Best WoW Forever Food Buffs

Every Nutritious buff food in WoW Forever works the same way: eat for at least 10 seconds and you are Well Fed for 15 minutes. You can only have one Well Fed food buff at a time, so pick the one that fits your role.

Eat for the stat your class already stacks. When two dishes give the same bonus, cook whichever one your ingredients allow.

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  Strength melee (Warriors, Paladins and Enhancement Shamans)

  Smoked Desert Dumplings or Steaming Stag Steak for +20 Strength. Mightfish Steak gives a flat +40 attack power instead if that is what you have in your bags.

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  Agility melee (Rogues and Feral Druids)

  Swiftstrike Steak or Flank au Poivre for +20 Agility. Poached Sunscale Salmon gives +40 attack power and only needs level 35.

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  Hunters

  Swiftstrike Steak or Flank au Poivre for +20 Agility, the same as Agility melee. Poached Sunscale Salmon gives +40 attack power to ranged attacks too and only needs level 35.

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  Crit for any damage dealer

  Grilled Squid and Hot Smoked Bass add +1% critical strike chance, which helps melee, Hunters and casters alike.

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  Casters

  Lobster Stew or Baked Salmon for +28 spell damage. Nightfin Soup gives +22 and you can eat it from level 35. Need more mana instead? Soaring Pamplona gives +20 Intellect.

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  Healers

  Sage's Tea for +44 healing. If you run out of mana before the fight ends, Wicked Smoothie for +20 Spirit or Soaring Pamplona for +20 Intellect does more for you.

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  Tanks and PvP

  Savory Turtle Stew for +20 Stamina, or Plated Armorfish for +150 armor on a tank. Monster Omelet gives +15 Stamina and can be eaten from level 35. Stamina food is the safe pick for battlegrounds.

WoW Forever food options by stat

Buff	Effect	Use level	Best for
Smoked Desert Dumplings	Effect +20 Strength	Use level Level 45	Best for Strength meleeTanks
Steaming Stag Steak	Effect +20 Strength	Use level Level 45	Best for Strength meleeTanks
Swiftstrike Steak	Effect +20 Agility	Use level Level 45	Best for Agility meleeHunters
Flank au Poivre	Effect +20 Agility	Use level Level 45	Best for Agility meleeHunters
Mightfish Steak	Effect +40 attack power	Use level Level 45	Best for MeleeHunters
Poached Sunscale Salmon	Effect +40 attack power	Use level Level 35	Best for MeleeHunters
Grilled Squid	Effect +1% critical strike chance	Use level Level 35	Best for MeleeHuntersCasters
Hot Smoked Bass	Effect +1% critical strike chance	Use level Level 35	Best for MeleeHuntersCasters
Lobster Stew	Effect +28 spell damage	Use level Level 45	Best for Casters
Baked Salmon	Effect +28 spell damage	Use level Level 45	Best for Casters
Nightfin Soup	Effect +22 spell damage	Use level Level 35	Best for Casters
Sage's Tea	Effect +44 healing	Use level Level 45	Best for Healers
Soaring Pamplona	Effect +20 Intellect	Use level Level 45	Best for CastersHealers
Wicked Smoothie	Effect +20 Spirit	Use level Level 45	Best for Healers
Savory Turtle Stew	Effect +20 Stamina	Use level Level 45	Best for TanksPvP
Plated Armorfish	Effect +150 armor	Use level Level 35	Best for Tanks

• Best consumables by roleFlasks, elixirs and potions to use alongside your food
• WoW Forever buff stack calculatorSee your food in a full buff stack

One Well Fed food counts at a time. Each row says what food stacks with and how sure that rule is.

Buff type	At once	Stacks with	Does not stack with	Confirmed
Well Fed food The +5% kill XP comes with Nutritious food, so a second dish cannot add it again.	At once 1 Well Fed buff	Stacks with Your flask and elixirs	Does not stack with A second Well Fed dish: it replaces the first	Confirmed Confirmed
Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops It gives Increased Stamina, not Well Fed. How to get it in WoW Forever is not confirmed.	At once	Stacks with Not known whether it stacks with a Well Fed food	Does not stack with	Confirmed Not known

Every other buff type, from class buffs to world buffs, is in the full stacking table.

Eat food marked Nutritious for at least 10 seconds to gain +5% experience from kills for 15 minutes. It also gives the dish's stat bonus. Not confirmed means Blizzard has not said yet, so do not plan around it.

The experience food buff

Buff	Effect	Lasts	Works in
Well Fed (Nutritious food)	Effect +5% experience from kills	Lasts 15 min	Works in Open world: works Dungeons: works Raids: not confirmed Battlegrounds: not confirmed

• The bonus is for experience from kills only. Quest turn-ins pay the same with or without it.
• Dying removes Well Fed, so eat again after a wipe.
• At level 60 the experience bonus does nothing, because you no longer gain experience. From then on you eat for stats only.
• Keep the food bonus active alongside rested XP and the Cozy Sleeping Bag while questing. Rested XP doubles kill experience while its pool lasts. Rest in the bag for its experience bonus.

Food gets stronger as you level. Swap to a better dish each time a new one opens up:

• From level 1: Roasted Boar Meat (+1 Strength), Spiced Wolf Meat (+1 Agility) or Herb Baked Egg (+1 Stamina).
• From level 5: Dry Pork Ribs (+3 Strength), Coyote Steak (+3 Agility), Redridge Goulash (+3 Intellect) or Longjaw Mud Snapper (+10 attack power).
• From level 15: Lean Venison (+5 Strength), Lean Wolf Steak (+5 Agility), Curiously Tasty Omelet (+5 Stamina) or Roast Raptor (+5 Intellect).
• From level 25: Hot Wolf Ribs (+10 Agility), Heavy Kodo Stew (+10 Stamina), Spiced Chili Crab (+10 Intellect) or Mithril Head Trout (+20 attack power).
• From level 35: Savory Stag Sliders (+15 Strength), Tender Wolf Steak (+15 Agility), Monster Omelet (+15 Stamina), Runn Tum Tuber Surprise (+15 Intellect) or Poached Sunscale Salmon (+40 attack power).
• From level 45: you can eat the dishes recommended for level 60 in the food table above.

• WoW Forever XP buffsEvery XP boost and the fastest leveling stack
• Leveling guideThe route from 1 to 60

All of the best buff food is made with Cooking. Level it yourself, or buy the finished dishes from a player who has.

• Smoked Desert Dumplings: Sandworm Meat and Soothing Spices.
• Steaming Stag Steak: 3 Stag Meat and 4 Soothing Spices.
• Swiftstrike Steak: 3 Tiger Meat and 2 Soothing Spices.
• Flank au Poivre: 3 Red Wolf Meat and 3 Soothing Spices.
• Savory Turtle Stew: 3 Turtle Meat and 3 Soothing Spices.
• Soaring Pamplona: 3 Buzzard Wing and 3 Soothing Spices.
• Sage's Tea: Morning Glory Dew and 2 Mountain Silversage.
• Wicked Smoothie: Morning Glory Dew, 4 Soothing Spices and a Wicked Claw.
• Lobster Stew: a Darkclaw Lobster and Refreshing Spring Water.
• Baked Salmon: Raw Whitescale Salmon and Soothing Spices.
• Mightfish Steak: Large Raw Mightfish, Hot Spices and Soothing Spices.
• Poached Sunscale Salmon: Raw Sunscale Salmon.
• Grilled Squid: Raw Winter Squid and Soothing Spices.
• Hot Smoked Bass: Raw Summer Bass and 2 Hot Spices.
• Nightfin Soup: Raw Nightfin Snapper and Refreshing Spring Water.
• Plated Armorfish: Raw Plated Armorfish and Soothing Spices.

The fish dishes need fish you catch, so Fishing and Cooking level well together. The meat dishes use drops from beasts you kill anyway, and the Cooking guide shows where to train and where to buy recipes.

• Cooking leveling guideCooking 1 to 300, trainers and recipes
• Fishing leveling guideWhere to catch the fish for the fish dishes

Food in WoW Forever is not the same as in the original game. The Nutritious system is new, several dishes changed, and some old favourites are still unconfirmed.

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  New level 45 dishes

  Steaming Stag Steak, Swiftstrike Steak, Flank au Poivre, Savory Turtle Stew, Soaring Pamplona, Wicked Smoothie and Sage's Tea are new in WoW Forever.

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  Changed dishes

  Nightfin Soup now gives spell damage instead of mana regeneration, and Grilled Squid now gives critical strike chance instead of Agility. Plated Armorfish is new and gives armor.

The dishes in the table below use the old food buff, which gives no experience bonus. How to get them in WoW Forever is not confirmed. Plan around the Nutritious dishes above.

Stronger foods that are not confirmed in WoW Forever yet

Buff	Effect	Status
Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops	Effect +25 Stamina	Status Not confirmed Recipe source not confirmed yet
Prowler Steak	Effect +25 Strength and +10 Stamina	Status Not confirmed
Filet o' Flank	Effect +25 Agility and +10 Stamina	Status Not confirmed
Sunrise Omelette	Effect +25 spell damage, +10 Stamina and +55 healing	Status Not confirmed

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