Chef's Hat - Blue Tracker

#0 - March 31, 2009, 5:27 p.m.

The Chef's Hat is nice. However at 100 Cooking Awards to purchase, it needs something more or else the cost should be lowered. 100 Cooking Awards can be used to purchase 1000 Spices. Spices on my server go for 20 to 30g per stack of 10 Spices. At an average of 25g per 10 Spices on the AH, that equates the cost of the hat to 2500g. Pricey Chef's Hat for a purely vanity item.

Having played WoW since 'vanilla' times, I've found a big problem with WotLK: There's little to nothing to work towards once you've been raiding/playing for a couple months. The Auction House has no rare recipes/plans, there are no random world drops that I can watch out for, I'm at a dead end. I love this game, but I'm bored to tears until 3.1 hits live.

My suggestion on the hat. Add in a plus to cooking skill (10 or 20 skill points), and then create a new tier of recipes that will require the additional points (at max cooking skill) to create. This would add value to collecting the Chef's Hat as a goal, it would give create a new goal to work towards in collecting the next tier of recipes, and it would add further value to hardcore chefs (doesn't need to be huge value increases, just something....).

Bornakk

#35 - March 31, 2009, 7:22 p.m.

You must work hard day and night to earn the right to be a chef. Not only must you work for it, it must be something you have a real passion for and that... that is why it costs so much, to show you have a true passion to be a chef.

Bornakk

#56 - March 31, 2009, 7:38 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Comedy aside, I don't see why it's necessary to require an amount of awards that would only realistically take a fraction of a year to obtain.

What about new chefs who haven't been stockpiling these awards for months already?

Cooking daily quests don't go away as The Rokk can attest to. You have plenty of time to stockpile if you desire them.

Bornakk

#75 - March 31, 2009, 7:52 p.m.

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How exactly does sitting around piling up cooking awards instead of using them to buy spices and actually cook a show of "passion"?

You are so in control of your focus and dedication you can put off buying spices for a long enough time to earn the hat and the recognition that comes with it.... or it's really a dump that players were talking about for awhile for when you continue to do the cooking daily on a regular basis and have nothing else to spend the cooking awards on.

Bornakk

#90 - March 31, 2009, 8:05 p.m.

Q u o t e:
It's true we wanted a dump, but we wanted the dump to be something useful, something we can do more with than take pics with.

I wanted a chef hat for a while, but i wanted it to do something.

Make another chef hat if you really want to keep this one in. Make another that gives some nice benefit and make the cost even higher. 200 awards. 300 awards. 365 awards. It doesn't matter. Just make it do something *useful*.

Just looking like a chef is useful... to some of us... :(

Bornakk

#97 - March 31, 2009, 8:10 p.m.

Q u o t e:

So basically you equate being passionate about cooking with foregoing it for a garment that might make people think you're passionate about cooking? My Cenarion War Hippogryph can see the holes in that story, and it can't even walk.

I am pretty sure it was your hippogryph that just attacked me and put the holes in my hat/story. I have been sabotaged!

Q u o t e:

I'm imagining your avatar with a chef hat now.

...That shouldn't be cute, but it is. >>

/flex

Bornakk

#136 - March 31, 2009, 9:23 p.m.

Q u o t e:

I didn't want a badge dump, I was happy with buying spices after finishing the Chef title.

Some players did though as they continue to do the daily quest and pile up the cooking awards and don't buy many spices (if any).