Powerleveling Herbalism From 1 to 450

Herbalism is easily the best of the gathering professions when it comes to making gold.  You can make a little more gold per stack with mining, but there are fewer nodes to farm overall.  But with herbalism there are zones simply packed with herbs. Whether you are using herbalism as a leveling profession or as  money-maker, our Herbalism Guide will walk you through the whole process step-by-step.

There are two main reasons to choose herbalism.  The first is as a gold-maker.  Herbs sell very well and there seem to be far fewer herb farmers than miners. We can’t say much about skinning because it’s been at the bottom of the gathering profession heap for a long time.  You might only pick skinning (and that on an alt) if you also have leatherworking.

Inscriptionists and Alchemists use loads of herbs, and since they are not farmed as heavily as metals on most servers they tend to carry nice stack prices.  Combine that with the fact that you can fill up your bags with herbs much faster than metals and you have a winner.  You know we’re not fans of farming at DYS, but if you’ve got to do it, at least make the very best use of your time.

The second reason for using herbalism is for leveling.  And in our book it’s the best reason for almost any toon.  If you’ve never seen how OP Lifebloom is at lower levels you’re really missing out on something.  For classes like rogues and warriors lifebloom is simply ridiculous.  If you keep your herbalism maxxed out for your level Lifebloom will typically heal you for about half your health.  You can almost get away with not eating, or at the very least it gives you aggressive types another health potion for big or chain pulls.

Combine Lifebloom with herb tracking and it can save you oodles of time on quests as well.  It’s really amazing how many “go get me fiddleweed for my secret formula/recipe” quests there are.  With herb tracking on you can concentrate on the kill quests and never search for the odd-looking purple weed hidden in the crooks of trees any more.

I’ve used herbalism on the last five toons I’ve leveled and it really is a life and time saver.  I typically dump gathering professions on toons I plan to raid with since crafting professions provide better buffs, but I tend to keep at least one herbalist around and might even do a little farming if I’m bored and don’t mind flying around a bit in Storm Peaks for flask mats.

Nothing is better than a Tauren druid with herbalism.  Herbing without dropping out of flight form is simply unfair, and almost makes farming herbs worth it.  I still say “almost” because I hate farming in general, but it’s just about as close to Dominating with farming as you can get.