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Bandaging 101

Bandages are made with cloth (every kind of base cloth can be turned into bandages like Linen and Frostweave). Cloth is a very common drop from humanoids and is readably available in mass quantities (and even for cheap on the auction house). You use your skill to turn your cloth into bandages and then use the bandages to heal yourself. Simple right? Well hold on, there are a few caveats to it.

Bandages are a channeled spell that is interrupted in one hit. So you can be in combat and use them, but you can’t get hit otherwise they’re canceled. Keep reading for some awesome bandage tips to get the most out of them. The other caveat is that they put a 60 second debuff on you that keeps you from being bandaged again. This means if your bandage is interrupted then you’ll have to wait a minute to use them again.

This means that they’re useful in a lot of situations, but in some situations they might not be the best thing to rely on.

Learning and Training First Aid

First Aid is learned from trainers inside of every major city. From the skill level of 1-290 you can find trainers inside of the major cities inside of Azeroth. For 300-330 you’ll need to seek the wisdom of the trainers in Outland. For 350+ you’ll have to rely on the guidance of the trainers in Northrend. It’s that simple. There are no quests for First Aid anymore (although you can do them) so there is no need to worry about that.

Training First Aid is super simple. You’ll gain a skill level every time you create a orange receipe, almost every time you make something that’s yellow, and now and then off of something that’s green. Basic profession rules. Grey bandages won’t get you anywhere on the road to mastering First Aid. As you make your bandages you’ll level up the skill until you can get newer recipes from the trainer. In First Aid it’s a very linear path progressing from the newbie cloth all the way up to the Northrend cloth. Pretty simple huh?

So you’ll start at Linen Bandages and you’ll make about 40 of them to get to Heavy Linen Bandages. They’ll take 2 Linen Cloth instead of 1, but you’ll make about 40 of those (or more) to get to Wool Bandages. The same will repeat until you’re all the way up to Frostweave Bandages. See the chart below for the skill levels required for each type of bandage and how much they heal.

Tips and Tricks for First Aid

As we learned earlier there are a few rules to bandaging. You can’t get hit and you can’t use another one for a minute. So when’s the best time to use them? When you’re between pulls in solo PvE (instead of eating, for faster health regen) is the best one. It can really speed up time between pools and even healers like Priests, Druids, Shamans, and Paladins benefit by not having to spend mana to heal themselves.

In combat you can utilize a stun (Hammer of Justice for instance, or War Stomp) to get some distance or to just start using the bandage. It’ll heal a little bit and you’ll be a little bit head in the Hit Point game. In PvP this might not be the best idea ever, but you can pull it off to get a quick heal if you’re careful.

In raiding you can, sometimes, get away from an enemy and bandage yourself to help the healers a little bit. It’s not a sure fire way of saving yourself and modern raiding sees a lot more raiding healing now a days, but there may be encounters where this is beneficial to yourself.

Bandages often sell well on some servers. Many players have the ability so there isn’t a lot of work to be had, but you can sometimes sell bandages for more than the pure cloth sells for. A way to stretch your assets for a little bit more on the auction house.

First Aid Recipes