Camping: every profession buff, and how the camps actually stack

Camping is Forever’s attempt to make the campfire a place rather than a consumable. You put objects down, other people sit at them, and the buffs you get depend on which professions bothered to show up.

It is not a max-level system. It starts at level 5.

Unlocking it

Around level 5 you get a quest called The Great Outdoors. It asks you to sit by the campfire next to the quest giver, then sends you into town to train Cooking and learn your first campfire.

Your first campfire costs simple wood and flint and tinder, both sold by the cooking trainer. That’s deliberately cheap — Blizzard wants the system running from the first hour, not the fortieth.

How a camp is built

The campfire is the anchor. Everything else attaches to it, and the fire has a hard limit on how many extra objects it can hold:

Campfire	Extra features it holds
Basic	3
Journeyman	5
Expert	10

The restriction that matters isn’t the number, though:

You can place one of those features yourself. The rest have to come from other players.

That’s the design working as intended, not a beta limitation. A camp with ten slots is a camp built by ten professions, and the panel recap makes the goal explicit — the minute you spend sitting is a minute where you might meet someone on the same quest.

Sitting or crafting near the fire for 1 minute applies the camp’s buffs. Most individual camp objects are consumable and share a one-hour placement cooldown. The fire itself has a shorter separate cooldown.

Every profession’s camp object

The rule that makes this table readable: tier 3 gives you tier 1 and tier 2 as well. Upgrading never replaces anything, so a maxed camp object is three buffs stacked.

Profession	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Cooking	Basic Campfire Kit — anchors 3 features	Journeyman Campfire Kit — 5 features, plus Cookie’s Feast (stamina food)	Expert Campfire Kit — 10 features
Alchemy	Mana Well — mana regeneration	Fermentor — produces higher-tier reagents	Alchemy Laboratory — unlocks lab-only recipes
Blacksmithing	Sharpening Wheel — Strength	Anvil — repair gear in the field	Master Forge — forge recipes anywhere
Enchanting	Enchanted Loot — armor, all stats and resistances	Arcane Salvager — more efficient disenchanting	Arcane Forge — arcane-forge recipes
Engineering	Reagent Bot — buy reagents in the world	Repair Bot — repair anywhere	Anarchist’s Workbench — its own recipe unlock
Leatherworking	Camp Tent — one bar of rested XP	Tanning Rack — higher-tier leatherworking reagents	Sewing Machine — its own recipe unlock
Tailoring	Faction Banner — Spirit	Spinning Wheel — higher-tier reagents	Loom — its own recipe unlock
Fishing	Fishbowl — +8% to stats	Fishing Rack — uncommon fish for 1 hour, plus skill and lures	Fishing Hut — rare fish for 1 hour, on top of everything above
Mining	Lodestone — melee attack power	Rock Garden — spawns a mining node over time	Molten Foundry — its own recipe unlock
Herbalism	Incense Candle — Intellect	Greenhouse — grow herbs from planted seeds	(higher tier cut off 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 and elixirs

Read the tier 3 column again and notice what most 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 require a city”. That turns a camp into a portable workshop, and it’s the reason a raiding group wants a fully-tiered camp before a run rather than just a fire.

What the buffs are actually worth

Four of these are stat buffs you’d otherwise get from a class: Sharpening Wheel (Strength), Incense Candle (Intellect), Faction Banner (Spirit), First Aid Kit (Stamina). A camp can cover most of a group’s missing buff slots without a single druid or priest.

Two others are the ones people argue about:

• Fishbowl at +8% to stats is the biggest single number on this list by a wide margin
• Camp Tent’s one bar of rested XP is widely called the weakest option — but it applies to everyone sitting there, and rested XP is a multiplier on top of whatever the leveling changes already did. One creator put it plainly: getting a bar of rested instead of a stat buff “feels weird”. Whether that survives launch is unknown.

What’s still uncertain

• The Greenhouse and Rock Garden both generate resources over time, and nobody has published numbers on how fast. Mining’s node is described in the client only as “common”, which raises an obvious question about whether it can roll rare nodes. It’s 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 qualitatively.

This page gets rebuilt from client data as soon as the camp objects expose real effect values. The camp spells are already in the database; the numbers just aren’t attached to them yet.