Learn Baking

Baking produces food items that grant stat buffs when carried as the first food item in your inventory. Player-made food offers longer durations and better stats than anything you can buy from a vendor. Every class can bake, and the ingredients are among the most accessible of any tradeskill.

Overview

At its core, baking is straightforward: combine ingredients in a mixing bowl or oven and produce food. The complexity comes from the sheer number of recipes — 831 total — and the ingredient sourcing, which ranges from vendor-bought supplies to foraged components to dropped loot.

Later expansions added stat food that provides meaningful combat benefits, making Baking one of the more practically useful tradeskills for self-sufficiency.

Containers & Equipment

Baking uses more container types than most tradeskills. Different recipe categories require different containers.

Primary Containers

Supplementary Tools

Baking has a wide array of specialized tools depending on the recipe:

• Bread tins, cake rounds, pie tins, casserole dishes, muffin tins
• Pots, skillets, skewers
• Cutting tools
• Cookie cutters (animal shapes, race-specific shapes)

These are mostly purchased from baking supply vendors in tradeskill-heavy zones.

Skill Modifiers

What You Can Make

• Stat food — HP, mana, STR, STA, AGI, and other stat-boosting food items
• Buff food — haste food, regen food, and resist food from later expansions
• Basic food — simple meals for sustenance (less useful but good for skilling up)
• Baked goods — bread, cakes, pies, cookies, and other pastries
• Cultural foods — race-specific recipes with unique effects
• Quest items — certain quest lines require baked components

Getting Started

Freebie Quests (Skill 0–54)

Two paths to skill 54 at no cost:

Crescent Reach — Baker Sanura, second floor of the main building, offers four tasks that provide all materials.

Abysmal Sea — Freebie and collect quest versions available.

Trophy Quest (Skill 54+)

At skill 54, visit Event Coordinator Baublie Diggs in West Freeport for the Beginner Baking Trophy. This evolving item increases your skill modifier as you advance.

Skill-Up Path Overview

Reaching 350

The 301–350 grind requires learning 698 of 831 total baking recipes through the recipe discovery system. This is one of the larger recipe pools among tradeskills — plan for a significant ingredient investment.

Ingredient Sourcing

Baking ingredients come from three main sources:

• Vendors — flour, sugar, milk, eggs, spices, and other staples
• Foraging — many recipes require foraged ingredients (berries, vegetables, roots)
• Drops — some expansion-specific recipes use dropped components

Key Recipes

Focus on recipes that produce usable stat food — these sell well and are worth making even beyond the skill-up value:

• Misty Thicket Picnic — classic mid-range stat food
• Halas 10lb Meat Pie — staple leveling recipe
• Burnt food — failed combines sometimes produce burnt items that vendor for a small return
• Expansion-specific stat food — each expansion tier adds new best-in-slot food

Consult the Quick Trivial List for the optimal skill-up path at each tier.

Related Guides

• Tradeskill Beginner's Guide — fundamentals before your first combine
• Quick Trivial List — recipe-by-recipe skill-up reference
• Guide to Mastery I: Baking — detailed leveling path (55–300)
• Skilling Up 301–350: The Basics — recipe discovery explained