Cataclysm Classic Herbalism Profession and Leveling Guide

Herbalism is one of the few gathering professions available to players. This profession focuses on collecting resources in the form of herbs, rather than crafting items or consumables for use. These gathered herbs are most commonly used together with Alchemy to create various potions, flasks, and elixirs.

When you have the Herbalism skill, you can use Find Herbs to track and show the location of nearby herbs on your minimap. Make sure to keep this up whenever you are out gathering or you will have a much harder time finding nodes.

Cataclysm brings 6 new Herbalism materials for players to gather.

• Azshara's Veil
• Cinderbloom
• Stormvine
• Heartblossom
• Whiptail
• Twilight Jasmine

In Cataclysm, you no longer need to visit different trainers to learn new ranks of Herbalism. Every trainer will now be able to each you all ranks in any major city.

Alliance	Horde
Shylamiir — Stormwind	Jandi — Orgrimmar
Reyna Stonebranch — Ironforge	Komin Winterhoof — Thunder Bluff
Firodren Mooncaller — Darnassus	Martha Alliestar — Undercity
Cemmorhan — Exodar	Botanist Nathera — Silvermoon

Cataclysm also adds profession trainers in each starting zone, allowing you to pick up a profession right away rather than needing to reach a major city first.

Alliance	Horde
Jack All-Trades Derrington — Gilneas	KTC Train-a-Tron Deluxe — The Lost Isles
Lien Farner — Elwynn Forest	Runda — Durotar
Wembil Taskwidget — Dun Morogh	Lalum Darkmane — Mulgore
Iranis Shadebloom — Teldrassil	Therisa Sallow — Tirisfal Glades
Valn — Azuremyst Isle	Saren — Eversong Woods

To start off you will be gathering Silverleaf and Peacebloom in the low-level starting areas. At 15 you can begin to gather Earthroot to help speed up the process.

Elwynn Forest

Tirisfal Glades

Be sure to train Journeyman Herbalist before heading out, allowing you to progress up to 150 Herbalism skill. To quickly get through these skill levels, focus mostly on Mageroyal, Briarthorn, and Bruiseweed as they remain the highest chance to grant a skill increase.

Westfall

Silverpine Forest

Here you will be mostly focusing on Fadeleaf, Khadgar's Whisker, Kingsblood, and Liferoot. At 225 return to your nearest Herbalist trainer to unlock Master Herbalism.

Northern Stranglethorn

At first you will only be able to gather Sungrass, but soon you will be able to pick Golden Sansam, Dreamfoil, and Mountain Silversage as well.

Azshara

A few Classic WoW herbs can be found in Outland and used to skill up your Herbalism in both Hellfire Peninsula and Zangarmarsh. Keep an eye out for these as they are a large part of your early skill-ups gained in Outland. Until your Herbalism Skill reaches 325, we recommend staying in Hellfire Peninsula and gathering all herbs that give a skill increase.

Hellfire Peninsula

For these next 25 skill levels Terokkar Forest fits your needs, offering multiple herbs with guaranteed skill increases.

Terrokar Forest

Be sure to head to a Herbalist trainer to unlock Grand Master Herbalism, allowing you to max out your Herbalism at 450 skill level. Borean Tundra is a decent zone for herbing as it has 3 different plants to pick from and flat, open ground, allowing you to quickly travel from herb to herb. If you are having trouble getting the last few skill-ups in this zone, head to Grizzly Hills at 375 instead.

Borean Tundra

Sholazar Basin is one of the best zones for picking herbs in all of Wrath of the Lich King. You can easily get your last 25 skill points here as there is an overabundance of herbs to find.

Sholazar Basin

You'll be gathering 3 different herbs here, Cinderbloom, Azshara's Veil, and Stormvine.

Mount Hyjal

Here you will mainly be gathering Whiptail. This route is short compared to others and is packed full of herbs, making it the easiest way to reach 525.

Uldum

Herbalism provides access to a unique, personal spell Lifeblood. The healing of this spell scales with your Herbalism skill and maximum health, offering you a moderate heal-over-time.

Buff	Skill Required	Details
Lifeblood (Rank 1)	1	Grants 5 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 2)	75	Grants 15 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 3)	150	Grants 35 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 4)	225	Grants 55 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 5)	300	Grants 70 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 6)	375	Grants 120 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 7)	450	Grants 240 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.
Lifeblood (Rank 8)	525	Grants 480 Haste rating for 20 seconds and heals 4% health.

Herbalism is just one of the many professions you may choose to level in Cataclysm Classic. To learn more about the other options available, we recommend checking out our overviews of all professions and their unique bonuses below.