A General Overview of Herbs & Herblore in OSRS

The skill Herblore, and Herbs in general, have been around since the early stages of RuneScape (now known as Old School RuneScape). Despite being around for many years now, there’s still much to learn about this simple yet complex skill and item. Not only are these used to farm OSRS gold in huge amounts, but Herbs help your player character reinvigorate themselves in the midst of battle or other similar tough scenarios. For now, let’s take a look at what Herbs and Herblore can bring to the table.

What Are Herbs and How Do I Use Them?

Herbs in the real world are plants that can be used for medicine or mixed into food that can ultimately lead to tasty dishes, and that’s not far off from what herbs are in OSRS. In an MMO setting, herbs are essential ingredients for crafting potions. They are, of course, also used in the culinary setting. The strength potion or food that you make with Herbs has certain effects, such as Health restoration or Attack and Defense boosts.

There are tons of herbs that you’re bound to stumble upon while playing OSRS. There are two types of state that an herb cleaned or grimy state. To use grimy herbs, they first need to be cleaned, especially when it comes to making super energy potions. Grimy herbs are usually what you’ll gather if you’re just scouring the terrain for them, but you can also buy clean herbs from other players via the Grand Exchange. Altogether, herbs are diverse but are mostly used to make more than one type of potion.

What is the Herblore Skill?

Herblore is a skill that you can use to make magic potions through the combination of herbs and another secondary ingredient. Depending on what kind of attack potion you make, there is a whole slew of effects that can happen to your character. For example, if you use Defence potions, it’ll give you a temporary defense boost. They can also give you status effects such as the Super Anti-Poison potion which cures weapon poison while giving your character immunity for six minutes.

Not everyone has access to the Herblore skill though, as it is a member-only skill, making it locked behind a paywall that you’ll have to get through first. So, if you’re keen on having this useful skill, you’ll have to fork up a little cash for the monthly subscription for OSRS. Not to worry, because we’re confident that you’ll be able to get your money’s worth with this skill. Herblore is one of the most useful skills in the game, especially for raids. For ironman accounts, having Herblore experience is a great boost since most of the time you’re on a budget.

Best Potions That Are Crafted Using Herblore & Herbs

If you’re still not convinced about the usefulness of Herblore, then how about we show you some of the most powerful potions you can craft using this skill? A great example would be Super Combat potion. It is widely regarded as three-in-one ranging potions due to its combination of the Super Attack, Super Strength, and Super Defence potion. Another one is the Prayer potion that super restore your Prayer points. While it’s not mind-blowing compared to the Super Combat energy potion, it’s very convenient to have and making it is cheaper than buying it from the Grand Exchange as it costs almost 2k Old School RuneScape gold for just one.

Conclusion

Train herblore is not only a great skill to add to your arsenal but fun too thanks to the wide variety of energy combat potion you can craft to earn gold. Maybe you could even make an offer on an OSRS gold sell site. While herbs are one of those abundant items just scattered on the ground like vials of water, it can either make or break the game for you depending on how you use it. So that’s about it for our general overview of what Herblore and Herbs are! What you’re your thoughts about it? Did you find these things useful? Let us know by leaving a comment down below!

FAQ

How many herbs can you clean per hour Osrs?

Herbs are cleaned at 0.6 seconds per herb, so a maximum of around 5,000 herbs can be cleaned per hour. Please note that Grimy lantadymes have a buying limit of 10,000 every four hours.

How do you level herblore?

Once at level 55 Herblore, you can make super strength potions, which are made by mixing a kwuarm and then a Limpwurt root in a vial of water, giving 125 experience per potion. To reach level 69 Herblore, you'll need to make 4,012 super strength potions.

How do you make a herblore potion?

Potions. The potion-making process in Herblore takes two steps, each combining separate items. The first step involves adding a primary ingredient (usually a herb) to a vial of water (or a vial of coconut milk for some high-level potions), to produce an unfinished potion.

What monsters drop herbs in Runescape?

Chaos druids are only level 13 and drop a lot of herbs. Players can find them in the Taverley Dungeon, Edgeville Dungeon, in a tower north of East Ardougne, and in the Yanille Agility dungeon. Cave crawlers are Slayer monsters that drop both herbs and ingredients, they are very poisonous, so an Antipoison is advised.