This game needs a single thing for cooking and that is, oh yeah baby,
AN OGRE COOKING RECIPE!
You can get it from any ogre as a 5-10% drop chance and it should be orange from 1 to 300. It shall be called "Hoomangnome Elf Pie" and it's mats would drop from player corpses in world pvp (idk, 2 kills enough mats for 1 skill point? ). This way world PVP gets a bit of love on the RP server, a bit of flavor as well, players get a little help while missing that single material to get 1 more skill point in their cooking and you add another small (pointless to some but insanely fun to others) reason for players to purchase World PVP glyph.
Oh, and ofc, after you make the PIE it should have a description something like "You aren't going to eat that, right? Where did you learn to coock such things?" and not be eatable but maybe give a small bonus if kept in inventori with a duration of 15 minutes? To keep the flavour going that is. The bonus could be 1% main stat maybe?
Anyways, thx for reading!