Find Camouflaged Gathering Nodes with Phial of Truesight - Mining & Herbalism
If you're looking to enhance your Herbalism and Mining gathering in Khaz Algar, then check out the Phial of Truesight, a new consumable that allows you to see camouflaged nodes and boosts your perception.
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Phial of Truesight
With Season 1 just on the horizon, players are stocking up on all the materials needed to craft their gear and consumables. If you're looking to capitalize on the current higher reagent prices, then consider a gathering profession combined with a Phial of Truesight.
Skilled alchemists can craft Phial of Truesight, a 30-min baseline consumable that allows players to see camouflaged gather nodes for both mining and herbalism as well as providing a small boost to perception. You'll typically see ~15-25% increase of total nodes as camouflaged ones.
A simple tier-one version of Phial of Truesight will suffice to find camouflaged nodes, so if you don't value the extra Perception then feel free to purchase whatever is cheapest.
While this might not seem like much at first glance, camouflaged nodes are fairly prevalent across Khaz Algar and are specialized node similar to Crystallized or Sporefused nodes. This means camouflaged nodes have higher skill level ceilings and can provide more reagents.
Camouflaged nodes appear with the regular node icon on the minimap, so be sure to mouseover noes to more easily identify them.
The boost to perception does work with Skinning, but there are no camouflaged skinning nodes.
Is Phial of Truesight Worth It?
Unfortunately, value is a bit harder to nail down as prices are constantly in flux and the price of the phial is directly tied to the additional herbs you're trying to gather,
At the time of publication, the auction house price is hovering right around 100 gold for a tier one Phial of Truesight. If you have Alchemist, you can craft a Phial of Truesight yourself and reap the benefits of profession stats like multicraft. Alchemists spec'd into Fantastic Flasks can
