Valor : i never cheated, it was more like a payment for being so nice.

GMBob wrote:Cooking is getting it's own set of craftables and uses.
And no, you do not need gm cooking for stat fish.
If you got 40(i think, i'd have to check), then you'll never burn one.
IT's a freaking fish.

And yes, we're lowering cooking to make the playing field more level. Regardless of how you got the skill, it's pretty worthless right now. By lowering people a bit, we can add in things that are actually worthwhile to the skill.
And it's also more of a fairness thing. Regardless of whether you macro'd it or pressed the lastobject button 50 million times, gming cooking was as easy as Gming item id.
Once the actual cooking system goes in, the skill will be as difficult as every other skill in the game.
ERGO, we are putting everyone where they would have been in they had worked with the new system the whole time.
Since cooking was insanely easy, the effort you put in to gm would only have gotten you to around 75-80% skill. Ergo that's where you start at.
You're not losing any time, and you'll still be able to make everything you could before plus tons of new s***. IT just also means you'll have to put in a tad extra time to earn a true gm skill.

The same will be said for item identification, begging, forensics, etc (when each skill is implemented).
The end goal, which probably won't happen this year, is to have NO USELESS SKILLS in obsidian.
And no, a skill having to be taken for another skill (like cooking fish) does not make it not useless. Being forced to take a skill isn't making it useful.

Hope that clears it up.
Cooking will NOT be in the crafting patch comming up, since it's a separate patch as a full skill implementation later on.
However cooking fish in general will be adjusted in the crafting patch

Valor : i never cheated, it was more like a payment for being so nice.