How camping works: campfires and profession camp features

Blizzard’s camping article explains how the system works. Cooking’s Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire, which makes a shared campsite. Up to three nearby players can each add one camp feature made by their profession. Anyone who sits or crafts at the camp for at least a minute gets the other features’ benefits. Later campfires hold five or ten features.

Each profession’s first camp feature needs skill 20, from a starter-zone quest or the trainer. Those of skill 140 and up drop in dungeons and raids. All camp features need a campfire nearby and share a one-hour cooldown. Their buffs are versions of class buffs and don’t stack with them:

Profession	Feature	Effect	Doesn’t stack with
First Aid	First Aid Kit	Stamina	Power Word: Fortitude
Fishing	Fishing Bowl	8% to all stats	Blessing of Kings
Alchemy	Mana Well	Mana every 5 seconds	Blessing of Wisdom
Blacksmithing	Sharpening Wheel	Strength	Strength of Earth Totem
Enchanting	Enchanted Lute	Armor, stats and resistances	Mark of the Wild
Herbalism	Incense Candle	Intellect	Arcane Intellect
Skinning	Camp Chair	2% critical strike chance	Moonkin Aura
Tailoring	Faction Banner	Spirit, for your faction	Divine Spirit
Leatherworking	Camp Tent	Rested experience, 5% of a level
Engineering	Reagent Bot	Sells reagents

Most buffs scale with level. On a PvP ruleset, a camp can draw enemy players.

Why it matters: a full camp can give a group several class-style buffs without the classes, as long as everyone sits down for a minute first.