To harvest herbs, you need to have a Knife. Knives can be bought from Merchant Geres (in Juno) or Merchant Tino (in Dratan) for 1,000gold each. While all Knives look the same, they are actually class-specific. Make sure that you buy a Knife for your class, or else you will not be able to equip it!

Once you have your Knife you need to find an herb patch. There are two herb patches in Juno and many, many small ones in Dratan. To see exactly where the herb patches are, please look at the maps on the Gathering page.

There are two kinds of resources in an herb patch. One is called an Herb and the other is called a Magical Herb. If you ask someone about the difference between them, you will most likely be told that they produce different kinds of herbs. This is not true. Both resources produce the same herbs. So if they both produce the same thing, why do they have different names? To help you differentiate between the type of resources that they are. Herbs are temporary resources. They will wear out and disappear after about 10 minutes of being gathered from. Magical Herbs, on the other hand, are permanent resources. These stay forever. Since Herbs are temporary resources, they will produce herbs for you faster than Magical Herbs will. Because of this, Herbs are the best to harvest from if you are active at the computer. If you are going to go AFK for more than 10 minutes, then Magical Herbs are best.	Herb
	Magical Herb
There are three different herbs you can get:

Yellow Herb Leaf (Low-grade herb)

Herb Trunk (Medium-grade herb)

Green Herb Leaf (High-grade herb)

	To harvest from an Herb (or Magical Herb), click on it. The window on the left should pop up. As you can see, it is asking you to choose between random harvesting and selective harvesting. If you choose to harvest randomly, you will have a chance of receiving any of the three different kinds of herbs in any order.
	If you choose to harvest selectively, then you will have to specify which herb type you want. Many people harvest selectively because they say that they do not want or have no need for the other two types of herbs. However, what they don't realize is that selective harvesting is much much slower than random harvesting.

Herbalism skills allow you to harvest herbs faster. You may learn these skills from the Elite Farmer NPC. Wild Collector Kal (in Juno) also teaches Herbalism. To learn the skills or raise your skill level, talk to the appropriate NPC and select option 1, "Learn skills." Here's a table showing the amount of SP needed to learn each level of the Herbalism skill.

Herbalism skill division			Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Basic Herbalism			Free	4 SP Req: Level 4 char	14 SP Req: Level 5 char
Advanced Herbalism			36 SP Req: Level 5 char	71 SP Req: Level 5 char	126 SP Req: Level 5 char

Total herbalism cost: 251 SP

The higher your skill level, the more herbs you will harvest in a set amount of time. Here's a chart of the approximate amount you can harvest (Selectively) from an Herb before the herb vanishes with each level of the Herbalism skill.

	Basic Herbalism			Advanced Herbalism
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
	4	6	9
	3	3	7
	2	2	5

**Note** on Sat, March 8, 2008 I tested the gathering on each "Herb" The results for level 1, 2, and 3 of Basic Herbalism are what I recieved, uninterrupted, per plant. ALSO - it varies, your not guranteed the same harvest each time. ~Kissker

Please thank Kissker for his help with this page!