How to Level Cooking for Camp Features in WoW: Forever

Train Cooking to build a Basic Campfire at skill 1. If you want to support a larger camp, raise Cooking by making food, train Journeyman at 50 skill, and look for the Journeyman Campfire blueprint when you reach 90. A basic fire is enough for small groups and lets you start camping as soon as you learn the profession.

1. Learn Cooking and make the first fire

1. Speak to a Cooking trainer. Cooking is a secondary profession, so learning it leaves your primary profession slots free.
2. Look for Basic Campfire in the Cooking window.
3. Get Simple Wood and use the campfire ability where you can stay nearby safely.
4. Use the fire for food recipes that require one, or ask nearby players to add their camp features.

A Basic Campfire supports up to three additional features. The player who makes the fire provides the starting point. Other players can contribute features from professions such as Alchemy, First Aid, or Blacksmithing. Leveling Cooking helps you build larger fires and other Cooking features. It doesn't teach you the features from those separate professions.

If you're only leveling by yourself, start by using the basic fire when you need it. You don't need the first upgrade just to make food on the road. The larger fire becomes useful once you regularly have enough people around it to fill more slots.

2. Turn ingredients you already have into skill

Cook a few portions and check your skill instead of buying an entire stack of ingredients on the assumption that every craft will give a point. The colors change as your skill rises. A recipe that was a reliable skill-up earlier can still make food even when it is less useful for leveling. Switch to another recipe if that uses your ingredients more efficiently.

Before traveling for meat, look at what's already in your bags. Boar or wolf meat you kept from a starter zone can get you through the early stage. Fishing can also provide ingredients if you've learned the right Cooking recipe. The important comparison is the cost and availability of an ingredient for a recipe that still advances your skill. You can continue making the cheaper food separately when you don't need more points.

3. Get the blueprint before planning around the upgrade

Journeyman Campfire is a separate recipe learned from a blueprint at 90 Cooking skill. Training Journeyman Cooking raises your profession cap. It doesn't automatically add the campfire blueprint to your recipe list. Check that you can learn the blueprint and have the recipe's material, Star Wood, before telling a group you can build the upgraded fire.

The Journeyman Campfire supports five additional features. Expert Campfire is a later blueprint at 200 Cooking skill and supports ten. Use the profession window to check what your character actually knows. If you're leveling mainly for camping, choose the next upgrade based on how many contributors your group usually has. A fire with unused slots won't change the benefits from the features you actually placed.

If you're planning a larger camp for a guild event, check the recipe before the group meets. Bring the material for the fire you know how to make. Have another player bring Simple Wood for a basic fire if they also know Cooking.

4. Set up the camp once everyone arrives

Place your fire, then let each nearby player contribute their feature. For buffs, give the group enough time to sit or craft by the campsite before moving on. Check which effects your group can already supply through class spells before using slots on equivalent features. The camping guide walks through how to collect those buffs.