My herbalism spec is:
- 40/40 Bountiful Harvest
- 40/40 Luredrop spec
- 40/40 Orbinid spec
I farmed the same amount of nodes of Luresrop and Orbinid for 1 hour.
The result is DOUBLE the amount of Orbinid compared to Luredop.
I kept on getting 1 Luredrop over and over, even from lush nodes, and it shows from the result.
Edit: Gathering data
This is a 30 minute herb/mining session with Phial of Truesight:
Luredrop:
1* = 1
2* = 12
3* = 4
Total = 17
Orbinid:
1* = 25
2* = 9
3* = 2
Total = 36
Will do more pick sessions, but I think Blizz is manipulating the finesse on Luredrop. Note my stats for Luredrop and Orbinid are the exact same.
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The addon “Gathering Tracker” may be what you’re looking for. Can search for on Curseforge.
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So I installed the plugin. Unfortunately it does not count individual herb casts, but only the amount of herbs gathered.
Either way, there were more Camouflaged Luredrop than Orbinid. Many times I picked only 1 x Luredrop, but picked 6 x Orbinid.
This is a 30 minute herb/mining session with Phial of Truesight:
Luredrop:
1* = 1
2* = 12
3* = 4
Total = 17
Orbinid:
1* = 25
2* = 9
3* = 2
Total = 36
Will do more pick sessions, but I think Blizz is manipulating the finesse on Luredrop. Note my stats for Luredrop and Orbinid are the exact same.
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Thank you for creating this post because I have noticed the same issue. I thought I was going crazy and thought if I made a post about it, I’d get the comments talking about bad RNG.
I didn’t break it down like you, but I have gathered similar amounts of luredrops and orbinids and the finesse procs on orbinids are significantly higher than the luredrops
You need a lot of lure drop for inscription - which is one of my mains profession. At first I was trying to farm luredrop. The time required was too much. Then I started using alchemy thaumaturgy. I farm gloom chitin which is easy to do quickly. Then I convert it using thaumaturgy. i just turned 500 rank 2 gloom chitin into (all rank 2) 74 luredrop, 78 orbinid, 64 aqirite, 68 mercurial transmutagen plus a few gems. I no longer bother trying to farm orbinid or luredrop… and just herb in the isle for the other three herbs and all ore types. I end up with an oversupply of rank 2 luredrop which i can convert into rank 3 when needed.
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I also use thaumaturgy to get more lure drops too (also storm dust).
But my main point was 40/40 lure drop specialization does not seem to add much value, compared to 40/40 Orbinid specialization.
Something is definitely not adding up on my flower picker.