First Aid

Tradeskill Alchemy Blacksmith Enchanting Engineering Inscription Jewelcrafting Leatherworking Tailoring Herbalism Mining Skinning Cooking First Aid Fishing Vendor Bind on Pickup Reputation One of the secondary tradeskills, it is an awesome skill for every class. Tailoring is the only tradeskill that uses a large amount of cloth and if you aren't doing that trade skill, I highly recommend you pick up First Aid at level 5 when it becomes available. Lets you create Bandages from all the cloth that drops off humanoid mobs, and Anti-Venom from venom sacks that drop off spiders. Bandages and Anti-Venom can be used on yourself, but they can also be used on other players. The only requirement is that your level of First Aid must meet the use requirement of the Bandage or Anti-Venom. Training Expert First Aid - Under Wraps Because there is no level requirement for training First Aid up to 225, a level 1 character could train to 225 and use Heavy Runecloth Bandages. To get beyond 225 you will need to be level 35 and have exactly 225 First Aid skill before you can do the Triage quest. Artisan First Aid and Artisan level Bandages are learned from Doctor Gregory Victor in Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands for the Horde, or Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh for the Alliance. After you have accepted the quest you will be given 20 Triage Bandages. Stand in the center of the room and apply Bandages to the injured soldiers as quickly as you can. Top priority are the Critically injured, followed by the Seriously injured, and then the Badly injured. If you fail the quest, just do it again. You'll get more Bandages. Be sure to put the Bandages on an action bar so you can quickly activate as soon as you have targeted a soldier. After you are done, you can drop the Triage Bandages, I don't think they are useful for anything else. If you brought cloth with you you may level First Aid and get the recipes from the physician up through Heavy Runecloth. For the Horde, the quest to learn Artisan First Aid begins with the First Aid trainer in Orgrimmar. The quest becomes available once 225 skill in First Aid is reached. The next step of the quest is given by Gregory Victor in Hammerfall who asks you to use an item (which he gives you) to heal 15 injured NPCs in the building in speedy fashion. After doing so, talking to him again will complete the quest and Artisan First Aid is the reward. Once you reach the appropriate level of First Aid, the Heavy Mageweave Bandage, Runecloth, and Heavy Runecloth recipes are also learned from Gregory Victor or Gustaf VanHowzen. There is no cost associated, just talk to him and he'll offer to teach the recipe. Bandage Bandages act as quick and powerful heal over time, and can be used to lessen downtime while leveling, or as life savers since their timer is independent of the potion timer. You should be able to ask a guard in any of the main cities to find the First Aid trainer. Turn that dropped cloth into something good! Target of a Bandage must remain standing and stationary. Any damage interrupts the effect, so if the target is poisoned, remove the poison before using the Bandage. Note that 'use' level requirement is lower than 'make' level requirement. Bandage Skill to Make Skill to Use Healing Seconds Linen 1 1 66 6 Heavy Linen 40 20 114 6 Wool 80 50 161 7 Heavy Wool 115 75 301 7 Silk 150 100 400 8 Heavy Silk 180 125 640 8 Mageweave 210 150 800 8 Heavy Mageweave 240 175 1,104 8 Runecloth 260 200 1,360 8 Heavy Runecloth 290 225 2,000 8 Netherweave 330 300 2,800 8 Heavy Netherweave 360 325 3,400 8 Cloth vs Bandages If you have a lot of cloth, what do you do with it? Send it to a Tailor Make Bandages Sell it on Auction House Turn it to faction NPCs for experience and reputation Sell it to NPC vendors For this last option, you can actually do better by turning some cloth into Bandages rather than selling it directly. If your First Aid is above 360 you can make Heavy Netherweave Bandages out of Netherweave and make more money than selling it directly. Here is a table that shows how much you get for each cloth type. Vendor value is how much you would get per cloth if you sold it directly; Bolt, Bandage and Heavy Bandage values are the profit or loss for making those and then selling it to a vendor. Cloth Value Bolt Bandage Heavy Bandage Silver Copper Silver Copper Silver Copper Silver Copper Linen 0 13 0 7 0 -3 0 -3 Wool 0 33 0 0 0 -5 0 -5 Silk 1 50 0 0 0 50 0 50 Mageweave 2 50 0 0 1 50 0 50 Runecloth 4 10 0 0 1 0 1 0 Netherweave 8 0 -1 33 7 0 3 25 As you can see, you could make more money from Linen if you made it into bolts before you sold it, though admittedly the profit is so small that it's hardly worth the effort. Linen is the only cloth that profits from making it into bolts. Wool can't make a profit from anything Silk and Runecloth can profit from Bandages or Heavy Bandages Mageweave can make more profit from Bandages Netherweave makes the most profit on Heavy Bandages Of particular note is that if you ever see Netherweave on the auction house for less than 3 Gold per stack, you can buy it and make it into Heavy Bandages and sell the result to an NPC for a profit. Anti-Venom Anti-Venom removes poison effects. Name Skill to Make Cure Level Reagent Note Anti-Venom 80 25 Small Venom Sack Train at First Aid trainer Strong Anti-Venom 130 35 Large Venom Sack Recipe is world drop Powerful Anti-Venom 300 60 Huge Venom Sack Argent Dawn reputation recipe