Sorting the herbs is not difficult - you can be brain-afk doing it - but its annoying and repeating and costs time
searching and gathering the herbs is already grind enough...
Hold on !
Were talking about the herbalist - not the alchemist - and if you want to be alchemist you will be herbalist and healer too, so what an alchemist does is not only making potions - he will:
- search for herbs
- gather the herbs
- sort the herbs
- mix preparations (and/or)
- mix potions
- cure people
- makes surgerys
- make iron to gold
since tons of lux and naphta are needed the business will be good, meaning you will have to gather thousands and thousands of herbs.
I exaggerate? Hardly ...
I you gather 100 herbs you will have likely 16 with flux - ability - resulting in 8 flux - which is enough for one steelbar ... not to speak of mortar - or vostasscuss.
So do you really need that sorting of all the herbs manually ?