If you have the First Aid profession, you'll be able to bandage up and be on your way at once. Cloth drops many times from mobs, and you can use it as well! This second profession allows you to create various bandages that can be used to help yourself and other players. Physicians create bandages and apply them to other players that are injured.Using items created from ingredients you are finding anyway while you are killing monsters. And you can turn them into something useful.

Since First Aid doesn’t take up one of the two profession slots, every player can get it without penalty.Some gamers will not recommend choosing First Aid profession if the player is already into Tailoring since the supply of cloth will be divided between the two skills. However, you can gather enough cloth to do both.

Some of the materials that can be used in First Aid, can be acquired from defeating monsters and dragons, while others have to be bought. You'll always be able to find more on the auction house, and usually for a very reasonable price. You may even be able to find a guildmate or friend who's willing to give you some for free!

First Aid is also almost a necessity for Raids. If you're a priest or other healing class, when fighting powerful bosses, Raid leaders sometime say "run away and bandage." So you can still benefit from bandages because bandages will save you precious mana that you would have needed to use to heal yourself.

First Aid skills are very useful in leveling up, you can bandage multiple targets in a row such as yourself, your pet, and party members as long as you pick different targets to avoid the recently bandaged limit.The trick, according to expert World of Warcraft players, is to gather as much linen as possible early on. There are also special bandages that can be acquired in battlegrounds that can sooner or later work in the latter stages of the game.

First aid is also necessary to complete a plethora of achievements in WoW as well.Since a skill is so easy to learn and costs virtually nothing, then so many people ignore it and the benefits it brings. Don't be one of those people - be smart and bandage up!