Camping in World of Warcraft: Forever turns the simple Cooking Fire into a Basic Campfire, says Blizzard's Deep Dive recap. Place one and it becomes a campsite: sit a few moments to get rested and pick up one-hour buffs, use vendors, repairs and profession workspaces, and let nearby players add up to three crafted objects.

The recap is dated 13 September. Our release date piece has launch day.

What does a Basic Campfire give you?

The campfire grows out of the Cooking Fire from the Cooking profession, one of the game's crafting skills. Placing one makes a campsite where players can:

• Rest and take one-hour buffs. To get the buffs, you slow down, sit by the fire for a few moments and get rested.
• Use vendors and repairs.
• Use profession workspaces, the stations some crafting needs.
• Refresh food buffs. Blizzard says those got a major update in Forever.

Our reading: it's a reason to stop on the road next to a stranger instead of racing them to the next herb, which is the whole pitch of the recap and a very old-school one.

Campsite objects compared: how they and their buffs work

A Basic Campfire takes up to three special crafted objects, added by nearby players. Each player can add one, and Blizzard says "those objects share a one-hour cooldown". Every profession has three objects, and a profession gives its own buff or utility whichever of its three you place.

These are the objects the recap names:

One catch: Blizzard says the Sharpening Wheel, Faction Banner and Incense Candle effects are variants of buffs that some classes already give, and don't stack with them. Our reading: if your group already has that class buff, the matching object adds nothing on top.

Cooks can also learn upgraded Campfires that allow five or 10 objects to be placed at a camp, instead of the Basic Campfire's three.

Where do you learn campsite objects?

• The first objects come once a profession reaches skill level 20. You learn them from special non-player characters who introduce you to camping, or from your profession trainer.
• More advanced objects come from Blueprint recipes, which drop from specific dungeon bosses.

Professions are getting more depth too: Blizzard counts over 600 new recipes across professions and level ranges, and says crafted food has been adjusted and can give a small experience bonus and stat boosts. Leveling another character? Our Legacy system guide covers the account-wide rewards for that.

Does it matter where you camp?

Blizzard hints that it does. Its only word on it is to "choose your campsite carefully", because some parts of Azeroth, the game's world, suit a quiet rest better than others. It names no places.

What Blizzard hasn't said yet

The recap gives no buff sizes, no sit time, no cost or burn time for a campfire, and doesn't say whether you need Cooking to place a Basic Campfire. It doesn't say what the Alchemy Lab does, which bosses drop which Blueprint, or at what skill the second and third objects come. The other professions' objects aren't named. If Blizzard's development notes add any of that, it'll show up in our patch notes tracker.