Baking

If you are bored of medding all the time instead of falling asleep at the key board try this. Get a couple fishing poles (because no matter how good your skill is they still break once in a while), a spit and either batwings or jugs of spices. I head out to a hunting ground near a body of water and while I med I fish. After I got through all my bait I start to cook. 1 fish and 1 jug of sauce. You can get your baking up to 125 (with the batwing recipe) at very little cost. Bait is about 3-4cps and batwings and sauces are about 1sp. With a high enough charisma a stack of fish fillets sell for over a plat and you have an endless suply of food. I do it mostly to pass the time but it seems like a great way to increase a couple of skills when you would be doing nothing otherwise.

Or any other food for that matter...besides being fun and different, is there actually any other benefit to baking your own foods and buying iron rations over simple rations such as the time they last? I can't believe that the only benefit to having an iron ration over a norm one is just the .2 or so the iron is lighter.

Where do you find spits in freeport?

Can someone please tell me where I can find the different cookie cutter molds so I may be able to make EG: Troll shaped / elf shaped... ect ect.. cookies.. thanks

Hello sorry to sound like a newbie but to some of you I am! :) I can't find Frosting anywhere I heard there was a vender in Rivervale. Please help find frosting and what does it look like?
Zuri - Methodic Order

I have just come to the point in my baking career where I need tons of snake eggs to make dough with. Killing snakes is TEDIOUS! Does anyone know a vendor that sells a steady supply of snake eggs? Or pre-mixed dough? For that matter, How can I get my hands on some Brownie meat without having to carve it off the 40+level guards?

Several months ago, I was travelling through the tunnel in the East Commonlands. I saw a vendor who sold both cactus pulp and cactus pie. I know the pulp can be foraged. Has anyone ever made a cactus pie, or is it one of those items that vendors sell, but no recipe exists?

Ok, ready for this? Foragers make good high lvl cooks! Surprise!

Most foragers are rangers/druids

Most of the above are wood elves/half elves in Kelethin.

Ok, with that narrowed down, on to the point of this topic:

How you can become a good baker and never leave the continent.

(1)

to start with, a lone point in baking, or none if u want. You REALLY don't need to waste money here.

Go out and smack rats or wolves silly (your choice) and pack in their meat. No matter how much I auction, i never get any large amount offered to sell to me, so i do it the old fashioned way :)

Go buy bread.

Combine 1 bread and 1 animal-meat-of-your-choice in oven. Hit combine. BAM! a sandwich! (even at skill 0 I has a 33% success rate. not bad).

wolf sandwich (my choice) sold for 3.5 sp. Bread costs 1.7 sp. profit for you lowbies? after you get to about skill 10, yes.

(2)

when trivial, go to batwing crunchies. there is a vendor in BB and one in Stteamfont that will sell frosting.

Bats are EVERYWHERE. find them, smack them. they avg drop 1 wing apiece (some drop none, some drop 2)

find oven. combine one of each. BAM! a tasty treat.

(3)

the fish fillet every mentions is good to put in here. If you start making these at 46 (the batwing trivial point) rather than at the beginning though, you will succeed far more, and not lose as much $$.

(4)

I've heard fish rolls work (fish + batwing).

(5)

After you pass 100 (which fish rolls will take you WAY beyond), you'll be able to start using your veggies, rabbits, and everything else in earnest. just carry a spit, some sauces/spices (depending on which type of food u will use, see any advanced baking guide), and your foraged food, and u can make some good, hearty vegtable soup, or rabbit stew. Or if you are feeling real obnoxious, give the halfling druid in your group some hot 'n spicy Toelings... Whatever. By now you are a master, and can make whatever delicacy u want. Just beware... for those after dinner sweets, you are going to need brownie parts. If you are a mid-lvl, they will be hard to get. If you are a high lvl, and can solo the LFay brownies... then all you need is to track them down :).

Good eatin!


P.S. for the (4) section, there is also the option to go into cookies to get you to around 100. Although the success rate is high at the 80-100 skill range for them, it's MUCH faster skill-wise to skip this part, and do the fish rools instead.

If you go out into WK, once out of the canyon, turn left, and just follow the wall north, you will come to 3 or so buildings, there is a baking supplier there. She sells sauce, spices, etc.

If any Erudites (or wizards) want to get into baking, there is a supplier in Toxx, north eastern corner of the zone.

Hope this helps all the aspiring bakers out there.

Torim Solarium
Master Baker (who can't get brownie parts) of E'ci

Me give money to little human so he translate document so you all can read.

Do not forget do look on Drawmjils secret Ogre recepies if you Ogre or Troll, you like em gud.

(Link to Drawmjils Secret Ogre recepies is http://www.drawmjil.fakta.se/recepies.htm)

-Drawmjil




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Why do you want to Bake? Well, there are a couple of answers to that. First of all, it's great fun to give new and exotic dishes to friends, and believe me, giving 'Gnome Kabobs' to a gnome can produce a GREAT reaction. Second, it's a rather cheap skill to become master in. Third, it is defiantly needed for a quest in Grobb.

Ogres really are the worst race (except for trolls -Chernabog's remark) when it comes down to trade skills, they lack very much in both INT and WIS, the first important for skill advancement, the second for skill success. So you should really not aim for a jeweler career or some other expensive trade skill.

Drawmjil had his own VERY good reasons to start out his baking career, which you can read all about in his diary (Dates October 17 - 19). I will try to describe here how Drawmjil got from skill 0 to skill 103 in a very short time, with a very limited budget and NO hunting for ingredients.

First of all, get around 15 practicing points to spend on baking, you can spend less, but that will mean more time and more money. Collect around 15-20 platinum pieces. Do NOT think that you will have the patience of fishing your way up to master chef, this is tedious enough for an Ogres just to mix everything about a 1000 times.

Ok, what we are going to concentrate on here are TWO dishes. First one is fish fillet. You will be making these until you are at skill level 82. Drawmjil also got a friend to buy a spit (portable oven) in Freeport, which increases the speed, since you don't have to run all the way to an oven. Start by putting all practice points you have into baking (I recommend 15, but it could be more or less depending on how much you are willing to spend).

First go to Bup, he is located in The ferrot at loc 1171, 122. Buy as many Jug of Sauce as you can carry. Then go to Chef Dooga, she has an in in the same place as the warrior guild is located. There you can buy fresh fish. If you have a spit you can start making fish fillets right here, otherwise there is an oven next to Crunga & Erung in an unmarked shop down the hall from armor merchants. To make a fish fillet you put one jug of sauce and one fish in spit/oven and press combine. Believe me, you WILL fail often, especially in the beginning. A tip, hold down LEFT-CTRL when picking up a stacked fish/sauce, that will make you pick up ONLY ONE, so you don't have to bother with the slider. Well, you just do that over and over until you reach skill 82, then fish fillets will become trivial. Sell the fillets to merchants, Dooga or Bup depending on where you are at the moment (you will run between them allot).

Ok, you are now at skill 82, that might be enough for you, if not (Drawmjil wanted to be above 100 in skill), you should now move on to Fish rolls. Same procedure, but instead of sauce, you mix one fish and one batwing in spit/oven. You might think that this will take allot of bat bashing, but there is a person who sells unlimited batwings in Oggok (lucky us Ogres). His name is Hrak and he is in the second room in the mountain when going to the Shaman guild in Oggok. Just repeat the procedure above and produce fish rolls. Fish rolls are not as profitable as fish fillets, which is the reason for making fillets all the way up to 82. If you have allot of money you can do fish rolls all the way, since you wont have to zone as much buying ingredients. Fish rolls can take you as high as 132 which should be QUITE enough.

Well, that's it. Hope you can enjoy baking as much as I do, it really is fun, and now for the good part. The trolls have a quest called skeletons in the closet, which is to my knowledge the only quest in the game which requires cooking. What they need to complete the quest is something called a butchers apron. You get it by giving chef Dooga 10 gold and 3 pickled froglocks (1 froglock meat + 1 vinegar + 1 jug of sauce). The apron itself if a good newbie armor, and could be sold to troll shamans doing this quest.

Happy cooking,
Drawmjil

Everyone needs charisma! If you are performing a trade skill that requires you to buy from or sell to a vendor then you NEED to get enough charisma gear to get your cha over 103. The cheapest charisma gear thats not too hard to get, where to get it, and probable prices with (pp/cha), are:

Mystic Doll, Feerrott, 3 cha, Free (0)
Medal of Merit, Qeynos, 5 cha, Free (0)
Silver Cats Eye Necklace, Jeweler, 3 cha, 1.5pp (.5)
Silk Evening Tunic, Qeynos, 5 cha, 5pp (1)
Crude Stein, Feerrott, 15 cha, 30pp (2)
Electrum Cats Eye Bracelet, Jeweler, 4 cha, 8pp (2)
Golden Cats Eye Bracelet, Jeweler, 7 cha, 26pp (4)
Splitpaw Tooth Necklace, SK/Paw, 5 cha, 25pp (5)
Opalline Earring, Unrest, 5 cha, 30pp (6)
Electrum Star Ruby Ring, Jeweler, 7 cha, 128pp (18)

That is more than enough gear to get anyone with a base charisma of 40 to 103 for optimal prices, so anyone can leave out the expensive or harder to get gear.
As an example of what this will do, if you fletch from 1 to 100 skill selling arrows back to the vendor, you will spend approximately DOUBLE the money at 60 charisma that you would at 103.

PS: If you are going to kill my karma, at least post a reply saying what you didnt like.