WoW Forever: How to Level First Aid

To level First Aid in World of Warcraft: Forever, learn it from a First Aid trainer and turn the cloth you loot into bandages, moving up from Linen to Runecloth as your skill climbs. Past 150 you need a book, Expert First Aid – Under Wraps, and past 225 you need to finish the Triage quest, because no trainer teaches those ranks.

First Aid is a secondary profession, so it costs none of your two primary slots, and in Forever it does far more than bandages: it now makes healing potions and new curatives too. Below are the trainers, the bandage route, the book and quest you need, and where the new potion recipes fit in. Blizzard has not published Forever’s skill-up colors, so the switch points are approximate; the Professions window (K) shows whether a craft will still raise your skill.

What Is New in WoW Forever’s First Aid

• Healing potions. The whole healing potion line, from Minor Healing Potion to Major Healing Potion, moved from Alchemy to First Aid. The potions take spices from vendors as well as herbs, so any character can make their own without picking Alchemy.
• Curatives. New poultices cure diseases, tourniquets stop bleeds, and Anti-Venom handles poisons, each with higher ranks as your skill climbs.
• A camp feature. At 20 skill you can place a First Aid Kit at a campfire, a Stamina buff for nearby players that does not stack with Power Word: Fortitude, per Blizzard’s camping post. The higher First Aid camp objects, Toxin Study and the Plague Doctor’s Laboratory, add healing potions and curatives for the camp.

First Aid still climbs to 300 through Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert and Artisan. It does not earn Legacy Points: Blizzard’s Legacy system overview pays those only for the six crafting professions.

Where to Learn First Aid

Every starting area and capital has a First Aid trainer, and they teach Apprentice and Journeyman:

Zephras Isle, where the Skyborne begin, has First Aid trainers too. If you cannot find one, Blizzard’s new player’s starter guide says a city guard will mark it on your map.

First Aid Leveling Route

The bandage route below is the original game’s, and Blizzard has not announced changes to it. Each bandage uses one cloth, and each “heavy” version uses two. Cloth drops from humanoid enemies of roughly the matching level: Linen up to about 19, Wool about 15 to 30, Silk about 26 to 40, Mageweave about 41 to 50 and Runecloth about 51 to 60.

Train Journeyman at 50 so your skill keeps rising past 75. Bandages stay useful the whole way: hand the spares to your group.

Expert First Aid: The Book

At 125 skill you can buy Expert First Aid – Under Wraps and read it to raise your cap to 225. Two vendors sell it, along with the Heavy Silk and Mageweave bandage manuals, so buy all three in one trip:

• Alliance: Deneb Walker in Stromgarde, Arathi Highlands.
• Horde: Balai Lok’Wein in Brackenwall Village, Dustwallow Marsh.

Low-level characters who cannot reach those zones safely can look for the book on the Auction House.

Artisan First Aid: The Triage Quest

At 225 skill and level 35, pick up Triage from the field doctor for your faction: Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh, for the Alliance, or Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands, for the Horde. The quest hands you special Triage Bandages and fills the room with wounded soldiers; you must save 15 of them before too many die.

• Treat the critical patients first. Their health drops fastest.
• Turn on enemy and friendly health bars so you can see every patient at a glance.
• Stand in the middle of the room so you can reach everyone.
• Turn in the moment you hit 15. Patients keep coming, and waiting can fail the quest.

Finishing Triage teaches Artisan First Aid, and the same doctor teaches Heavy Mageweave, Runecloth and Heavy Runecloth Bandages.

Healing Potions and Curatives Along the Way

The potion recipes open at roughly the same points as the bandage tiers, so they are a second way to level when you have herbs to spare:

Every potion also needs a vial, and both spices and vials come from vendors. The higher potion recipes come as manuals rather than from the trainer, so check the Auction House for Superior and Major. Herbs make potions pricier than bandages, so cloth is the cheaper way to level, and potions are best made for your own use.

Tips for Leveling First Aid

• Never vendor cloth while you level First Aid. Every bandage tier is just cloth.
• Take Working Overtime. This Legacy perk raises your chance of a skill-up in every tradeskill, First Aid included; see our Legacy Points guide.
• Level it with Cooking and Fishing. All three secondary professions are free to learn, and together they cover your food, your fish and your healing. Our guides to cooking and fishing cover the other two.
• Share cloth with your tailor. If you also level Tailoring, keep the cloth tiers in step; our Tailoring leveling guide shows which bolts it needs.

Our Alchemy leveling guide explains how alchemists level without healing potions now, our camping guide shows where the First Aid Kit fits, and every Forever guide we have is on our World of Warcraft hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can First Aid make healing potions in WoW Forever? Yes. Forever moved the healing potions from Alchemy to First Aid, from Minor Healing Potion up to Major Healing Potion. They need spices and a vial as well as herbs.

How do you get Expert First Aid? At 125 skill, buy and read Expert First Aid – Under Wraps from Deneb Walker in Arathi Highlands (Alliance) or Balai Lok’Wein in Dustwallow Marsh (Horde).

How do you get Artisan First Aid? Complete the Triage quest at 225 skill and level 35, from Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore or Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall.

Does First Aid take a profession slot? No. It is a secondary profession, alongside Cooking and Fishing.

Does First Aid give Legacy Points? No. Only the six crafting professions earn Legacy Points.

What is the max First Aid skill? 300, at Artisan rank.