Midnight Feasts: What a Blooming Feast Costs to Cook

The short answer

A Blooming Feast cost about 498 gold69 silver in reagents at the prices our tables held on the evening of 2026-10-08, and about 279 gold45 silver if you had bought every reagent at its 14-day low. Most of that is a single item: Petrified Root, which every Midnight feast needs exactly one of, and which read 211 gold live. Petrified Root was about 70 percent of the Blooming Feast bill that evening. The herbs and Plant Protein matter much less. Of the seven feasts in our datamine, Harandar Celebration had the cheapest bill we could fully price and Amani Cornucopia the most expensive, because it also takes twenty Blood Hunters. No feast appears in our Auction House tables, so you cannot buy one there; the real choice is cooking it yourself or paying a cook to make it from your reagents.

The seven Midnight feasts

Our datamine lists seven feast recipes, each with a Hearty version at epic quality. None of them has an Auction House price in our tables, which suggests they cannot be listed there. Here is what each one asks for:

The four older feasts (Blooming, Celebration, Parade, Medley) are built from herbs, cheap cooking goods and common fish. The three newer ones (Loa's Gathering, Amani Cornucopia, Feast of Knowledge) use bulk fish and reagents that our tables do not price yet, such as Ula'tek Snakehead and Neutralized Venom Clot.

The bill for every feast

This is our main table: every feast priced reagent by reagent at the evening reading on 2026-10-08, and again with every reagent at its 14-day low. The Root share column shows how much of the evening bill was Petrified Root.

For the four fully priced feasts, Petrified Root is between two thirds and four fifths of the bill. That is the number to remember. A cheap herb week barely changes what a Blooming Feast costs; a cheap Root week changes it a lot. For the two fish feasts, the twenty fish take over: on the evening we checked, twenty Lucky Loa cost about 720 gold60 silver and twenty Blood Hunter about 1,481 gold, both read during a fish price spike. At 14-day lows those same twenty fish cost about 159 gold60 silver and 75 gold40 silver, which is why the low-price column drops so sharply for those two.

The Blooming Feast, line by line

Since Blooming Feast is the one most cooks ask about, here is its full bill at the evening reading on 2026-10-08, Silver herbs throughout:

That comes to about 498 gold69 silver. Two lines read high that evening: Petrified Root was above its 14-day high of 315 gold81 silver, and Plant Protein was above its 14-day high of 2 gold90 silver. On a quieter day, the same feast would cost noticeably less, and the 14-day-low bill of about 279 gold45 silver shows the floor. If your group uses one feast a night, the difference between buying at a spike and buying at a low adds up fast.

Petrified Root: the reagent that sets the price

Petrified Root is a rare reagent that vendors for 2 gold and traded between 222 gold90 silver and 315 gold81 silver over our 14-day window before reading 211 gold live. Feasts are a small part of its demand. Our extract shows 66 recipes using it, across eight professions:

So feast cooks compete for Petrified Root with enchanters and jewelers, who between them account for 48 of the 66 recipes. When a new round of enchants or gems is in demand, Root climbs, and every feast gets more expensive with it, even though nothing about the feast changed. That is the single most useful thing to know about feast costs in Midnight.

Cook it yourself, or have it cooked

Since feasts do not appear on the Auction House in our tables, "buying" a feast in practice means asking a guild cook or posting a crafting order and supplying the reagents. Here is how to decide.

1. Price the reagents first. Use the bill table above with today's live prices. The Root line is most of it.
2. If you have Cooking, cook it. You pay the reagent bill and nothing else.
3. If you do not, buy the reagents yourself and post an order. Supplying your own Root and herbs lets you buy them at a low, rather than paying a cook's spike price. Add a tip that is small next to the bill.
4. Buy Petrified Root on quiet days. It moved from 222 gold90 silver to above 350 gold inside two weeks. Buying a few Roots at the low end covers several raid nights.
5. Pick the feast by bill, not by name. If two feasts give your group what it needs, cook the one with the lower bill today. On the evening we checked, Harandar Celebration and Quel'dorei Medley were the cheapest fully priced options.
6. Split the cost. A feast is cooked for a group. If your group shares the cost, the bill per person is a small fraction of the totals above.

Hearty feasts

Every one of the seven feasts has a Hearty version in our datamine: Hearty Blooming Feast, Hearty Harandar Celebration, Hearty Silvermoon Parade, Hearty Quel'dorei Medley, Hearty Loa's Gathering, Hearty Amani Cornucopia and Hearty Feast of Knowledge, all at epic quality. The client data we read does not give us a separate reagent list for the Hearty versions in the same way, so we do not price them here. Players generally describe Hearty food as the better result of the same dish. If that holds, the bill above is still the right starting point, and the question becomes whether your crafting setup reaches the Hearty result often enough to matter.

Which feast to cook on a given night

Because each feast leans on a different set of reagents, the cheapest feast changes from week to week. A quick way to choose:

• Fish spiking, herbs normal: cook Blooming Feast or Harandar Celebration. Neither uses fish.
• Herbs spiking, fish normal: cook Quel'dorei Medley or Silvermoon Parade. Neither uses a Midnight herb.
• Plant Protein spiking: avoid Blooming Feast and Harandar Celebration, which take ten each. The fish feasts do not use it.
• Root spiking: every feast gets more expensive by the same amount, because they all take exactly one. Delay if you can, or buy only the Root you need tonight.
• Fish cheap: Loa's Gathering and Amani Cornucopia become reasonable. At the 14-day lows their twenty fish cost far less than the evening spike suggested, though both still have reagents our tables do not price.

What to watch on the Auction House

• Petrified Root, first and always. It is the one reagent in every feast and the biggest line in four of them.
• Enchanting and Jewelcrafting demand. Those two professions hold 48 of the 66 Root recipes. A new enchant or gem in demand will lift Root, and your feast bill with it.
• Plant Protein. Ten per Blooming Feast and per Harandar Celebration, and it read far above its own 14-day high when we wrote this.
• Blood Hunter and Lucky Loa. Twenty each for the two newer fish feasts, and both fish markets are thin and spiky.

What we do not know

We do not know how many people one feast serves in Midnight or how long its buff lasts, because we have not tested it and the details are not in the data we read for this page. We do not price Ula'tek Snakehead, Neutralized Venom Clot, Coiled Stargorger, Sulfurous Sludgefish or Cursebound Globe yet, so three of the seven bills are minimums. When those items reach our tables, the bills will fill in.

Where the other reagents come from

Most feast reagents come from professions covered elsewhere on this site. The herbs (Azeroot, Argentleaf, Mana Lily) come from Herbalism; our Argentleaf guide is a good start. The fish come from Fishing: see the fishing overview, and the Blood Hunter and Arcane Wyrmfish pages for two feast fish in detail.

Harandar (83 to 88) is where player reports place several feast inputs: Azeroot grows there, and its pools give Blood Hunter and Lucky Loa. The Harandar Celebration is named after it.

Eversong Woods (80 to 83) supplies Eversong Trout for the Quel'dorei Medley and Arcane Wyrmfish and Lynxfish for the Silvermoon Parade, by player reports.

Requirements

Level

80 or higher

Profession

Cooking to make a feast; Herbalism and Fishing help to supply it

Group

Feasts are cooked for a group

Changelog

• 2026-10-08: First version. Feast recipes and Petrified Root recipe counts from our datamine of client build 12.1.0.69933; live prices from our US commodity tables; all bills dated 2026-10-08.