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Herbalism

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Forever beta 1.60.1.70009

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TL;DR

Same herbs as Classic plus New three endgame herbs for flasks and New Scarce herbs that become dyes.
Camp line: Incense Candle (Intellect) → Greenhouse (grow your own herbs) → Seed Hybridizer.
Feeds Alchemy and now First Aid (healing potions). Every rank trains in Orgrimmar.

What's new New

Marefoil, Demonsage, Death Lotus: new endgame herbs. Demonsage and Marefoil go into the four Flasks of Natural ..., Death Lotus into all four plus new Enchanting recipes. Where they grow is not known yet Beta
Scarce herbs drop now and then while you pick normal ones: Frilled Lichen, Rosecap, Stranglevine. Alchemists turn them into Cerulean, Magenta and Viridian Dye for other professions Beta
First Aid now uses herbs too, for healing potions Beta
Cultivation has a level requirement: the herb's picking skill divided by 5 (herbs above 300 skill: level 60). Its cooldown was cut to 15 min (was 60) Beta
Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest finds extra Scarce resources when mining, herbing or skinning Live

Incense Candle (20): 2-25 Intellect, mutually exclusive with Arcane Intellect Live
Greenhouse (140): grows herbs over time from seeds you plant, keeps the Candle buff. Blueprint: Shadetooth (Excavation Site: Wetlands), 7.83% Beta
Seed Hybridizer (300): multiplies seeds or combines them into rarer tiers, keeps the Candle buff. Blueprint source not known yet Beta

Pick skill per herb: Icy Veins and ForeverDB agree. Zones: Icy Veins' spawn table; ForeverDB's best zones fall inside it Beta

1-70: Peacebloom, Silverleaf (1), Earthroot (15), Mageroyal (50). Durotar, Mulgore, Tirisfal, then the Barrens and Silverpine
70-150: Briarthorn (70), Bruiseweed (100), Wild Steelbloom (115), Kingsblood (125). The Barrens, Stonetalon, Hillsbrad, Stranglethorn
150-230: Liferoot (150), Fadeleaf (160), Goldthorn (170), Khadgar's Whisker (185), Purple Lotus (210). Stranglethorn, Dustwallow, Swamp of Sorrows, Feralas, Tanaris
230-300: Sungrass (230), Gromsblood (250), Golden Sansam (260), Dreamfoil (270), Mountain Silversage (280), Plaguebloom (285), Icecap (290), Black Lotus (300). Felwood, Azshara, Un'Goro, the Plaguelands, Winterspring
Find Herbs shows nodes on the minimap; no tool needed Beta
Train the next rank before you cap (skill 50 / 125 / 200) Beta
! Character level for gathering ranks: Icy Veins' overview says Expert 10, Artisan 25; its Herbalism page says 10 / 20 / 35; ForeverDB says 10 / 20 / 35 Beta
Trainer: Jandi, The Drag (Orgrimmar), teaches every rank (Icy Veins; Wowhead: Herbalism Trainer) Beta

No launch prices yet Beta
Our opinion: steady demand from Alchemy and First Aid while everyone levels, and flask herbs from 9 Dec