WoW Forever Camping Guide: Campfires & Rested XP

Camping is not a profession of its own. The campfire comes from Cooking: from skill 1, a cook can craft a Basic Campfire Kit with Simple Wood and a Flint and Tinder. The other professions each add camp objects that you place next to a lit fire. Two of them matter most for leveling: the Camp Tent, made with Leatherworking, and the Camp Chair, made with Skinning. According to the beta, an early quest around levels 5 to 6 introduces the system, and each profession has a short introduction quest for its first camp object.

• Place the campfire outdoors. According to beta reports, cities and some areas refuse it, and two fires cannot sit too close to each other.
• Sit near the fire. The Welcoming Campfire effect grants the camp benefits after a short time spent sitting nearby; the beta reports about one minute, sitting or crafting.
• Each player adds one camp object at a time. On the beta, camp objects share a cooldown of about one hour, so a full camp needs several players.
• You do not need to be grouped with the player who lit the fire to use the camp.
• Most camp buffs reportedly last one hour, and dying removes them: you must camp again to get them back.

A bigger fire holds more camp objects. The Basic Campfire Kit is available from Cooking 1 and holds three objects. The Journeyman Campfire Kit needs Cooking 90 and Star Wood, and holds five. The Expert Campfire Kit needs Cooking 200 and Thick Logs, and holds ten. The two upgrades are not taught by the trainer: you learn them from Blueprint: Journeyman Campfire and Blueprint: Expert Campfire. Our data does not yet confirm where these blueprints drop.

The recipe table on this page is generated from the game data: for each camping recipe it shows the item, the skill levels where it turns orange, yellow, green and grey, the reagents and how you learn it. Use it to plan when to craft the next kit while you level Cooking.

The Camp Tent is the leveling object. Sitting near it raises your rested experience up to 5% of a level, once per hour, with no effect if you already have more than that. It is a small top-up, not a replacement for an inn.

Logging out is different. Our data does not confirm that a campfire counts as an inn. The Legacy plan therefore assumes the usual estimate: 5% of a level every 8 hours in an inn, up to 150%, and only a quarter of that rate outside an inn. Read the Legacy guide to see how rested experience fits with playing several characters in turn.

• Before a long questing loop far from town, to start with the one-hour buffs.
• Between two zones, when you stop to craft, cook or sort your bags anyway.
• At the end of a session away from an inn, to top up rested experience with a Camp Tent before you log out.
• With other players nearby: their objects make the camp stronger at no cost to you.

• Forgetting Simple Wood and Flint and Tinder: without them, a cook cannot light the fire.
• Standing next to the fire instead of sitting: the benefits only come after you sit or craft nearby.
• Expecting a campfire to replace an inn for logging out: plan the night in an inn or a city.
• Skipping Cooking on a gathering character: one cook in the group is enough, but someone has to light the fire.
• Dying right after camping: the buffs are lost, so camp again before a risky pull.

Follow the full route in the guide, or level the professions that build camp objects with the professions guides.