Quickly Leveling Your Herbalism Skill

Cashing In

Just a quick aside here - Penn's Guide will tell you how to level herbalism, the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint will show you how to cash in with Herbalism, especially with the arrival of the Inscription skill.

Also, the Blueprint does everything with video, so you will get a step by step video walkthrough of which herbs to buy, how much to pay, and how much to sell them for.

In addition to the dozens of other videos you'll get an additional one which will show you how to cash in on Inscription. It's just possible that those two professions will make you far more gold than anything else.

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Competition? What Competition?

Your competition will vary with the time of day, the zone you're in, and the server you're on. As I leveled the skill, even though I'm on a PvP server, I saw few other players and had little competition. But then again, my character was 70 with full PvP gear.

Once the Inscription skill goes live count on seeing more competition for pretty much all of those herbs.

You'll need to be at least level 58 to got your skill leveled to 375, because you'll need to go to Outlands to get your training and to grab higher level herbs. You will be able to hit 300 skill without leaving Azeroth.

Make sure you hit your Herbalism trainer as you hit the skill caps at 75, 150, 225, and 300, just like any other profession. There are no special quests needed, so just see the trainer whenever it's time.

I found it easiest to stay in one area and get my skill as high as possible before moving to the next area. If you move on too soon you will find many herbs that you just won't have the skill to pick.

When you're in any particular zone set your mini-map to show herbs and do loops around the area. The herbs will show as yellow dots on the map.

Moving Around
If you're level 60+ the epic ground mount will save you some time and the epic flying mount (if you are 70 and have the cash) is sweet.

A very cool addon to use is Gatherer. Download it for free (donate if you want to) and read the documentation. This little widget will show you where the various herbs (and ores and boxes) have been found by other players previously (if you import the WoWhead database you'll find on the site.)

If you're using the Cartographer Addon the Gatherer data can be displayed on the Cartographer maps once you import the WoWhead database. This will give you a clear idea of which paths to follow to maximize your flower picking. Any locations that you find that aren't on the map will also be marked, so you will have your own custom herb map soon enough.

Your First Pickings
Once you have your apprentice Herbalism skill go to your favorite starting area and start gathering Peacebloom and Silverleaf. I went to Eversong woods, but these herbs are all over the place in all the Horde starting areas.

If you're Alliance, and on a PvP server, you will need to head over to Durotar... Just kidding. All the Ally starting areas are also rich in the same herbs.

Moving On...
Once the herbs in your area become green and aren't given you any skill improvements, you'll want to go to the next higher area. I went to the Ghostlands, but the Barrens. Westfall, and Loch Modan are good areas, too. As I mentioned above, if you move on too soon you won't have the skill to pick anything.

Working up to that 300 skill

After the Ghostlands, I went to Silverpine woods, Hillsbrad, Arathi Highlands, the Hinterlands, and lastly to Eastern Plaguelands. That got me to 300 skill.

Into the Outlands

Next it's off to the Outlands and Thrallmar (Honor Hold if you're Ally) to get the Master Herbalist skill.

Once you have that skill the rest is easy enough. Depending on the competition in the area by the time you've circled Hellfire Peninsula a couple of times you'll be ready to hit Zangamarsh. Chances are you won't have to do more than one loop around Zangamarsh to max out your skill.

Looking for Specific Herbs?

If you're leveling this skill in order to make specific potions you may want to modify your path a bit to target your preferred herbs. Go to WoWwiki.com or Thottbot.com, search on the particular herb you're looking for, and you'll find all the details.

Your starting area will yield: Peacebloom, Silverleaf, and Earthroot (which requires skill 15.) You'll need at least 150 of these herbs, in any combination, to level your basic inscription skills.

The 10-20 area herbs:
I was in the Ghostlands, but you can find these in Durotar, Silverpine, Westfall, and Redridge. You'll find:

• Peacebloom,
  
• Silverleaf,
  
• Earthroot,
  
• Mageroyal, requires skill 50
  
• Briarthorn, skill 70
  
• Stranglekelp, skill 85 (take a water breathing potion.)
  
• Bruiseweed, skill 100

In the 18-30 areas (Duskwood, Hillsbrad, and the Wetlands) you'll find:

• Mageroyal 50
  
• Briarthorn 70
  
• Stranglekelp 85
  
• Bruiseweed 100
  
• Wild Steelbloom 115
  
• Gravemoss 120 - The Grave Moss can be found in and around, you guessed it, graveyards.
  
• Kingsblood 125
  
• Liferoot 150

Next up are the 30-40 areas. I went to the Arathi Highlands, but you can also go to Alterac mountains or other areas. Here's what you'll find there:

• Stranglekelp 85
  
• Bruiseweed 100
  
• Wild Steelbloom 115
  
• Gravemoss 120
  
• Kingsblood 125
  
• Liferoot 150
  
• Goldthorn 170
  
• Khadgar's whisker 185
  
• Wintersbite 195 (Saw very little of this one.)

There's a lot of overlap between the Arathi/Alterac zones and Stranglethorn Vale, The Badlands, and Swamp of Sorrows. In STV and the Badlands you'll find Purple Lotus, Badlands has Firebloom, and the Swamp has Blindweed. Grab whichever area works best for your needs and avoiding crowds and gankers.

• Firebloom 205
  
• Purple lotus 210
  
• Blindweed 235

The 40 -50 zone: I went to The Hinterlands next, and then to the Eastern Plaguelands. In the Hinterlands you'll find

• Purple lotus 210
  
• Ghost mushroom 245
  
• Golden sansam 260
  
• Sungrass 270

Killing the local trolls will result in some Wildvine drops.

In the Eastern Plaguelands (50+) I found:

• Arthas' tears 220
  
• Sungrass 230
  
• Golden sansam 260
  
• Dreamfoil 270
  
• Mountain silversage 280
  
• Plaguebloom 285
  
• Black lotus 300 (I didn't see any of this.)

Ok, now you have your 300 skill and you're ready to hit the Outlands. Get Master Hebalist when you hit your side's main town in Hellfire (Thrallmar or Honor Hold) and then do a few loops around Hellfire Peninsula and then Zangamarsh. Unless you're hunting specific herbs you won't need to go beyond Zangamarsh to hit 375.

In Hellfire Peninsula:

• Golden sansam 260
  
• Dreamfoil 270
  
• Mountain silversage 280
  
• Felweed 300
  
• Dreaming Glory 315 (Picking this sometimes gives a nice regeneration buff)

In Zangamarsh you can bag:

• Blindweed 235
  
• Ghost mushroom 245 (in caves)
  
• Golden sansam 260
  
• Dreamfoil 270
  
• Felweed 300
  
• Dreaming Glory 315
  
• Ragveil 325
  
  
  Now go pick some flowers!!
  

Do you want to master inscription and any other profession you choose? Do you want to learn the ins and outs of leveling it as quickly and cheaply as possible? Then check out the GotWarcraft Profession Guides, updated to the 450 skill cap.

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