Dragonflight Herbalism Boost

Is WoW Herbalism Useful?

Herbalism has always been one of the most valuable professions in the World of Warcraft since many professions rely on herbs, and Those professions are heavily invested in creating consumables. Alchemists need Herbalists to gather raw materials for potions, phials, cauldrons, and finishing reagents, and Those who invest in Inscription need Herbs to create inks used to make nearly all of their items runes, sigils, Dragonriding transmogs, profession specialization treatises, contracts, cards, scrolls, and more. You always will be in high demand as a professional herbalist in any type or phase of the game content.

Since many things made with Herbs fall under the category of "consumables", there will always be a steady market for Herbs. You can make gold in Herbalism not just on the herbs but also on the rare side gathers you can get. Five versions of Dragonflight herbs give you guaranteed drops for Rousing Air, Rousing Decay, Rousing Frost, and Rousing Order, all important for creating Awakened reagents used in high-end crafting. It's also a source of Lava Beetle, used to create Assorted Exotic Spices, an important ingredient in some endgame Dragonflight Cooking.

New Dragonflight Herbalism Specializations

Each Profession has its own set of unique Specializations, tailored to fit and enhance crafting and gathering capabilities thematically. Herbalism in Dragonflight is no exception, with access to these Specializations: Bountiful Harvests, Botany, and Mastering the Elements. In total, Herbalists will need to spend 520 Knowledge points to max out their Specializations: 200 in Bountiful Harvests, 120 in Botany, and 200 in Mastering the Elements.

• Bountiful Harvests - gives you extra skill when picking herbs. It also allows you to Refine herbs by combining 5 herbs of a lower quality to the next higher quality. Refining is a nearly guaranteed money-losing proposition, since no quality of herb generally sells for x5 the price of the next lower quality. You can also learn Horticulture, Arboriculture, Fungiculture, and Floriculture, which improves your Skill when picking Those herbs, giving you a greater chance to get higher quality. It also improves your Perception, Deftness, and Finesse for Those herbs.
• Botany - improves your ability to pick all herbs, thus improving both quality and quantity. Maxxing Botany also allows you to herb while mounted in the Dragon Isles. You can sub-specialize in Cultivation, allowing you to gather more seeds and different, improved types of seeds from herbs. This is fun and gives you a chance to collect more herbs and more Rousing Essences. Conversance also improves your Perception and the chance to get even more Rousing Essences. You can also sub-specialize in Conversance, which improves your use of your Herbalism tools. This should be one of your first sub-trees to fill out. Further investment also allows you to cultivate herbs on plant creatures and loot Rousing elements when gathering from them. It also gives you bonuses with Lush nodes. Plant mobs are not plentiful, but the tree is useful for building other secondary skills.
• Mastering the Elements - gives you +1 Skill per point when picking Elemental herbs. While you will now get the Overload Elemental Herb when you first pick an Elemental Herb, this tree allows you to reduce the 12-hour cooldown by picking herbs. It also improves your skill picking Elemental herbs, allowing you to extract more Rousing elements from them. You can also specialize in any or all Elemental herbs except Infurious, reducing or eliminating their negative effects and giving you greater Deftness, Finesse, and Perception by gathering these particular nodes.

How do I learn Herbalism in Dragonflight?

Unlike previous expansions, you must learn Herbalism in Dragonflight to pick any herbs in the Dragon Isles. In most other expansions, you could still pick herbs without the expansion skill; you just couldn't get a skill from it. This is why it's crucial to visit your Dragonflight Herbalism trainer before you go running off into the wilds.

• Feilin Kuan - Wingrest Embassy, The Waking Shores, /way 76.8 34.0.
• Szarostrasza - Ruby Life Pools, The Waking Shores, lower lever near ferry /way 57.4 65.8.
• Namuuntsetseg - Teeraki, Ohn'arhan Plains, /way 38.2 56.6.
• Agrikus - Artisan's Market (wanders in garden between Herbalism and Alchemy), Valdrakken, /way 37.1 67.1.

What profession goes with WoW Herbalism?

The two best crafting professions to pair with Dragonflight Herbalism are Alchemy and Inscription. Only with these professions will you get maximum effort from your crafting and gathering profession and make a lot of gold and valuable items and consumables for yourself. You could choose another crafting profession and sell all your herbs on Auction House.