How to Train First Aid and Make Bandages in WoW: Forever

Learn Apprentice First Aid from a First Aid trainer, then use the profession window to turn Linen Cloth into Linen Bandages. First Aid is a secondary profession, so learning it leaves both primary profession slots free. The first rank caps at 75 skill. Return to a trainer once you reach 50 skill to learn Journeyman before the cap stops your progress.

1. Learn Apprentice First Aid

1. Speak to a First Aid trainer in a settlement you can safely reach. Use a trainer listing for Forever if you need a location for your faction.
2. Train Apprentice First Aid and open the First Aid profession window.
3. Select Linen Bandage. It uses one piece of Linen Cloth per bandage.
4. Craft a few first, then check that you have the finished bandages in your bags and can use them.

Save some of the linen you find while questing if you plan to train First Aid. It is easy to sell the cloth while clearing your bags and then discover you need it back. If you also train Tailoring, decide which profession gets your first stack. A character who mainly wants a way to heal between pulls only needs a small stack of bandages to get started.

2. Use a bandage where you can finish the channel

Target yourself or a nearby friendly player and use a bandage from your bags or action bar. Stand still until the heal finishes. Damage and movement can interrupt the channel, so bandaging immediately after a fight is more reliable than trying to do it while an enemy is hitting you. Check for a damage-over-time effect before you begin if the fight has just ended.

The target gets Recently Bandaged, which normally prevents another application for one minute. It can remain even if the first bandage was interrupted. If your health barely moved and the next bandage is unavailable, check the debuff instead of repeatedly using the item. The First Aid skill requirement applies to the player applying the bandage. A friend can receive healing from your bandage without learning the profession.

3. Train your next rank before you reach 75

Linen Bandage is an early way to build skill. As the recipe becomes less likely to give skill points, check the trainer for Heavy Linen Bandage. The heavier recipe uses more cloth per craft, so you can keep making the cheaper one when you mainly want consumables. Use the recipe colors to decide where to spend your cloth. An orange recipe is a better skill-up choice than a green one if the materials cost about the same.

At 50 First Aid skill, a trainer can teach Journeyman, which raises the cap from 75 to 150. You can learn the rank before you run into the cap. If a craft gives no skill at 75, check your current rank in the profession window before buying another stack of cloth. Once you reach the next stretch of leveling, ask the trainer about Wool Bandage and compare the available recipes with the cloth you have.

4. Make a First Aid Kit if you camp with a group

At 20 First Aid skill, look for the First Aid Kit recipe from a trainer or the relevant camping introduction quest. The kit uses three Linen Bandages and one Refreshing Spring Water. Keep a few extra bandages if you plan to make one, since the kit consumes them.

The kit is a feature you place near a campfire. Players who rest by the campsite can get its Stamina benefit, which is mutually exclusive with Power Word: Fortitude. Use it when the group could use that benefit and has space to add a camp feature. If the group already has a Priest supplying Fortitude, consider leaving the slot for another profession. See our camping guide for the placement and rest steps.

Forever also moved the standard healing potion recipes into First Aid. When you're ready to make potions as well, check the First Aid trainer. If you only came for bandages, keep a stack on your bar and replace it after a dungeon or a long stretch of questing.

Keep one bandage on an easy-to-reach action bar slot so you can use it without searching your bags after each fight.