Best Mastering the Elements Talent Build Guide for Herbalism in Dragonflight

The Mastering the Elements tree allows you to specialize into gathering the various types of Rousing and Awakened Essences when looting Dragon Isles herbs affected by modifiers.

This is mostly done through the usage of the Overload Elemental Herb ability, which you should be using on cooldown. While its baseline cooldown is 12 hours, each herb you pick during this period reduces the cooldown by 30 minutes, allowing you to use it somewhat frequently, especially if you also have the cooldown reduction talents present in the Mastering the Elements tree branches.

Using this ability on the following modified herb types will lead to a specific result (note that Lush nodes cannot be affected and you can loot the overloaded herb before or after participating in its respective mini-game).

• Windswept overloads launch you into the air, and you can orient yourself while slow-falling to pick up airborne flowers which grant random herbs and Rousing Air;
• Titan-Touched overloads open a portal next to the herb which ports you to a random nearby herb node. Pick up the overloaded herb before taking the portal for some Rousing Order;
• Frigid overloads spawn an Overloaded Frost neutral mob which spawns frozen herb nodes nearby which can be looted for Rousing Frost. The mob itself can be killed for an extra node;
• Decayed overloads spawn an enemy that can be looted for Rousing Decay and the original decayed herb;
• Infurious overloads knock back nearby enemy players and grant you 10% extra stats from Overload Blood for 10-minutes.

1. 5 points into Mastering the Elements for pathing;
2. Learn Titan-Touched (no knowledge point investment required) for added gathering efficiency;
3. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
4. Learn Frigid (no knowledge point investment required) for added gathering efficiency;
5. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
6. Learn Decayed (no knowledge point investment required) for added gathering efficiency;
7. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
8. Learn Windswept (no knowledge point investment required) for added gathering efficiency;
9. 5 points into Mastering the Elements to gain more Essences when gathering modified herbs.

This talent pathing focuses on Mastering the Elements and unlocking all the sub-nodes without point investment into them. The objective is to become highly efficient at gathering all types as quickly as possible, and further specialization into a type can be done later, perhaps in the form of 20 point investments into all of them, to lower the cooldown on Overload Elemental Herb as much as possible!