Camping is one of WoW: Forever’s new systems. The Cooking profession’s simple Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire, and other players can add profession-made camp features around it. Sit by the fire for a minute and you pick up one-hour buffs from every feature placed there. It is designed to make you stop, meet other players and share what your professions can do.
How it works
- Someone with Cooking places a Basic Campfire. A quest early in your adventure introduces the system.
- Up to three other players can each add one camp feature to a Basic Campfire. Cooks can later learn upgraded campfires that hold five or ten features.
- Players who sit or craft at the campsite for at least 1 minute gain the benefits of the features there. Blizzard ties this to becoming rested before you head back out.
- All camp features need a campfire nearby and share a 1-hour cooldown.
- Campfire buffs last one hour. They are variants of class buffs and do not stack with the class buff they mirror.
Campsites can also provide vendors, repairs and profession workspaces, and they are a natural place to refresh food buffs.
Camp features by profession
This is Blizzard’s published sample: one feature per profession. Ranges such as “6–34” scale with level.
| Profession | Camp feature | Effect | Does not stack with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooking | Basic Campfire | Lets you cook and place up to 3 other camp features | – |
| First Aid | First Aid Kit | +3–56 Stamina | Power Word: Fortitude |
| Fishing | Fishing Bowl | +8% stats | Blessing of Kings |
| Alchemy | Mana Well | 10–29 mana every 5 seconds | Blessing of Wisdom |
| Blacksmithing | Sharpening Wheel | +6–34 Strength | Strength of Earth Totem |
| Enchanting | Enchanted Lute | +28–260 armor, up to +13 all stats, up to +22 all resistances | Mark of the Wild |
| Engineering | Reagent Bot | Lets nearby players buy reagents | – |
| Herbalism | Incense Candle | +2–25 Intellect | Arcane Intellect |
| Leatherworking | Camp Tent | Rested experience increased by 5% of a level (no effect if you already have more) | – |
| Skinning | Camp Chair | +2% critical strike chance with spells and attacks | Moonkin Aura |
| Tailoring | Faction Banner | +14–32 Spirit for your faction | Divine Spirit |
Blizzard’s BlizzCon panel described the Blacksmithing Sharpening Wheel as increasing Attack Power, while the later official camping article lists Strength. We show the newer article’s wording.
Unlocking camp features
- Each profession has three different camp objects, learned at different skill levels, and each profession provides the same type of buff whichever object is placed.
- You can get a profession’s first campsite items once it reaches skill 20, from starter zone quests or the profession trainer.
- Items that need skill 140 or higher come from drops in dungeons and raids, as Blueprint recipes from specific bosses.
- Some professions unlock conveniences instead of buffs: Alchemy Laboratories, and Tanning Racks that Leatherworkers need for more advanced recipes.
Which professions help most at camp?
Every camp buff has a class equivalent it does not stack with. That makes camping most useful when your group is missing a class buff, for example no Priest for Fortitude or no Paladin for Kings. If your group already has the class buff, the matching camp feature adds nothing. The Leatherworking Camp Tent, Engineering Reagent Bot and Cooking campfire upgrades have no class equivalent, so they always help.
Camping and Legacy perks
Two Legacy perks affect camping: Field Guide reduces the 1-hour cooldown on placing camp features, and Permanence makes party, raid and camping buffs last longer. Reagent Economy also lets tier 1 camping features be crafted with no materials.
Camping on a PvP ruleset
Blizzard is clear that some places in Azeroth are safer than others to rest, and that on a PvP ruleset enemy players may come across your camp. Pick sheltered spots when you play on PvP.
Profession basics in Forever
- You can learn all three secondary professions: Cooking, Fishing and First Aid.
- You can learn two primary professions from Skinning, Mining, Herbalism, Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking and Tailoring.
- To unlearn one, open the Professions tab (K) and click the X next to it.
- Ranks still go Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan.
- Forever adds 600+ new recipes, crafted food that can give a small experience bonus as well as stats, and Blueprint recipes from dungeon bosses.
What is not confirmed yet
- The full list of all three camp objects per profession and their exact skill levels. Blizzard only published one sample per profession.
- Which bosses drop the higher-level Blueprints. We will add them once they can be checked in game.
Related guides
Sources
Facts on this page come from the sources below: official Blizzard posts unless marked as a secondary source. If Blizzard changes something, we update the page and the date above.