Camping

How a camp works

Blizzard's camping article (21 October) describes the system: Cooking's old Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire, and players nearby each add one crafted object. Everyone who sits or crafts at the camp for a minute gains the benefits of the other objects there. Each benefit replaces a class buff rather than stacking with it.

Icy Veins adds the detail: sitting down gives a one-minute Welcoming Campfire countdown, after which every camp benefit lasts an hour. Warcraft Tavern says the effects merge into one Camp Benefits buff, and that sitting again picks up newly placed features without losing the old ones. A beta build in September let players buff, cast and craft while waiting, and counts sitting in a chair, sleeping, lying down or kneeling as sitting (Blizzard's development notes).

You can camp almost anywhere outdoors except in major cities, with a minimum distance between fires (Icy Veins). Blizzard warns that a camp is riskier on a PvP ruleset, where enemy players can find it.

Campfire sizes

The kits are single-use. wow-professions.com suggests crafting a stack of Basic Campfire Kits at home, since Simple Wood is cheap from trade and general goods vendors.

Sources quote different skill numbers. Wowhead and Icy Veins give 90 and 200; ForeverDB's client data and Warcraft Tavern give 140 and 220. wow-professions.com explains the gap: you learn the Blueprint at the lower skill but can only use the kit at the higher one, which it suspects is a bug.

What each profession adds

Every profession has three features, at skill 20, 140 and 300. Cooking's first "feature" is the campfire itself. The higher tiers keep the tier 1 buff, so a Master Forge still gives the Sharpening Wheel's Strength (ForeverDB). Whether tier 3 also keeps the tier 2 station isn't confirmed (wow-professions.com).

Most buffs scale with your level. The Lodestone gives 12 to 90 attack power and the First Aid Kit 3 to 56 Stamina, for example (ForeverDB). The Camp Tent works once an hour, tracked by a Boosted Rest debuff (Warcraft Tavern). Two small disagreements: Blizzard's article table leaves out Mining's Lodestone, though the client has it, and Blizzard's September Deep Dive recap said the Sharpening Wheel raised attack power, while the later article and the client say Strength.

The Engineering bot sells class reagents and profession supplies. wow-professions.com found no Tanning Rack, Loom or similar station anywhere in the world, so many higher-level recipes will need a camp that has one.

Unlocking features

Around level 5, the quest The Great Outdoors asks you to /sit at a campfire, then sends you to learn Cooking (Wowhead). At skill 20, each profession's first feature comes from the trainer or a starter-zone quest, Camping 101; both quests are optional (wow-professions.com). Blizzard says items needing skill 140 or more drop in dungeons and raids. The tier 2 Blueprints found in the beta:

Where the tier 3 Blueprints and the Expert Campfire drop is unknown: they sit above the beta's level 30 cap. Camp items can be traded and sold on the Auction House, but placing one needs the skill (Icy Veins).

Legacy perks and other extras

• Field Guide (Adventure tree) cuts the feature cooldown by 8/17/25% (ForeverDB; Icy Veins lists 8/16/25%).
• Permanence (Resourcefulness) makes camp benefits last 50/100% longer.
• Reagent Economy: Blizzard and Wowhead say it also makes tier 1 camp features free to craft; the client tooltip on ForeverDB mentions only class reagents.
• Cozy Sleeping Bag: a quest chain from level 14 gives a bag that adds 1% experience per minute slept, up to 3%, and stacks with camp buffs and cooked food (Warcraft Tavern).
• Addons: AzerothArchive Campsite Tracker shares the camps you find with your group and guild; ForeverArtisan covers camping alongside all twelve professions (Addons).