First let me introduce myself, i was a spermik player that stopped playing 1 and a half year ago, now im back with and im currently at lvl 23 (My char is Esunna), and that doesnt give me much power to suggest things here, but here goes:
In this server, i started noticing herbs weren't spawning correctly since lvl 15~, i was leveling at Darkshore and then Loch Modan and finding the right herbs to lvl my skill was pretty hard, there were almost no Mageroyals, but for example Stranglekelps are everywhere!
I know Stranglekelp is supposed to spawn a lot near coasts, but a lot doesnt mean 1 plant every 5 meters in the whole coast of Darkshore!
And lets talk about Redrige Mountains, there are Bruiseweeds everywhere, for real. I went out trying to find some Briarthorns, but all i can find is Bruiseweed, they are grouped up like each 40 square yards have a place where there are 5 grouped up Bruiseweeds, and occasionally you will find 1 Peacebloom, 1 Earthroot, 1 Mageroyal or 1 Briarthorn, but this is reaaaally rare.
I hope my words are clear and you can understand what i am saying.
I also wish i could show you a map of retail Herb spawns in Redrige, but i couldnt actually find one from patch 3.3.5
Anyway, spawn rates didnt change much in the Cata world, and according to wowwiki, Bruiseweeds are supposed to be only 8.4% of the plants from Redrige.
Before posting this topic, i quickly did a circuit run at Redrige to gather some statistics, at the end of the topic i will attach an image with the circuit i have made.
From that run, i found 17 Bruiseweeds, 3 Mageroyals, 2 Peaceblooms, 5 Earthroots and 2 Briarthorns.
That means 58% of the herbs found in Redrige are Bruiseweeds. This isnt really accurate since i only did the circuit once, and the circuit only covered a small portion of the map, but i actually think that if all the herbs on Redrige were included on my statistics, Bruiseweed rates would be even higher!
Oh, and Redrige is only an example because its where i am and its the easy for me to talk about it, but im sure i noticed this problem in Loch Modan, and probably there are more zones with wrong herb spawn points.
Hope this gets some attention.
TL;DR Herbs are not spawning like they should, some herbs appear way too much, others are way too rare, and they arent disperse in the map like they should, lots of them appear gathered in small groups.
