Hey there guys!
This is Reckles with WTBGold and welcome to the most beautiful patch WoW has ever put
out.
Today we’re talking about everything you need to know for Herbalism and it’s main
crafting profession Alchemy in Rise of Azshara.
So first off, all the profession ranks are increasing from 150 to 175.
I just happen to be such an amazing goldmaker, that I made it to 190.
Lol, I love the PTR.
Bugs are fun.
Herbalism is pretty simple.
Not much is changing, but we are getting a new herb in Nazjatar, called Zin’anthid.
No new herbs in Mechagon, that’s actually part of Kul’Tiras, so you get all the same
gatherables.
To learn rank 1 Zin’anthid, talk to your factions new profession trainer in Nazjatar,
and you’ll be able to gather an average of 2 per node.
For rank 2, just keep herbing until you get a germinating seed.
You’ll take this to a patch of fertile soil in the Coral Grove, coordinates 55, 42, where
you’ll feed Audrey 2 until he gets big and angry.
Kill him and you’ll get rank 2.
Now there’s also an intro quest for this that doesn’t count, so you might have to
do it twice.
Rank two gives a 25% boost per node.
Rank 3 is a random item drop that you just turn in back at headquarters and it gives
a 2-5 per node, a 40% boost over rank 2.
So, where should you farm?
Pretty much anywhere.
I usually recommend covering as many nodes as possible for force spawning, I’ll link
here to my video on what that means.
That one was a lot of fun to make.
Click it.
But for Zin’anthid, I’ve noticed it seems to have more nodes where the grass is purple,
so you’ll be fine if you make a loop around the east side of the map, from the Coral Forest
to Zin-Azshari.
Prices in the first month and a half are normally higher than they’ll ever be again.
Global prices drop 25-50% every two weeks before settling down, so if you want to most
gold for your time spent, focus on gathering as much as you can handle during the first
couple weeks.
And since a lot of you have my recommended dual-gatherer druid setup, mining is the same
story.
Rank 1 vendor.
Rank 2 and 3 from mining.
The new ore Osmenite spawns on cliffy things and the cliffiest thing of them all is the
area called Spears of Azshara in the south.
Ok, let’s get into alchemy though, cause raiders are in for a treat.
First, I’m sad to say, no new transmute.
There are new flasks though, greater flasks, that use zin’anthid along with 5 Anchor
Weed and 5 of one of the old herbs.
Agility uses Sea Stalk.
Int uses Riverbud.
Strength is Siren’s Pollen, and lol Stamina is Star Moss.
Notice.
No Akunda’s Bite or winter’s kiss.
You’ve also got new main stat potions.
And here, Akunda’s Bite and Winter’s Kiss, again, along with Sea Stalk will see almost
no demand.
Akunda’s Bit and Sea Stalk are used in the armor and stam pots.
No one uses stam pots.
Then you have some cool new ones I’m calling Prepots.
There are some basic ones, Unbridled fury gives +fire damage on attack.
Good for rogues and any melee with fast attack speed.
Wild mending with gives +healing on cast.
Then you have Potion of Empowered Proximity, and this one’s neat.
+Main Stat per nearby enemy, so rather than doing an AoE, the more enemies you’re against,
the higher your attack power.
Mythic plus.
This is the Mythic Plus potion.
Then you have focused Resolve, with gives +20% damage if you’re single targeting.
These are great, and I wanna hear down in the comments where you think they’ll be
best used, but here’s my thoughts as a goldmaker.
These are potions are the only recipes that use Winter’s Kiss, and only top end raiders
and Mythic plus min maxers are gonna use em.
The casual guys will just grab a main stat pot, cause that’s what they know.
So while the demand for old herbs are going to be falling, Winter’s Kiss demand is going
to fall a lot less if you’re on a server with lots of progression guilds.
So, your goals for day 1 are to max all these out to rank 2 by just leveling up over at
the vendor.
Easiest way to go from 150 to 170 is with Abyssal Healing Potions.
It’ll cost 50 Zin’anthid.
Next, get started on Nazjatar rep.
Rank 3 Prepots are at revered and the new cauldron is exalted, so do your main storyline,
but there’s an additional 5000 reputation for the first time you kill all the rares
and beat all the new pet battles.
So, bust out the ole unborn valkyr and ask in your guild if anyone wants to go rare farming.
I’ve got a link to my discord down below if you want to start a group there.
We’ve got like 5,000 people in it.
You’ll find someone Next flasks come from work orders, so just
do a daily check for world quests.
And the main stat potions drop from any naga in the zone so if you’re ever bored, just
join a gilded seaweed cloth farm and you’ll get your patterns.
Finally, when operation mechagon comes out, some of the prepot rank 3s drop there.
I want to close with 8.0 herbs, the basic ones we all know and love, cause there’s
a problem.
Flippers and raiders, listen up.
I did a little study on Kazzak EU, a high pop raiding realm.
I multiplied their daily purchases by how many herbs those use, and then then looked
at what would happen with the new recipes.
Players buy about 3,500 flasks and 12,000 potions per day.
That brings the daily AH demand to 300,000 base herbs.
In the new patch, they’ll use 60,000 of the base herbs, a drop in demand of 80%, and
they’ll use 170,000 zin’anthid!
People will buy Zin’anthid twice as much as they’re currently buying riverbud!
But lets break each herb down, the winners, the old herbs that will do better than that
80% average, they’ll hold their value, are Star Moss for sure, and Riverbud maybe.
The losers were sea stalk and siren’s pollen.
And the mega losers are akunda’s bite and winter’s kiss.
If you have any, dump em.
The interesting one is Anchor Weed.
It’s not found on Nazjatar, and yet the new flasks require the same amount.
In other words, the demand for every other old herb is dropping by 80%, but we need the
same amount of anchor weed.
Wait wait, where’s that Ion clip…
They want us to go out and experience the new Nazjatar and Mechagon, but we have to
spend the same amount of time herbing 8.0 zones.
So what would normally happen?
People would spend all their time in the new zones, so the supply of anchor weed would
gonna dry up.
Half the servers out there would have 0 on the auction house.
Prices quadruple.
Guilds go broke prepping for the raid, players couldn’t afford M+ potions so they feel
like they can’t progress, and alchemists storm the forums.
But, I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
I’m gonna go out on a limb, and say that blizzard is smarter than this.
We have a problem with price elasticity.
Flipping raw mats has become very popular, and there are thousands of players with hundreds
of stacks of Anchor Weed in personal guild banks so there’s actually 2 supply.
Here’s what I think is actually going to happen.
The first 2 weeks, the demand for anchor weed will be constant but the farmed supply will
drop dramatically, so all the flippers will sell off their inventory and slowly raise
the price.
When their inventory runs out, the total supply will fall away the price is going to skyrocket
overnight.
At that point, blizzard will roll out a buff, already in place, to zin’anthid allowing
it to sometimes spawn as an anchor weed.
So just before it’s a problem, blizzard saves the day and gives us a nice buff.
Maybe it’s hopeful thinking, but I doubt something as important as anchorweed wouldn’t
just get forgotten on the back of a postit note.
That’s it for me though, enjoy the new zones, stock up on anchor weed while you can.
8.2 drops tomorrow so share this with any herbalists, alchemists, or guild leaders you
know.
Other than that, have a great day everybody, good luck, and happy goldmaking.