Herbalism Guide for Midnight

As usual, Herbalism will be responsible for gathering herbs and related materials around Midnight zones. These are mostly used by Alchemy and Inscription.

You will also be able to gather many rare elemental motes which are widely used by all professions, such as Mote of Light.

The new race, Haranir, has 5 extra Herbalism skill and 10 more Finesse, which is decent but not particularly strong, especially when compared to Tauren.

Earthen will be able to gather more herbs with their Hyper Productive racial, making them a great option when looking to farm a lot of basic materials.

Dracthyr mobility abilities and +2% baseline Perception racial are a good alternative, which is more focused on hunting for rare reagents.

The final contender are regular Tauren, especially when combined with Druid instant cast flying with Travel Form, as their Cultivation grants a massive 25% increase in gathering speed and +5 Herbalism skill, which will help you get more valuable high quality herbs when gathering!

Herbalism can make great use of all three stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats for different playstyles. We go into detail with Herbalism stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

You can gather five base herb types: Tranquility Bloom, Argentleaf, Azeroot, Mana Lily, and Sanguithorn.

Elemental motes and Nocturnal Lotus can also be gathered occasionally from Perception procs and elementally-infused nodes.

The base types can be found as special nodes:

• Lush nodes can be found anywhere and provide more herbs than usual when gathered;
• Lightfused nodes are found in the Eversong Woods zone and gathering them awards Mote of Light. Looting them causes swirlies that deal damage but also award extra motes if you stand in them;
• Wild nodes can be found in the Zul'Aman zone and provide Mote of Wild Magic. Looting them creates enemies that you can kill for extra motes;
• Primal nodes can be found in the Harandar zone and gathering them awards Mote of Primal Energy;
• Voidbound nodes can be found in the Voidstorm zone and provide Mote of Pure Void. Looting them creates a void zone centered around the herb that pulls you in and deals damage for a short duration.

Overload Infused Herb is learned when gathering your first special node, and while its effect differs from node to node, it will always allow you to gather a large amount of motes of the node's element and give you an extra knowledge point for the first time you do it on a specific herb type.

Herbalism is easy to level, as all you need to do is gather from the many herbs found all around the world. The most common regular herbs will only give you skill up to 30 or so, but uncommon herbs will go further and special nodes will continue giving skill ups all the way to 100.

Each time you gather a new type of herb will gain you a knowledge point, so make sure to move to a new zone after learning all herb types in your current zone.

As you gather herbs you will also occasionally loot items that can increase your knowledge, up to a weekly maximum tracked on your profession journal.

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

Herbalism Specializations dictate what herbs you are proficient at gathering, and can even let you herb while mounted! In fact, that feature is so strong that we would recommend you to invest 40 points into Botany (unless you are a Druid or using the Sky Golem mount, which have the same effect) to begin with, before branching out to any of our suggested builds below.

The rest of the Botany tree is dedicated to finding and planting seeds through the Cultivation sub-tree and creating mulch items through the Mulching sub-tree. Seeds can be planted on fertile ground found near rivers in order to grow herbs which can be gathered immediately, while mulches grant bonuses to your next herb gather and come in three variants: Magical Mulch for a guaranteed Finesse proc, Imbued Mulch for a guaranteed Perception proc, and Empowered Mulch for guaranteed maximum rank herbs.

Bountiful Harvests and its sub-nodes are the best investment once you can herb while mounted, as they drastically increase the skill level at which you herb while also providing high stat bonuses and an increase to maximum herb yield from each gather! You will also learn how to find Nocturnal Lotus more often with the capstone of each sub-node and improve the effect of Finesse procs after reaching the midpoint of each sub-node.

Finally, Midnight Overload focuses on Overload Infused Herb and your skill at gathering special nodes, and grants you a second charge of this ability once fully unlocked, but also requires a massive amount of talent point investment for a benefit that only applies when harvesting elemental nodes that are rare finds to begin with. Because each Midnight zone focuses on a single elemental node type, it is a good idea to maximize the talents that benefit the type of mote you are interested in farming and then exclusively farming that zone.

Herbalism makes gold by farming herbs in Midnight zones, with elemental motes and lotuses being looted based on your Perception stat.

As herbs are a common ingredient for Alchemy and Inscription, try to sell yours in raid days, when crafters are more likely to be looking to create and sell their wares. The Undermine Exchange can also help you understand the price fluctuation for herbs in your server, and which herbs are best to farm at any given moment.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight goldmaking below, which contains a goldmaking tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!