Camping for beginners: how to unlock it and what to build first

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   Step 1: The Great Outdoors

   From level 4, the camping teacher of your starting area offers The Great Outdoors. Sit by their fire with /sit and wait for the Boosted Rest buff. That's the whole quest, and it opens everything else.

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   On Zephras Isle, Raan offers it after The Adventurer.

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   Step 2: Camping 101: Cooking

   The same teacher then sends you to the local cooking trainer with Camping 101: Cooking. Learn Cooking there and train the Basic Campfire, which needs only skill 1. Every campfire after that costs one Simple Wood, and you want Flint and Tinder in your bags as well. General goods vendors sell both: Simple Wood for 38 copper, Flint and Tinder for 1 silver 35 copper.

   Teacher	Cooking trainer
   Sam Sarsaparilla	Tomas, Goldshire.
   Eric Brighthammer	Gremlock Pilsnor, Kharanos.
   Lyreena Duskblade	Zarrin, Dolanaar.
   Raan Wildwind	Zerril Softbreeze, Shen'dar Village.
   Brakk	Cook Torka, Razor Hill.
   Kaga Wildhoof	Pyall Silentstride, Bloodhoof Village.
   Eleanor Shackleton	William Pickman, Brill.

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   Step 3: Camping 101 for your professions

   Your other professions, from Alchemy to Tailoring, have Camping 101 quests too. Most come from your teacher and send you to that profession's trainer nearby; a few start with a trainer in the nearest city or with someone else entirely. Whoever the quest sends you to teaches you its camp object once you reach skill 20. Take the quest for each profession you have, including First Aid and Fishing.

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   Step 4: Build your first camp

   Light the fire, place your object, and /sit. After a minute the buffs land; stand up and go.

Because of the shared cooldown, you place one object an hour. Pick the one that helps you most.

Leveling alone: the fire plus one object. Take the Camp Tent if you have Leatherworking and your rested bar is empty; otherwise the Fish Bowl. Set up when you stop to hand in quests or drink.

In a group: everyone places a different object. A basic fire holds three, so agree who places what before you light it, and have the cook carry Star Wood for a bigger fire once they can.

Mind the class buffs. Most objects don't stack with a class buff: the Fish Bowl with Blessing of Kings, the First Aid Kit with Power Word: Fortitude, the Enchanted Lute with Mark of the Wild, the Incense Candle with Arcane Intellect, the Lodestone with Blessing of Might. If your group already has the class buff, place something else.

At skill 140 and 300, each profession unlocks a bigger object. Most of them go down over the first one, keep its buff and add something useful: a Tanning Rack, an Anvil, a Repair Bot, a Rock Garden that grows a mining node. The camping reference lists them all.

The fire grows too. The Blueprint: Journeyman Campfire teaches you a fire with room for five objects; you learn it at Cooking 90 and light it from 140, and each fire takes a Star Wood, which enchanting suppliers sell. The expert fire, with room for ten, comes at Cooking 220.

Happy Camper, in Dun Morogh, sells the journeyman blueprint and several object blueprints for 15 silver each.

Two Legacy perks make camping better. Field Guide cuts the shared cooldown by up to a quarter, so you place objects more often. Permanence makes the buffs from resting at a camp last 50% longer at its first rank and twice as long at its second, two hours instead of one. Read the Legacy system guide for how perks work.