Best Botany Talent Build Guide for Herbalism in Dragonflight

The Botany tree enables you to gather while mounted, improves your seed planting and collecting prowess, and improves your gathering from plant type enemies.

1. 10 points into Botany for pathing;
2. Learn Cultivation (no knowledge point investment required) for higher seed loot chance;
3. 20 points into Botany for further pathing;
4. Learn Conversance (no knowledge point investment required) to enable gathering from the bodies of plant type enemies;
5. 10 points into Botany to unlock gathering while mounted;
6. 5 points into Bountiful Harvests for pathing;
7. Learn Fungiculture (no knowledge point investment required) for added Bubble Poppy gathering efficiency;
8. 10 points into Bountiful Harvests for further pathing;
9. Learn Horticulture (no knowledge point investment required) for added Hochenblume gathering efficiency;
10. 10 points into Bountiful Harvests for further pathing;
11. Learn Floriculture (no knowledge point investment required) for added Saxifrage gathering efficiency;
12. 10 points into Bountiful Harvests for further pathing;
13. Learn Arboriculture (no knowledge point investment required) for added Writhebark gathering efficiency;
14. 5 points into Bountiful Harvests to unlock the ability to refine maximum quality herbs and maximize gathering skill.

By using these talents you will combine the best part of Botany (mounted gathering) with the high skill gains and gathering quantity buffs afforded by the Bountiful Harvests tree.

This will allow you to gather the maximum amount of high Quality herbs in the shortest period possible!

1. 10 points into Botany for pathing;
2. Learn Cultivation (no knowledge point investment required) for higher seed loot chance;
3. 20 points into Botany for further pathing;
4. Learn Conversance (no knowledge point investment required) to enable gathering from the bodies of plant type enemies;
5. 10 points into Botany to unlock gathering while mounted;
6. 40 points into Cultivation for more and better quality seeds.

With this talent pathing, you will be able to unlock gathering while mounted as quickly as possible, and also the ability to gather additional seeds: Decayed Roused Seedling, Propagating Roused Seedling, and Agitated Roused Seedling, which spawn herbs and / or enemies that drop extra Essences.

These seeds can be planted into Rich Soil patches all across the Dragon Isles, although they are more commonly found near bodies of water.

Occasionally you may also find a Dredged Seedling, which grants a Herbalism specialization point.