Off topic, is it just me, or are we spellcasters getting less refined in our dietary tastes? Those tanks are chowing down on Blackbelly Sushi, and we're munching on Severed Sagefish Heads? Is this some attempt by the caster community to appear more earthy and vital? Either way, I'm reminded of Gollum's 'raw and wriggling' speech in The Two Towers. Even if we're supposed to balance it with mastery and spell hit rating, it is still my favorite stat because it changes the way I push my spell buttons. It may be a bit expensive or laborious, and I wouldn't advise using it for progression raiding, but haste is the only stat that really changes the way we play. If you're anything like me, by the time you've started gearing up in heroics, you'll be feeling starved of haste it only gets harder the better your gear gets and the closer you get to the hit cap. In terms of sheer fun factor, I also intend to keep some Basilisk Liverdog in my raid bag. I advise keeping a stack of both intellect and spirit food in your bags, for those awkward moments when you're the only person who died. Spirit is a very strong stat when facing a boss, but for raid trash and heroics, it isn't much help. Intellect is our foundation stat, feeding into spellpower, mana pool size, crit and even mana regen via Rolling Thunder, so Pickled Guppy or Severed Sagefish Head are very obvious choices for a quick snack between wipes. Salted Eye, 60 mastery rating, or Lavascale Minestrone, 90 mastery rating.Broiled Mountain Trout, 60 haste rating, or Basilisk Liverdog, 90 haste rating.Whitecrest Gumbo, 60 spirit, or Delicious Sagefish Tail, 90 spirit.Pickled Guppy, 60 intellect, or Severed Sagefish Head, 90 intellect.The elemental shaman top choices are as follows: Even the cheaper version is currently obtained via a guild achievement! It won't take organized guilds long to snag the recipes, but in the meantime many of us will be expected to supply our own food, even if eager cooks are willing to slap down an old-fashioned Fish Feast to keep us fed. The new raid munchies, Seafood Magnifique Feast, are not going to be immediately available, as the recipe is obtained via guild achievements. What's the point, if your alt already has fishing and someone else brings all the Fish Feast to the raids? I don't know about you, but it feels like Wrath raiding has definitely made many raiders rather lazy when it comes to maintaining and using secondary skills. Ensuring you have the right consumables can seem a bit stressful the first couple of times, but don't worry - learn to love those snacks and light refreshments for the DPS candy they are.

If you're new to raiding and Cataclysm has drawn you in, consumables will be a big help to your initial raiding experience. In Wrath, my bags were well stocked with raid consumables by the time I reached 80, allowing me to get on with gearing, gemming, enchanting, and getting mixed up in that Sons of Hodir business.Д¬onsumables make up a larger proportion of our total stats at the start of an expansion and thus have a bigger impact on the success of early raids in any expansion. Stocking up a raid bag on the way to level 85 is an good way to ease the occasional pains of levelling and can save time and effort later on. Then Joe decided to cover alchemy consumables for restoration shaman this week, and my thoughts immediately turned to buff food, because quality bread and butter would considerably buff my happiness stat right now.Д¬onsumables aren't likely to be the first thing on the minds of many adventurers, as they traverse the depths of Vashj'ir, but I think it is well worth have a look at the choices we'll have along the way and the materials that are worth holding on to. I've been watching The Great British Bakeoff, and they recently did a bread-making episode, so I'm getting a little fixated on the idea of some proper bread and butter. Please pardon me if I am a little food-obsessed this week.

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