First Aid

Learning and using First Aid

First Aid makes bandages and other survival supplies, including ordinary healing potions in Forever. It is secondary and can be learned alongside both primary professions.

As a secondary profession, First Aid can be learned alongside both primary professions. Inspect a learned ability’s materials and purpose before preparing supplies.

At a campsite

At skill 20, a First Aid Kit grants nearby resting players 3–56 Stamina, depending on level; it is exclusive with Power Word: Fortitude.

See Camping for shared camp rules and feature limits.

Planning materials and practice

Save cloth for bandages, while comparing the needs of Tailoring or the auction house if you also use or sell it. Check the item’s requirements and healing description before relying on it in combat.

First Aid is secondary and can be learned alongside both primary professions. Wowhead’s Forever overview also identifies healing potions as First Aid crafts; inspect the learned recipe and materials in game.

Further leveling and decisions

The released-client calculation suggests Linen Bandages early, Minor Healing Potion around 55–80, and Silk Bandages after 150. These are alternatives to other learned recipes; recipe availability and skill-up rates need checking.

Training and manuals

Wowhead’s November 8 Forever page retains a beta warning. It identifies Expert First Aid – Under Wraps and the Heavy Silk and Mageweave manuals at Deneb Walker in Arathi Highlands for Alliance or Balai Lok’Wein in Dustwallow Marsh for Horde. It describes them as tradable; compare travel with a market purchase.

The guide describes faction-specific Triage at First Aid 225 and character level 35: Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore for Alliance, or Doctor Gregory Victor at Hammerfall for Horde. It says the doctors also teach later bandages at 240, 260 and 290. Verify current quest and training conditions.

Bandage route

The dated Forever guide suggests linen bandages through the early ranks, Wool Bandage at 80–115 and Heavy Wool Bandage at 115–150. After Expert it proposes Silk Bandage at 150–180, Heavy Silk at 180–210 and Mageweave at 210–240.

It then suggests Heavy Mageweave at 240–260, Runecloth Bandage at 260–290 and Heavy Runecloth for the final points. Anti-venom, poultice or healing-potion manuals may provide alternatives where available. These are recommendations, not exact quantities or guaranteed skill gains.

Recovery and choice of craft

Bandages, healing potions, anti-venom and other curatives answer different problems. Keep cloth for bandages if you want a straightforward leveling path, but compare a learned potion or curative when its ingredients are cheaper or the finished item better suits the next activity.

Wowhead’s beta-labeled Forever guide names Simple, Clever and Superior Poultices and Woolen, Leather and Surgical Tourniquets. It lists different recipe sources and skill levels, so their names alone do not establish which effect, formula or requirement is currently available.

Example ingredients from the Forever client

Recorded ability	Recorded reagents
Linen Bandage	1 × Linen Cloth
Heavy Linen Bandage	2 × Linen Cloth
Wool Bandage	1 × Wool Cloth
Silk Bandage	1 × Silk Cloth
Mageweave Bandage	1 × Mageweave Cloth

Reading these examples

These are selective client-record reagent counts, not proven output, training requirements or current availability. The Recipes and Materials tabs provide more recorded relationships.