Mana Lily in Midnight: A Gold-Grade Herb and Its Mana Recipes

The short answer

Mana Lily is a Gold-grade herb. Silver sells for 89 silver and Gold for 21 gold68 silver, and on 2026-10-08 Gold was about ten times the Silver price. Nearly all of the herb's value sits in the Gold half, so whether Mana Lily is worth your time depends almost entirely on how many of your picks come out Gold. At a low Gold share it is one of the weakest herbs in Midnight. At a good Gold share it competes with Azeroot. Mana Lily also has a job no other herb does: its pigment goes into both Midnight inks, which gives it a second market through Inscription.

What the client tells us about Mana Lily

Our datamine of client build 12.1.0.69933 lists Mana Lily at Silver quality and Mana Lily at Gold quality, both uncommon item level 80 Trade Goods with a vendor price of 10 silver50 copper. The gathering spell's lore calls Mana Lily a new offshoot of the old mageroyal, changed by the latent magic of Quel'Thalas. Then it gives a direct farming hint: if you are gathering around bodies of water, you can expect to find mana lilies nearby. That is client text, not a forum tip, and it is the single most useful thing to know when you go looking for it. Fly rivers, lake shores and coastlines.

Like every Midnight herb, Mana Lily is one material in two grades. A recipe accepts either, and Gold herbs push the crafted result toward its top grade. Our datamine also lists Lush, Lightfused, Primal, Wild and Voidbound Mana Lily gathering spells, so the infused node types of every zone exist for this herb too.

Who buys Mana Lily: 11 recipes

Our recipe lookup returns 11 recipes: 9 in Alchemy and 2 in Cooking. One craft of each adds up to 45 Mana Lily. That is a narrower demand base than Azeroot (24 recipes) or Tranquility Bloom (26), but it hits two flasks and the main mana potion.

The mana potion: where Gold herbs earn their premium

Lightfused Mana Potion is the clearest example of why Gold Mana Lily sells. The recipe is short: 5 Sunglass Vial, 8 Tranquility Bloom and 3 Mana Lily. At 2026-10-08 Silver prices the bill was 36 gold10 silver. Our tables list two grades of the finished potion: the top grade at 98 gold92 silver and the lower grade at 3 gold85 silver. On the day we checked the top grade sold for about thirteen times the lower one.

The pattern is simple. Tranquility Bloom is cheap in both grades, so a potion maker upgrades it for almost nothing. Mana Lily is the expensive upgrade, and it is the herb that decides whether the potion lands in the top grade. That is why the Gold grade carries the price. How much each Gold herb shifts the odds of a top-grade craft depends on the alchemist's skill and setup, which is not in our data, so treat the table as the cost side only.

Both inks need Mana Lily Pigment

Scribes mill Mana Lily into Mana Lily Pigment and Mana Lily Pigment. Our recipe data shows both Midnight inks use it:

No other herb pigment appears in both. Every Munsell Ink and every Sienna Ink in the game consumes five Mana Lily Pigment, and those inks feed Inscription's missives, treatises, contracts and tools. So Mana Lily has a demand stream that does not depend on raid nights at all. Our tables put the inks at 64 gold95 silver and 85 gold41 silver for the higher-priced grade of each.

On 2026-10-08 the two Mana Lily Pigment items sold for 14 gold80 silver and 67 silver. The higher price sat on the item our data labels Silver, which is the opposite of what you would expect. It may be a thin market or a labelling quirk, so check both listings in game before you mill. The milling yield is not in the client data and we have not measured it, so here is the test to run yourself:

1. Mill twenty Mana Lily of one grade and count the pigment you get.
2. Multiply that count by the live pigment price, and take off the 5 percent Auction House cut.
3. Compare with twenty times the live herb price, also less the cut.
4. Mill when the pigment side wins. Sell the herb when it does not. Re-check weekly, because ink demand moves with Inscription patches.

What raising your Gold share is worth

This is the reason the page exists. On 2026-10-08 the gap between Gold and Silver Mana Lily was 17 gold78 silver per herb, while Silver itself was only 1 gold94 silver. So the value of 100 Mana Lily changes like this as your Gold share rises:

Every ten points of Gold share adds 177 gold80 silver per hundred herbs, which is worth as much as about 92 Silver lilies. No other lever you control moves the value of a Mana Lily bag that much. Our Gold quality guide walks through what the datamine and player guides say raises your share. In short: Herbalism skill, specialization points, and the Mulch consumables made from Tranquility Bloom.

Mana Lily inside the two flasks

Mana Lily is a small line in a flask bill when crafters buy Silver, and a big one when they buy Gold. Here is the share at 2026-10-08 prices:

Read it from a crafter's side. In a Silver bill, Nocturnal Lotus dominates and the lilies are a rounding error, so a flask maker who does not care about grade will buy the cheapest lilies on the market without a second look. In a Gold bill, the lilies become a quarter of the cost, and that is a buyer who compares prices carefully and walks away when Gold Mana Lily spikes. So Gold demand is price-sensitive in a way Silver demand is not. Do not try to push Gold lilies above their 14-day high; the flask makers will switch to a flask that uses different herbs.

Risks and what to watch

• A thin Gold market. The Gold grade traded between 5 gold45 silver and 18 gold across fourteen days, a wide swing for a herb. One big seller can halve it. List in small batches.
• Ink patches. Because both inks need its pigment, any change to Inscription recipes hits Mana Lily first.
• Raid tier changes. If a new tier favours stats that the Magisters or Thalassian Resistance flask do not give, lily demand falls with those flasks.
• Lotus spikes. When Nocturnal Lotus climbs, fewer flasks get crafted, and Gold lilies sit longer.

Where to look for Mana Lily

The client tells you the terrain: water. Which zones have the most water-side nodes is a player report, and we have not walked a route to confirm it. Players report Mana Lily across the Midnight zones, with the river valleys of Eversong Woods and the waterways of Harandar mentioned most often. Zone levels below are from the client's content tuning data.

Eversong Woods is the 80 to 83 zone and the home of Lightfused herbs. Our datamine lists a Lightfused Mana Lily gathering spell. The client says Lightfused herbs release motes of holy energy and yield extra resources. Read the Eversong Woods herbalism guide.

Harandar has Primal herbs, which refill a Skyriding charge when you pick them. Long water loops are cheap to fly here.

Zul'Aman has Wild herbs that spawn hostile herb lashers when picked. Expect a fight on a Wild Mana Lily.

Voidstorm is the 88 to 90 zone with Void herbs. Fewer pickers early in a patch, more once alts reach the cap.

Requirements

Level

80 or higher (Eversong Woods 80 to 83, Voidstorm 88 to 90)

Profession

Herbalism; the Gold share decides the value, so specialization points matter here

Travel

Skyriding along rivers and coasts

Group

Solo

Walked route status

Mana Lily water loop, any Midnight zone

Not walked yet

No hourly gold figure is published here until this route has been walked end to end with a timer and a full loot log. Until then this page gives you the inputs (live prices and what drops) and leaves the arithmetic to you.

How to sell Mana Lily

1. Split your grades. Gold is the product; Silver is close to by-catch.
2. Hold Silver when it is near its 14-day low. On 2026-10-08 it was trading above its fortnight high of 1 gold67 silver, which is a good moment to clear it.
3. Sell Gold into flask weeks. Thalassian Resistance takes 8 and the Magisters takes 6, and both spike before raid resets.
4. Watch ink prices if you have a scribe. When either ink is high, milling Gold lilies can beat selling them.
5. Never vendor. 10 silver50 copper is far below even the lowest Silver price in our 14-day history, which was 65 silver.
6. Keep a few for Mana Lily Tea if you farm a lot. The tea takes 2 lilies and a Mana-Wyrm Essence.

Is Mana Lily worth farming?

Only if your Gold share is real. The herb is a bet on your own build: at a low share it pays less than any herb except Sanguithorn, and at a strong share every node is worth stopping for. It has the steadiest non-raid demand of the base herbs thanks to the two inks, and its main potion shows exactly why crafters pay for the Gold grade. We cannot give you a rate because no route has been walked yet. Compare it live against the others in our best herb guide, and see Sanguithorn, the Herbalism hub and the retail guides index for the rest.

Changelog

• 2026-10-08: First version. Item, recipe and gathering spell data from our datamine of client build 12.1.0.69933; prices live from our US commodity tables, snapshot figures read on 2026-10-08.