Camping is one of WoW Forever’s biggest new systems. Any cook can light a campfire in the world, other players can add features from their own professions, and everyone sitting at the camp gets one-hour buffs.
How a camp works
- Light a campfire. Learn Cooking: its Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire at skill 1.
- Add camp features. A Basic Campfire holds 3 features, one from each nearby player. Cooks can later unlock bigger campfires that hold 5 or 10.
- Sit down. Sit or craft at the camp for at least one minute to get the other features’ buffs. Sitting by the fire also makes you rested.
- Move on. All camp features share a one-hour cooldown.
On the PvP ruleset, enemy players can find your camp and attack it.
Every camp feature
All features need skill 20 in their profession, except the Basic Campfire (Cooking 1). Buff values grow with your level, so the table shows the lowest and highest.
| Profession | Camp feature | Effect | Doesn’t stack with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooking | Basic Campfire | Cook here; holds up to 3 features | — |
| First Aid | First Aid Kit | +3 to 56 Stamina | Power Word: Fortitude |
| Fishing | Fishing Bowl | +8% stats | Blessing of Kings |
| Alchemy | Mana Well | 10 to 29 mana every 5 seconds | Blessing of Wisdom |
| Blacksmithing | Sharpening Wheel | +6 to 34 Strength | Strength of Earth Totem |
| Enchanting | Enchanted Lute | Up to +260 Armor, +13 all stats and +22 all resistances | Mark of the Wild |
| Engineering | Reagent Bot | Nearby players can buy reagents | — |
| Herbalism | Incense Candle | +2 to 25 Intellect | Arcane Intellect |
| Leatherworking | Camp Tent | Rested experience worth 5% of a level | — |
| Skinning | Camp Chair | +2% critical strike chance | Moonkin Aura |
| Tailoring | Faction Banner | +14 to 32 Spirit for your faction | Divine Spirit |
Camp buffs are versions of class buffs, so they don’t stack with the matching class buff. They’re most useful when your group doesn’t have that class.
Getting camp items
- Skill 20 items come from starting-zone quests or your profession trainer.
- Skill 140+ items drop from dungeons and raids as Blueprints.
- Open the Professions tab (K) to see recipes and blueprints, what they need and whether crafting them raises your skill.
Professions in general
- Primary: pick two of Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Herbalism, Leatherworking, Mining, Skinning and Tailoring.
- Secondary: Cooking, Fishing and First Aid. You can learn all three.
- Ranks go Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan. Learn them from trainers in the world or in major cities.
- To drop a profession, click the X next to it in the Professions tab.
- Blizzard is adding 600+ new recipes. Crafted food now gives a small experience bonus as well as stats.
Gathering also ties into the Legacy system: the Bountiful Harvest perk gives extra materials from Mining, Herbalism and Skinning.