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First Aid Skill is a Must in WoW

Some people may disagree, but I am very hooked on the idea that the First Aid skill in the World of Warcraft is a must have skill. Not only is it very useful in Battle Grounds, but useful in everyday questing and grouping. It is especially nice if a party member dies, when they come back you can easily bring them back to full health without them using a potion, have to sit and eat something or waste mana to heal.

The idea to not make them waste a potion is simple. Potions have a cooldown time of 60 seconds. Meaning they are only really helpful in situations that you need emergency health to help escape, to give the healer time to heal or to finish a boss who is a few levels above you. Not wasting a potion to heal yourself when you are revived is crucial especially if you are facing a boss. By bandaging them up, the cooldown is 30 seconds I believe before they can be bandaged again, and they can use their potions at anytime without waiting.

Leveling up First Aid can be tough especially the first bit. Wool Cloth was the hardest for me to locate, so I broke down and bought it from AH for around 30s per 20 pieces. Once your skill gets up to 150 you need to find a book, "Expert First Aid". The book is located in Arathi Highlands, but is guarded by level 39+ elites. So at a low level it is nearly impossible to get the Expert First Aid book. The other option, instead of waiting for either a group or until you are leveled enough you can grind your way through is to buy the Expert First Aid book through AH (Auction House). The cost at the Auction House when I bought the book was around 4 gold. Hopefully you get a better deal than I did. But it was well worth the gold.

Once I learned the Expert First Aid I had all the silk I need to and quickly advanced to the "Manual: First Aid Silk" which teaches you how to make Heavy Silk Bandages. Now that I have maxed out my Heavy Silk Bandages I am basically waiting till I am of the proper level to learn Mageweave bandage, and Artesian First Aid. Since that is all the farther I am, I will end this here.

The basic gist is First Aid is very relevant and can save you time and deaths by having this fast healing ability. Especially as a hunter with a frost trap, that trap gives you enough time to heal your hunter and prepare to kill the whatever you froze.