What does Skill: Gather Herbs do?

[FroBodine]

I found a herb encyclopedia that gives me Skill: Gather Herbs.

What does this do, please? There is nothing in the Help screens that talk about what this does.

Thanks!

[genTauro]

The herbalist find herbs (Godsbeard, Panax, and so) while she walks around. It's a passive, just like the Bukser entertain near cities and Scholars re-focus.

[FroBodine]

So, only the herbalist can benefit from this skill? Equipping the herb encyclopedia with anyone else does nothing?

I haven't unlocked the herbalist yet, but it seems like this class should have the Gather Herbs skill by default. The herb encyclopedia item I found should let any other class have this skill.

Doesn't it work like that?

[[OO] coldsteel]

It's worthless. You find so few extra herbs with it that it might as well not even be a skill.

[genTauro]

I only used the Herbalist once or twice, and I would say that every 3 - 4 turns, she would pick up a random herb.

The encyclopedia does exactly the same thing if you put it on another HEROE. I just don't think it's worth it. I would rather have other items ...

[FroBodine]

Thank you for the clarification, genTauro!

[HoneyOW]

I really love the herbalist. She's like a mother. After a couple of turns in your game, you'll end up with so much stuff, always the type that you need, and saves you money. Need a healer? take herbalist. She can find them expensive healing herbs. As to the book, i have no idea

[bloodfire]

Its primarily for high inteligence characters the scholar, herbalist, and the monk. If the following are true:

Clear Weather
Daytime
Not Blinded
Standing on an unoccupied Hex. This includes Encounters, Cursed Land and Chaotic Land, but not other players.

Then you have a chance to proc that will succeeds if roll out of 100 is < total Intelligence stat divided by 2

So if you have 95 intelligence you have a 47.5% of getting something if its daytime, its not raining, and you’re out in a field somewhere. You can accumulate a lot of useful herbs over a game if you have high intelligence. If you have low intelligence you’ll rarely get anything.

[Jiro Dragonheart]

Find herbs doesn't active often but it is always useful. Just about anything get out of it is helpful and is one less thing you need to spend gold on. But aside from that, the group heal by far makes herbalist amazing. Find herbs is just a bonus. And as a int character, you are going to have a ton of rerolls.