I was wondering if I chose the right profession,..given you have to source out for the herbs. Do they eventually bring in cash?

How many herbalist are out there anyway?

I find it to be quite successful. I spend a weekend farming ghost mushrooms, and came out if it with roughly 250 gold, not counting the various rare and legendary drops from the enemies in the area. The only problem is that they have very few spawn points, and they only give one herb per pick. But this is why they sell for such a high price.

You can start farming them at around level 45 or 46.

This is highly dependent on your server economy.

250g worth of Ghost Mushroom would be roughly 100 shrooms on our server.

100 shrooms which you could never move in that timeframe because if you sell 5 a day then you've had a very good day. And what value does unmovable stock have :(

There's good money to be made rigging the markets for goldthorn and wild steelbloom and such, doing some creative auctioning. But you certainly don't need herbalism to do that.

Anyway like I said, things could look very very differently on your server.

In answer to your question - yes herbalism is profitable.

You wont start making decent money until you are able to farm the upper herbs like Terocones, Netherbloom, and Nightmare Vine.

All 3 of those go for a nice price.  You just need to keep tabs on your AH to see what herbs go for.  On your server, there may be other herbs that sell for a high price (i.e. fel lotus and mana thistle, however, they are harder to farm on a regular basis)  But generally, those 3 alone will make some decent gold and are relatively easy to get.  So hang in there and get your skill maxed out =)

Sure that's true, you can grab some nice high level herbs.. you can fly around the spawning spots and pick what you find, or you can pick in the high level instances when the last boss is down. But still even if you farm a good crop, you'll still have a hard time moving your merchandise at a consistent speed while retaining a decent profit.

Sure, you can create potions and end up with a product that is worth less than the materials you used to make it, and try to move that. You could even get lucky and get one for free depending on your alchemy mastery.

But at the end of the day, chances are you'll have put a lot of time and effort into a profession that could have been better spent doing something else. After all, Blizzard has handed Alchemy it's coat and sent it halfway out the door already and herbalists are doomed to feel the effect of this.

Anyway, on the bright side at least it's not as boring and tedious as fishing, and you'll always make some amount of profit, however little. Plus, people are always grateful when you give them some potions you made from your herb stock, and you could be making a big difference in your group. And let's not forget the direct benefits of herbalism itself, such as the buff you get from Dreaming Glory. That really is fantastic!

Nobody raked in cash selling tons and I mean TONS of Fadeleaf? I guess my server is really Rogue heavy or something, because I'd run around Swamp of Sorrows and Stranglethorn farm about two stacks of Fadeleaf split it into mini stacks of 5 and sell each serving for 7+g depending on the market.

50+g for like 30 minutes or so of farming.

It all depends on the market and the herbs you are trying to get rid of.  Most of the low level stuff wont' sell for much but when you get into the higher level herbs and those that are popular for use there is definitely a lot of money to be made.

I don't regret that I choose herbalism because I can jump on my flying mount and gather every herb in Netherstorm and Shadowmoon and sometimes make 100g in one hour. Yes the 100g only happens those few times when you are lucky to get a fel lotus + the other herb, but even without a fel lotus I will be able to make 30-40g+ in one hour. I don't know if that is 'good' compared to mining and the other professions but I don't complain.

As a side note: If you have a lvl 70 char that can take out those big elite trees in Skettis, they can be harvested with herbalism after they die. They can drop high lvl herbs and often more than one of them. I once got 2 black lotus + 2-3 other herbs from one tree(I didn't even kill the tree. I just landed and harvested it).

herby rocks! simple as... I had 112g at lv 57 because of my various giving up wow for a month or two and remaking my main so i got herby,when i was 270 herbalism i dinged to outland the only herb i could really get was dreamfoil. i looked in ah and it was 28g a stack and i had 4 stacks. and along with the Outland items and quests i got mount no problem and i am now 62 (375 Herby) and i have 500g and my epic mount!

tbh i found herbalism quite boring just going picking herbs and on my server u dont get more then like 40g a stack of fel lotus and those are rare on my server and its still low price

herbalism has awesome potential to make money farm the elite trees in skettis then herbalise them. i usually get at least 5 motes and 7-9 herbs from one kill. primal life is selling for 10g each atm on my server and the herbs they drop for 10-20g a stack. so yes herbalism makes good money.

I think it is quite a good money maker, I also find that having 2 gathering skills (skinning, mining, and herbalism) makes better money than if you had skinning and leatherworking coz the raw matierials are worth more than the products. Occasionly yo get a complete market sweep where someone has brought all of one herb out of the ah. This happend with wild steelbloom and the price was really low aout 7g per stack on bloodscream server. i sold a stack for 50g and the price has shot up. Bloodscream is a popular realm so proffesions don't realy make a lot of money.

I considered getting rid of my herbalism skill and replacing it with mining but mining rocks are slightly rarer and there are more miners than herbalists. Ocasionly a price of A low lvl her like once with gravemoss shot up to 1g ea! AND NOW THERE 15S EACH SO NOW I DONT BOTHER With them. Prices are dropping rappidly and i think eventually profesions will mean nothing =(

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80s ea per Goldthorn
60s ea per wild steelbloom

depending on prices on ur server, if ur looking for quik cash, do a lap around the cliffs of arathi basin.

which is better for making wuick money
Skinning
Mining
Herbalism

depends on ur level i expect. I can sell a stack of dream foil for about 30g which i find to be enough for the trouble of picking um as i pass um

Oh yea i forgot as a lowbie herb swiftthistle is a good one that goes for alot cos rogues need it for thistle tea

Everyone seems to be outlands happy here. What about the folks that are still in azeroth?
I have a 60 mage and I have a lot of experience in azeroth with herbs.
You won't make any money whatsoever until you get to level 70(herbalism) where you could farm foe abit for briarthorn and maybe a little for stranglekelp out in the seas. That'll get you started, but by no means will make you rich. Keep farming those two until you get to 115, especially the briarthorn because you can also get sweifthistle with that. A pretty good money maker in recent months, but in order to keep leveling, you have to concentrate on the stranglekelp so you can get to 115. Once you get to 115, the big money starts to fall for you. If you can get wild steelbloom(hard to find) you have yourself a nice herb that sells quite high, but it's pretty rare. STV would probably be your best bet. At 120 only 5 levels later, you need to do one thing and one thing only: for the next 55 points, I highly suggust, horde or alliance to stick your ass in the in the ravenhill cemetary and gather nothing but grave moss. Do not stop until you get to 175. That is a highly sought after herb and is 1 of 2 componants that make up some of the most sought after potions certainly early in the game. Most servers will have it available anywhere from 75s to 1g per on average. So, do not stop for 55 levels. Very tedious but it will pay you huge dividends in the end. The only problenm with that and it's a huge one is having to constantly be on the lookout from the undead on steroids known as mor'ladim. Always be on the lookout. He attacks hard and fast with a nasty blade that in a later quest could be yours.
After you are done with that, a whole world opens up for you. you have goldthorn available to you, kingsblood, liferoot( great for healing potions, bit not big on making gold) goldthorn is also available and sells very good, all these became available while you were gathering the GM. The one I didn't mention is your next assignment. Head out to either arathi highlands or stv if you are a high enough level and get yourself some fadeleaf. I mentioned earlier that GM is one of two that make up some of the most sought after potions in the game. The other is fadeleaf. Fadeleaf is a little easier to get than GM and for that reason even though it's a higher level herb, usually it will go at or skightly higher than the price of GM. You will have had it for 15 levels by then, but you want to get as much grave moss as possible because fadeleaf is so much more abunadant and people tend to put the two together as a package deal. they are the shadow herbs, both attack and rersistance My recomadation is stay in that until you get to green for fadeleaf, probably 25 levels. By then you will have at least as much as grave moss. Do not sell them separately. By that I mean wait until you have both of them, that way you can maximize your ptofit. So in actuality, you really won't make any money intil 185. it will be worth it my friend because you will suddenly have probably close to an instant 300g-500g in you pocket to go along with all the greens you picked up along the way. so by the time you reach 185 you are on pace for you're mount and and quite easily for that matter. Now you are in with the big boys. At 185 khadgars whisker opens up to you, again in arathi and stv. also if you can make it to alterac ruins wintersbite might be good for you, but there is not a whole lot of supply and demand for that. so during this time I would recomend goldthorn and khadsar;s whisker. even though wild steelbloom is still a good choice. By then you might find some of them either in the WL or probably more so in arathi. If you noticed, there seems to be a common theme here: arathi highlands and STV.
I think for the money, Arathi highlands is the best in the game(STV is just way to big a provence and things are much closer together at arathi, and it's directly north of the WL with far easier access, unless your the horde
At 205 if you can handle the badlands and uldaman then you are in good shape to pick up  few fireblooms. Great for fire magic. As you go deeper into stv.
you will fing purple lotus usually in the troll areas. that is not in real high demand but if you don't get at least 2g per you've been taken to the cleaners. That should take you to 210. 'Now you need to be ready for un'goro and felwood because all the remaining herbs are out there, so you better be level up experience wise appropriately or you can forget it for a while. Either way if you follow exactly what I said, there is no reason you should not have mount money by the time you get to level 60. By the time you get to the bottom 4, you better start getting ready for outlands because they are all 300+ herbs. the first one is the hardest one to get of all of azeroth. Ghost mushroom. You should have pretty good success with these things in the caves of the troll temples in the hinterlands. There a not a whole lot of them but then again we are now talking 5g a pop or  more . You'll, find gromsblood in more deserted kinds of lands like tanaris or the blasted lands where the dark portal is. since you don't get it until 250, I would ride it out there until you get to 300 . Before that, as far as herbalism goes. un'goro crater is arguably the best place in all of azeroth for getting some really awesome hard to find herbs. The other would be felwood. It's not unreasonable to say you can make over 100g just for being there. Mountain silversage over in the hills in un'goro are very expensive. probably 3g per.I would stay there until you hit 285 , then come out to the blasted lands and pick up you gromsbloood in the blasted lands. They also have a little of that at un'goro also, so you may run into some there, but they are pretty rare there. Finally, if you really want to make some real quick money, head up north to winterspring and get yourself some icecaps. They are rare and people will pay big money for thise suckers. espeicially frost mages. Once you are at level 58, then follow the advice of everyone else in here. trust me, it's great advice. the herbs out there make the ones in azeroth look like pennies on the dollar. But if you follow this strategy with just herbalism alone, nevermind alchemy, you will have funded your epic mount for the outlands.
Just so you know, I have 300 level herbalists. One with alchemy, the other with tailoring, so I know exactly where to go. So to answer everyone's question: there is tons of gold to be made from the herbalism profession skill, but like all the other professions, it is very timeconsuming. My level 60 mage was a 234 enchanter until 2 days ago. I am now at 176 and am about to turn in 68 grave moss good for probably 75g at least. and that is only after 2 days with the skill. It actually would be more, but I took a while after I maxed out at 150 before I had to teleport back to UC to retrain for expert status. It is all going in the AH tomorrow since this is early tuesday morning and I will lose 8 hours of AH time. I will keep you posted. It really helps when the mobs don't attack. Even mor'ladim ran away from me once, lol.

I play on a very popular realm (Burning Blade), just like many of the people before me. Herbalism and skinning are probly better money makers than mining, because they are easier to gather. I know at low levels selling Briarthorn and Swiftthistle is an easy way to get money fast, but if you are doing herbalism, this could disrupt your funds. I suggest that if you want to get more money in your 20-30s that you pick up Herbalism and Leatherworking and level them as soon as you can.

For quick money i'd say skinning cuz you can get leather faster than anything else.

legendary drops o.O? i think not...

Yea those herbs r usually high priced.
i dont know how but mana thisle is extremely cheap on my server.
Nightmare Vine is the most expensive herb on my server and it's reletively easy to get. i found quite a few places around the black temple in the BE and orc areas. Also found some in the netherwing place, beside the scryers flight path.
If u find anymore good places, can u plz tell me? thx
Same thing for teracone. I can never find any =P

I just got Herbalism(got to 123) today and when i went to the AH to sell the herbs i got I found that Briarthorn was like 6 gold a stack and swiftthistly almost 7 gold. however all the other low lv herbs arent even worth a gold a stack

briarthorn sells for about 15g a stack on a good day and 1 day i sold 2 briarthorn for 3g cause sombody was that stupid lol

Yea when you reach 375 herb is very good at making money if you have a epic mount you can make massive amount of money fast.

I had mining on a hunter to lvl 60.
Went herbalism with my next toon, now my main.

I found that herbalism is less competitive, and seems more abundant than mining.  The value of herbs are not as consistantly profitable as ore or bars.  For example, I quickly realized that after bruiseweed went grey, don't bother stopping to pick it up.

I made good money from stranglekelp, briarthorn, swiftthistle, sungrass, golden sansam, mountain silversage, and others... and of course it gets better in outlands

I have no regrets choosing herbalism over mining.