Having trouble finding Black LotusFollow

To craft the new 24 slot herb bags you have to have revered reputation with the Cenarion Circle. My tailor is far too low level to achieve that in the foreseeable future. But I have found a friend of a friend who is willing to make me bags for free, as long as I provide the materials of course. One of the mats required is a black lotus.

My 58 hunter has 300 herbalism, but I’ve never encountered a black lotus. A friend and I searched through Winterspring and Silithus last night, using maps found on thottbot, to no avail. I would like to find three plants so that my two gatherers and my alchemist can each have one. Can anyone give me any tips on how to find these elusive plants?

I’ve searched the AH and but each plant runs 25 plus gold. I could of course farm the gold, but what’s the point of having 300 herbalism if I can’t pick my own plants? Any pointers would be very greatly appreciated.

Consider me chastised. *grins*

The only defense I can raise is that my friend went there first so I did so as well so we would be on the same maps. It’s not much of a defense, but it’s all I have. Though truth be told I use both sites quite often. If I could just combine the two I’d have the perfect resource.

Thank you very much for the links. The thottbot maps are very similar. I assume the solid white blocks should be lotus locations and that the circled ones are confirmed locations. I’ll have to ride out and see what I can find. It’s at times like this that I regret my rogue took skinning and mining instead of skinning and herbalism. Stealth would come in very hand.

I didn’t realize that black lotus had such a large respawn time. No wonder it’s so expensive. I thought there might be some something I was missing, like it only spawns at night. But I didn’t expect it was a respawn issue. I expect it would save me a lot of time if I just bought what I needed. But I tend to be rather stubborn about such things. I may end up buying my lotus, but not until I’ve tried to harvest it my self for a time. It’ll be just like a quest in my log with the lotus as the reward.

I got lucky last night and managed to find two black lotus spawns in Winterspring. A few of the spawn locations on the map are in the midst of upper 50 elite camps. I ventured as far as I could without engaging them, but nothing popped up on track. I might have been able to kill the mobs, but I didn’t want to take the time to do so when I had so many locations to check out.

One of the first spots I checked out was the yet cave. Nothing. I then checked the furbolg village and to my complete surprise I found a black lotus on track. It was in the back of one of the small camps above the main fort and as luck would have it someone had just cleared it. After checking out all the other spawn locations I checked the yeti cave again and found a black lotus growing on the ledge just outside the cave entrance. Each plant produced only one black lotus, but that’s what I was expecting so I wasn’t disappointed by it.

So that was two spawns I gathered from in Winterspring within about an hour. As for the actual spawn times, who’s to say? I expect we will never know. The two locations I found the black lotus are very heavily trafficked for farming reputation in the case of the furbolg and farming leather in the case of the yeti. There’s no way to tell if the lotus has a long spawn time or if someone simply picks them as soon as they spawn.

I have no true knowledge of how the system works, but I suspect there are X number of spawn locations in a given zone and that there are Y number of spawns at any given time. When one plant is picked it will respawn in a random location after what may be a random amount of time. So a plant may appear in the same spot twice in a row or miss that spot for numerous spawns. This is how mithril nodes seem to spawn around the yeti above Southshore. And believe me; I’ve spent a LOT of time there.

I think Flomo is correct. The only way to farm black lotus is to visit each of the spawn locations and hope you get to the plants before someone else does.