As a gathering profession Herbalism will give you a great chance to make lots of gold. Both Alchemy and Inscription go really good with Herbalism. This WoW Herbalism Guide will help get you started with Herbalism.

Travel to one of the large cities in order to find a Herbalism trainer. If you do need some help locating one just ask a guard. You may want to consider training for Alchemy along with Herbalism since they compliment each other and their trainers are often found near each other.

To become a Master you’ll need a trainer from Hellfire Peninsula. After these levels it’s on to Grand Master, levels 375-450, which I won’t talk about too much in this WoW Herbalism guide. But I will mention that Alliance faction can train in either Valgarde or Valiance Keep. Horde characters can find a trainer in Vengeance Landing also in Howling Fjord.

Read more about leveling Herbalism in the WoW Herbalism Guide

The great thing is that once you’ve gotten training you won’t need anything else, other than a bag with lots of space to carry things you gather. You can actually have a bag especially made for herbalism made for you by a tailor. Herbs and plants can be anywhere including caves and under water so keep a keen eye out for them. You can sell any unused herbs in the Auction House so gather everything you can. With the “Find Herb” ability, the plants that you can pick will be marked as yellow dots on your map.

To gather a herb, walk up to it until the cursor becomes active. If you can’t gather an herb or plant it probably means that you haven’t gotten the required skill level yet. Higher zones will have plants that require higher herbalism levels to pick. Other than being able to find herbs anywhere you can get them by completing instances, killing monsters and even treasure chests.

Herbs with certain color codes will affect you skill level in different way which I’ll describe now. Hovering the mouse over a herb will indicate its color code, check the list below for their meaning.

• Red- You don’t have the needed skill level to pick it yet.
• Orange- Pick it, it’ll almost certainly increase your Herbalism level.
• Yellow- Moderate chance of increasing your skill level.
• Green- Low Chance of increasing your skill.
• Gray- No chance what so ever of giving you more skill.

I won’t talk in this WoW Herbalism guide about leveling up to 450 but one thing I’ll mention is “Lifeblood”, which will allow healing by getting nutrients and energy for your surroundings.

Get more information about leveling in WoW in the Warcraft Herbalism Leveling Guide