I went to cook up some food I had in the bank and noticed that I was cooking at what seemed amazing speed. The usual languid progress bar was zipping along with almost indecent haste.
Well, there was a patch yesterday, so I checked the release notes to see if they had “dumbed down” cooking or anything.
But no, while Onyxia is now back as a level 80 raid (with 10 and 25 person versions), cooking was left untouched.
Then I happened to mouse over my chef’s hat, which I was still wearing from yesterday’s screen shot, and I noticed that it had an effect when worn.
It does indeed allow you to cook faster. Very fast indeed. Nice to see that a fluff item has even a minor benefit.
The chefs in my guild love their hat.
I’m not sure if I’m buying it myself – I already have trouble keeping track of hats in my bag. (Fishing hat, drinking hat, they start to add up.)
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They should had a hat slot like they did for keys. :-)
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I’m working my way back up to get this. I’ve got all the recipes available and I’ve burned several cooking awards for spices, but now I’m on a mission.
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I need a special hat storage device. I have a couple of nifty weapons and shields I’ve hung onto, but I have over a dozen hats I’ve held onto.
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It would have been cool if the hat had a chance to proc more food instead of just creating it faster.
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Yeah, chef’s hat was buffed with 3.2 … still working on getting mine.
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It should also let you make camp fires faster, but it only works on actual cooking, which is a bummer. I have actually tanked the final boss in Heroic Old Kingdom with my chef hat on, by mistake of course, but it still ruled. Course, I didn’t get an achievement for it, which is the real bummer.
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