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First Aid is a skill that allows you to craft and use bandages from cloth (generally obtained from Humanoid enemies). Bandages, like their application in real life, allow you to restore your characters hit points. Like most restoration abilities, bandages can only be used when nothing is hitting you. Even with this limitation, they are still very valuable in both during and after combat.

Bandages directly heal your hit points in “ticks” while you are channeling them. You can do nothing else (no attacking, moving, etc.) while using a bandage. The health is received in ticks (generally one second apart). So if a bandage heals 300 hit points over 10 seconds, you will receive 30 hits every second for 10 seconds. After a bandage has finished channeling (through any means) you will gain a debuff that will not allow you to use another bandage for sixty seconds

Bandages have a great advantage over food in that they can be used while standing and while in combat. All enemies have a 100% chance to gain a critical strike against you while sitting, which makes eating a very risky thing to do in an area with a ton of enemies (PvP for instance). Food can not be using in combat, but bandages can. This means that if you can heal yourself during combat (assuming nothing is hitting on you, which will interrupt the bandage channeling).

Bandages can be used on other players, even if they do not have the First Aid skill. This has plenty of implications, for instance allowing a Priest to regain mana while you bandage the group. Bandages are extremely useful in several instance fights where you can duck out of the action to recover your health.

Skill Books and Advancing in First Aid

Advancing in First Aid is similar to fishing and cooking. At fist you’ll be able to increase your ability by simply training at a trainer. When you reach 125 skill in First Aid you’ll then need to begin using various books (and later even a quest) in order to advance your skill and learn new recipes. Since First Aid is such a viable skill, these books are quite easy to get and mostly can be purchased from special locations.

[125 – 225] Book: Expert First Aid – Under Wraps
Useable at 125 skill in First Aid and raises your potential to allow you go up to 225 in skill.

This book can be purchased for one gold at two different vendors, depending on what faction you are with. The Alliance will need to seek out Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Ruins. The location is 27,58 (the Alliance held portion of Stromgarde). The Horde will need to seek out Balai Lok’Wein who is located in Brackenwall Village inside of Dustwallow Marsh.

While you are there, pick up the Heavy Silk Bandage and Mageweave Bandage Manuals.

[225-300] Quest: Triage
At level 35 and with 225 skill in First Aid you can seek out a special quest that will allow you to obtain a potential of 300 skill in First Aid and open up the path to learn more recipes.

1. Alliance: You’ll need to head to Theramore Isle and seek out Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in the far right corner of the keep. You’ll know which one because there will be soldiers outside practicing.
   Horde: You’ll need to head to Hammerfall in Arathi Highlands and seek out Doctor Gregory Victor.
2. Position yourself in the middle of the room, kind of beyond the Doctor. You may have to move around a little but you’ll get the feel for the location in a little bit.
3. Clear away some space on your quickbar and open your inventory to the first open slot. Go ahead and take the quest from the Doctor. Various sick people will spawn on the bed and you’ll be given bandages.
4. Move the bandages to your quickbar and start bandaging the sick people. You’ll want to bandage the Critically Injured first, then the Badly Inured, then the Injured.
5. Continue doing it one after another until you’ve cured about 15 patients. If you didn’t fail the quest (too many died) then the doctor should have a golden question mark above his head letting you know you’re done. If you did fail then you’ll have to start over.

You’ll have to return to this doctor to learn Heavy Mageweave, Runecloth, and Heavy Runecloth bandages. He’ll train you for free when you have enough skill.

[300-375] Master First Aid – Doctor in the House
Useable at 300 skill in First Aid and raises your potential to allow you go up to 375 in skill.

In Outland this book can be purchased in either Falcon Watch for the Horde or the Temple of Telhamat for the Alliance. At the same location you can pick up a Netherweave and Heavy Netherweave books!

FAQ

Who can use First Aid?
First Aid is a secondary skill that is available to everyone. Anyone (above level five) in the game, no matter what professions they currently have, can pick up First Aid.

Where can I learn First Aid?
When you obtain level five seek out and ask a guard where the First Aid trainer is.

How do I use First Aid?
Once you’ve obtained the necessary cloth (for instance, Linen Cloth), navigate to your spellbooks first page and find First Aid. Left click on the skill, select the bandage you wish to craft, then click craft. Later on you can right click on the bandages in your inventory (or place them on your hotbar) and “cast” them on yourself or others.

Where can I find cloth necessary for First Aid?
Cloth is generally found off of Humanoid enemies and enemies. You can also purchase cloth from the Auction House, but sometimes it’s cheaper to buy the bandages. Do some price research before you buy!

I tried to use a bandage but it stopped! What’s going on?
Bandages can only be used while you are taking no damage and standing still. If you move, some hits you with a melee attack or spell, or do any action but stand still then the bandage will stop healing you. Any health gained up to that point is yours to keep though. If you are targeting another player then that player can not take damage while you are using the bandage as well.

How do I raise my First Aid skill?
Craft green, yellow, or orange bandages. Grey bandages will give no skill while red ones can not be made (with the nature of First Aid you will rarely have red bandages). As you skill increases you can purchase new bandage types.

What are the skill caps?
Journeyman First Aid will raise your skill cap from 75 to 150. Once you gain 150 First Aid skill, you will need to purchase a First Aid book to become an Expert and raise your cap to 225. At 225, become an Artisan (from a quest) for a 300 skill cap. When you reach 300 skill you'll need a book from Outland to increase the skill cap to 375

Are there any snazzy bandage tactics?
Yes! In PvP combat (you can purchase PvP bandages at various levels from battleground vendors) you can stun someone then begin using a bandage. You can also stun/crowd control someone and hide then use a bandage. Remember, you get healed until you take damage again. So if you were to Frost Nova a Warrior that would give you plenty of time to get atleast 1,000 HP restored with a Heavy Runecloth Bandage.

Bandages

Heavy bandages require two cloth pieces while regular bandages only require one. Books can be found either in the wild (Strong Anti-Venom) or from various stores (Heavy Silk, Mageweave see above, Powerful Anti-Venom is available from the Argent Dawn).

Bandage Name	Obtained from...
Linen Bandage (66 hp)	Starting Skill
Heavy Linen Bandage (114 hp)	First Aid 40 - Trainer
Anti-Venom (Cures level 25 and below poisons)	First Aid 80 - Trainer
Wool Bandage (301 hp)	First Aid 115 - Trainer
Strong Anti-Venom (Level 35 poisons)	First Aid 130 - Book
Silk Bandage (400 hp)	First Aid 150 - Trainer
Heavy Silk Bandage (640 hp)	First Aid 180 - Book
Mageweave Bandage (800 hp)	First Aid 210 - Book
Heavy Mageweave Bandage (1104 hp)	First Aid 240 - Trainer
Runecloth Bandage (1360 hp)	First Aid 260 - Trainer
Heavy Runecloth Bandage (2000 hp )	First Aid 290 - Trainer
Formula: Powerful Anti-Venom (Argent Dawn)	First Aid 300 - Book
Powerful Anti-Venom (Level 60 poisons)	First Aid 300 - Book
Netherweave Bandage	First Aid 330 - Book
Heavy Netherweave Bandage	First Aid 360 - Book

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