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Baking Guide – 2006
This is a guide to building up the tradeskill of baking as cheaply and quickly as possible. It is best suited to foraging classes as many of the ingredients for the higher level recipes are foraged. You can still follow this guide if you are not a foraging class but it may cost you more as you will have to buy the ingredients in the Bazaar. This is not the only way to go, there are dozens of recipes to choose from, but I found this was the one with the least amount of hassle. It worked for me and I’m passing it on in the hope it can help others.
The cheapest way to start is to wait until you are level 15, do the Adventurers Stone quest – which you will be alerted to automatically when you reach level 15 – then go to Abysmal Sea using the Wayfarers Magus’s. In Abysmal Sea, seek out Ordin Wheasly and hail him to pick up the quest to help him bake. This allows you to bring your baking skill up to level 54 for free. This is quite tedious as you have to make many more items at each trivial level before you get the next step but it is free so be thankful!
All items that you can make in Everquest using tradeskills have a trivial value. What does trivial mean? This is the level at which the item becomes trivial for you to make, meaning that when you have achieved this level, you will get a message telling you that you can no longer advance your baking skills by making this item. Once you reach that level, you need to move on to something of a higher trivial level to continue advancing your skills. Conversely, if something you want to make has a trivial level below your current skill level, you will have a better chance of making the item without failing. It’s an occupational hazard in tradeskills that some of your combines will fail. Stick with it though.
A note about the baking window – you can skip this part if you are experienced in using tradeskills containers. When you click on the brew barrel, the baking window will open. When you first start, you may not have any recipes in there. To find out, type the thing you’ve been asked to make into the search box and click search. If nothing comes up, click the experiment box above the ingredients grid. This will allow you to put the items you are combining into the grid. Press combine. If you are lucky, you will find the item you’ve made on your cursor. You will also be told that you have learned a new recipe. Close the baking window and click on the brew barrel again. Now type in the name of the thing you have just made and press search. You will see it come up in the window with the level it trivials at.
The best part is that you will see the ingredients you are holding in your inventory appear in the window. The items must be on your character, it won’t work if they are in the bank! If you have the item, it will show green but if you are missing something, it will be red. If you have all the items, click combine and off you go. This is a huge time saver as you don’t have to pick up each item and put it into the container individually.
When you are experimenting with a new recipe, you may not get a successful combine on your first attempt. If this happens, keep putting the ingredients into the experiment window until you do.
Now, before continuing, if you have Prophesy of Ro expansion, pop to West Freeport and outside in the newbie killing zone is Event Coordinator Baublie Diggs. She has a quest for tradeskills (Beginner Brewer Test) which is worth checking out. Hail her to begin. You are given a bunch of things to make and return to Judge Marion Teld'Mare who stands next to her. A word of caution here. Be very careful when you’ve made the things she’s asked for that you don’t eat them! I learned this the hard way so either make sure you have lots of other food items above your crafted items in your inventory or put them in the bank as soon as you make them. Carrying them around with you is asking for trouble!
Once you’ve handed them all in, you get a Beginner Brewer Trophy which evolves with you as you build your skills. It gives you a basic one percent skill modifier when you first get it but this will get higher as long as you put it in your primary or secondary slot when baking. You can also summon an Artisan Satchel which is a large, weight reduced bag. It’s temporary but this can be useful if you get encumbered easily. Also, when you take these bags to Jolum in the Bazaar, you get an Essence, and can combine the Essence in a distillery or brew barrel to get a permanent weight-reducing bag specific to baking. You can only have one of these at a time but they can be very useful.
Now head back to Abysmal Sea to make Fish Fillets which trivial at 82. If you have developed your fishing skills, you’ll probably have plenty of fresh fish. Otherwise, you can buy fresh fish from Ordin Wheasly or Dray Cuves in the Baking area. Combine these with a jug of sauces, also sold by Ordin Wheasly to make Fish Fillets. Combine the fish and sauce in the oven to make Fish Fillets. Keep any leftover fish and sell the fish fillets back to the vendors. You won’t make any money on this.
Once you reach 82 you can switch to making Fish Rolls which trivial at 135. For these you will need Fresh Fish and Batwings. You can buy batwings from the following merchants in Abysmal Sea: Yoen Ormard, Tasec Dreeng or Lita Hegeway who are all in the hold. Combine the fish and batwings in the oven to make Fish Rolls. You may find that you can sell Fish Rolls in the bazaar as this is classed as a banquet food which means it lasts longer than normal food. You can also sell it back to vendors. Sell any leftover batwings and fish.
The next step is to make cragbeast or hynid produce which will take you all the way to trivial level 247. Cragbeast and hynid meat is foraged in Natimbi so if you are a foraging class, you can get this very easily. You need to be a bit careful in Natimbi as there are some high level creatures there. I stayed close to the Wayfarer’s Magus and was ready to ask for a port out if necessary but I got the meat very easily. You can also forage tuna here. If you are not a foraging class, scour the vendors as anyone who has been foraging in this area may have sold the meat to them. I found that it was very easy to get cragbeast and hynid mead from the vendors in Nedaria and sometimes in the Abysmal Sea. This holds unless there is a patch in which case all the vendors’ inventories are reset back to the basic.
Cragbeast and hynid meat comes in various amounts from 1lb to 15lb’s each. You need to break anything larger than 1lb down into 1lb lumps by putting them into a mixing bowl which you can buy from Ordin Wheasly in Abysmal Sea. Then when you have a bunch of 1lb meat, combine this in a mixing bowl to get cragbeast or hynid meat. This is then usable in the recipe’s.
The Beer Braising Sauce is made with brewing. It trivials at 90 and requires the following ingredients, all of which can be bought in Abysmal Sea from the vendors in the baking/brewing room; cup of sugar, ground pepper, red wine, short beer, vinegar. Combine these in the brew barrel to make the sauce. As you will be using this sauce up to trivial level 247, it’s worth bringing up your brewing skill to this level. You’ll be making lots of this sauce.
Next combine the sauce and the meat in a mixing bowl to make beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat.
To make Beer-braised Cragbeast or Hynid Stew which trivials at 153, combine the beer-braised meat in an oven with a pot, vegetables and a water flask. Pots are made with pottery or smithing with a trivial of around 50 so you could do the pottery or smithing quest in Abysmal Sea to bring your skill up for free. You can also buy pots in the Bazaar. You only need one pot as it is returned following each combine, whether it’s successful or not.
Vegetables are foraged or can be made by combining carrot, lettuce and turnip in a mixing bowl. These ingredients are available from the baking vendors in Abysmal Sea. Water flasks are also readily available to buy.
Once you reach 153 save any beer-braised meat or beer-braising sauce as you will need these next. As the beer-braised stew is a food that raises statistics, this may sell well in the Bazaar so it’s worth looking at what it might fetch on your server. Alternatively, you can sell it to vendors. If you’ve managed to forage the meat, you might find you make a profit on this food.
The next thing to make is beer-braised cragbeast or hynid jerky which becomes trivial at 187. For this, you need the beer-braised meat as before, a jug of sauces (available to buy as before) and a smoker. The smoker can be made with smithing or pottery both trivial at 82. You can also buy smokers from the Bazaar. You only need one as it is returned after the combine. This is also a stat food so you should be able to sell this for a decent amount of money.
Once again, keep any beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat or the sauce. Next you will be making beer-braised cragbeast or hynid steaks which trivial at 216. You need the beer-braised meat as before, a jug of sauces and spices which can be bought from Ordin Wheasly. Combine these in an oven to make the steaks and sell them in the Bazaar or to vendors.
Keep any beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat or the sauce for the next recipe which is beer-braised cragbeast or hynid pie and trivials at 232. For this recipe, you need beer-braised meat, bottle of milk, cup of flour, cup of sugar, egg batter x 2 and vegetables.
Making the egg batter is easy. You need a bottle of milk – sold by Dray Cuves in the baking room in Abysmal Sea – and an egg of some kind. Eggs can be obtained by foraging and also by killing various creatures. You can also buy eggs in the Bazaar. Different eggs yield different amounts of egg batter. Using a snake egg and combining this with a bottle of milk will give you one egg batter. Other types of eggs yield anything up to 20. Egg batter trivials at 17 so it is well within your capabilities.
Combine the beer-braised meat, milk, flour, sugar, egg batter x 2 and vegetables in an oven. This is a stat food so you can sell it back to the vendors or in the Bazaar. Keep any beer-braised meat or sauce for the next recipe.
Beer-braised cragbeast or hynid soufflé is the next recipe and this trivials at 247. For this recipe, you need the beer-braised meat, a clump of dough, 2 x egg batter and vegetables combined in an oven.
Making the clump of dough is as easy as the egg batter. You will need a bottle of milk, a cup of flour and an egg of some kind. Once again, the yield when combined in a mixing bowl will depend on the type of egg used.
When you have achieved the 247 trivial level, you can sell all the beer-braised meat, the basic meat and sauce as well as the soufflés.
The next recipe is Cheesy Vegetable Casserole which trivials at 284. For this you will need a casserole dish, cheese, noodles and a plant shoot. Casserole dishes are made with pottery and trivial at 199. If you can’t make this yourself, you will either need to find a friendly potter to make it for you or buy one in the Bazaar. You will only need one as it is returned following the combine.
Cheese can be bought from Dray Cuves in Abysmal Sea as before. The plant shoot is foraged in Jaggedpine Forest and Nedaria’s Landing. If you are not a foraging class, you can buy these in the Bazaar but they can be quite expensive.
Noodles are easy to make. They require a cup of flour, an egg and a water flask, all combined in an oven. The yield varies depending on the type of egg you use.
Once you have all the ingredients, combine these in an oven to make Cheesy Vegetable Casserole. This has a small amount of stats and is seen as a feast food. You can sell this back to the vendors or in the Bazaar.
Once you reach level 284 you can start making omelettes. Omelette Supreme becomes trivial at 302 but it takes a couple of hard to find ingredients. Coarse salt and deep forest mushrooms are foraged in Broodlands, Lavaspinner's Lair, Stillmoon Temple and Thundercrest Isles. These are dangerous zones for low level characters but I have successfully foraged these at the zone line in Broodlands. Zone into Broodlands from Lavastorm Mountains and stay right there. The biggest danger is from people questing in the zone and running for the zone line with a mob behind them. As long as you stand right next to the zone line and keep a look out for trains, you should be OK. Foraging these items can take considerable time and you can also buy these items in the Bazaar but they are very expensive.
Omelette Supreme requires the following ingredients - Butter, Cheese, coarse salt, Deep Forest Mushroom, Egg batter, Sweet green pepper and Vegetables. Sweet green pepper is available from Ordin Wheasly in Abysmal Sea.
To make butter, you will need a bottle of milk, a dairy spoon and rennet. The milk and rennet are both available Ordin Wheasly. The dairy spoon is made using smithing and trivials at 74. They are also available to buy in the Bazaar. These are combined in a mixing bowl. The dairy spoon is returned following the combine so you only need one.
When you have all the ingredients for the omelette supreme, combine these in an oven. This is a high stat food so you can sell this in the Bazaar or back to vendors. If you’ve foraged the ingredients, you should make money on this recipe.
Once you’ve achieved level 302, you may as well aim for the highest item in the list – Misty Thicket Picnics which trivial at 335. This is a complex recipe involving many items which have sub-combines including brewed and tailored items. There is an excellent write up of how to make Misty Thicket Picnics on EQ Traders so I’m not going to repeat that here. If you’ve got all the way to this point, give yourself a big pat on the back – you have mastered the Baking tradeskill.
This is a guide to building up the tradeskill of baking as cheaply and quickly as possible. It is best suited to foraging classes as many of the ingredients for the higher level recipes are foraged. You can still follow this guide if you are not a foraging class but it may cost you more as you will have to buy the ingredients in the Bazaar. This is not the only way to go, there are dozens of recipes to choose from, but I found this was the one with the least amount of hassle. It worked for me and I’m passing it on in the hope it can help others.
The cheapest way to start is to wait until you are level 15, do the Adventurers Stone quest – which you will be alerted to automatically when you reach level 15 – then go to Abysmal Sea using the Wayfarers Magus’s. In Abysmal Sea, seek out Ordin Wheasly and hail him to pick up the quest to help him bake. This allows you to bring your baking skill up to level 54 for free. This is quite tedious as you have to make many more items at each trivial level before you get the next step but it is free so be thankful!
All items that you can make in Everquest using tradeskills have a trivial value. What does trivial mean? This is the level at which the item becomes trivial for you to make, meaning that when you have achieved this level, you will get a message telling you that you can no longer advance your baking skills by making this item. Once you reach that level, you need to move on to something of a higher trivial level to continue advancing your skills. Conversely, if something you want to make has a trivial level below your current skill level, you will have a better chance of making the item without failing. It’s an occupational hazard in tradeskills that some of your combines will fail. Stick with it though.
A note about the baking window – you can skip this part if you are experienced in using tradeskills containers. When you click on the brew barrel, the baking window will open. When you first start, you may not have any recipes in there. To find out, type the thing you’ve been asked to make into the search box and click search. If nothing comes up, click the experiment box above the ingredients grid. This will allow you to put the items you are combining into the grid. Press combine. If you are lucky, you will find the item you’ve made on your cursor. You will also be told that you have learned a new recipe. Close the baking window and click on the brew barrel again. Now type in the name of the thing you have just made and press search. You will see it come up in the window with the level it trivials at.
The best part is that you will see the ingredients you are holding in your inventory appear in the window. The items must be on your character, it won’t work if they are in the bank! If you have the item, it will show green but if you are missing something, it will be red. If you have all the items, click combine and off you go. This is a huge time saver as you don’t have to pick up each item and put it into the container individually.
When you are experimenting with a new recipe, you may not get a successful combine on your first attempt. If this happens, keep putting the ingredients into the experiment window until you do.
Now, before continuing, if you have Prophesy of Ro expansion, pop to West Freeport and outside in the newbie killing zone is Event Coordinator Baublie Diggs. She has a quest for tradeskills (Beginner Brewer Test) which is worth checking out. Hail her to begin. You are given a bunch of things to make and return to Judge Marion Teld'Mare who stands next to her. A word of caution here. Be very careful when you’ve made the things she’s asked for that you don’t eat them! I learned this the hard way so either make sure you have lots of other food items above your crafted items in your inventory or put them in the bank as soon as you make them. Carrying them around with you is asking for trouble!
Once you’ve handed them all in, you get a Beginner Brewer Trophy which evolves with you as you build your skills. It gives you a basic one percent skill modifier when you first get it but this will get higher as long as you put it in your primary or secondary slot when baking. You can also summon an Artisan Satchel which is a large, weight reduced bag. It’s temporary but this can be useful if you get encumbered easily. Also, when you take these bags to Jolum in the Bazaar, you get an Essence, and can combine the Essence in a distillery or brew barrel to get a permanent weight-reducing bag specific to baking. You can only have one of these at a time but they can be very useful.
Now head back to Abysmal Sea to make Fish Fillets which trivial at 82. If you have developed your fishing skills, you’ll probably have plenty of fresh fish. Otherwise, you can buy fresh fish from Ordin Wheasly or Dray Cuves in the Baking area. Combine these with a jug of sauces, also sold by Ordin Wheasly to make Fish Fillets. Combine the fish and sauce in the oven to make Fish Fillets. Keep any leftover fish and sell the fish fillets back to the vendors. You won’t make any money on this.
Once you reach 82 you can switch to making Fish Rolls which trivial at 135. For these you will need Fresh Fish and Batwings. You can buy batwings from the following merchants in Abysmal Sea: Yoen Ormard, Tasec Dreeng or Lita Hegeway who are all in the hold. Combine the fish and batwings in the oven to make Fish Rolls. You may find that you can sell Fish Rolls in the bazaar as this is classed as a banquet food which means it lasts longer than normal food. You can also sell it back to vendors. Sell any leftover batwings and fish.
The next step is to make cragbeast or hynid produce which will take you all the way to trivial level 247. Cragbeast and hynid meat is foraged in Natimbi so if you are a foraging class, you can get this very easily. You need to be a bit careful in Natimbi as there are some high level creatures there. I stayed close to the Wayfarer’s Magus and was ready to ask for a port out if necessary but I got the meat very easily. You can also forage tuna here. If you are not a foraging class, scour the vendors as anyone who has been foraging in this area may have sold the meat to them. I found that it was very easy to get cragbeast and hynid mead from the vendors in Nedaria and sometimes in the Abysmal Sea. This holds unless there is a patch in which case all the vendors’ inventories are reset back to the basic.
Cragbeast and hynid meat comes in various amounts from 1lb to 15lb’s each. You need to break anything larger than 1lb down into 1lb lumps by putting them into a mixing bowl which you can buy from Ordin Wheasly in Abysmal Sea. Then when you have a bunch of 1lb meat, combine this in a mixing bowl to get cragbeast or hynid meat. This is then usable in the recipe’s.
The Beer Braising Sauce is made with brewing. It trivials at 90 and requires the following ingredients, all of which can be bought in Abysmal Sea from the vendors in the baking/brewing room; cup of sugar, ground pepper, red wine, short beer, vinegar. Combine these in the brew barrel to make the sauce. As you will be using this sauce up to trivial level 247, it’s worth bringing up your brewing skill to this level. You’ll be making lots of this sauce.
Next combine the sauce and the meat in a mixing bowl to make beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat.
To make Beer-braised Cragbeast or Hynid Stew which trivials at 153, combine the beer-braised meat in an oven with a pot, vegetables and a water flask. Pots are made with pottery or smithing with a trivial of around 50 so you could do the pottery or smithing quest in Abysmal Sea to bring your skill up for free. You can also buy pots in the Bazaar. You only need one pot as it is returned following each combine, whether it’s successful or not.
Vegetables are foraged or can be made by combining carrot, lettuce and turnip in a mixing bowl. These ingredients are available from the baking vendors in Abysmal Sea. Water flasks are also readily available to buy.
Once you reach 153 save any beer-braised meat or beer-braising sauce as you will need these next. As the beer-braised stew is a food that raises statistics, this may sell well in the Bazaar so it’s worth looking at what it might fetch on your server. Alternatively, you can sell it to vendors. If you’ve managed to forage the meat, you might find you make a profit on this food.
The next thing to make is beer-braised cragbeast or hynid jerky which becomes trivial at 187. For this, you need the beer-braised meat as before, a jug of sauces (available to buy as before) and a smoker. The smoker can be made with smithing or pottery both trivial at 82. You can also buy smokers from the Bazaar. You only need one as it is returned after the combine. This is also a stat food so you should be able to sell this for a decent amount of money.
Once again, keep any beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat or the sauce. Next you will be making beer-braised cragbeast or hynid steaks which trivial at 216. You need the beer-braised meat as before, a jug of sauces and spices which can be bought from Ordin Wheasly. Combine these in an oven to make the steaks and sell them in the Bazaar or to vendors.
Keep any beer-braised cragbeast or hynid meat or the sauce for the next recipe which is beer-braised cragbeast or hynid pie and trivials at 232. For this recipe, you need beer-braised meat, bottle of milk, cup of flour, cup of sugar, egg batter x 2 and vegetables.
Making the egg batter is easy. You need a bottle of milk – sold by Dray Cuves in the baking room in Abysmal Sea – and an egg of some kind. Eggs can be obtained by foraging and also by killing various creatures. You can also buy eggs in the Bazaar. Different eggs yield different amounts of egg batter. Using a snake egg and combining this with a bottle of milk will give you one egg batter. Other types of eggs yield anything up to 20. Egg batter trivials at 17 so it is well within your capabilities.
Combine the beer-braised meat, milk, flour, sugar, egg batter x 2 and vegetables in an oven. This is a stat food so you can sell it back to the vendors or in the Bazaar. Keep any beer-braised meat or sauce for the next recipe.
Beer-braised cragbeast or hynid soufflé is the next recipe and this trivials at 247. For this recipe, you need the beer-braised meat, a clump of dough, 2 x egg batter and vegetables combined in an oven.
Making the clump of dough is as easy as the egg batter. You will need a bottle of milk, a cup of flour and an egg of some kind. Once again, the yield when combined in a mixing bowl will depend on the type of egg used.
When you have achieved the 247 trivial level, you can sell all the beer-braised meat, the basic meat and sauce as well as the soufflés.
The next recipe is Cheesy Vegetable Casserole which trivials at 284. For this you will need a casserole dish, cheese, noodles and a plant shoot. Casserole dishes are made with pottery and trivial at 199. If you can’t make this yourself, you will either need to find a friendly potter to make it for you or buy one in the Bazaar. You will only need one as it is returned following the combine.
Cheese can be bought from Dray Cuves in Abysmal Sea as before. The plant shoot is foraged in Jaggedpine Forest and Nedaria’s Landing. If you are not a foraging class, you can buy these in the Bazaar but they can be quite expensive.
Noodles are easy to make. They require a cup of flour, an egg and a water flask, all combined in an oven. The yield varies depending on the type of egg you use.
Once you have all the ingredients, combine these in an oven to make Cheesy Vegetable Casserole. This has a small amount of stats and is seen as a feast food. You can sell this back to the vendors or in the Bazaar.
Once you reach level 284 you can start making omelettes. Omelette Supreme becomes trivial at 302 but it takes a couple of hard to find ingredients. Coarse salt and deep forest mushrooms are foraged in Broodlands, Lavaspinner's Lair, Stillmoon Temple and Thundercrest Isles. These are dangerous zones for low level characters but I have successfully foraged these at the zone line in Broodlands. Zone into Broodlands from Lavastorm Mountains and stay right there. The biggest danger is from people questing in the zone and running for the zone line with a mob behind them. As long as you stand right next to the zone line and keep a look out for trains, you should be OK. Foraging these items can take considerable time and you can also buy these items in the Bazaar but they are very expensive.
Omelette Supreme requires the following ingredients - Butter, Cheese, coarse salt, Deep Forest Mushroom, Egg batter, Sweet green pepper and Vegetables. Sweet green pepper is available from Ordin Wheasly in Abysmal Sea.
To make butter, you will need a bottle of milk, a dairy spoon and rennet. The milk and rennet are both available Ordin Wheasly. The dairy spoon is made using smithing and trivials at 74. They are also available to buy in the Bazaar. These are combined in a mixing bowl. The dairy spoon is returned following the combine so you only need one.
When you have all the ingredients for the omelette supreme, combine these in an oven. This is a high stat food so you can sell this in the Bazaar or back to vendors. If you’ve foraged the ingredients, you should make money on this recipe.
Once you’ve achieved level 302, you may as well aim for the highest item in the list – Misty Thicket Picnics which trivial at 335. This is a complex recipe involving many items which have sub-combines including brewed and tailored items. There is an excellent write up of how to make Misty Thicket Picnics on EQ Traders so I’m not going to repeat that here. If you’ve got all the way to this point, give yourself a big pat on the back – you have mastered the Baking tradeskill.
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