Is cooking a good skill to invest in?

[canine]

If not, what should i start with? (Hometown: Windurst)

[Exponen7]

You can get cooking to level 40 in less than 3 days (alot say one can do it in a day). I managed to do this with a 30k bankroll and I'm still going on that (supplemented by a lvl 27 fishing skill for some of the more annoying fish-related recipes).

I basically wanted cooking so I could make MP regen and MP+ stat meals so I'm a much more efficient mage in parties. Unless you can be bothered sitting around making millions and millions of stacks of insect balls, I'm not really sure it's very profitable

[Ascendancy]

*shrug* i make 7-10k a night per stack of kabobs i bazaar on my mule. pretty good money for sleeping ~.^

[Xephoid]

unfortunately, kobabs no longer make any appreciable amount of money on cerebrus. A stack goes for 2300-2400. Mean while, you got your cocktrice meat that cost 16K per stack, wild onion that goes for 5K, mhurra garlic goes for 1.5K, and kazahm pepper that goes for 1 K, and of course fire crystrals about 2K.

All added up, you spent 25.5K on the material. And you make 12 x 2400 = 28.8K if you don't have any failure at all. So 3.3K profit if you succeed 100% of the syn. And if you fail even once, you basically don't make any money at all. ><

It's not a big money maker any more, like when I first hit lvl 36 in cooking, and kabobs were going for 2.8-3K per stack....