Purple Lotus

2020

• Purple Lotus
• Item Level 42
  Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Sell Price: 3

Purple Lotus

Purple Lotus is an Herb that can be gathered by Herbalists.

Purple Lotus is one of the four types of Lotus and the most common of the four types. Visually, it appears to be a purple flower and a little bit of white/green near the ground.

Source

Purple Lotus can typically be found around troll, night elf and titan ruins in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Sometimes when picking a Purple Lotus, you will also find a Wildvine. Requires 210 Herbalism to gather.

Found in the zones:

• Felwood

Although the drop rate has been severely lowered, it can also be dropped or gathered from certain mobs in some instances such as:

• Maraudon

Purple Lotus as an Ingredient

Purple Lotus is used in the following recipes:

Alchemy

•  [Magic Resistance Potion]
•  [Elixir of Greater Water Breathing]
•  [Wildvine Potion]
•  [Philosopher's Stone]
•  [Dreamless Sleep Potion]
•  [Elixir of Dream Vision]

Tailoring

•  [Cenarion Herb Bag]

Enchanting

•  [Lesser Mana Oil]
•  [Brilliant Mana Oil]

Inscription

•  [Violet Pigment]
•  [Ruby Pigment]

As quest objective

Removed in patch 3.0.2.

•  [60] The Horde Needs Purple Lotus!
•  [60] The Alliance Needs Purple Lotus!

Notes

• Blizzard seems to have done an evil thing with Cataclysm and completely isolated this herb to one zone (Felwood) and removed it from all the other zones.
• Here are the zones it used to be found in:
  • Tanaris 28.6%
  • Azshara 19.1%
  • Stranglethorn Vale 18.0%
  • The Hinterlands 14.9%
  • Feralas 12.2%
  • Badlands 4.7%
  • Ashenvale 1.6%
  • Dire Maul 0.6%
  • Zul'Gurub 0.4%

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Now only gathered from Felwood.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): No longer a quest objective.
  

External links

Item

• Battle.net (EU)
• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

Purple Lotus Farming - OmgNab.com 

Node

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB