An Overview of Foods that Grant Buffs to Attack Power, Strength, Agility, Healing, and Spell Damage
Food buffs in World of Warcraft can do one of two things - boost your stamina or boost your damage. Tanks will generally choose the stamina buff over any other kind. Everyone else will opt for food that can give you bonuses to damage or healing.There are a number of different buffs including +23 Spell Damage, +44 Healing, +40 Attack Power, +20 Agility, and +20 Strength. Each buff also gives you +20 Spirit, although this is of little consequence except for healers.
Spell Casters
The +23 Spell Damage buff is the normal choice for casting classes. You can obtain this buff from three different foods.
- Blackened Basilisk
- Poached Bluefish
- Crunchy Serpent
I chew through a lot of this stuff as a mage, and I find the Blackened Basilisk to be the easiest to farm by far. Any Basilisks in Outland have a chance to drop this meat, but I always farm the ones in Terokkar Forest.
The green Basilisks are densely populated along the river banks, so I travel up and down the river killing them. They are level 63 and they die in a couple hits. They have a fairly good drop rate, and I can gather a stack in 10-15 minutes.
If you like to fish, you can catch the Icefin Bluefish in Nagrand and cook it into the Poached Bluefish. Crunchy Serpent is made from Serpent Flesh, which you can get from the flying serpents in eastern Blade's Edge Mountain.
Healers
The +44 Healing buff can only be obtained from one food and it is one of the best reasons to learn how to fish. Golden Fish sticks, made from Golden Dartar, is the only way to get a + Healing buff from food.
Once you have a fairly high fishing skill (400+), you can find Golden Dartar in Terokkar Forest. The most efficient way is to fish any open water in Terokkar Forest. You'll get about 20% Golden Dartar, according to El's Extreme Anglin' Guide, so you can expect to catch a stack or two in an hour. You could also fish in schools of Dartar, but the time spent looking for them will make it less efficient then fishing open water.
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