Talk:Herbalism

Spawn Time of Herbs

Can someone please add information about the respawn time for herbs? --Somebody

I've been looking for this data on the wiki and can't find it either. I initially looked in Herbs, but also think it'd be appropriate here. Do all resources have the same spawn time algorithm? Maybe it should be mentioned on Resource or in Professions. --Radeex (talk) 03:36, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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by Ability Level

Would anyone mind if I combine all of these into one table, with heads at the top of the appropriate section? I'll do just that, and if anyone minds, they can change it back. -- D. F. Schmidt talk 15:17, 22 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Strike that. I tried it for a minute, and it looked terrible. -- D. F. Schmidt talk 15:33, 22 Aug 2005 (EDT)

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I think it would be hot if we could have a table like so:

Herb	Orange at	Yellow at	Green at	Grey at	Found in
Herbname	25	50	75	100	Hinterlands, Hillsbrad
Otherherb	125	150	175	200	EPL, Silithus

If someone has the data I will make the table myself. - Zuel 22:08, 15 March 2006 (EST)

Bloodvine

I understand that this drops in ZG, but Herbalism required to harvest this? To the best of my knowledge this requires only a special scythe and therefore may not fall under the herbalism category. Any thoughtd or further information? Moosephat 14:17, 21 April 2006 (EDT)

Yes, it does require Herbalism. Bloodvine doesnt grow by itself. Rather it is parasitic, meaning that you find it within other herb nodes. Swiftthistle works the same way. - Azh 15:32, 21 April 2006 (EDT)

The  [Bloodvine] and  [Blood Scythe] articles should answer your question, Moosephat.

Tidywave 16:23, 21 April 2006 (EDT)

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Herb Table

Starting the above mentioned table... doing it in the 'background' for editing til more data is entered...

I Wont put in the herb locations, IMO there are way too many to list in a table of this fashion... Peacebloom, for example, is in about 12? areas.. at least...

Herb	Orange at	Yellow at	Green at	Grey at	Found in
Peacebloom	1			100
Silversage	1			100
Earthroot	15			115
Mageroyal	50		105	150
Briarthorn	70	100	130	170
Swiftthistle	#
Stranglekelp	85	115	135	185
Bruiseweed	100	130	150	200
Wild Steelbloom	115	145	165	215
Grave Moss	120	150	170	220
Kingsblood	125	155	175	225
Liferoot	150	180	200	250
Fadeleaf	160	190	210	260
Goldthorn	170	by 205	220
Khadgar's Whisker	185	210	235	285
Wintersbite	195	225	245	295
Firebloom	205	235	255	--
Purple Lotus	210	240	260	--
Wildvine	##
Arthas' Tears	220	250		--
Sungrass	230	260	280
Blindweed	235	265	285
Ghost Mushroom	245
Groomsbloom	250
Golden Sansam	260
Dreamfoil	270
Mountain Silversage	280
Plaguebloom	285
Icecap	290
Bloodvine	###
Black Lotus*	300

# = Swiftthistle "piggy backs" on Briarthorn and Mageroyal, you can obtain it when you can pick Briarthorn or Mageroyal

## = Wildvine, like swiftthistle, if found inside Purple Lotus patches

### = Bloodvine is a Raid-level herb, its only found in Zul'Grub when a Blood Scyth is equiped, and is found inside other Herbs within the zone.

* = Black Lotus is extremely rare and hard to find. It requires 300 herbalism skill and is still hard to pick (will get a failed attempt now and then), the Herbalism enchant will reduce failure rates on this and other herbs. --Kewi 15:37, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

Guide

I've removed the external link to the herbalism guide because it is inaccurate and is just a gateway to gold/guide selling sites

I'd suggest removing all other links to that site

Herb percentages

On the pages that exist for an individual herb ( [Briarthorn]) there is a list of pickable locations with percentages after them. I believe this requires an explanation of what they mean and a statement or citation explaining where the information was got from. Could someone (preferably the person who added it in the first place) please put that information in? DuTempete (talk) 15:56, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

I was the one who did that for most of the herbs. It was the thottbot sightings data at the time it was created. Note that the object you click on to herb is different data from the herb that appears in your inventory. [1] is the  [Briarthorn] data for example and was a straight copy/paste. However the numbers I listed were a quick and dirty way of coming up with the percentages since it's thottbot sightings and not the absolute for the zone. (I thought it was the absolute number at the time, and not weighted by popularity. Unpopular zones skew the % results, when really it shoudn't as it's not a chance but an absolute.)

There are only X number of spawn locations total for resource nodes like herbs. A better way is to take each zone # of spawn locations (which isn't the same as drops) and divided it by the total # across all zones = % by zone. This is a known number and available on wowhead and doesn't change. (Briarthorn again [2]). I wanted to include all this info at the time, but I didn't know how to make a chart on a wiki. It looked too messy any way I could do it, so I used the simplified info. Since then I've learned (and now forgotten) how to make wiki charts. I agree that adding the number of possible spawns by zone is useful information, but I will not be the one adding that info.

Hmm I just had an idea. Instead of "Pickable Zones" come up with a more informative title and include the total number of spawn locations for all of Azeroth for each herb. Example: "This herb has (X) spawn locations, they are in:" Then if someone cares how many spawns are specifically in Duskwood for example, they can multiply (X) by the listed percentage.--Brunpal (talk) 12:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)