leveling herbalism guide world of warcraft

Leveling Herbalism From 1-450 In A Single Day

This is going to be pretty short and sweet.  We’re going to give you the best areas for major Herb farming. This will be especially helpful if you’ve picked up herbalism as a higher level character and need to rush back through the lower levels or newbie zones as you pick your herbalism skill up by the boot straps.

As you go through this guide, remember that when doing circuits of an area, try to travel in a zigzag pattern.  The more of an area you cover, the better your farming will be overall.  Also, when you get to the higher level herbs, don’t skip the lower level stuff just because you don’t get skill ups for it.  Part of the way nodes spawn is related to how many empty nodes there are in the area.  The more nodes you pick, the more new nodes will spawn in the general area.  You can actually speed things up by picking everything that pops up on your map.  Besides, you can either sell the mats you don’t need at ah or turn them into potions to use or sell if you are doing Alchemy.

Some time ago we posted a terrific article from Fran Molina, our Brazilian correspondent, about farming Terrokar Forrest.  That was back in BC days when such a thing was profitable, but she has some good tips there as well that we won’t repeat  – but her article is definitely worth another read.  You can get to it using this link.

1 – 50:  Silverleaf and Peacebloom

Alliance:

  • Dolanaar
  • Dun Murogh
  • Elwynn Forrest
  • Azuremyst Isle

Horde:

  • Mulgore
  • Tirisfal Glades
  • Eversong Woods
  • Durotar

51 – 70:  Mageroyal & Earthroot

Alliance

  • Westfall Coast
  • Gol’Bolar Quarry, Dun Morogh
  • Darkshore
  • Silverpine Forest

Horde

  • Northwest Badlands
  • Barrens

71 – 100:  Briarthorn

Alliance

  • Darkshore
  • Twilight Grove, Duskwood
  • Eastern shore of Loch Modan
  • Lakeshire, Redridge Mountains

Horde

  • All of Northern Barrens
  • Southern Silverpine Forrest

101 – 115:  Bruiseweed

Alliance

  • Western Ashenvale
  • East of Loch Modan
  • Stonewatch Keep, Redridge Mountains

Horde

  • Ramparts North to Splintertree post in Ashenvale
  • Stonetalon Mountains
  • Southern Barrens

116 – 125:  Wild Steelbloom

Alliance

  • Stonetalon Peak

Horde

  • Southern Barrens
  • From Great Lift to Highperch in Thousand Needles

Both

  • Stranglethorn Vale
  • Outer edges of Arathi Highlands
  • Nek’mani Wellspring in Stranglethorn Vale
  • Zuuldaia Ruins, Stranglethorn Vale

By this time, both Alliance and Horde will be farming similar areas, so we’ll just lump them all together and you can look for herbs as you travel.  Also, the higher levels have more scattered spawn points, so you’ll need to do complete circuits of each of these areas to find all the nodes.

126 – 160:  Kingsblood

  • Ashenvale
  • Charred Vale, Stonetalon Mountains
  • Wetlands
  • Hillsbrad Foothills
  • Misty Reed Swamp, Swamp of Sorrows

161 – 185:  Fadeleaf

  • Swamp of Sorrows
  • Stranglethorn Vale

186 – 205:  Khadgar’s Whisker

  • Stranglethorn Vale
  • Hinterlands
  • Eastern Arathi Highlands
  • Swamp of Sorrows

206 – 230:  Firebloom

  • Searing Gorge
  • Blasted Lands
  • Tanaris

231 – 250:  Sungrass

  • Felwood
  • Feralas
  • Forlorn Ridge, Azshara

251 – 270:  Gromsblood

  • Felwood
  • Mannoroc Coven, Desolace
  • Blasted Lands

271 – 290:  Dreamfoil

  • Un’Goro Crater
  • Azshara

290 – 300:  Plaguebloom

  • Western Plaguelands
  • Eastern Plaguelands

300 – 330:  Felwood, Blasted Lands

331 – 350+:  Zangarmarsh

350 – 375:  Shadowmoon, Zangarmarsh or hop to Northrend

350 – 420:  Goldclover

  • Howling Fjord
  • Borean Tundra

400 – 450:  Frozen Herb

  • Dragonblight
  • Zul Drak

As a level 80, you could easily do this in just a few hours.  Also, if you are power leveling, be sure to watch where the herbs overlap, you can go from 225 – 350 in Felwood alone, and maybe pick up a few Felcloth while you’re at it.  Zangarmarsh is also just packed with herbs, so once you get there, there’s no real reason to leave, unless you just get bored of looking at giant mushrooms and would rather head out to Northrend where there are far more Dominating profits to be made.