Herbalism can be hazardous to your health these days, and not just if you try smoking felweed. (Of course you can smoke felweed -- if you're a troll, that is. They give us special options in the herbalism menu.)
Adept herbalists have discovered that some herbs in Outlands have special properties, including giving you buffs and debuffs when you pick them. Buffs and extra items include:
- Felweed, which has a chance to give you Fel Blossom, which absorbs 750 to 1250 damage and lasts 15 seconds.
- Flame Cap, which is a potion in its own right -- it gives you increased fire spell damage by 80 and a chance to strike a ranged or melee target with 40 additional fire damage on weapon hit, but only for one minute.
- Dreaming Glory, which increases your health regeneration by 30hp/5 for fifteen minutes when you pick it.
- Mana Thistle, which restores a random amount of mana when picked.
Then there are two herbs which can debuff you. Unfortunately, these are high-level herbs that are required a lot.
- Nightmare Vine poisons you for 800 shadow damage over 8 seconds.
- Netherbloom gives you a totally random 15 minute buff or debuff that gives you plus or minus 50 to any stat. It can either be completely crippling or very nice, depending on what it is. Some people are upset about this, but I just keep picking until I get a buff.
(Edited to fix Fel Blossom.)
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2-06-2007 @ 3:35PM
Trasketor said...
Elizabeth, Id pick a Debuff flower for you any day ; )
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2-06-2007 @ 3:44PM
Pruflas said...
I do like the fact in instances you can get items off the plants also. Most are chanting mats for a mage buddy of mine, some you can make money from :)
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2-06-2007 @ 3:47PM
Chris M said...
Bloodthistle in the Blood Elven areas is also a buffing herb. Granted, not as prevalent or outlandish as the rest of them; it also includes a debuff as withdrawal effect.
I found that interesting.
Chris
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2-06-2007 @ 3:54PM
priest said...
Felweed, which has a chance to give you Fel Thistle, which absorbs 750 to 1250 damage and lasts 15 seconds.
No.
Felweed, which has a chance to give you Fel Blossom, which absorbs 750 to 1250 damage and lasts 15 seconds.
It's not that hard, really.
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2-06-2007 @ 4:00PM
Flux said...
Man, people in this game will cry about *anything*. The nightmare vine debuff is practically nothing against the massive HP people have in outlands. You also get a chance to get one of these:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=22797
Which is absolutely awesome for tanks or PvP.
This is a great feature and it adds a lot of flavor to the game.
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2-06-2007 @ 9:40PM
no name said...
i got 'serenade of the sunflower' buff a couple days ago from a flower in Bloodvenom Post, it gave +80 critcal strike rating and +(something) to all stats it was really nice
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2-07-2007 @ 4:33AM
Natali said...
I don't cry about the herbs and the debuffs... I'm crying at the lack of alchemy recipes. Why have I been maxed out on herbalism since the first week of the expansion, but I'm stuck at level 354 on alchemy with only green recipes? I know there are recipes out there available from factions after a rep grind, but is this how all the other professions are being treated, or what?
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2-07-2007 @ 8:31AM
multikast said...
This makes me sad about the netherbloom. I only picked one of them so far and it gave me a +50 stam buff. i was hoping this was every time!
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2-07-2007 @ 10:36AM
Kabira-Fenris said...
How come I'm just now hearing about this? :-/
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