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How to Avoid Skilling Burnout TruthScape Skill Secrets - Herblore - Introduction, Overview and Training Basics

Herblore is the art and science of learning about herbs and making useful products from them. The skill is best known for being the method by which players can make potions, vials of colorful liquids that boost skill levels, cure poison, restore lost Prayer points and much more. Herblore is not a skill you learn in order to make money; rather, it is a good example of a skill that has many non-financial motivations for you to train it. Chief among these are independence and the ability to complete essential quests.

Some RuneScape skills are rather simple to understand, while others are much more complex; Herblore, though, is really both. Conceptually speaking, Herblore is all about herbs and secondary ingredients, and learning how to combine them with vials of water or other liquid to make potions. That’s what most Herblore guides focus on: they show you the items, give you a list of potions you can make, and send you on your way.

But as anyone who has spent time in the game knows, this simplicity quickly evaporates when you actually begin to train the skill. You’ll quickly find that you need lots of herbs but aren’t really sure where to get them; that those secondary ingredients are expensive; and that most of the potions you make sell for far less than the materials cost. It’s no wonder, then, that so many players give up on Herblore due to its perceived difficulty.

This guide aims to change all of that, by going well beyond the basics to show you not just what you can do with the skill, but what you should do.

I start with an overview of the skill and tell you what’s involved in it generally and why you’ll want to train it. I also show you my skill, quest and other recommendations for success in Herblore. And after that, I do indeed cover the basics by showing you all the herbs, secondary ingredients, potions and other items that you’ll encounter in the skill.

This is only the beginning, however, because I then move on to show you how to train the skill. I provide detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning herbs, making potions and more. I share with you my best ideas for training efficiently, include secret methods that can actually make money when others are losing it. I even describe specific training plans to guide you on your way as you raise the skill.

Herblore is more than just assembling potions, though: you also need to know the best ways to get herbs and other items you need. So I show you the best monsters to kill for herb drops, and give detailed combat information for the top five primary herb droppers. I explain different methods of getting vials, and then give you tons of information on ways of getting all the secondary ingredients you’ll need.

As you can see, there’s quite a bit to this “simple” skill—that’s why this guide is so large. I hope you find the wealth of information here helpful, both as a general reference to the skill, and as a practical training manual.

How to Avoid Skilling Burnout TruthScape Skill Secrets - Herblore - Introduction, Overview and Training Basics