I'd never paid much attention to First Aid as a secondary but, on reading up on it a bit, it begins to look like a really worthwhile thing. I didn't realise before it included treatment for venom. There don't seem to be a lot of trainers, though......
If you have more than one character, do you have to level all up? Or can you make one a kind of specialist and have that one mail bandages off to others if they've got the basic skill? Is there any money to be made selling bandages on the AH?|||I level it on all my characters. Even the healing classes. Personally I think its the single most useful profession in the game.
You must have certain FA skill to use the different bandages so yes, you will have to level it on any character that will use it.|||Quote:
I'd never paid much attention to First Aid as a secondary but, on reading up on it a bit, it begins to look like a really worthwhile thing. I didn't realise before it included treatment for venom. There don't seem to be a lot of trainers, though......
If you have more than one character, do you have to level all up? Or can you make one a kind of specialist and have that one mail bandages off to others if they've got the basic skill? Is there any money to be made selling bandages on the AH?
You need a certain level of first aid skill to USE the bandages, as well as to make them. I don't sell my bandages in the ah, I vendor them... they sell to vend higher than the cloth goes on the ah. There are few trainers, most of the fa training comes from books. I honestly use my vaunted 375 first aid very little, but as a resto shaman, I don't need to. Non healing classes should definitely invest in the skill.|||Its pretty essential to my style of play. maybe its not to others, but i find it really needed for my characters.
You can heal others. You can heal your pet too.
Imagine a hunter needed to freeze his target since his pet is almost dead. Bandage+medpet+feedpet=full heath by the time freeze trap breaks.
Also good for locks after lifetaps.
Good for priests when they're out of mana. haha.
Good for melee players when they need a quick heal and cant get out of combat.
Good for mages when they need to freeze/sheep their mob in place then heal.
Good for any class when you're out of mana, potions are on cooldown, and you need to heal quickly.
many uses for bandages.
but remember... there's a 1 minute cooldown. its channeled. any damage taken will interrupt the process and leave you with a 1 minute cooldown.
you can buy anti-venom from a vendor. you can buy strong anti-venom from the AH as they are drops... i think.|||take it and never look back. You'll need it.
There will be time when you need it.|||Quote:
take it and never look back. You'll need it.
There will be time when you need it.
Many thanks to all of you. I'm going to make a real point now of levelling up my characters in First Aid. I knew it could heal pets and other players' chars, but the more I read up on it the more I realise it's a very important skill for all.|||Often I use it to speed up grinding (because 8 seconds of bandaging surpasses 15 seconds of eating, sometimes even twice), but it's also great as an emergency. If your health potions are on cooldown, and you can't eat because there are mobs nearby who'll aggro any minute, then just wrap a bandage around you and you're good to go again. I often used it in combination with sheep, sap, another form of cc, or my pet/minion, and it can be a true lifesaver. Just make sure you don't have any dots on you that do damage, because then it'll be interrupted and you're screwed.
There's just one thing I don't understand, and while on the subject I might as well ask here.. a few days ago I wanted to bandage a friend who was in combat, because he was close to dying. I didn't have any aggro, wasn't attacked, so my channeling shouldn't be interrupted. However, as soon as I started channeling I got a fail, and my friend got the 1-minute bandage tag so he couldn't be healed again. He later said that it probably was because he was taking damage.. which boggles me, because how can MY channeling spell be interrupted by HIM taking damage?|||It's a nearly indispensable skill for all classes, even for healers, especially at the highest levels. You just never know when you are going to be stuck in a situation when you're (a) low mana and (b) low health and (c) in a position where speed in healing is necessary and/or (d) you're in combat.
These all become vital in raid situations. The big problem with regaining health through food is that you have to be out of combat to eat. You don't have to be in combat to bandage -- heck, you can crowd-control a mob and bandage while he's tied up (I've done this many times on my warlock -- banish and bandage -- though be careful doing this with sheeping on mages because that heals up the mob and that's often the last thing you want to do). Healing potions have long cool downs and get damned expensive the higher level you need to go.
Many times in raids, to save healer mana, non-tank classes are asked to bandage when possible after taking damage from AOEs and spells from mobs and adds. This contributes to the entire raid because the healer can concentrate more of their energy on the tanks and other encounter-critical people.
...Ren|||Also, unless you're a tailor, you'll be hard pressed to find anything to do with all that cloth, and will end up shovelling it onto the auction house- making up big batches of bandages and spamming them at the slightest provocation is very useful..
..even for healers. There are points where it's better to bandage rather than heal yourself if you have the time, or when you're silenced etc. For classes with no healing abilities, of course, it's invaluable- and a great deal cheaper than chugging healing pots in situations where you can fit a few bandage ticks in.
Marlous- it is indedd the bperson you're bandaging taking damage that is the problem.. they're not holding still for you while they're getting smacked about now, are they? :)
(Though I have been known to fear/concuss mobs while tanking and bandage myself a bit, when things are getting tight..)|||And I certainly suggest leveling it as you go. I got my warlock to 70 and then realized just how invaluable it was to have FA. It's a bit of a pain to power level, because grinding so many mobs for so long is just plain boring.
But the bandages to vendor nicely ^_^
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