Realm First! Grand Master Cook

Actually, no, it's a reference to the show "Iron Chef".

I was late to start this, I actually started on Sunday morning.

At that time, I was doing my forth daily quest on my mage and I was thinking,

hey, seems to me that the winner will need a 3 tokened pattern from 400-425 and then another 3 tokened pattern from 425-450.

So I figured that the champ won't be decided within 4-5 days at least.

Then I started the painful ride.

Going from 375 to about 410 is cake, then around 410-415 is painful, which I still want to save my spices, I ended up spending about 500G for the last few points by buying meats from the AH.

Meanwhile, since my thinking is to get the 425 pattern, I started the farming for mats of the Giagantic Feast, the 2 kind of fish are pretty simple, I spend half day and got about 7-8 stacks each, at that time, I was thinking, well, probably enough.

I got all my 70 alts to Dalaran on Sunday, which is 8, so basically I got around 110-130 spices everyday.

I quickily going through 415-425 using about 35 spices, and I thought everything is looking good at that time.

And becuase I planned to use the Giagantic Feast for my last 15 points or so, I had even choosen the double meat dragonfin pattern, which the food will give you 40agi/40sta, basically I was thinking that the dragonfin will not play a big role at the end.

Think about it, the dragonfin pattern started at 400 yellow, 415 green and 450 grey, I was thinking : using this pattern from 430-450 will be like hell.

While Giagantic Feast starts at 425 yellow, and at 437 turning green, I figured I will have a much better chance to use 80-100 mats for this food to get the last few points.

So, i sticked with this, and my highest level of chars in Northrend was only 72, I started my "epic farming" for the Chunk o' Mammoth and its probably one of the most painful things I have ever done. I started off at Dragonblight and later figured out there were just not enough mammoths for me to kill, then I went back to the west side, Borean Tundra, and there were much more, however, the drop rate is just horrible.

Spending about 12-14 hours and finally about 16 stacks of this, I told myself, I will never kill another mommoth again in this game.

On Monday evening, after saving about 100-120 spices for Tuesday early morning for my second pattern : Giagantic Feast, I spent the rest spices on the Dragonfin that I had, and quickily I figured out the painful truth.

That I probably lost already.

First, I used about 90 spices to get from 425 to 442 using the dragonfin,

I was stunned, and then I proceed to buy out all the dragonfin from the AH and use all of my rest spices to get up to 448.

so I figured, even the last 5-8 points are insanely difficult, if one like me will have 8 alts and having 5-10 ppl helping him out, he can probably do this within the first 2-3 days (2 days when you get lucky on your daily to get an extra token, if not max is 3), the first time you get your 3rd token, you buy a 400 spiced pattern and you are going straight to the finish line.

15 alts/friends = 2-5 spices each, 15X10 spices from token, and randomly maybe 1-2 extra token for extra spices, so each day you are looking at around 220-250 spices per day.

In 2 days, you will have about 440-500 spices to play with.

As I said, 400-415 does not need any spices, your starting point is 415.

415-425 roughly around 35-50 spices.

425-440 about 100.

from 440-450, within 2 days, you will have 300-350 spices to go through it, i think your chance is very decent.

If by 3 days count, you will have 500-600 spices going though the last 10 points and I really don't see a problem here.

So, in a normal situation, in any realm, if anyone will think above prior to the start and do a little planning, this achievement will be done within 3 days for sure.

Furthermore, the sad thing I learn about the Giagantic Feast is, it doesn't appear to me that it has anything special going through from 440-450, my 80 or so Giagantic Feasts gave me this result :

after 12 feats, from 448-449.
and then the rest 68 feats gave me NOTHING.

And I ended up to get my last point with another 30-40 or so dragonfin.

Yeah, I lost, the ride is painful.

But this one of the greatest experiences i will forever remember in this game, and like the above poster mentioned, I have the greatest repect for anyone even attemp to try this.

After burning over 200 spices on Critter Bites at 449 cooking, I think I can safely say... Don't make Critter Bites at 449!

Made 5 Blackened Dragonfin after doing the above and got my last point. I owe my guildies some serious spice! But I got the server first achievement. Anyone who gets this has my respect... It was insane...