Given that it's entirely random as my current understanding goes, you'll have the most luck just flying through an area, flying by clusters of nodes.

Needless to say, Druids (and Tauren especially) are most cut out for this with their Swift Flight Form not breaking on gathering. My usual experience is to get one in a ~30 minute timeframe. In personal experience- and don't quote this as holy fact- I've had most luck finding a circuit and running that while grabbing every herb on it, and basically just hoping a Lotus spawns in the wake of my gathering. This means that, unless picked, a node will not spawn a Golden Lotus. is that Golden Lotuses spawn in place of any other herb node. Or you can just simply wait for respawns every time if you don't want to bother with picking up other herbs.Comment by 724320Golden Lotus and You: A Comprehensive Analysis To avoid this, when you start your next lap, you should pick up every herb when you move between the ruins, so you finish slower. It's possible that you will finish one lap too fast and the purple lotus at the start still haven't respawned yet.

(they are pretty easy to spot even without coordiantes) If you are using Tomtom addon, use these coordinates below so you can find the ruins easier. If you visit every ruin and you didn't find a single Purple Lotus it means someone is already farming in the zone. Since this is the only zone where Purple Lotus grows, it's often farmed by someone else. Usually you can only find 1 Purple Lotus at the smaller ruins, but at the larger ones like Ruins of Constellas you can often find 2-3. There are 5 ruins in Felwood where Purple Lotus grows. Purple Lotus can only be found around ruins in Felwood. It's recommended to have around Herbalism 210, so you won't get herb fragments. I made this Purple Lotus farming guide to help out players who want to farm the herbs instead of buying them from the Auction House.

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