When you're looking at a World of Warcraft Gold Guide, you will typically find a few methods highlighted. And surely Herbalism will be one of these methods. All three major gathering methods are good ways to gold farm, but Herbalism is definitely the best. However, herbalism can be a hard profession to master because of the complete randomness of node locations and the sheer number of them out there. Which ones should you be searching for and where are they located?

What Herbs Are Best to Harvest

Any decent WoW gold guide will give you basic advice for making money through herbalism. They're helpful and accurate as far as they go, but if you're smart and well-informed, you can do even better. Lower-level herb nodes are no way to make a fortune, but fortunately, they are easy to find, despite random spawning. Low level herbal nodes are also easy to access and usually not surrounded by large groups of mobs, making them easy to work with.

Things get more interesting when you're talking about higher level herbal nodes. They are incredibly random in spawning to start with and they tend to be hard to get at when someone else is already in the area. When you reach upper levels and start looking for black lotuses, dreamfoil, or ghost mushrooms. These important herbs are hard to find, but they're what you should be harvesting as, when you do get them, they are quite valuable.

What Are the Best Spots to Harvest

There are not necessarily any specific zones where harvesting is best for herbs. Early on, your searches will take place in Stranglethorn Vale and Westfall, but after you level up some, you'll be searching zones like Un’Goro Crater and the Plaguelands looking for rare spawns. Things become a little more clear cut when you reach the Outland. This is because at higher levels, you can harvest some of the mobs in addition to the herb nodes! The Bog Lords and plant mobs in Zangarmarsh and Terokkar Forest are great sources of rare drops, including Unidentified Plant Parts (a reputation item), motes of Life, and a variety of of sought-after herbs. Most WoW gold guides skimp on information about opportunities like this, but if you were to farm Bog Lords for an hour, you would almost certainly generate at least 75-100 gold, especially if you gather the various mushroom spawns in the area that are used for Sporeggar reputation.

Herbalism is an interesting profession with multiple possibilities. There's a good reason why World of Warcraft gold guides typically recommend that you choose Mining and Herbalism as your primary professions. They're both good ways to make money, and they complement each other. In some zones (Nagrand for example), you can find both mineral and herbal nodes to harvest in your travels. This greatly increases your gold making potential as a result.