Broken Isles Herbalism Techniques

Unbelievable how utterly boring and pointless this achievments is. You can spend 3 hours in it,, like you can spend 30 days.
The drop chance of disgustingly low.

This is nothing but a time sink, aimed for achiev collector's only.

I hope whoever designed and approved of this at Blizz feels bad about themselves.

A whole weekend of farming herbs, zero rank 3 recipes. A whole weekend I could have spent playing with guildies, but spent instead farming herbs from 3 or 4 expansions back, to 0, ZERO progress.

Good job Blizzard. Good job.

Yes. I am salty af atm..

Be forewarned, this achievement is a highly time-consuming grind if you're starting it fresh.

if you haven't already done so, head to Legion Dalaran, visit Kuhuine Tenderstride and learn Legion Herbalism. Remember where she is, you'll be returning to her a lot.

Head out into the world and herb. The process is the same for 5 of the 7 herbs: you collect the herb you're trying to rank up until an item drops which starts a quest. The quests are usually easy and relatively quick (at least on the scale of the rest of the achievement) - you return to Kuhuine and for rank 1 and 2, you'll get something to do (either more herbing or soemthing to kill) and you're just given rank 3. However, getting the item to start the quest to drop can be extremely annoying - rank 1 is seemingly 100% drop rate, but rank 2 and 3 are very low chance. Expect to collect a few thousand herbs on average to get both, and be aware that you can't get the item for the next rank to drop until you complete the quest for the current one. So as soon as you get a quest item, go and do the quest and get the rank, or move to a different kind of herb.

The two exceptions are:

Astral Glory, which follows a similar pattern, but with quests being handled by Alchemist Funen in Krokuun.
Felwort, which is only obtained from world quests - in which you kill (or a max level just avoid) a mob and herb a single node. You have to have at least 75 skill to see these world quests. You only need to do this once for rank 1, the follow-up quests are immediately given by Kuhuine.

Herbs

Name

Location

Quest

Aethril

Azsuna

Aethril Sample

Astral Glory

Eredath

The Glory of Argus

Dreamleaf

Val'sharah

Dreamleaf Sample

Felwort

World quests

Felwort Sample

Fjarnskaggl

Stormheim

Fjarnskaggl Sample

Foxflower

Highmountain

Foxflower Sample

Starlight Rose

Surumar

Starlight Rosedust

If you have a Legion herbalist, check to see if you already have some progress - chances are you will. Still, I played through Legion and did a modest bit of herbing and still had a few to finish. Expect to spend tens of hours doing this.

This comment is not scientific, and I can't prove the experience. I had read on some of these achievements, that one zone is "active" at a time for the Rank 2 and Rank 3 quest items to drop. One of the comments mentioned "spend 20 minutes in a zone, and if the item doesn't drop, move to another zone". After grinding individual zones mindlessly to 1000s of herbs, I tried this method... and it worked? Again I cannot prove this, but I can relate the experience and you might find some luck or hopefully good results in it.

For instance, I was at Rank 1 Astral Glory and went to Argus and in a few minutes I had Astral Glory Rank 2. I turned in the quest quickly and kept herbing... Astral Glory Rank 3 within minutes. I also go Empyreum Seam Rank 2 as I was mining and herbing at the same time. All within minutes of each other. This is after sessions of hours of mindless loops looking for both. It seemed the zone was "active" for these drops.

I tried applying this to other zones. If I couldn't get Foxflower Rank 3 in 20 mins in High Mountain I moved to Azuna for Aethril Rank 3, or Suramar for Starflower Rank 3. I kept moving zones after a lap (or two). Each time I did this I was able to QUICKLY find an herb item in one of the other zones. One I was down to two rank 3's left, I would go 20 minutes in each zone, and then log out to attempt again later. Each time I found an item it was within MINUTES of farming in that zone, and if I didn't get it within 20 minutes... log out, try again later.

If this is true.. and it "seems to me" that it is, then the hours and hours of grinding makes sense. You were simply wasting time in a zone that wasn't active for the drop, and if you did get it after hours, you probably got it within minutes of the zone becoming active for the drop!

Good luck out there!