How to Set Up a Camp and Get Camp Buffs in WoW: Forever

Train Cooking, place a Basic Campfire, and ask nearby players to add their profession's camp features. Sit or craft near the fire for at least one minute to receive the benefits. The starter fire can hold up to three extra features, with each player contributing one. Anyone who wants the buffs can stop by and rest, even if they didn't build part of the camp.

1. Make a Basic Campfire

1. Learn Cooking. Basic Campfire is available from skill 1, so you can start camping before you level the profession.
2. Bring Simple Wood. Make the fire through Cooking in a spot where you can stay nearby without pulling enemies.
3. Ask the other players to place the features they brought beside the fire. Wait until those features are set up before settling in.
4. Sit down or craft near the camp for at least a minute. Check your buff bar before moving on.

A fire is useful by itself for cooking, but the profession features give the group more reasons to stop. If you're leveling alone and pass an active campsite, you can use what's already there. Before a group dungeon run, pick a spot where you can gather everyone and stay put for the full minute. On a PvP ruleset, take the possibility of enemy players finding your camp into account when you choose the spot.

2. Pick a feature that fills a gap in your group

Several professions learn a first feature at skill 20. Here are four choices you can use to plan a starter camp.

The matching class buff and camp buff are mutually exclusive. A First Aid Kit can fill a missing Stamina buff, but it won't give you a second Stamina bonus on top of Fortitude. Ask what the party can already provide before using a campsite slot. For example, a group with a Priest but no Paladin might get more out of the Mana Well than the First Aid Kit. A group about to split up and return to questing may find rested experience more useful than a combat buff.

A Basic Campfire gives you up to three feature slots, but one person cannot fill all three. Have different players contribute. Placing camp features also uses a shared cooldown, so decide which feature you want before setting one down. If a feature is unavailable, check that you're near a valid fire, that a slot is free, and that your placement cooldown has finished.

3. Stay in range until you get the effect

Sit or craft near the camp for a full minute. Use the time to cook, compare quest objectives, or agree on what to pull first. Check the buff bar before leaving. The regular camp benefits last an hour, so you can move on as soon as the effects have applied. If you expected two buffs and can only see one, check whether a matching class buff is already active and whether both features were in place while you rested.

If you're trying to finish the starter quest The Great Outdoors, that quest has its own objective. Check our campfire quest guide if the quest counter stays unchanged after sitting.

4. Upgrade when you need a larger camp

Cooking has later blueprints for the Journeyman Campfire and Expert Campfire. They support five and ten extra features respectively, compared with three at a basic fire. You can keep using Basic Campfire while you level. A larger fire starts to matter when you routinely meet enough players to use the extra slots. Some advanced profession features need blueprints of their own. Read the tooltip for the feature you want before spending time looking for its recipe, since a workstation can solve a different problem from a buff.