I have first aid levelled on my rogue. You need to have first aid levelled if you are a rogue, because you will use it a lot. That’s one of the little drawbacks of being a melee dps class with no ways to heal yourself. I suppose you could take alchemy but I’ve never heard of a rogue with alchemy. T’would be blasphemy!
So I’ve always levelled first aid as a matter of course. And I started doing it on my mage, and I got to heavey woollen bandages and I’ve stopped. Because I just don’t use it. Like, ever. I can make my own food, so I eat my food because at the same time I’m drinking my mana beverage. I wish they had it in Dr Pepper. So I began to wonder about this first aid business, which is mainly due to the fact that my bank tab is rapidly filling up to the brim with lots and lots of cloth. I have stacks of the stuff. I am overflowing in cloth. So I was wondering if I should just level the stupid first aid or use it for something else. Like perhaps levelling tailoring. That wouldn’t be bad, seeing as I’m a mage. So I went and did a little research on the costs of levelling first aid. Apparently you require;
150 linen,
150 wool,
150 silk,
140 mageweave,
80 runecloth,
100 netherweave,
270 frostweave.
I checked current AH prices as of today, and the rough cost of all of this cloth is 466 gold. Then I checked out how much a stack of heavy frostweave bandages cost. Because if I level first aid it’s due to the fact that I will need it for these babies, if I need it at all. And a stack of these bandages sell for the low, low price of 5 gold per stack. So I would need to buy and consume 93.2 stacks of these bandages to make levelling first aid worth the gold. I can maybe, and I mean maaaaybe see my rogue using this number of bandages, and that would be if I was raiding with a bunch of morons. But my mage? Nah, I don’t think so.
So I’m keeping my stacks of cloth. Either I’ll dump them on the AH or I’ll level tailoring if and when I decided to take it. And if they do to first aid what they have done to fishing, then this will be a no brainer.
January 28, 2010 at 6:16 pm
I haven’t needed First aid since pre-BC for onys unavoidable deep breath. Personally i dont waste my cloth on it i’d rather have a few gold pieces to rub together.
January 28, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Don’t you have to have first aid of 400 in order to use Heavy Frostweave Bandages? So you need to level it to that point even if you never learn Heavy Frostweave so you can make them yourself. I guess you’d need a little less money to get to 400 vs maxing it out, but …
January 28, 2010 at 6:59 pm
@ Samala,
I thought about that point, but I did some reading on wowwiki and wowhead and I couldn’t find anywhere that it said that you have to have first aid levelled to use these bandages.
January 28, 2010 at 7:42 pm
It says so right on the tooltip for the bandages. “Requires First Aid (400)”
You would have to level first aid at least to 400 if you plan on using these bandages.
January 28, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Oh bugger. Well, what do other mages out there think? Is first aid worth it?
January 28, 2010 at 8:20 pm
I really don’t know. I used it some cases, but very rarely
January 28, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Well, you might not need it too much leveling up, but you might want to think about it in terms of the undergeared project. How taxing is healing the undergeared tanks going to be on the undergeared healers? It might be nice to be able to bandage yourself in a pinch… a dead mage does no dps.