Fish Food

[Myrcaus]

Hey kids. I've largely ignored fishing and cooking in the expansion since I had so many other things to do, but now that things have settled into faction work and 5/10man stuff, I turned my baleful eye to these more menial pursuits.

I instantly discovered my favorite food in the whole game:

Blackened Sporefish
Requires Level 55
Use: Restores 4320 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 20 Stamina and 8 Mana every 5 seconds for 30 min.

To me, there's no reason any caster should be using any other +sta food. The mana regen is a straight-up bonus compared to any other HP food. The fish are caught in Zangarmarsh, don't seem to be too hard to catch; I'm getting along fine with 307 skill (+25 / +75).

Other fishies I plan to catch make these nice foods:

Poached Bluefish
Requires Level 55
Use: Restores 7500 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 23 Spell Damage and 20 Spirit for 30 min.

Grilled Mudfish
Requires Level 55
Use: Restores 7500 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 20 Agility and Spirit for 30 min.

Golden Fish Sticks
Requires Level 55
Use: Restores 7500 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and increase healing done by 44 and Spirit by 20 for 30 min.

And, of course, everyone's favorite RaidSnack:

Spicy Crawdad
Requires Level 55
Use: Restores 7500 health over 30 sec. Must remain seated while eating. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 30 Stamina and 20 Spirit for 30 min.

Yes, there are other foods that can give most of these effects, but until 2.1 the only source for 30 sta food is fishing, and I don't see any other way to get 20 sta and 8/5 mana than the Sporefish. So, break out your poles! You might just snag a world drop, too. =)

[Maelc]

As Shiz would say, YAR! I bought some of the Grilled Mudfish before hitting the heroic last night. Much cheaper than pots and nearly as effective.

[Myrcaus]

Well Fed buffs stack with potion buffs, for those really challenging fights. =)

[Potpie]

Well Fed buffs stack with potion buffs, for those really challenging fights. =)

Hell yah - I'm using Well Fed food & pots alllll the time. ;)

[Shizma]

Add an elixer and you have d Uber buffs, +20 stam, +15 all stats, and +potion. How can you beat that?

Well... other than getting one-shotted by a walking mushroom?

[Myrcaus]

Well, the potions we refer to are actually elixirs in most cases. You can stack certain of those, though, as well.

For example, Adept's Elixir (24 +dmg and + spell crit) stacks with Elixir of Greater Firepower (+firedmg). The general rule is you can stack any specific effect with any non-overlapping effect. So, you can add +dmg and +firedmg, and +sta and +HP, but generally not +sta and +sta/str.

Next patch, elixirs will be put into different categories (Battle and Guardian), to further muddy the waters. They are all still going to be on either the buff cooldown or combat cooldown, though, so far as I can tell.

[Potpie]

1 Battle effect at a time
1 Guardian effect at a time

1 Flask counts as both a Battle and a Guardian

Right now I can stack [item]Adept's Elixir[/item] and [item]Greater Arcane Elixir[/item].

I will not be able to do that after they implement the Battle/Guardian change.

[Shizma]

I had read that with respect to flasks and elixers, but not potions and buff food. Are my [item]Buzzard Bites[/item] to be in the same class as a stam pot? Will we not be able to use ANY potions/elixers/buff food if we use a flask?

[Potpie]

Battle / Guardian only applies to Elixirs and Flasks.

[Potpie]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

Alchemy

• The chance of a discovery occurring while making potions has been substantially increased.
• Elixirs now stack in two categories, Battle (Offensive) and Guardian (Defensive) Elixirs. You can only have one of each type of Elixir up at a time. As a result Elixirs now stack with class abilities such as Arcane Intellect.
• Elixirs now stack to 20.
• Four new defensive elixirs have been added. Two are on trainers, one is in Halaa and one is in Cenarion Expedition.
• Flask of Petrification can no longer be turned off during its duration, but it now will clear all threat from all monsters for the duration of the effect. Though monsters may reacquire you after the effect ends.
• Cooldown time on Earthstorm and Skyfire Diamond transmutes has been reduced to 1 day.
• Invulnerability potions now stop the first 120 damage per hit for 8 seconds, rather than making the imbiber physically immune.
• The major protection potions made by Alchemy now require more Mana Thistle and vials, but create 5 potions instead of just one.
• Fel Strength elixirs now work correctly with elixir mastery.
• Elemental Absorption potions now have a 2 minute duration rather than the 60 min duration they used to have.
• Alchemy transmute of Heart of Fire to Elemental Fire changed to 15 minute cooldown.
• Reagent costs and potency of all flasks has been reduced.
• The cost of Imbued Vials has been reduced.
• The chance to find a Fel Lotus while picking an herb has been increased.
• Juju Chill and Juju Ember are now considered Guardian Elixirs and do not stack with other resistance buffs.
• Juju Flurry is now considered a Battle Elixir and has been converted from haste to haste rating.
• Ground Scorpok Assay,Juju Might,Juju Power, Lung Juice Cocktail, and R.O.I.D.S are now considered Battle Elixirs.
• Crystal Force, Crystal Ward,Gizzard Gum, Infallible Mind,Juju Escape, Juju Guile, Sheen of Zanza and Swiftness of Zanza are all now considered Guardian Elixirs.
• Sheen of Zanza is now considered a Guardian Elixir. Stamina and Spirit bonuses have been reduced to 25.
• Elixir of Fortitude now correctly displays its name in its buff tooltip.
• The Alchemist's Stone bonus now works on potions that restore both health and mana.
• Super Mana Potions now require 2 Dreaming Glory instead of 2 Netherbloom to create.
• Super Healing Potions now require 2 Netherbloom instead of 2 Dreaming Glory to create.
• Reduced the number of Stonescale Oil required to make Greater Stoneshield Potions.