WoW First Aid Guide - WoW Trade Skill Guides, 3.2 and beyond

Even classes that can heal should pick up the First Aid secondary profession. Slapping on a bandage is quicker and doesn't use any mana. Plus, you may not always have the mana to waste. Bandages can be used on pets, minions, and friendly players and provide an extra boost to reducing downtime and leveling speed.

It's important to note that cloth drops off of humanoid mobs - that doesn't mean just humans, though. Kobolds, Centaurs, Quilboars, and Furbolgs are all considered humanoids. While it isn't really necessary to farm cloth if you're leveling your First Aid skill while questing, many players prefer to reach max level and then go back and pick up professions. Instances make great cloth-farming areas, and some are definitely better than others.

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Level 41-80: Heavy Linen Bandage

Instance: Deadmines is chock-full of pirates and goblins and a couple of runs will likely provide more linen than you will ever need.

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Level 116-150: Heavy Wool Bandage

Instance: Definitely the Stockades. Unfortunately, it's located in the middle of an Alliance city, so the Horde may find a different location more to their liking. If so, try the furbolgs in north-western Ashenvale.

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Level 181-210: Heavy Silk Bandage

Level 211-240: Mageweave Bandage

Instance: Scarlet Monastery is where you'll be wanting to hang out during this phase. All four wings of the instance are just teeming with humanoids, most of whom would love to hand over their skivvies to you.

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Level 261-290: Runecloth Bandage

Level 290-300: Heavy Runecloth Bandage

Instance: Farming Runecloth is relatively easy in the high-humanoid-population instances of Eastern Plaguelands, Stratholme and Scholomance. For a mix of Mageweave and Runecloth, players may be better off targeting the Satyrs and Furbolgs of Felwood.

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Level 331-350: Netherweave Bandages

Level 350-375: Frostweave Bandage

For some reason, the Frostweave pattern becomes available to you before Heavy Netherweave Bandages, which are really only good for 7 guaranteed skill points. Although you should go ahead and pick up the recipe, you may not ever have cause to use it.

Instance: Farming Netherweave cloth is ridiculously easy in the Hellfire Peninsula dungeons of Blood Furnace and Ramparts. The bad orcs inside are more than gracious in handing over stacks of the stuff for your use.

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Level 401-450: Heavy Frostweave Bandages

Instance: The Vrykul of Utgarde Keep, the first Howling Fjord dungeon, drop Frostweave, but most players have found that farming from the undead who litter the landscape of northern Sholazar Basin a far superior experience. Even better than that would be the mountains of Scourge encountered in Icecrown, for players at or near max level.

You've mastered the First Aid secondary skill, one of the feats required for the "Skills to Pay the Bills" achievement. Although 401 is the highest you will actually need to hit in order to have access to all patterns available through Wrath, don't discount the idea of future expansions. When the next one hits, you don't want to be scrambling to catch up so that you can train for all the new goodies involved!