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UponWorld of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s launch, one of the main selling points of the new expansion was the complete overhaul of professions and their systems. AndBlizzardcertainly delivered, revamping every profession in the game to include brand-new specializations and talents.
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Herbalism is one of the classic gathering professions, providing much-needed herbs for Alchemy and Inscription, and it’s also been completely reworked, allowing you to specialize in gathering speed or the chance to find rare reagents. The herbs themselves have also undergone a few changes, mixing up the normal grind with gameplay quirks. Here’s everything you need to know about Herbalism in Dragonflight.
Overview
Herbalism is one of the most valued professions in World of Warcraft due to its nature as agathering trade. You’ll find yourself flying around the world and swooping down to pick ingredients that can be used by other professions.
Once you’ve gathered a good bulk of crafting plants, you can eithersell them on the Auction Housefor quick cash or pick upAlchemy or Inscription as your second professionto refine them into potions and flasks or staves and glyphs. Alternatively, you can also chooseMining to gather ores at the same timeand then trade off all the materials to another character.
If you’d like to pick up an easier trade that serves as the foundation of World of Warcraft’s economy, then you can find several Herbalism trainers around the Dragon Isles, with the most prominent beingAgrikus in Valdrakken.
While it’s not strictly required, it’s also a good idea to pick upHerbalism equipment. These are made through other professions, but if you don’t have the ability to make them yourself, you may just as easily buy them from the Auction House. You canequip one tool and two accessories at any one time.
Tailoring
Basic Herbs
Once you’ve acquired the Herbalism skill, it’s time to get to work. you may use your dragonriding mount to get around each of the different zones to scour the earth forherbalism nodes, which can be tracked through yourminimap. You’ll be looking for four different plants to collect, all of which grow in different climates.
Rarity
Hochenblume
Grows wherever it can, leading to it being the most common.
Common
Bubble Poppy
Grows wherever there’s a lot of moisture, and is commonly found on riverbanks, caves, and coasts.
Uncommon
Writhebark
Grows wherever there’s a strong concentration of other flora, and is commonly found within forests.
Saxifrage
Grows in hardier climates, and is commonly found on cliffsides or mountaintops.
Thaldraszus
At level one, you’ll be able to gain steady progress and level up from picking any herb that you come across. However, as you gain more experience,certain herbs will begin to lose their effectivenessin providing a rank up.
Once you reach level 60,you’re able to no longer rank up from collecting basic herbs, and you’ll have to turn your attention to modified herbs to reach the upper echelons of the profession.
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Herb Modifiers
Modifiersare a new addition with Dragonflight, and they serve to spice up the gameplay by providing anything fromsmall nuisances to real threatsthat can kill you if you’re not careful. Just like how the basic herbs prefer one climate over another, so too do modifiers, and the plant’s location will determine what effect it can receive.
However, modifiers aren’t always an obstacle. With the new specializations, you can choose to conquer a certain modifier,reducing their negative effectand allowing you to gain aunique temporary bonus.
Titan Touched
N / A
Titan Touched herbs can give a specialized herbalista temporary boost to speed and secondary stats.
Rousing Order
Windswept
Windswept herbs afflict herbalists with a random chance toblow them off from cliffs and mountains.
Windswept herbs can give a specialized herbalist atemporary immunity to fall damagewhen falling more than 40 yards.
Rousing Air
Frigid
Frigid herbs form a patch of ice beneath herbalists when collected,stunning them for a short period of timeif they attempt to move.
Frigid herbs can give a specialized herbalist a chance tofreeze enemies that venture too close.
Rousing Frost
Decayed
Decayed herbs will inflict a sickness upon herbalists that attempt to gather it,slowly killing them if they don’t repeatedly jumpto expel it.
Decayed herbs can offer asignificant cooldownto herbalist-specific abilities to a specialized herbalist.
The Azure Span
Rousing Decay
Because of the risk that they carry and how rare they can be to find, modified herbs will provide therest of the ranks necessary to reach level 100. However, they also decay in effectiveness as you gain more skill in Herbalism.
Specializations
The biggest change that Dragonflight introduced to professions is a brand-new talent tree system called specializations. By usingDragon Isles Herbalism Knowledge, which can be gained through gathering new herbs or studyingDreambloomreagents, you can choose to pour points into a certain skill.
Bountiful Harvests
The first specialization is calledBountiful Harvests, which involves gathering as much as you can from a single node. These talents involvefinding higher quality reagents while gatheringand dictate justhow many reagents you can pick upwith every harvest, allowing you to be a jack-of-all-trades with a general tree or sub-specialize further in one of the four flowers.
Botany
Botanyis all about thespeed at which you can harvest herbs, allowing you to gather while mounted on your dragon. Botany also allows you to sub-specialize to gain a better understanding oflush herbsor gives you the ability to reliably gather seeds from the herbs you collect, where you can grow your own flourishing plants within plots ofRich Soil.
Mastering The Elements
The final specialization,Mastering the Elements, is what allows you to gainbeneficial effects from modified herbs. The generalized tree applies a small bonus when gathering any kind of modified herb, but you may sub-specialize within theFrigid, Decayed, Titan Touched, or Windsweptmodifiers to receive their specific bonuses and negate their downsides.
Gathering Knowledge
As mentioned previously, you can gain more Dragon Isles Herbalism Knowledge through finding a new herb you haven’t encountered before, or by finding Dreambloom. This rare reagent and its petals can be foundrandomly whenever you pick up a herb, giving you anywhere from one to three points of Knowledge.
However, the bulk of your Knowledge will likely come in the form ofquestsfrom your trainer and from the Artisan’s Consortium. These rewardDragon Shards of Knowledge, and you can trade these items intoKhadin, the Master Artisan, for huge returns in Herbalism Knowledge.
Khadin can be found withinKhadin’s Cave, just west of Maruukai in the Ohn’ahran Plains, first being introduced through a quest given to you by Agrikus. Once you’ve gained her trust, Khadin gives you the ability to occasionally find Dragon Shards of Knowledge when gathering herbs.
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