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Comment by 31075

Also spawns in at least one location near Satyrnaar in Ashenvale.

Comment by Vantox

I've also found one near the border between Darkshore and Ashenvale in the Zoram Strand

Comment by 103666

Also on the island in the middle of Lake Falathim, again in Ashenvale.

And at the lake in the Furbolg camp north of Astranaar (30,39 approx).

Comment by Cantras

People, download the WowHead tracker. It will keep track of where you pick things up, you upload it to the site, and when they've gotten a few hits to the same node, it'll update it. Then you don't have to post saying you found it X other place.

:) It's easy and comparatively low memory, i promise.

Comment by 260112

The wildvine doesn't come out that much...
and these things are hard to find in STV.
for people whose levels are in STV, gathering wildvine and as well as purple lotus is hard.
Run to The Hinterlands, and go to jintha'alor. There's a CRAPLOAD of it, like LsdLOR said.

Comment by RedwoodElf

Prized by the Shamanistic troll civilizations of Azeroth for it's soporific and vision-inducing effects and cultivated by them for millenia, the Purple Lotus flower can be found growing in and around the ruins of their ancient cities all over Azeroth.

Comment by Kammikaze

Just found a node of this at 11.2, 13.1 in Ashenvale.

Comment by 469121

Used to be found almost exclusively near the troll ruin cities on stranglethorn, hinterlands and tanaris. Sadly, those areas had their levels reassigned, messing up the whole herbalism lore and logic.

Thanks blizz.

*These days, the new mapping are just crazy here in wowhead... But just on the herbalism lore, these probaly will be settled down on felwood and tanaris. Like bruiseweed, appearing near constructions/ruins.

Comment by 677227

Okay currently i have found that since realease of cata, the best place i can find purple lotus is in felwood, and theese are the most popular locations i have found...
49,29 iron tree woods
42,35 shatter scare vale
39,45
38,67 ruins of constellas--- this being the area for the BEST drop rate, a picked up 11 in a matter of 30 sec.

hope this helps

Comment by Vaeli

I don't think there are any purple lotus in Tanaris anymore. . I went there because I needed 4 Firebloom and 4 Purple Lotus, but going everywhere displayed as having purple lotus on map yielded 0.

Comment by dustdog

Hinterlands doesn't seem to have any either. As gordonplayer stated, the herb used to be found nearly exclusively within troll ruins, but troll ruins are now populated with bruiseweed.

edit - many zones seem to end up having the problem of having a herb that's well above it's level range, or well above the rest of the herbs in the zone. Hinterlands for example has blindweed which requires 235, but the rest of the zone is stacked with goldthorn, khadgar's whisker, fadeleaf and kingsblood, which probably will be grey before your skill is 235.

edit 2 - khadgar's is still green at 235, well whatever i guess :/

Comment by 274176

You can find purple lotus anywhere in felwood where there are ruins. This herb only seems to grow next to rubble.

Comment by 836405

Guys it says that it has 10% chance.. well dont believe.. its less then 4.. at least for me:(

Comment by 464052

Do not expect to gather a lot of these,
especially if someone else is after them

Comment by Memphoman

in Felwood, got 37 purple lotus, 1 Wildvine.

Comment by 786450

After about 35 minutes or so flying around Felwood and hitting all 5 major spots on the map (where the concrete ruins are) a few times, I ended up with 53 x Purple Lotus and 4 x Wildvine. The area around the 'Ruins of Constellas' is by far the best area to get the goods. There are a bunch of Emerald Bearkin fighting with some Jadefire Rogues. So as long as they are fighting each other, they will ignore you.

Comment by 744549

If you're using the tomtom addon, copy and paste these waypoints to find the purple lotus ruins more easily.

/way Felwood 57, 85
/way Felwood 38, 68
/way Felwood 40, 45
/way Felwood 42, 36
/way Felwood 50, 31
/cway

note: type /cway to point arrow to the nearest waypoint at the moment.

Comment by 878978

As of December 5th 2011... It took me about 90 min to farm 2 of these things for an enchant. On the bright side I was able to get a TON of herbs while i was there.

Comment by Hairband

Using Samanthan's guide, I made 1 pass DOWN and 1 pass UP:

31 Purple Lotus

91 Gromsblood
80 Golden Sansam
20 Dreamfoil
2 Wildvine

So basically for every 7 herbs you pick, 1 will be the Purple Lotus.

It took me probably 30 or 35 minutes to nab the herbs as indicated on a druid with 310% flying.

MY ADVICE TO SCRIBES: Please don't be tempted to mill the Purple Lotus. The herb is probably excessively pricey because you really need it to level enchanting from 250 to 265 making Lesser Mana Oil. My thought would be sell it for market value which ought to be well higher than herbs you need to skill up.

Comment by 937905

I just got through gathering some Purple Lotus. I wasn't getting it because I wanted to PL, I was looking for the Wildvine.

I got:
132 PL and 4 Wildvine.

Comment by Thundastruck87

Was just farming for Wildvine picked up 38 PL and 4 Wildvine, just had 3 Wildvine drop from one PL.

Comment by restopresto

Drop rate is certainly not 10%. Currently i have plucked one from the 45 lotus. That puts it at a hair over 2%. Most of these posts are out of date and certainly don't reflect the change to green or the impact of the cataclysm.

Comment by restopresto

Felwood's by far the only place to farm these. They're pretty spread out with usually no more than 3 per area. If you are flying, work all of the areas where they're found. If you're ground mount, stick to the SW ruins

Comment by 959814

I mainly herbed the purple lotus for wildvine because i needed it for enchanting but the drop rate for the wildvine is extremely small. There are 5 key areas that spawn purple lotus and your able to hit all of them in at least 12 mins (flying of course). The purple lotus has a respawn rate of at least 6-9 mins and travel time between each point is no longer then 30secs. With each run you should have two spawns around (49,30) one spawn around (42,36) one spawn around (39,45) four spawns around (38,60) (make sure to check the whole area they can be spread out sometimes) and the last spot is at (58,86) which will have two spawns.

i did maybe 10 runs or so probably more but i got
Purple Lotus x 177
Wildvine x 14

which puts the droprate of wildvine less then 1% which means for every 12-13 purple lotus you might get 1 wildvine. So if you need a lot it will take you a while :)

Comment by digitalutopia1

This is in response to restopresto's post, as well as possibly others, who seem to be confused how drop/proc rates actually work.

First off, only Blizzard knows the exact drop rate, however - with enough samples, it's possible to get pretty close. The more samples (i.e. more people submitting their results), the more accurate it gets.

Second, and more importantly, a drop rate is not a linear percentage. If the drop rate is 10%, it does not mean you will get 1 out of 10, 10 out of 100 and so on. You can, but you can also easily get more or less than 10% in such a limited sample size. What it does mean, is that should you farm enough of these items, you will end up finding that 10% to be accurate.

If you're confused, picture it this way. Take a 20-sided die, roll it 10 times, and count how many times you roll a 1 or a 2. As far as chance goes, that's also a 10% chance; but the number of times you actually roll a 1 or a 2, may vary. It could be zero, it could be 4, but the chance is still 10%. Now if you were to roll that same die 1000 times, you're far more likely to roll a 1 or a 2, 10% of the time - but even then, it's not a guarantee.

That's how pretty much any rate in an MMO goes. Every time you loot a corpse, attack, or farm a node, an invisible die gets rolled, where X% of the total possible results ends up delivering what you're looking for. That percentage is the drop/proc rate, or chance.

Comment by Allakhazam

Damn i hate this plant, its so hard to come across, and even worse I want wildvine, the stupid herb that u only get with s small chance from these things.

FFS.

Comment by Allakhazam

purple lotus is very important this times. cause ench can make oil with purple lotus.

Comment by Allakhazam

It's 210 and don't I know it.

Comment by Allakhazam

how high would one's herbalism have to be to be able to harvest purple lotus?

Comment by reelic

January/2023

Classic WOTLK Herbalism Chart
Courtesy Of Wowhead Database with a few personal mods;

Classic Vanilla Zones

(001) —— Peacebloom
(001) —— Silverleaf
(015) —— Earthroot
(050) —— Mageroyal
————— `·.¸ Swiftthistle only drops from herbing Mageroyal, or Briarthorn
(070) —— Briarthorn
————— `·.¸ Swiftthistle only drops from herbing Mageroyal, or Briarthorn
(085) —— Stranglekelp
(100) —— Bruiseweed requirements will not drop to 85 until next expansion
(120) —— Grave Moss requirements will not drop to 105 until next expansion
(115) —— Wild Steelbloom
(125) —— Kingsblood
(150) —— Liferoot
(160) —— Fadeleaf requirements will not drop to 150 until next expansion
(170) —— Goldthorn requirements will not drop to 150 until next expansion
(185) —— Khadgar's Whisker requirements will not drop to 160 until next expansion
(195) —— Dragon's Teeth name changes to Dragon's Teeth in next expansion
(205) —— Firebloom
(210) —— Purple Lotus
————— `·.¸ Wildvine only drops from herbing Purple Lotus
(220) —— Arthas' Tears
(230) —— Sungrass
(235) —— Blindweed
(245) —— Ghost Mushroom
(250) —— Gromsblood
(260) —— Golden Sansam
(270) —— Dreamfoil
(290) —— Icecap requirements will not drop to 270 until next expansion
(280) —— Mountain Silversage
(285) —— Sorrowmoss name changes to Sorrowmoss in next expansion
(300) —— Black Lotus

Classic Burning Crusades Zones

(300) —— Felweed
(315) —— Dreaming Glory
(325) —— Ragveil
(325) —— Terocone
(335) —— Flame Cap
(340) —— Ancient Lichen
(350) —— Netherbloom
(350) —— Netherdust Bush
(365) —— Nightmare Vine
(375) —— Mana Thistle
————— `·.¸ Fel Lotus Drop rates only no node. Has a very small drop rate (1.2% - 5%) off all herbs picked through out outland, to view best to worse drop rates follow link tab gathered from shows all herbs and chance of drop rate on each herb.

Classic Wrath Of The Lich King Zones

(350) —— Goldclover
————— `·.¸ Deadnettle Drop rates only no node
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(360) —— Firethorn
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(375) —— Tiger Lily
————— `·.¸ Deadnettle Drop rates only no node
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(385) —— Talandra's Rose
————— `·.¸ Deadnettle Drop rates only no node
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(400) —— Frozen Herb FYI = you can max to 450 node doesn't grey out
————— `·.¸ Goldclover
————— `·.¸ Tiger Lily
————— `·.¸ Talandra's Rose
(400) —— Adder's Tongue
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(425) —— Lichbloom
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(435) —— Icethorn
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus
(450) —— Frost Lotus Shares the same nodes as Frozen Herb in wintergrasp
————— `·.¸ Deadnettle Drops rates only no node
————— `·.¸ Frost Lotus Yes it has a small chance to drop from it's self allowing x2 from one herb

I hope this helps, good luck and happy hunting

Comment by 4x4cop

85 in Azshara? Not quite. I found 5 nodes there. The best place I ever found was at the ruins in The Hinterlands, where I received a whopping 15 flowers.

Comment by MadmayWH

Where can Purple Lotus be gathered in 2024 retail WoW? Thanks in advance.

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Purple Lotus

This object can be found in Azshara (85), The Hinterlands (78), Feralas (72), Tanaris (48), Northern Stranglethorn (32), Ashenvale (11), and Badlands (6).

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