I have been playing since vanilla, and I have not had a more frustrating time leveling herbalism ever. There are times where I travel through a zone on my mount (i'm lvl 30 atm) and not see a herb for at least 5 minutes. I would like to know why the hell this is. It's kinda frustrating, because you used to be able to level professions while leveling and it would scale (and I don't even have BoAs, the horror if I did) with my leveling of professions. Now? Forget it. I have to waste so much time outside leveling to keep up with my professions.
I would say it's CRZ (and this is not an anti CRZ post I think it brings many good things to the game), but I don't even see any other players out there getting herbs. So wth is going on?