World of Warcraft: Forever First Aid Guide

First Aid is a secondary profession that lets you make bandages, healing potions, and remedies for harmful effects. This guide explains how to use First Aid, where to learn each rank, how to level from 1 to 300, and which recipes and campfire items are available in WoW Forever.

First Aid turns cloth, herbs, and other materials into consumables that restore health or remove certain harmful effects. As a secondary profession, you can learn it alongside both of your primary professions and the other secondary professions. Every class can use First Aid, including classes that already have healing spells.

Bandages provide healing without spending mana, making them useful for recovering between fights or helping an injured player. WoW Forever also moves healing potion recipes from Alchemy to First Aid and adds poultices that remove diseases and tourniquets that remove bleeds. These items give you more ways to recover while questing and prepare for dangerous encounters.

First Aid can also make campfire items such as First Aid Kit, which provides a stamina bufff. Higher-level camp items retain that benefit and contain additional medical supplies.

Use a bandage on yourself or a nearby friendly player to restore health over several seconds. Bandaging is channeled, so stand still and avoid incoming damage while using it. Movement or damage can interrupt the healing before the full healing is delivered.

The target gains the Recently Bandaged debuff, preventing another bandage from being applied for 1 minute. This restriction remains even if the bandage is interrupted, so try to use bandages when you can safely use the full channel.

Crafting and using a bandage can have different skill requirements. For example, Heavy Runecloth Bandage requires 290 First Aid to craft but only 225 First Aid to use, and restores 2,000 health over 8 seconds. The skill requirement applies to the player using the bandage; the player receiving the healing does not need First Aid.

The Field Medicine Legacy perk reduces the duration of Recently Bandaged when you use a bandage. It reduces the duration by up to 10 seconds, but does not work in dungeons, raids, or battlegrounds.

Healing potions restore health immediately and have a 2-minute cooldown. You do not need First Aid to drink them, although higher-level potions have a character-level requirement. This makes them useful both for your own characters and for players buying consumables from the Auction House, especially while levelin.

Anti-venoms remove poisons, poultices remove diseases, and tourniquets remove bleeds. Each rank has a maximum effective debuff level it can remove; this refers to the harmful effect's level, rather than your character level. You will need to prepare level appropriate items to remove specific debuffs based on the level of your enemy.

Poultices and tourniquets can only be used out of combat; they help clear diseases and bleeds after a fight, but cannot remove those effects during combat. Anti-venoms do not have this out-of-combat restriction, allowing you to use them in combat; this makes them particularly useful in end-game content where poisons are common place. All of these remedies have a 1-minute shared item cooldown.

The Triage quest requires you to save 15 patients before 6 die. The doctor supplies Triage Bandage for the quest, so you do not need to use your own bandages.

1. Place Triage Bandage on your action bar and stand where you can quickly reach the beds.
2. Enable friendly nameplates (default keybind SHIFT+V), to more easily see and target who you need to heal.
3. Treat Critically Injured patients first, then Badly Injured patients, followed by Injured patients.
4. Let each bandage finish before starting the next treatment. Select your next patient while the current cast finishes to reduce time between treatments.
5. After saving 15 patients, return to the doctor and complete the quest. If you fail, accept the quest again and retry.

The same doctor teaches Heavy Mageweave Bandage at 240 First Aid, Runecloth Bandage at 260, and Heavy Runecloth Bandage at 290. Bring the remaining cloth or keep it in your mailbox so you can learn these recipes as you reach each requirement.

This route uses healing potions from 1 to 150, then bandages from 150 to 300. Herb and cloth prices vary by realm, so check Auction House prices before buying your materials.

The quantities below are approximate numbers of crafts, rather than guaranteed requirements or totals of finished items. Yellow and green recipes do not always grant a skill point. Stop crafting each recipe when you reach the listed target skill, and buy additional materials if needed.

The following shopping list covers the complete recommended route. Buy vials from Alchemy Supplies or Trade Supplies vendors and spices from Cooking Supplies or Trade Supplies vendors. You will also need gold for training and the three books listed below.

Material	Approximate Quantity
Peacebloom	85
Briarthorn	50
Bruiseweed	45
Empty Vial	135
Mild Spices	185
Leaded Vial	45
Hot Spices	45
Silk Cloth	135
Mageweave Cloth	95
Runecloth	75

Buy these books while visiting the Expert vendor:

• Expert First Aid - Under Wraps — Read at 125 First Aid.
• Manual: Heavy Silk Bandage — Read at 180 First Aid.
• Manual: Mageweave Bandage — Read at 210 First Aid.

Learn Apprentice First Aid and Minor Healing Potion from a First Aid trainer. Craft the potion until 75 skill. Journeyman First Aid becomes available at 50 skill; learn it before continuing beyond 75.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
1-75	Minor Healing Potion	85	85 Peacebloom 85 Empty Vial 85 Mild Spices

Learn Lesser Healing Potion and use it until 110 skill, then learn Healing Potion and continue to 150. Lesser Healing Potions use Briarthorn, vials, and spices; you do not need to save your Minor Healing Potions as ingredients.

You can read Expert First Aid - Under Wraps from 125 skill. Learn Expert before continuing beyond 150, and learn Silk Bandage from a First Aid trainer at 150 before leaving for the next stage.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
75-110	Lesser Healing Potion	50	50 Briarthorn 50 Empty Vial 100 Mild Spices
110-150	Healing Potion	45	45 Bruiseweed 45 Leaded Vial 45 Hot Spices

Switch to bandages at 150 skill. Read Manual: Heavy Silk Bandage when you reach 180, then Manual: Mageweave Bandage at 210. These recipes are yellow when you learn them, so some crafts will not increase your skill.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
150-180	Silk Bandage	45	45 Silk Cloth
180-210	Heavy Silk Bandage	45	90 Silk Cloth
210-225	Mageweave Bandage	20	20 Mageweave Cloth

Complete the Artisan quest described in the trainer section before continuing. You must be at least Level 35 and have 225 First Aid. After learning Artisan, continue making Mageweave Bandage until 240 skill. Speak to the same doctor at 240, 260, and 290 skill to learn the next bandage recipe.

Skill Range	Item	Approximate Crafts	Materials
225-240	Mageweave Bandage	25	25 Mageweave Cloth
240-260	Heavy Mageweave Bandage	25	50 Mageweave Cloth
260-290	Runecloth Bandage	45	45 Runecloth
290-300	Heavy Runecloth Bandage	15	30 Runecloth

First Aid can craft items that you place beside a campfire while outdoors and out of combat. First Aid Kit allows you and other players sitting nearby to gain a Stamina buff that scales with character level; this buff does not stack with Power Word: Fortitude. Toxin Study and Plague Doctor's Laboratory provide the same Stamina benefit and contain additional supplies. Both can replace an existing First Aid Kit. All camping features share a 1-hour cooldown.

Item	Effect	Required Skill	Source
First Aid Kit	Provides a level-scaled Stamina buff, up to +56 at Level 60.	20	First Aid trainer.
Toxin Study	Provides the First Aid Kit benefits and contains healing potions and anti-venom.	140	Blueprint: Toxin Study Drops from Commander Springvale in Shadowfang Keep.
Plague Doctor's Laboratory	Provides the First Aid Kit benefits and contains healing potions and poultices.	300	Blueprint: Plague Doctor's Laboratory.

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