First Aid Leveling Guide — WoW For Forever

Overview

First Aid is a secondary profession open to every character. Bandages remain its core, and Forever widened it considerably: healing potions are now First Aid recipes (they left Alchemy), and new anti-venoms, poultices and tourniquets remove poisons, diseases and bleeds. Classes without a heal gain the most from it.

Beta build: the skill thresholds on this page were checked against the Forever beta client. Reagents and thresholds can still move before release, and a recipe that has gone yellow no longer gives a point on every craft, so buy a small margin.

Journeyman (cap 150): First Aid 50, from the same trainer as Apprentice.
Expert (cap 225): the book Expert First Aid - Under Wraps, usable at First Aid 125 with no character level requirement.
Artisan (cap 300): the quest Triage at First Aid 225 and level 35.
Cloth or herbs: bandages cost cloth, potions cost one herb plus vendor spices and a vial. Both tracks are given wherever they compete, so use whichever your bags or the Auction House make cheaper.
Camp items: First Aid Kit at skill 20 (3 Linen Bandage, 1 Refreshing Spring Water) gives a Stamina buff at a campfire. Toxin Study (skill 140) and Plague Doctor's Laboratory (skill 300) add potions and cures.

Trainers

Capital cities

Horde

Arnok — Valley of Spirits, Orgrimmar
Mary Edras — Rogues' Quarter, Undercity
Pand Stonebinder — Spirit Rise, Thunder Bluff

Alliance

Shaina Fuller — Cathedral of Light, Stormwind City
Nissa Firestone — The Great Forge, Ironforge
Dannelor — Craftsmen's Terrace, Darnassus

Starting zones

Race	Trainer	Location
Orc, Troll	Rawrk	Barracks of Razor Hill, Durotar
Tauren	Vira Younghoof	Bloodhoof Village inn, Mulgore
Undead	Nurse Neela	Brill inn, Tirisfal Glades
Human	Michelle Belle	Upstairs in the Goldshire inn, Elwynn Forest
Dwarf, Gnome	Thamner Pol	Thunderbrew Distillery, Kharanos
Night Elf	Byancie	Dolanaar, Teldrassil
Skyborne	Melasa Fairmend / Naleeia Tattermend	Valanaar / Shen'dar Village, Zephras Isle

Expert book and manuals

Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands (Alliance) and Balai Lok'Wein in Brackenwall Village, Dustwallow Marsh (Horde) sell Expert First Aid - Under Wraps, Manual: Heavy Silk Bandage and Manual: Mageweave Bandage. Take all three in one trip, and learn Silk Bandage from your trainer first: it is the last recipe trainers teach. The books can be traded, so the Auction House is an option for low-level characters.

Triage (Artisan)

The quest is given by Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands (Horde) and Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh (Alliance). An optional lead-in starts with Arnok in Orgrimmar or Nissa Firestone in Ironforge. You must save 15 patients with the Triage Bandages you are handed:

Show health bars (CTRL+V) and zoom out so the whole room is visible.
Put the Triage Bandages on your bar and stand in the middle of the room.
Treat critically injured patients first, then the badly injured ones.
Turn the quest in the moment the count reaches 15: patients dying afterwards can still make it fail.

The same doctors then teach Heavy Mageweave Bandage (240), Runecloth Bandage (260) and Heavy Runecloth Bandage (290).

Apprentice (1-75)

Skill	Craft	Materials
1-40	50× Linen BandageYellow from 30.	50 Linen Cloth
40-75	40× Heavy Linen BandageYellow from 50, so the last points need a few extras.	80 Linen Cloth

Skill	Craft	Materials
1-75	81× Minor Healing PotionYellow from 55. Mild Spices come from Cooking Supply vendors and Empty Vials from Alchemy or Trade Supply vendors.	81 Peacebloom 81 Mild Spices 81 Empty Vial

Journeyman (75-150)

Skill	Craft	Materials
75-80	12× Heavy Linen BandageGreen here: about one point every two crafts.	24 Linen Cloth
80-115	50× Wool BandageTaught at 80 and yellow straight away.	50 Wool Cloth
115-150	50× Heavy Wool BandageTaught at 115, yellow as well.	100 Wool Cloth

Skill	Craft	Materials
75-110	50× Lesser Healing PotionYellow from 85 and green from 105.	50 Briarthorn 100 Mild Spices 50 Empty Vial
110-150	45× Healing PotionTaught at 110, yellow from 135.	45 Bruiseweed 45 Hot Spices 45 Leaded Vial

Expert (150-225)

Skill	Craft	Materials
150-180	42× Silk BandageYellow for the whole range.	42 Silk Cloth
180-210	46× Heavy Silk BandageNeeds the manual. Yellow too.	92 Silk Cloth
210-225	17× Mageweave BandageNeeds the manual. While Mageweave is unobtainable under the beta cap, about 42 more Heavy Silk Bandages (84 Silk Cloth) do the job.	17 Mageweave Cloth

Potion option: Greater Healing Potion (1 Liferoot, 3 Hot Spices, 1 Leaded Vial) is learnable at 155 and yellow from 175, and Superior Healing Potion (1 Sungrass, 1 Soothing Spices, 1 Crystal Vial) at 215. Both need a manual whose source has not been confirmed on the beta, so the bandage route is the dependable one.

Artisan (225-300)

Not played yet: the beta level cap stops characters short of Artisan, so this range rests on the skill thresholds stored in the client, not on a tested run. Forever shifted many thresholds compared with Classic, so a Classic Era route is not a safe substitute. Check this part again at launch.

Skill	Craft	Materials
225-240	20× Mageweave BandageYellow. With the manual, 16 Superior Healing Potions (16 Sungrass, 16 Soothing Spices, 16 Crystal Vial) are orange until 230.	20 Mageweave Cloth
240-260	30× Heavy Mageweave BandageTaught by the Triage doctor at 240.	60 Mageweave Cloth
260-290	40× Runecloth BandageTaught at 260 and yellow from the start.	40 Runecloth
290-300	15× Heavy Runecloth BandageTaught at 290.	30 Runecloth

Potion option: Major Healing Potion (1 Golden Sansam, 3 Soothing Spices, 1 Crystal Vial) is learnable at 275 and stays orange until 290; about 30 of them cover 275-300 if you get the manual.

Shopping List

Range	Bandage route	Potion route
1-75	130 Linen Cloth	81 Peacebloom, 81 Mild Spices, 81 Empty Vial
75-150	24 Linen Cloth, 150 Wool Cloth	50 Briarthorn, 45 Bruiseweed, 100 Mild Spices, 45 Hot Spices, 50 Empty Vial, 45 Leaded Vial
150-225	134 Silk Cloth, 17 Mageweave Cloth (or 218 Silk Cloth)	Needs manuals
225-300	80 Mageweave Cloth, 70 Runecloth	Needs manuals