Quite certainly, Herbalism is a profession that requires a lot of patience. You might have to go to several lengths to get the herbs that you need and then if you have to make money out of them, you will have to look at places where you can sell them. Most people sell their herbs on the AH, but there are some other ways to sell them that are often overlooked.

Alchemists need herbs more than anyone else. So an alchemist will most likely be the best buyer for your herbs. In fact, it is a very good idea if you make Alchemy your allied profession along with Herbalism. Then you can sell things you’ve made with the herbs, which gets you more gold than just selling the herbs.

Keep a note of any buyer of your herbs you’ve found. You will get contact info of the person who buys from you. Make note of these, and also make note of the kind of herb they have purchased. This will help you in making quick money the next time round.

When you have more herbs of the same kind, you could communicate with the person and ask them if they need more of the herb. There’s a pretty good chance they will. Then you might be able to raise the price of the herbs you sell to them. Actually, you can often make more gold doing this than selling your herbs at the AH.

(By the way, here’s another site with a WoW Herbalism guide).

The herbs are found in WoW all across the world, but mainly in the hilly areas that are located close to the fields. A list of the fields where you can find the herbs up to level 100 is given below.

Herbalism Guide for Level between 1 and 50

For these levels, you’ll mostly need Peacebloom, Silverleaf, and Earthroot. These herbs you can find very easily at the lower levels.

Most of the starting areas have these herbs, such as Dun Morogh, Tirisfal Glades, Elwynn Forest, and Eversong Woods.

WoW Herbalism Guide: Levels 51 - 100

The herbs that you can collect at this stage include

• Briarthorn
  You can find a lot of it at Darkshore, Silverpine Forest from the Sepulcher down rocks, Redridge, Wetlands, and Duskwood.
• Mageroyal
  Look for it in Westfall along the beach, The Barrens, Bloodmyst Isle, Darkshore, Ghostlands, Loch Modan, and Silverpine Forest.
• Stranglekelp
  This can be found underwater so it helps if you have the secondary profession of fishing. (Here’s a link to Tips to Increase your fishing skill level).

  You can find Stranglekelp in places like The Barrens, Hillsbrad Foothills, Feralas, and Stranglethorn Vale,.

More Herbalism Tips

If you have the setting Click to Move, it really helps. Under Options, select Video Options. The beauty of this setting is that you can jump automatically to an herb in the distance and loot it, just by right-clicking.

It also helps to have the Gatherer addon installed, which lets you record locations of herbs on your mini map.

If you’d rather buy herbs instead of gather them, check out this World of Warcraft gold guide.