TBC Classic Herbalism Profession and Leveling 1-375 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.

Druids make great Herbalists as they are capable of gathering herbs while in Flight Form and Swift Flight Form, saving them the time of having to mount up after gathering each individual herb.

While focused on gathering herbs, it is highly recommended to use a movement speed increase, such as Crusader Aura or Riding Crop. This will greatly help with the amount of herbs you can gather in a session as the movement speed lets you get herbs you would have otherwise missed.

You may also find that Herbalism can be used to complement your goldmaking in TBC Classic. For more information on this among other methods involving alternative professions, please see our separate guide on the topic:

When Herbalism is learned as a profession, you will also learn a skill called Find Herbs that will show nearby plant nodes as a golden point on your minimap. This allows you to see herbs in hidden areas or off-screen so you can gather any nearby plants.

When you approach a herb, you can interact with it to try and gather the plant. However, you cannot gather all plants from the start; you will see different colors representing how hard is it for you to gather that specific plant. These colors represent the skill level needed to gather the plant and are the following:

• Red means that plant needs a higher skill level than you currently have and you cannot gather it yet.
• Orange means you can gather this plant, but your attempts may fail. Every successful attempt is guaranteed to increase your Herbalism skill.
• Yellow means you can normally gather this plant, your attempts may occasionally fail, and most successful attempts increase your Herbalism skill.
• Green means you can easily gather this plant, your attempts will rarely fail, and you will rarely increase your Herbalism skill by gathering these.
• Gray means you can gather this plant with no effort, your attempts will never fail, and they will never increase your Herbalism skill.

The skill levels you will need to train at are:

• Apprentice Level can be learned when first picking up the profession, starts from a skill level of 1, and goes up to 75. It also requires your character to be Level 5.
• Journeyman Level can be learned when you reach a skill level of 50 and goes up to 150. It also requires your character to be Level 10.
• Expert Level can be learned when you reach a skill level of 125 and goes up to 225. It also requires your character to be Level 20.
• Artisan Level can be learned when you reach a skill level of 200 and goes up to 300. It also requires your character to be Level 35.
• Master Level can be learned when you reach a skill level of 275 and goes up to 375. It the highest Profession Level and also requires your character to be Level 55.

You can learn Herbalism from any Herbalism trainer, which are found in capital cities. When you arrive at a major city you can ask any city guard for directions, and pick the Herbalism trainer option under the professions section. This will mark its location on your map, allowing you to easily find them and get the Herbalism skill.

To learn Herbalism past 300 skill level, you must travel to Outland and talk with a Master Herbalist. Alliance and Horde players can find their respective trainers at:

• [A] Rorelien at Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula, around coordinates (54,66).
• [H] Ruak Stronghorn at Thrallmar in Hellfire Peninsula, around coordinates (52,36).

Herb Node	Skill Level				Possible Loot	Zones
	Orange	Yellow	Green	Gray
Peacebloom	1	25	50	100	1-3 Peacebloom	Low-level zones
Silverleaf	1	25	50	100	1-3 Silverleaf	Low-level zones near trees
Earthroot	15	40	65	115	1-3 Earthroot	Low-level zones near mountains
Mageroyal	50	75	100	150	1-3 Mageroyal 1-2 Swiftthistle	Low- to mid-level zones
Briarthorn	70	95	120	170	1-3 Briarthorn 1-2 Swiftthistle (40%)	Low- to mid-level zones near trees
Stranglekelp	85	110	135	185	1-3 Stranglekelp	All coastal areas and deeper inland waters
Bruiseweed	100	125	150	200	1-3 Bruiseweed	Low- to mid-level zones near houses
Wild Steelbloom	115	140	165	215	1-3 Wild Steelbloom	Low- to mid-level zones
Grave Moss	120	145	170	220	1-3 Grave Moss	Low- to mid-level zones in graveyards
Kingsblood	125	150	175	225	1-3 Kingsblood	Mid-level zones
Liferoot	150	175	200	250	1-3 Liferoot	Mid-level zones near riverbanks
Fadeleaf	160	185	210	260	1-3 Fadeleaf	Mid-level zones
Goldthorn	170	195	220	270	1-3 Goldthorn	Mid-level zones
Khadgar's Whisker	185	210	235	285	1-3 Khadgar's Whisker	Mid-level zones
Wintersbite	195	220	245	295	1-3 Wintersbite	Alterac Mountains
Firebloom	205	230	255	305	1-3 Firebloom	Badlands Tanaris Searing Gorge Blasted Lands
Purple Lotus	210	235	260	310	1-3 Purple Lotus 1 Wildvine (10%)	Mid- to high-level zones near ruins
Arthas' Tears	220	245	270	320	1-3 Arthas' Tears	Western Plaguelands Eastern Plaguelands Felwood
Sungrass	230	255	280	330	1-3 Sungrass	High-level zones
Blindweed	235	260	285	335	1-3 Blindweed	Mostly in Swamp of Sorrows
Ghost Mushroom	245	270	295	345	1-3 Ghost Mushroom	Most high-level cave areas
Gromsblood	250	275	300	350	1-3 Gromsblood	Felwood Blasted Lands Desolace Ashenvale
Golden Sansam	260	285	310	360	1-3 Golden Sansam	High-level zones
Dreamfoil	270	295	320	370	1-3 Dreamfoil	High-level zones
Mountain Silversage	280	305	330	380	1-3 Mountain Silversage	High-level zones
Plaguebloom	285	310	335	385	1-3 Plaguebloom	Eastern Plaguelands Western Plaguelands Felwood
Icecap	290	315	340	390	1-3 Icecap	Winterspring
Black Lotus	300	325	350	400	1 Black Lotus	Very Rarely in Winterspring Very Rarely in Eastern Plaguelands Very Rarely in Burning Steppes Very Rarely in Silithus

1-50

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.

• 1-50 — Peacebloom
• 1-50 — Silverleaf
• 15-50 — Earthroot

Once you have reached 50 Skill in Herbalism, head to your local trainer to learn Journeyman Herbalist, allowing you to progress up to 150 Skill.

50-70

To quickly get through these skill levels, focus mostly on Earthroot and Mageroyal as they remain the highest chance to grant a skill increase.

• 50-70 — Earthroot
• 50-70 — Mageroyal

70-100

Here players will continue their earlier pathing and continue to gather Earthroot and Mageroyal. Now you should also prioritize gathering Briarthorn as it offers a guaranteed skill-up.

• 70-100 — Briarthorn

100-115

You will want to head into higher-level zones here and keep an eye out for Bruiseweed while still gathering any herbs that offer a skill increase.

• 100-115 — Bruiseweed

115-125

You can now gather even more herbs in the area, speeding up this section of leveling.

• 115-125 — Wild Steelbloom

After you reach 125 Skill in Herbalism, head to your nearest trainer and learn Expert Herbalism.

125-160

We can now gather the higher-level herbs in the area, helping us level much faster. Keep gathering any herb that has a chance at giving you a skill increase.

• 125-160 — Kingsblood

160-205

We will need to head into a higher=level zone here and begin picking some more difficult herbs to continue gaining skill increases. These first few skill levels may be troublesome as you can run into quite a few herbs that you cannot yet gather. It may be worth staying behind and gathering some lower-level herbs for a couple extra skill-ups before changing zones.

• 160-185 — Fadeleaf
• 185-205 — Khadgar's Whisker

Before heading into the next section of herbs, head to your nearest city and train Aritsan Herbalism, allowing you to progress all the way to 300 Herbalism.

205-230

Here we recommend heading into Tanaris as you can get multiple different herbs to skill-up with at the same time.

• 205-230 — Firebloom
• 210-235 — Purple Lotus

230-300

Here we recommend heading to Felwood as you can find multiple different herbs to help you raise your Herbalism skill up all the way to 300. Western and Eastern Plaguelands is an alternative that may be easier in the early skill levels as Felwood has a high variety of plants.

Herbs to look for:

• 220-300 — Arthas' Tears
• 230-300 — Sungrass
• 250-300 — Gromsblood
• 260-300 — Golden Sansam
• 270-300 — Dreamfoil
• 280-300 — Mountain Silversage
• 285-300 — Plaguebloom

Alternative 280-300

You may choose to use this alternative method of training Herbalism as it may be faster depending on respawn rates and competition for respawning herbs. Head into Winterspring and gather both of these plants until you have reached max skill level.

• 280-300 — Mountain Silversage
• 290-300 — Icecap

Herb Node	Skill Level				Possible Loot	Zones
	Orange	Yellow	Green	Gray
Felweed	300	325	350	400	1-3 Felweed 1-2 Mote of Life (15%) 1 Fel Blossom (10%) 1 Fel Lotus (1.5%)	All Outland Zones
Dreaming Glory	315	340	365	415	1-3 Dreaming Glory 1-3 Mote of Life (15%) 1 Fel Lotus (2%)	All Outland Zones
Ragveil	325	350	375	425	1-3 Ragveil 1-3 Mote of Life (15%) 1 Fel Lotus (2%)	Zangarmarsh
Terocone	325	350	375	425	1-3 Terocone 1-3 Mote of Life (15%) 1 Fel Lotus (3%)	Shadowmoon Valley Terokkar Forest
Flame Cap	335	360	385	435	1-2 Flame Cap 1 Fel Lotus (2%)	Zangarmarsh
Ancient Lichen	340	365	390	440	1-3 Ancient Lichen 1 Fel Lotus (1.5%)	Auchindoun Dungeons Coilfang Reservoir dungeons
Netherbloom	350	375	400	450	1-3 Netherbloom 1-3 Mote of Mana (15%) 1 Fel Lotus (3%)	Netherstorm
Nightmare Vine	365	390	415	465	1-3 Nightmare Vine 1-3 Nightmare Seed (10%) 1 Fel Lotus (3%)	Shadowmoon Valley Throne of Kil'jaeden in Hellfire Peninsula
Mana Thistle	375	400	425	475	1-2 Mana Thistle 1-3 Mote of Life (15%) 1 Fel Lotus (3%)	Level 70 areas of Outland.

Azeroth Alternative 300-345

It is possible to train Herbalism up to very high skill levels in Azeroth if you wish to do so. While this is not the recommended method, it can be useful if Outland herbs are highly contested. While it is possible to reach 375 Herbalism in Azeroth, we recommend heading into Outland around skill levels 325-345 as it will start to become much more difficult to skill-up at this point.

300-325

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 these herbs:

• 300-325 — Blindweed
• 300-325 — Golden Sansam
• 300-325 — Dreamfoil
• 300-325 — Mountain Silversage
• 300-325 — Felweed
• 315-325 — Dreaming Glory

325-350

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

• 300-350 — Felweed
• 315-350 — Dreaming Glory
• 325-350 — Terocone

350-375

For the final 25 skill levels we recommend gathering in Netherstorm, but you can easily reach the cap in any zone you wish.

• 300-375 — Felweed
• 315-375 — Dreaming Glory
• 350-375 — Netherbloom

In TBC, a few of the herbs and additional looted items found in herbs have uses beyond just crafting. Here you can see a list of all the special herbs and usable consumables that can be found throughout Outland.

• Fel Blossom — Allows Herbalists to absorb 750 to 1250 damage.
• Flame Cap — Causes your ranged and melee attacks to have a chance to deal 40 Fire damage; it also increases Fire spell damage by 80 and lasts for 1 minute. This is a great offensive option, especially for Fire-damage. casters.
• Nightmare Seed — Increases your health by 2000 for 30 seconds. These are used frequently in PvE, especially by tanks.
• Ancient Lichen — Used for many different potions and flasks. This can be rather rare since it can only be gathered in dungeons.
• Mana Thistle — This herb is needed to make every TBC flask, making it one of the most expensive normal herbs available.
• Fel Lotus — Also needed for every TBC flask. It has a chance to be obtained from any Outland herb node, making it difficult to regularly farm.