Will cooking become less frustrating after reaching first proficiency level or does it just increase stack size like fishing? I hit every single flame counter but it doesn't even matter. It's not THAT satisfying to hit 100% cooked if it consistently fails 4/5 times

I too have been getting this issue, it is quite frustrating to be hitting flame and it works in the opposite ways sometimes :)

it becomes easier

Idk if this is the right strategy or whatever but it’s what I’ve been doing

The junk sardines cook easy and the herring not so easy but you don’t have to fully cook them to get exp so the herring you don’t care about just cook incomplete and get the exp.

The fish you care about save for a faster cooking event

Good advice


Give a man a burnt fish, feed him for a day.
Teach a man to burn fish, feed him for a lifetime.

it does



about right, herring are a tier up from sardines so little harder


go ahead and pull the plug early on the fish, undercooked fish are usable and you get most of the prof.

It get's easier, once u reach the new tiers it's a bit of a struggle for the first rank or two but makes it alot easier on the last 3 ranks.

And yes, it does increase stacksize the same way.

A tip to not fail the "flame" is to only click once u see that the game used their action, so click only once per second. You shouldnt miss any flames this way, unless u have bad connection and lag.
IF you spamclick it's very common to fail the flames because you think u didnt hit cook, but u most likely did by spamming it.

Awesome advice from everyone, thank you guys so so much! Means a ton for a first timer like myself.

This post was edited by n0bzkn on Feb 7 2022 10:32am

if you want to be most efficient with your time spent, then you should fish up for higher level fish during faster fishing event and then cook them during faster cooking event. The top bar will fill in the same time, while you work on the bottom one faster, allowing you to do above your baseline. Also every 15 levels if you fish from a well you get rid of the lowest tier, for example during this event I could fish up to 15 from well even tho I have 7 prof, only catching herring, cod, trout and avoiding the dreaded sardines. Also since consuming fish take up one action in catacombs or town, sardines and herrings aren't worth much. I'd honestly use like 75-90% autostack until I get to cods (level 10) and maybe 50 from there. you have 16 itemslots and you need 3 per fish tier so for quite a while you could do what I did: have the stacks go life mana rare life mana rare etc per tier, then have one junk per tier to put the non stacked ones into. those still sell for a few fg per 100 for suffusers.

This works extremely well when I used to fish and cook, stay away from "holding" down method that is used for one or more other skills.