Getting Started
To learn herbalism you will want to find an Herbalist Trainer. Trainers are available in every major city and can be located by simply asking a guard. The trainer will teach you herbalism for a small fee and then every 50 – 75 skill points you’ll return to increase your rank from Apprentice all the way up to Grand Master. See the chart below for more information on levels.

Rank Skill Levels
Apprentice 1-75
Journeyman 50-150
Expert 125-225
Artisan 200-300
Master (The Burning Crusade) 300-375
Grand Master (WotLK) 375-450

You can unlearn herbalism at anytime on your skills tab. Though if you drop it now and pick up later you will lose all of your skill points you’ve gained.

Gatherable Herbs
Please look below for a list of herbs at the bottom of this article. Click here to move down.

Skilling Up
Herbalism is a simple gathering profession. This means that you roam out into the wilds, find herbs, and then return to sell them on the Auction House. Herbs are gathered by right clicking the herb on the ground and waiting until the gather skill finishes. Afterwards you’ll be given a random number of herbs (between 1-3 on average) and the herb will then disappear.

Every time you gather an orange herb you’ll gain a skill point. You can tell an herb’s color by hovering over it with your mouse and it’ll display “Requires Herbalism,” which will be color coded based on your skill level and the skill level of the herb. Yellow herbs will almost always give you a skill point and green herbs are very flakey. They will often not give you any! Grey herbs will give you no skill points but you’ll still loot up the herbs.

You can use the ability “Find Herbs” to display nearby herbs on your minimap. It’s somewhat inaccurate giving you only a rough location. Look around on the ground, behind trees, and even under the ground itself if the dot is grayed out to find your herb. Find Herbs does conflict with Find Minerals and other tracking abilities like the myriad ones that Hunters have.

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There are various ways to gain skill bonuses to herbalism. Taurens gain a natural 15 point bonus to herbalism. A pair of Herbalist’s Gloves will give you a 5 point bonus but they’re Alliance only. The only way to get the recipe on the Horde side is to get it over the neutral auction house.

Speaking of gloves you can enchant your gloves with Herbalism, Advanced Herbalism, or Gatherer which will add 2,5,5 skill points respectively to your gloves. Combine them with a pair of Herbalist Gloves and you’ll have an extra bonus of 7 to 10 points. That can save you some time when you’re a few points to the next herb and want to start picking it now.

Note that adding on skill points will make your skill act a little weird. A +10 herbalism glove will let you gather a lot of herbs before you can normally get them. Most herbs will say yellow and orange longer since you’re still working off your “base” skill for the con, but your actual skill is higher with the bonus.

Making Cash with Herbalism
If you’re not using herbalism to make products then what are you using it for? How about making some mad wow gold? You don’t need a fancy wow gold guide to know this: herbs sell. They sell fast too. You can expect an almost instant turnaround of any level of herb if they’re put up at the right times. All herbs sell. From Peacebloom to the herbs growing on Arthas’s doormat move fast. Well, alright, they won’t always sell immediately but there is a very high demand for them.