WoW Forever First Aid leveling guide 1-300: route, recipes, and trainers

First Aid is a secondary profession, like Cooking and Fishing. You take it on top of your two primary professions, and it doesn't cost you a slot. Bandages heal without mana, so they help classes with no healing of their own the most, like warriors, rogues, and hunters. The cloth drops from humanoids, so materials pile up on their own while you level.

In Forever the profession got a lot more useful, because regular healing potions are made with First Aid now. The trainer sells the Minor Healing Potion recipe from the start, Lesser Healing Potion from skill 55, and Healing Potion from 110. Each potion takes one herb, spices, and a vial, so you don't have to hunt down an alchemist for potions anymore.

Besides potions and bandages, First Aid makes cures for poison, disease, and bleeding, plus a kit you set up at the campfire that gives Stamina to everyone sitting nearby. You don't need a gathering profession, but the route uses quite a few herbs. Up to 156 your skill comes mostly from potions, which take 84 Peacebloom, 15 Briarthorn, and 48 Bruiseweed. If you're an herbalist, your own potions only cost you the vial and the spices.

• Healing potions moved over from Alchemy. The whole line, from Minor to Major Healing Potion, belongs to First Aid now, and any character can make them. Alchemists got Discolored Healing Potions instead. They heal more, but 75% of the healing comes back as poison or disease, and the Alchemy guide has the details. How potions differ from bandages is covered further down.
• Poultices and tourniquets. Poultices cure diseases, tourniquets cure bleeds, and there's one more anti-venom, for poisons up to level 45. Any character can use them, so you don't need First Aid yourself. More on cures.
• Camp items. There are three: First Aid Kit at skill 20, Toxin Study at 140, and Plague Doctor's Laboratory at 300. The kit gives Stamina to everyone sitting at the campfire, and going by their tooltips, the other two hold potions as well. More on the camp.
• Ranks unlock the same way as before. Trainers teach Apprentice and Journeyman, a book teaches Expert, and a quest gives Artisan. Where to get each one is in the ranks section.
• Legacy. Wowhead doesn't show any Legacy quests for First Aid yet. The professions branch does have three useful perks, though. Working Overtime adds up to 20% to your skill-up chance, Dedicated Study raises your lowest profession by 1 point once every 23 hours, and Field Medicine cuts Recently Bandaged by 5 seconds per rank, except in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.

The route is built from the beta client data. It takes trainer recipes first, and manuals only where the trainer has nothing left that still gives points reliably. Craft counts are averages. While a recipe is orange or yellow you get a point almost every time, but as it nears green you might need a couple of extra crafts, so bring spare materials. It comes to about 390 crafts in total, and the trainer recipes and ranks on the route cost 69 silver.

Up to 156, potions and poultices from the trainer carry you. The trainer sells Minor Healing Potion from the start, and it takes you to 76 in 84 crafts, each needing Peacebloom, Empty Vial, and Mild Spices. From 76 to 90 you make Lesser Healing Potion, 15 crafts with Briarthorn as the herb and two spices per potion. From 90 to 117 it's Simple Poultice, 34 crafts that each need Spider Ichor, Mild Spices, and Bottle of Dalaran Noir. From 117 to 156, Healing Potion carries you, and 48 potions need 48 each of Bruiseweed, Hot Spices, and Leaded Vial. The potions won't go to waste, since you can drink them or sell them.

From 156 to 181 you make Silk Bandage, learned from the trainer for 50 silver, at 37 crafts and one silk each. From 181 to 191 it's Clever Poultice, the only recipe on the route whose manual drops from mobs. That's 18 crafts, each needing Murloc Fin, Soothing Spices, and Thunder Ale. Each craft makes three poultices, so along the way you'll end up with 102 Simple and 54 Clever Poultices.

Manual: Clever Poultice doesn't bind, so you can buy it on the Auction House, but it's a rare drop. Wowhead says Defias Brotherhood enchanters drop it roughly once in three hundred kills.

At 150 you hit the Journeyman cap, so buy the Expert First Aid - Under Wraps book ahead of time. You can read it from skill 125. The same vendors sell Manual: Heavy Silk Bandage and Manual: Mageweave Bandage, which you'll need at 180 and 210. From 191 to 210 you make Heavy Silk Bandage from 60 silk, and from 210 to 240 Mageweave Bandage from 42 mageweave. At 225 your skill stops until you turn in the Artisan quest, and that needs level 35. Level your character ahead of time, or you'll stall mid-stretch.

The last 60 points come from three bandages: Heavy Mageweave Bandage to 260, Runecloth Bandage to 291, and Heavy Runecloth Bandage to 300. They take another 50 mageweave and 64 runecloth. To be upfront, these three recipes have no source in Forever's data. In Classic the First Aid trainers taught them, and the route assumes that hasn't changed, but there's no way to confirm it until launch.

If you're missing a recipe or want to price the route for your realm, open it in the calculator. You can start from your current skill, take a recipe out, and pick the cheapest or the fastest path.

The route above levels your skill, not your wallet, although the nearly 150 healing potions it makes will come in handy. First Aid makes money from potions and manuals. Everyone drinks potions, and manuals are either sold far away or drop rarely. Bandages barely sell, and the warning below explains why.

You won't find Auction House prices here, and we're not adding any. The beta was capped at level 30, so nobody has seen real level 60 prices yet, and after launch your realm's Auction House will show them. Before you craft a batch to sell, compare the price of the finished potion with the price of its herb.

First Aid trainers in the capitals and in towns near the starting zones teach Apprentice and Journeyman, and Journeyman unlocks at skill 50 and character level 10. After that, trainers can't help you. Expert (up to 225) comes from a book and Artisan (up to 300) from a quest. Zephras Isle has trainers for both factions, Naleeia Tattermend in Shen'dar Village and Melasa Fairmend in Valanaar.

The Expert First Aid - Under Wraps book is only sold in two places, and both are far from the starting zones. If it's too early for that trip, buy the book on the Auction House, since it doesn't bind.

The Artisan quest opens at level 35 and skill 225. They hand you bandages for the test on the spot, and then you have to save 15 wounded soldiers before 6 of them die. Order matters. Do the critically injured first, then the badly injured, because the lightly injured hold out the longest. Nissa Firestone in Ironforge gives the quest Alliance Trauma, and Arnok in Orgrimmar gives Horde Trauma, but these quests only send you to the doctor, so you can skip them.

Rank	Requirements	Cost	Alliance	Horde
Apprentice, up to 75	From the start	1s	Shaina Fuller in Stormwind, Nissa Firestone in Ironforge, Dannelor in Darnassus, Michelle Belle in Goldshire (Elwynn Forest), Thamner Pol in Kharanos (Dun Morogh), Byancie in Dolanaar (Teldrassil), Fremal Doohickey in Menethil Harbor (Wetlands), Angelique Butler in Dalaran (Alterac Mountains)	Arnok in Orgrimmar, Mary Edras in Undercity, Pand Stonebinder in Thunder Bluff, Rawrk in Razor Hill (Durotar), Nurse Neela in Brill (Tirisfal Glades), Vira Younghoof in Bloodhoof Village (Mulgore)
Journeyman, up to 150	Skill 50, level 10	5s	The same trainers	The same trainers
Expert, up to 225	Book Expert First Aid - Under Wraps, skill 125	1g	Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep (Arathi Highlands)	Balai Lok'Wein in Brackenwall Village (Dustwallow Marsh)
Artisan, up to 300	Quest, skill 225 and level 35	Free	Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen on Theramore Isle (Dustwallow Marsh), quest Triage	Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall (Arathi Highlands), quest Triage

Bandages and potions heal differently. A bandage restores health over time. Linen Bandage heals 66 over 6 seconds, and Heavy Runecloth Bandage heals 2000 over 8 seconds. After bandaging you get Recently Bandaged, and you have to wait for it to wear off before the next bandage. The main limit is skill. To use Heavy Runecloth Bandage you need 225 First Aid, and without the profession you can't use a bandage at all.

A potion heals instantly and only needs a character level, so you don't need First Aid to drink one. All healing potions share a 2-minute cooldown and stack to 5. So you keep potions for emergencies in combat, and bandages are free healing from cloth you loot anyway.

Each potion is made from one herb, spices, and a vial. Vendors sell the vials (Empty Vial, Leaded Vial, and Crystal Vial) and spices, and the herb is either your own or from the Auction House. The trainer teaches the first three recipes, and the rest come from manuals.

The best bandage in the game is Dense Runecloth Bandage, at 3400 health over 8 seconds, and it needs level 50 and skill 300. It's made from two Heavy Runecloth Bandages. Wowhead says vendors sell Manual: Dense Runecloth Bandage, but we haven't found where yet.

Potion	Heals	Level	Skill	Recipe	Herb
Minor Healing Potion	70-90	1	1	Trainer, 1s	Peacebloom
Lesser Healing Potion	140-180	3	55	Trainer, 1s 50c	Briarthorn
Healing Potion	280-360	12	110	Trainer, 8s	Bruiseweed
Greater Healing Potion	455-585	21	155	Manual, mob drop	Liferoot
Superior Healing Potion	700-900	35	215	Not yet known	Sungrass
Major Healing Potion	1050-1750	45	275	Pexmit on Mount Hyjal, 8g	Golden Sansam

These items remove poison, disease, or bleeding from the target. Any character can use them, even without First Aid. The one exception is Powerful Anti-Venom, which needs skill 300. They all have a 1-minute cooldown, and poultices and tourniquets don't work in combat, so you'll have to patch yourself up after the fight.

One craft makes three anti-venoms or three poultices, but only one tourniquet. The trainer sells the first recipe in each line, and after that it's manuals. Some drop from mobs, and some have no source in Forever's data yet. Tourniquets are new in Forever, since First Aid had no cure for bleeding before. How much people will want these cures, we'll only see after launch.

Poultices are made from mob loot, spices, and drinks. Simple Poultice, for example, takes Spider Ichor, Mild Spices, and Bottle of Dalaran Noir. Tourniquets are made from cloth or leather plus thread, and anti-venoms from venom sacs.

Cure	Removes	Up to level	Skill	Recipe
Anti-Venom	Poison	25	80	Trainer, 2s 50c
Strong Anti-Venom	Poison	35	130	Manual, mob drop
Potent Anti-Venom	Poison	45	215	Manual, mob drop
Powerful Anti-Venom	Poison	65	300	Argent Dawn, Honored
Simple Poultice	Disease	25	90	Trainer, 2s 50c
Clever Poultice	Disease	35	140	Manual, mob drop
Superior Poultice	Disease	45	210	Not yet known
Powerful Poultice	Disease	65	280	Not yet known
Woolen Tourniquet	Bleed	30	120	Trainer, 12s
Leather Tourniquet	Bleed	45	200	Not yet known
Surgical Tourniquet	Bleed	65	265	Not yet known

Camping is a new Forever system. At a campfire, each player can set up one item from their profession, and it gives a bonus to everyone who sits or works nearby. First Aid sets up a kit, which adds 3 to 56 Stamina depending on level but doesn't stack with the priest spell Power Word: Fortitude. All camp items share a 1-hour cooldown.

You learn to make the First Aid Kit at skill 20, either from the trainer for 1 silver or through the quest Camping 101: First Aid, which every starting zone has. The kit takes three Linen Bandages and a Refreshing Spring Water.

The Toxin Study unlocks at skill 140 and needs Blueprint: Toxin Study. Wowhead says the blueprint drops in Shadowfang Keep from Commander Springvale, but rarely, about once in three hundred kills. Wowhead also lists a vendor for the blueprint, just not which one. The Toxin Study replaces the kit. You keep the kit's bonus, and the tooltip says it holds healing potions and anti-venoms too. How that works in the game isn't clear yet, and Wowhead marks the effect as unconfirmed as well.

The Plague Doctor's Laboratory unlocks at skill 300 and needs Blueprint: Plague Doctor's Laboratory, and nobody knows yet where that comes from. The laboratory's tooltip lists healing potions and poultices along with the kit's bonus. It takes 5 Heavy Runecloth Bandages, and that recipe has no source in Forever's data either. There's more on that in the route section.

All three items can be traded to other players, but only someone with enough First Aid skill can set one up.

Item	Skill	Effect	Reagents
First Aid Kit	20	Stamina for everyone sitting at the campfire	Linen Bandage (3), Refreshing Spring Water
Toxin Study	140	Kit bonus, plus healing potions and anti-venoms	Anti-Venom, Mageweave Bandage (2), Simple Wood (2)
Plague Doctor's Laboratory	300	Kit bonus, plus healing potions and poultices	Simple Wood (2), Strong Anti-Venom (2), Heavy Runecloth Bandage (5)

Cloth is the main expense. The route uses 97 silk, 92 mageweave, and 64 runecloth, and no linen or wool at all. It all drops from humanoids, so you'll loot most of it yourself while leveling.

Besides cloth you need herbs, mob loot, and drinks. The healing potions take Peacebloom (84), Briarthorn (15), and Bruiseweed (48). Simple Poultices take Spider Ichor and Bottle of Dalaran Noir, 34 of each, and Clever Poultices take Murloc Fin and Thunder Ale, 18 of each.

Vendors sell vials and spices at a fixed price. Empty Vial costs 4 copper, Mild Spices 2 copper, Leaded Vial and Hot Spices 40 copper each, and Soothing Spices 1 silver 60 copper. Vials and spices for the whole route come to about 75 silver.

We don't list cloth and herb prices. There are none before launch, and after that they'll change every day. As a rule, Peacebloom and Briarthorn grow in low-level zones and are usually cheap, except in the first few days after launch, when everyone's leveling professions at once. The priciest parts will be the runecloth at the end of the route and the Clever Poultice manual, if you buy it on the Auction House.

• Hitting 150 without the book. Trainers don't teach Expert, and the book is only sold in Arathi Highlands and Dustwallow Marsh. Buy it early, since you can read it from skill 125.
• Forgetting the quest at 225. Artisan only comes from a quest, and it needs level 35. If your character is lower, your skill stops at 225.
• Vendoring manuals. Mob-drop manuals are rare and don't bind, and one of them is on our route. Players will buy them on the Auction House, while a vendor pays a few copper.
• Crafting bandages to sell. Only players with First Aid can use bandages, and they usually make their own. Potions sell better, since anyone can drink them.
• Mixing up anti-venoms. Strong, Potent, and Powerful Anti-Venom sound alike but cure poisons of different levels. Check the level in the tooltip before you buy.
• Buying everything the trainer has. You don't need the trainer's anti-venom and tourniquet for leveling. Learn what the route uses, and the rest when you actually need those cures.