First Aid in WoW Forever levels the same way as in Classic: every bandage turns yellow and grey at the same skill, the book Expert First Aid – Under Wraps unlocks skill 150 to 225, and the Triage quest unlocks Artisan at skill 225 and character level 35. That comes from comparing the beta client’s game data with the Classic Era client. What Forever adds: First Aid now makes the Minor to Major Healing Potions that used to belong to Alchemy, plus cures for bleeds, poisons and diseases, as Blizzard showed in its BlizzCon demo, and a First Aid Kit camp object that gives Stamina to everyone at your campfire.

Updated November 5, 2026: now covers WoW Forever, where First Aid levels the same way and also makes healing potions. The 50 gold cost is our 2019 Classic estimate.

First Aid Leveling Materials

In this First Aid guide, the cloth amounts are the minimum you will need. At some points, you might be crafting yellow or even green bandages, and so I advise getting some extra. The list covers 1 to 375 in Classic and TBC; WoW Forever stops at 300, so skip the Netherweave there.

  • Linen Cloth: 6 Stacks (120)
  • Wool Cloth: 6 Stacks (120)
  • Silk Cloth: 5 Stacks (100)
  • Mageweave Cloth: 4 Stacks (80)
  • Runecloth: 6-8 Stacks (120-160)
  • Netherweave Cloth: 4 Stacks (80)

If you have extra Mageweave Cloth, or if it’s much cheaper, you can also get to 300 just crafting the Heavy Mageweave Bandage.

First Aid Guide: Books & Triage Quest

Trainers only teach First Aid up to 150. Once you reach skill 125, buy the book Expert First Aid – Under Wraps from a vendor of your faction; it teaches the next stage, Expert First Aid, which takes you to 225.

For the Alliance, it is available from Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep. Players of the Horde can purchase it from Balai Lok’Wein in Brackenwall Village.

The next stage of this First Aid guide is a bit trickier. As soon as you hit skill 225 and character level 35, you need to complete the quest Triage. This will allow you to skill up to 300. The quest is available in Theramore Isle (Dustwallow Marsh) for Alliance and Hammerfall (Arathi Highlands) for Horde respectively.

The quest requires you to keep soldiers alive by healing them. Here’s a nice trick to make it easy for you:

You should always heal critically injured, then badly injured, then injured and finally the most recent spawn.

How to get First Aid to 300

Other than the above-mentioned difficulties, it is quite simple. You need to save all the cloth you get and craft bandages from them. If you buy all the cloth at level 60, First Aid 1-300 costs about 50 gold by our 2019 Classic estimate. It depends on your server’s prices, of course. Simply always craft the best bandages you can learn until you can learn the next one. This profession is quite straight forward, as there is really only one option most of the time.

First Aid in WoW Forever: Healing Potions and Curatives

First Aid in WoW Forever keeps every Classic bandage and the same route to 300, so the cloth amounts, the book and the Triage quest above hold. What’s new, from Blizzard’s BlizzCon demo and the beta client’s game data:

  • Healing potions. Minor, Lesser, regular, Greater, Superior and Major Healing Potion are First Aid recipes, each made from one herb, vendor spices and a vial, with the same healing as in Classic. Bandages are still the cheaper way to gain skill, so make the potions you will drink.
  • Curatives. Poultices cure diseases and tourniquets cure bleeds, and a new Potent Anti-Venom joins Classic’s three anti-venoms.
  • Camp objects. The First Aid Kit (skill 20, made from 3 Linen Bandages) gives everyone sitting at your campfire extra Stamina, 56 at level 60, and doesn’t stack with Power Word: Fortitude.
  • Cloth. Forever’s tailors use far more Mageweave and Runecloth than Classic’s, so expect those two to cost more after launch. First Aid needs only about 90 Mageweave and 63 Runecloth on our Forever route, so keep what you loot.

Our WoW Forever First Aid leveling guide has the full route with craft counts, every trainer on a map and all potion and curative recipes. The WoW Forever professions guide explains why every character should take First Aid and Cooking, and our WoW Forever cloth farming guide shows where each cloth drops.

TBC First Aid Leveling Guide 300-375

In TBC Classic Anniversary, First Aid goes to 375 (WoW Forever’s cap is 300). To get there, this is what you should craft:

  • 300-330: 40x Heavy Runecloth Bandage (2x Runecloth)
  • 331-360: 40x Netherweave Bandage (1x Netherweave Cloth)
  • 361-375: 20x Heavy Netherweave Bandage (2x Netherweave Cloth)

TBC First Aid Trainer

  • Master First Aid Trainer
    • (Alliance) Burko in the Temple of Telhammat, Hellfire Peninsula.
    • (Horde) Aresella in Falcon Watch, Hellfire Peninsula

These two NPCs sell the book Master First Aid – Doctor in the House to get your profession rank to the next level and the two recipes Manual: Netherweave Bandage and Manual: Heavy Netherweave Bandage.