This recipe is learned from the cooking trainer. It's pretty clear it's one of the two "gap filler" level up xpac recipes. You know this if you do any profession at all. The xpac always gives you new "low" level recipes to skill up that start before the previous cap and take you a few points into the new skills.

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=88015#taught-by-npc


Except... nobody can find the ingredients (which appear to be vendor bought items). So you have a gap filler easy level up recipe that can't be crafted. This seems possibly a bit sloppy to me.

If anyone has any information to show me how dumb I am, and exactly where these can be found, I will be more than happy to hear it. Thanks!

--Sly

 

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You mean Blizzard and beta testers missed something in the millions of things they added in the expansion?

How shameful.

 

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I honestly don't know. I mean... truly I don't. This seems like something that would be near impossible to just "miss". There are 2 progression gap cooking recipes. The person / team in charge of cooking just "forgot" to add the ingredients for 1 of the 2 recipes? I can't quite believe that, but it sure seems like it.

--Sly

 

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You mean like how the Earthen Ring quests in Vash'jir weren't awarding rep with Earthen Ring? Like, something that _any_ tester playing through the quest lines once should have caught? Yeah, I agree. Shameful.

In QA parlance, this is called an escape due to incomplete test procedures or a conscious decision not to exercise this part of the code manually. Granted, the 80/20 rule applies to Blizzard as well us mere mortals but you'd think they would have at least had testers level up all skills, run through all the quest chains, etc. a few times before releasing it. There's a difference between an edge case bug and one that anyone playing through normally should have caught.

 

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Ah the fanbois are out in force again. Blizzard can do no wrong.

BTW, this is something that could be tested and caught without actual human play testers, by mining and cross referencing their own data.

But that would be work.

 

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i tried google'ing your components, but was unable to find what you already know...no one knows where they can be found.

 

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Where did I say they did no wrong? If you expect perfection in an expansion the size and scope of Cataclysm (or any of the other expansions) then it is you that has the problem.

By all means go play one of the other MMOs that do everything perfect and that are better games than WoW.

Ohh wait there aren't any.

 

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From what I learned, the components are missing in the game and is a known issue on the forums.


So, indirectly, yes. Blizzard did forget.

 

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id just chalk it up that the vendors are waiting on their havests to come in and be complete.

 

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