Herbalism Guide for Dragonflight (2024)

Last updated on Apr 18, 2024 at 14:00by Seksixeny1 comment

This page covers the most important aspects of Herbalism in Dragonflight,including talent builds and suggestions on how to make gold with the profession.

As usual, Herbalism will be responsible for gathering herbs and relatedmaterials around the Dragon Isles.

Dragonflight introduces Crafting Specializations, which youare able to unlock once your profession skill hits 25. These serve as a professiontalent tree system fueled by Herbalism Knowledge, obtained from weekly quests,one-time treasures in the Dragon Isles, Draconic Treatises, and first-time crafts.

While you will eventually be able to unlock all talents, doing so will requirea long time as the sources of knowledge are very limited, especially once one-timetreasures and first-crafts are exhausted.

Devastation Evokers with their unique Dracthyr mobility abilities,Soar and 2% baseline Perception gain racial, are easily a top contenderfor great herbalists.

The other main contender is the traditional Tauren Druid, who benefitsfrom quicker gathering, +5 skill, and the natural ability to gather while flyingin the old world.

Dragonflight introduces three new stats specific to gatheringprofessions: Perception, Deftness, and Finesse.

We explain what each stat does and how to maximize them in the specialized guidebelow:

Herbalism can make great use of all three stats, but you might want to focuson specific stats for different playstyles. We go into detail with Herbalism statsand the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

You can gather four base herb types:

Hochenblume

Bubble Poppy

Saxifrage

Writhebark

All of these types can be found affected by Windswept, Frigid,Decayed, Lush, Infurious and Titan-Touched modifiers,with Infurious notably being present in War Mode and near World PvPobjectives. We showcase images of herbs affected by these modifiers in the levelingguide below.

The most important source of Herbalism skill is your profession level, whichis increased by gathering different types of herbs in the Dragon Isles.While leveling is generally straightforward, you should still take into accountthe racials of the character you are leveling on and the skill level at whichcertain types of herbs stop giving skill, both of which are discussed in ourspecialized guide below:

Herbalism Specializations dictate what herbs you are proficient at gathering,and can even let you herb while mounted! In fact, that feature is so strong thatwe would recommend you to invest 40 points into Botany to begin with,before branching out to any of our suggested builds below.

Herbalism Specializations are divided into three disciplines, each with multiplesub-specializations within which can be unlocked as you put points into theirpre-requisite disciplines, akin to talent trees.

Botany is always your startingpoint in order to learn how to gather while mounted at Botany 40. Fromthere you can keep investing into the specialization or swap to Bountiful Harvestsor Mastering the Elements, as you should have unlocked a second tree withskill 50 by then.

Bountiful Harvestsfocuses on the efficient gathering of each baseline herb type and on refining themto maximum Quality. While you can specialize on any type of herb, wecurrently recommend focusing on Bubble Poppy due to its very high demandfor Inscription, or on the Arboriculture node for its Perceptionskill bonuses.

Mastering The Elementsis the best tree for increasing your Rousing and Awakened Essence gains whilegathering. Its main benefit is the ability to use Overload Elemental Herbto gather a lot of materials quickly whenever it is up, and a lot of the powercomes from the baseline node of the tree, with each branch offering comparativelyweaker options.

Herbalism makes gold by farming herbs in the Dragon Isles, with rarerherbs being looted based on your Perception stat.

As herbs are a common ingredient for Alchemy and Inscription,try to sell yours in raid days, when crafters are more likely to be looking to createand sell their wares. The Oribos Exchangecan also help you understand the price fluctuation for herbs in your server, andwhich herbs are best to farm at any given moment.

We have a specialized guide for Dragonflight goldmaking below, which containsa goldmaking tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successfulgold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!