Herbalism worth itFollow

All I hear about is how much money you make from mining. Right now im level 30 and have 139 herbalism should i keep leveling this up or should i drop it for mining?

because you cant have track mining and track herbalism on at the same time.

Start alchemy. No matter what lvl it is comapared to you it helps

i'm level 42 and have 250+ herbalism. i don't know if it's just my server, but let me tell you the demand for some of these things is kinda wonky. i've always heard about "rogues always need fadeleaf" or "there's never any goldthorn" and i'll sell wild steelbloom like hotcakes sometimes, and then run into a stretch where nobody bought a damn thing for two days >< i guess people don't need herbs that often. but then i sold a bunch yesterday, so i'm happy again ^^

the demand based on server economy is so right, you say that mageroyal and kingsblood are popular on your server, on mok'nathal i usually sell kingsblood but it seems like nobody likes mageroyal =/

buy my stuff people ><

I can sell maybe stack of fadeleaf in 4-5 days, if I price it under 2 g, otherwise no way.
New servers are fun :)

Keep herblism forever unless your server has very bad economy for herbs, other wise its the best money maker imo

Having leveled herbalism to 375, I can tell you it can be VERY profitable if you stick with it for the long haul. It made me enough gold in 3 days to buy my epic mount. Many of the high end herbs from the outlands will sell for 1-2g each. Ghost Mushrooms are still a huge seller as they are used by an Alch to make Elixir of Shadow Power. Warlocks need to turn in 10 Elixers as part of there Dreadsteed epic mount quest line at 60.

It's been said several times but I will iterate, 2 gathering professions will make you more money than a gather/crafting profession. Crafting professions; Tailoring, Leather Working, Jewelry Crafting, Engineering, Blacksmithing and Enchanting* require you to use a significant amount of the materials you've gathered to level the profession without really being able to sell the end product for any sort of profit, most times you will wind up selling to a vendor for next to nothing or giving it to a low level guildie. Selling the raw materials, cloth, ore, leathers, shards/dusts, stones will get you gold faster. That being said, sticking with a crafting profession or switching to one later on when you have a ton of gold will give you the ability to make some great items for sale and especially for yourself. Many of the BoP items that you can make for yourself as a Tailor/LW/JC/Eng/BS/Enchanter are really great. Just make sure your profession fits with your class. If your a priest don't take up blacksmithing, you won't be able to use anything you make.

As you are level 30, keep the herbalism and pick up another gathering profession, skinning or mining. I would lean torwards skinning. As others have said, you can't have both the herb and mining trackers on at the same time. One way to help get around this is to use the Cartographer mod. There are Herb and Mining plugings that will keep track of where you picked herbs and mined nodes. These locations will be marked on the mini and full size map the next time you are in that region. After some time you will begin to see patterns of where the nodes/herbs appear making gathering life a little earier.

To see how well stuff sells and for how much get the Auctioneer mod and scan AH 1-2 times a day for about a week to get a nice baseline. You can also search Wowecon's website for items. I've found it to be fairly accurate but once Auctioneer is setup and loaded with data it is the most accurate.


- Azoth

No Outlands herbs sell on my server yet. Not for 1-2 g apiece but for 0 g for stack. Been trying for few weeks and not one single herb of higher ones but golden sansam sold, not even at ridicoulosly low prices.

Demand is everything and none can generalise about prices when they vary so much.

What I do is check AH daily.
When I get tired of playing my main toon I simply switch to my bank/selling alt and go take a look what sells and at what price that day. Even if I have nothing to sell. If I want to look up the price of particular herb/we, and there isnt any I look for the similar ones. In example, if I want to sell stack of peacebloom I check prices on silverleaf or earthroot, herbs that are quite common in the same zone.
When I find something new I check whats it used for first, lot of herbs have use outside alchemy and are therefore more in demand and can be sold for more gold.
Or kept for something better :)
When I first looted savage frond I asked a friend what was it for. He said "nice vendor food". Well I looked it up and informed him that Argent Dawn rep/insignias he was working on so hard would be easier to obtain if he wasnt vendoring savage fronds. He was furious :)

Personally I recommend use what you like.

Let me just say most servers are going with an influx of jewelcrafters, and if you are looking at earning $$ pick up mining.

Its not terribly hard to level both mining and herbalism, even though they both use tracking systems.

Personally, I find its not hard to find herbs at all without the tracker, Leave the mining tracker on for the most part and just keep your eyes open :)

Right now herbalism is awesome since all the Alchemists are trying to learn flasks. Maybe it will be less valuable when most alchies have all the flasks but that's going to be a long, long time away.