First Aid Guide (1-450)

Maw (the author) is noMaw (the author) is no longer playing WoW, so this may need to be taken over by another author.

Once I get a chance to reorganize the needed guides page, I’ll add this one to it.

updateany idea on when this is being updated?

Just read at 3.1 patchnotesJust read at 3.1 patchnotes that you do no longer need to buy books to learn new bandages, nor do you have to do Triage. I will update this in the guide shortly.

This is a great guide.

ButThis is a great guide.

But if you’re still around to update it, patch 3.1 changed some things regarding First Aid. There are no books to be bought anymore and you need not to do the quests past level 225. Basically, you can level your First Aid up to level 300 with a trainer in any main city in Azeroth.

Hah, thanks.

Fixing it now!Hah, thanks.

Fixing it now! 😉

One mistakeHey,

first: great guide, very proffessional, but i found one mistake

Alliance
Talk to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen for the last time to learn how to make Heavy[color=#000080] Runecloth Bandages.
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290 – 330

you left out heavy in the link

Well, real solid facts withWell, real solid facts with one character cannot necessarily be extrapolated to all characters, it may just be that you happened to get more successful skill ups by chance.

However I do agree, I typically have a greater than 50% skill up when making bandages in the yellow range, I think Blizz must do this on purpose since you have so few options on what to make.

I do also provide you withI do also provide you with links to wowhead.

What you’re missing?…What you’re missing?

… that first aid 400-430 really doesn’t need that much cloth when it comes down to it. Theorycrafting is never as reliable as real, solid facts.

Though you may be right that I’ve misjudged the amount of cloth and bandages needed to get to level 450.

I’ll look closer into this, and edit parts if neccesary.

Thanks for the feedback 😉

Linen and SilkI agree with earlier comments re keeping making Heavy Linen Bandage and Heavy Silk Bandage till they turn grey.

Mats are cheap to buy and easy to farm compared to Wool and Mageweave.

I’ve levelled 19 toons on 3 servers and find that maxing linen and silk is far better if you’d rather spend a little more time and less gold.

Not really the most cost effective…On the vast majority of servers linen and silk are far easier to get, or cheaper in price than the steps above them (Wool [As high as 10g stack], and Mageweave [8g or more per stack], and this isn’t just cost, we’re talking about drops/’farmability’ here.) so it makes a lot more sense to continue to make Heavy Linen and Heavy Silk, even while green. I find that it’s a lot easier to go out to random mobs, and smack them around for some linen, rather than going to Shadowfang Keep/Deadmines/Stockades in an effort to farm the wool. Silk is another that is incredibly fast to farm in places like Scarlet Monastery (Graveyard is great since most of them aren’t elite) and much easier than killing ogres in badlands or trolls in Northern Stranglethorn, or even farming Zul’Farrak. Since the drop rates are slower and/or lower for Wool and Mageweave, it’s usually STILL more time effective as well as cost, to make the green bandages.

I mention farming instances, since most likely anyone looking for a guide on how to level First Aid, is likely someone who leveled quickly and neglected it; not someone who is trying to raise it as they go.

400-450 in just 50 bandages?Heavy Frostweave Bandage is yellow when you learn it at 400, and turns green at 430. I haven’t seen any indication that this is changing in 3.1.

By that reckoning, I would expect it to take an average of 120 cloth (60 bandages at 50% chance of skill increase) just to hit 430, and considerable amounts from there to 450.

What am I missing?

MistakesMy first Post here on wow-pro, although I am reading james guide since 2007 😉

I have found one mistake in your guide: you have to learn the master bock at skill 300 and then continue to 330 to learn the netherweave bandage.

Second is a suggestion: when you learn it all at lvl 80 you can skip the heavy netherweave bandage because it will be cheaper now to skip to frostweave bandage at skill 350, because till 375 you learn with only 25 pieces of frostcloth, with netherweave you will need 60-80 netherweave and that will cost the same amount of gold.

I hope my English is understandable

Ascosine

First: Great guide, all tidyFirst: Great guide, all tidy and everything nicely put together.

Secondly: I was going to ask to be more specific where we could find the NPCs that sell the manuals (Like Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen being in ‘Theramore – Dustwallow Marsh’, instead of just saying ‘Dustwallow Marsh’). But after reading more in details I noticed the coordinates so you can forget this remark =)

Good guide, 5/5 – One thingGood guide, 5/5 – One thing though. You say that you should grind mobs in Zul’Drak until the last manual drops… As far as I know,it can drop anywhere, I got in an instance, while my friend had it as a world drop.

Just a thing to note, I guess.

~Trollvink.

[b]Edit:[/b] Just checked Wowhead, and saw that highest drop chance (outside dungeons) is Zul’Drak… So ignore this comment if you want 😉

Very nicely done, perfectVery nicely done, perfect 😉

According the the revisionAccording the the revision history it was me 😮 That’s creepy!!

Hah, don’t look at me!Hah, don’t look at me!

It seems someone had alreadyIt seems someone had already done this when I read your comment.

Jiyambi …? 😛

I love itI love it! It’s so neat, tidy, and thorough! But, I think your “Table of Content” should be renamed the “Table of Contents”.

Very Good!Very Good! I like this guide, and I’ve not even tried it yet!

One spelling error though:

[i]”Now, you will need Manual: Heavy Frostweave Bandage. Kill mobs in Zul’Drak in order to get this. Once you obtain it, read it to learn how to make Heavy Frostweave [b]Bamdages[/b].”[/i]

[b]Bandages[/b]

Apart from that, top notch!

– Skumball