Camping: every profession buff, and how camps stack

Camping tries to make the campfire a place, not a consumable.

You drop objects. Other people sit at them. What you get depends on which professions showed up.

It starts at level 5, not at max level.

How you unlock it

Around level 5 you get a quest called The Great Outdoors. Sit by the fire next to the quest giver. Then head into town to train Cooking and learn your first campfire.

Your first fire costs simple wood and flint and tinder. The cooking trainer sells both.

That’s on purpose. Blizzard wants this running in your first hour, not your fortieth.

How a camp gets built

The fire is the anchor. Everything else hangs off it. And the fire has a hard limit:

Campfire	Extra objects it holds
Basic	3
Journeyman	5
Expert	10

The number isn’t the interesting part. This is:

You can place one object yourself. The rest come from other players.

That’s the design, not a beta limit. A camp with ten slots is a camp ten professions built.

Sit or craft near the fire for 1 minute and the buffs land on you. Most camp objects are consumable and share a one-hour cooldown. The fire has its own shorter one.

Every profession’s camp object

One rule makes this table easy to read. Tier 3 also gives you tier 1 and tier 2. Upgrading never removes anything. A maxed object is three buffs stacked.

Profession	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Cooking	Basic Campfire Kit — 3 features	Journeyman Campfire Kit — 5 features, plus Cookie’s Feast (stamina food)	Expert Campfire Kit — 10 features
Alchemy	Mana Well — mana regen	Fermentor — higher-tier reagents	Alchemy Laboratory — lab-only recipes
Blacksmithing	Sharpening Wheel — Strength	Anvil — repair in the field	Master Forge — forge recipes anywhere
Enchanting	Enchanted Loot — armor, stats, resistances	Arcane Salvager — better disenchanting	Arcane Forge — arcane-forge recipes
Engineering	Reagent Bot — buy reagents out there	Repair Bot — repair anywhere	Anarchist’s Workbench — recipe unlock
Leatherworking	Camp Tent — one bar of rested XP	Tanning Rack — higher-tier reagents	Sewing Machine — recipe unlock
Tailoring	Faction Banner — Spirit	Spinning Wheel — higher-tier reagents	Loom — recipe unlock
Fishing	Fishbowl — +8% to stats	Fishing Rack — uncommon fish for 1 hour, plus skill and lures	Fishing Hut — rare fish, on top of the above
Mining	Lodestone — melee attack power	Rock Garden — spawns a mining node over time	Molten Foundry — recipe unlock
Herbalism	Incense Candle — Intellect	Greenhouse — grow herbs from seeds	(not visible in current footage)
Skinning	Camping Chair — +2% crit	Field Guide — track beasts	Trapper’s Workbench — holds one trap
First Aid	First Aid Kit — Stamina	Toxin Study — healing potions and antivenoms	Plague Doctor’s Laboratory — higher-tier potions

Look down the tier 3 column. Nearly all of them are recipe unlocks. Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Mining and First Aid all end on “you can now craft the things that used to need a city”.

That turns a camp into a portable workshop. It’s why a raid group wants a fully-tiered camp before a run, not just a fire.

What the buffs are worth

Four are stats you’d otherwise get from a class:

Object	Buff
Sharpening Wheel	Strength
Incense Candle	Intellect
Faction Banner	Spirit
First Aid Kit	Stamina

So a camp can cover most of a group’s missing buffs without a druid or a priest.

Two others are the ones people argue about.

Fishbowl at +8% to stats is the biggest single number on this list. Not close.

Camp Tent’s one bar of rested XP gets called the weakest option. But it applies to everyone sitting there, and rested XP multiplies whatever the leveling changes already gave you. One creator put it bluntly: getting a bar of rested instead of a stat buff “feels weird”. Whether it survives launch is anyone’s guess.

What each camp object costs

The client ships a recipe for most of these. So the material lists below aren’t guesswork.

Object	Profession	Trivial at
Camp Chair	Skinning	25
Camp Tent	Leatherworking	25
Faction Banner	Tailoring	25
Field Guide	Skinning	145

Each profession page lists the exact materials. Camp Tent is 5× Light Leather, for example.

That’s cheap. So the argument against the tent isn’t the cost. It’s that a bar of rested XP is a weaker payoff than a stat buff in the same slot.

What we don’t know yet

• Greenhouse and Rock Garden both make resources over time. Nobody has published numbers. Mining’s node is described in the client only as “common”, which begs a question about rare nodes. Untested.
• Herbalism’s tier 3 object wasn’t visible in the footage we have.
• Exact buff magnitudes for most objects aren’t in the tooltips we’ve seen. +8%, +2% crit and the stat names are confirmed. The rest are described in words, not numbers.

This page rebuilds from client data the moment camp objects expose real effect values. The camp spells are already in the database. The numbers just aren’t attached to them.