first recipe with a Hit Rating well fed bonus, which is a big deal for raiding melee classes who are lacking in the Hit Rating department. The recipe is a reward from the daily cooking quests that are coming in patch 2.3. More information is available at Kaliope’s.

Getting revered with the Cenarion Expedition is something I’ve had on my WoW to-do list for quite a while. After doing one last Steamvault run and buying a few Coilfang Armaments in the Auction House, I’m finally there.

Getting the heroic Coilfang Reservoir key is nice, for sure, but the real prize is the Glyph of Ferocity (+34 attack power and +16 hit rating on a head slot item). I’m really starved for hit rating at the moment, so getting +16 is really nice. I now have a total of 53 hit on my Stealther’s Helmet of Second Sight (16 base, 3 Rigid Dawnstone gems plus the Glyph of Ferocity). Not bad at all.

By the way, the WoW Reputation Calculator is a great tool. You feed it your character name and realm and it fetches your reputation with the various factions. Select a faction and the tool will show you which quests, instances, dailies etc. you need to do in order to reach the next reputation level. Very nicely done.