Experience bonuses: food, sleeping bag, camp tent and rest
Forever adds several small experience bonuses on top of the classic rested system. None of them is worth a long detour on its own. Together they add up, and most of them cost a minute before you start a session.
The short version
| Bonus | What it gives | How long | Stacks with the others |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well Fed food | +5% experience from kills | 15 min | Yes |
 Cozy Sleeping Bag |
+1% experience per minute rested in it, up to 3% | 2 hours | Yes |
| Camp tent | Tops rested experience up to 5% of a level | Once per hour | Yes, it fills the rested pool |
| Rested experience | Double experience from kills until the pool runs out | Until used | Yes |
Legacy:  Well Rested |
Rested pool fills faster and holds more (up to 20% each at full rank) | Permanent | Yes |
Quest experience is not raised by food or the sleeping bag. Both only work on kills, so they matter most when you grind or clear a dungeon.
Well Fed food: 5% more kill experience
In Forever almost every cooked food that makes you Well Fed also raises experience from kills by 5% while you level. The stat part of the buff (Stamina, Strength, Spell Damage and so on) stays as it was. You have to keep eating for at least 10 seconds; standing up earlier gives you the health back but no buff. The buff lasts 15 minutes.
- Cook it yourself: Cooking is a secondary profession and does not use a primary slot. Fishing and Cooking together feed you for free.
- Buy it: cooks sell spare food on the Auction House, usually cheaply. The table below also shows vendors where the data has one.
- Pick the stat you use. The experience part is the same for every food on the list.
The full list from the game client, sorted by the level needed to eat it. The last column shows the cooking recipe or where to buy or loot it.
New Forever foods (teas, smoothies, raptor and stag dishes) carry the same bonus. Their recipes are in the cooking guide with an N mark.
Cozy Sleeping Bag
The Cozy Sleeping Bag is a reusable item from a questline that opens at level 14. Unroll it, rest inside, and every full minute adds one stack of Well-Rested: +1% experience, up to 3 stacks. The buff lasts two hours, so three minutes in the bag cover a long session.
- Alliance players start the chain in Westfall, Horde players in the Barrens. It sends you across both continents, including Stonetalon Mountains and Loch Modan, and ends at Thoradin’s Wall in the Arathi Highlands.
- Several stops are in zones above level 14. Do the parts that fit your route, or do it with a group or a flight path nearby.
- The bag stays in your inventory. Unroll it at the start of each session, before the food.
Camp tent and campfires
Camping is new in Forever. A campfire lets you cook and place up to a few camp features next to it. Anyone who sits or crafts near the fire for a minute gets the benefits of the features around it.
- Campfires are made with Cooking: Basic Campfire from the start, then Journeyman and Expert Campfire as your skill rises. Better fires hold more features.
- Camp Tent is made with Leatherworking. Sitting near it with a campfire raises your rested experience to 5% of a level. It does nothing if your rested pool is already larger. The benefit works once per hour.
- Camp Chair gives a critical strike bonus instead of experience, useful before a dungeon pull.
In a group, one player with Cooking and one with Leatherworking can set up a camp for everyone. Agree before you place anything, because all camp features share a cooldown.
Rested experience and the Legacy perk
Rested experience works as in the original game: logging out in an inn or a city fills a pool, and kills give double experience until it is used up. Log out at an inn when you stop for the day.
The Legacy perk Well Rested in the Adventure tree makes the pool fill faster and raises its cap, up to 20% each at five ranks. Legacy points are account-wide, so this helps every new character. Plan it in the Legacy calculator.
A one-minute routine before you play
- Unroll the sleeping bag and sit for three minutes while you sort your bags and check quests.
- If a campfire and tent are up, sit next to them in the same minutes.
- Eat Well Fed food for 10 seconds before the first pull.
- Refresh the food every 15 minutes while you grind; skip it on travel and quest turn-in stretches.