Gather Around the Campfire in World of Warcraft: Forever

There is something special about seeing another adventurer on the road. Maybe they are headed toward the same quest objective, recovering after a close fight, or simply taking the long way through a dangerous zone. In World of Warcraft: Forever, the Camping system gives those moments more room to grow by turning a simple Cooking Fire into a place where players can rest, prepare, and connect. The system expands the Cooking profession’s simple Cooking Fire into a Basic Campfire. Once placed, the Basic Campfire creates a shared campsite where nearby players can rest and gain benefits from profession-made camp features before setting out again. Those reasons to linger can turn a roadside pause into a helpful encounter, a trading opportunity, or the start of new friendships. Camp Features give professions a more visible role in the world. A Basic Campfire can support up to three special crafted objects contributed by nearby players, with each player able to add one. Each profession brings its own form of utility, such as a blacksmith placing a Sharpening Wheel that increases Strength for an hour, a tailor placing a Faction Banner that increases Spirit, or an herbalist placing an Incense Candle that increases Intellect. These effects are variants of buffs normally provided by specific classes and are exclusive with them. Players sitting or crafting at a campsite for at least 1 minute will gain the benefits from other camp features. This provides an opportunity to get to know your fellow adventurers, and perhaps embark on a journey together. How Camping and Profession Camp Features Work Early in your adventures, a simple quest introduces the Camping system and shows how a campfire can become a useful gathering place for players out in the world. Once a profession reaches skill level 20, you can acquire its first campsite items through starter zone quests or purchase them from a profession trainer. Items that require skill level 140 or higher are found through drops in dungeons and raids. About Professions Secondary Professions You can learn all three secondary professions: Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid. Primary Professions You can learn two primary professions. These include the gathering professions Skinning, Mining, and Herbalism, as well as the crafting professions Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring. To learn a profession, visit a trainer in the world or in a major city. To unlearn one, open the Professions tab (K) or select it from the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, then click the “X” next to the profession you want to remove. Profession ranks progress from Apprentice to Journeyman, Expert, and finally Artisan. The Professions tab also shows available recipes and blueprints, their required materials, and whether crafting an item will increase your skill. The table below lists a sample of each profession’s camp features, required skill levels, and benefits. All Camping features require a campfire to be nearby and share a cooldown of 1 hour. Profession Item Skill Level Details Cooking Basic Campfire 1 Builds a Basic Campfire that allows cooking and the placement of up to 3 additional camp features. Players sitting or crafting nearby for 1 minute will gain benefits from other camp features First Aid First Aid Kit 20 Unpacks a First Aid Kit that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 3-56 increased Stamina (level dependent), exclusive with Power Word: Fortitude. Fishing Fishing Bowl 20 Places a small Fishing Bowl that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 8% increased stats, exclusive with Blessing of Kings. Alchemy Mana Well 20 Constructs a Mana Well that allows you and others sitting nearby to regenerate 10-29 Mana every 5 seconds (level dependent), mutually exclusive with Blessing of Wisdom. Blacksmithing Sharpening Wheel 20 Constructs a Sharpening Wheel that grants you and others sitting nearby 6-34 increased Strength (level dependent), mutually exclusive with Strength of Earth Totem. Enchanting Enchanted Lute 20 Summons an Enchanted Lute that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 28-260 Armor, 0-13 increase to all stats, and 0-22 increase to all resistances (level dependent), mutually exclusive with Mark of the Wild. Engineering Reagent Bot 20 Summons a Reagent Bot that allows you and others nearby to purchase reagents. Herbalism Incense Candle 20  Ignites an Incense Candle that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 2-25 increased Intellect (level dependent), mutually exclusive with Arcane Intellect. Leatherworking Camp Tent 20  Builds a Camp Tent that allows you and others sitting nearby to increase Rested experience by 5% of a level. No effect if Rested experience already exceeds that value. Skinning Camp Chair 20 Assembles a Camp Chair that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 2% increased critical strike chance with all spells and attacks, exclusive with Moonkin Aura. Tailoring Faction Banner 20  Unrolls a Faction Banner that allows you and other members of your faction sitting nearby to gain 14-32 increased Spirit (level dependent), mutually exclusive with Divine Spirit. Cooks can eventually learn upgraded Campfires that allow five or even 10 objects to be placed at a camp, while other professions unlock helpful conveniences such as Alchemy Laboratories and Tanning Racks. To receive campsite buffs, players need to sit by the campfire briefly and become rested before returning to the road. That pause makes rest, preparation, and community part of the journey, supporting a playstyle built around traveling at your own pace instead of rushing between capital cities and your objectives. Choose your campsite carefully. Some places in Azeroth are better suited to a quiet rest than others, and danger can still find you when you stop. On a PvP Ruleset, that risk increases when enemy players come upon your camp. Whether you are repairing gear, preparing your group, or sharing a fire with passing adventurers, Camping offers another way to live in Azeroth—not just move through it. We’ll see you by the campfire!