(Alchemy) [WoD] How vital will Transmutes be?

[Polarthief]

Just swapped Blacksmithing to Alchemy in the last few hours, and now that I finally hit 600, I'm at a loss for which Mastery to pick. Thinking Transmutes because of how awesome it feels to have an x5 proc on your daily cooldown, but I'm trying to find early guides to WoD Alchemy and coming up kind of empty.

Are Alchemical Catalysts our only transmute in WoD and how vital will they be? Are they important and/or uncommon enough to pick Transmute Master?

[Deleted]

As of the current beta build there is no Draenor level recipe that is affected by Transmute master. That could change in the future though.

[Polarthief]

As of the current beta build there is no Draenor level recipe that is affected by Transmute master. That could change in the future though.

Wait Alchemical Catalysts aren't considered Transmutes? Bluh. Now I'm at a total loss of what to pick.

[Saravat]

Wait Alchemical Catalysts aren't considered Transmutes? Bluh. Now I'm at a total loss of what to pick.

Right now I wouldn't spend the mats to get any alchemy mastery. So far in beta, there are no masteries available. If that changes at release, you can decide then...but based on the way they are doing things so far, I wouldn't be surprised to see the mastery options eliminated.

[Alroxas]

If transmute mastery helps boost transmutes for Alchemical Catalysts then it seems a bit silly since Alchemical Catalysts are only used for Flasks (and 1 armor potion) which might make Transmute Mastery = Elixir Mastery?

[Kraineth]

If transmute mastery helps boost transmutes for Alchemical Catalysts then it seems a bit silly since Alchemical Catalysts are only used for Flasks (and 1 armor potion) which might make Transmute Mastery = Elixir Mastery?

If that was the case then Elixir mastery would still be superior, Xmute wouldn't affect your catalysts from the Garrison building, but Elixir would affect how many flasks you could get from those catalysts.

[Polarthief]

So bumping this back up, is Transmute Mastery still useless in WoD? If so, kinda forces everyone to go Elixir mastery, no?

[Sounder]

Blizz has confirmed that while Alchemy specializations will continue to affect the same recipes that they have in the past, they will not be relevant for WoD recipes.

[Polarthief]

Blizz has confirmed that while Alchemy specializations will continue to affect the same recipes that they have in the past, they will not be relevant for WoD recipes.

Not even elixir/potion mastery? Could I get a source please?

[rda]

Blizz has confirmed that while Alchemy specializations will continue to affect the same recipes that they have in the past, they will not be relevant for WoD recipes.

Ouch. That's big.

Could you - or anyone else who has seen it - link the source for this, please (just to make sure there's no misreading, etc)?

[kiteazure]

good thread

[Mission]

Im in the beta, and there is nothing to xmute, there is no pre-pots, your basically only making flasks, and a trinket. And when you make a flask using mats from the alchemy garrision its auto x5, no procs, no nothing extra.

You cannot spam flask making cause you need to do the work orders from the garrision to get mats you need.

[Raeph]

well that really cuts down on how many alts I need to lvl. I have three xmute specs.

No reason to have more than one alch now (for my uses).

[Laz]

Im in the beta, and there is nothing to xmute, there is no pre-pots, your basically only making flasks, and a trinket. And when you make a flask using mats from the alchemy garrision its auto x5, no procs, no nothing extra.

You cannot spam flask making cause you need to do the work orders from the garrision to get mats you need.

This is partly wrong, there are pre-pots for all (Strength, Intellect, Agility, & Armor).

[Gorsameth]

This is partly wrong, there are pre-pots for all (Strength, Intellect, Agility, & Armor).

Not anymore actually. They are no longer on the vendor at your garrison.

[Ham on Rye]

Not anymore actually. They are no longer on the vendor at your garrison.

You mean the vendor that gives you free pots and flasks because it's beta and they want to test things? It's silly to assume they removed pots from the game just because they removed them from that vendor. It's highly likely if they were removed from the vendor, it's because they don't want people using them in dungeon and raid testing. That doesn't mean they're removed from the game when it goes live.

[Gorsameth]

You mean the vendor that gives you free pots and flasks because it's beta and they want to test things? It's silly to assume they removed pots from the game just because they removed them from that vendor. It's highly likely if they were removed from the vendor, it's because they don't want people using them in dungeon and raid testing. That doesn't mean they're removed from the game when it goes live.

if you played beta you would know the Flaskataur is not in your Garrison.

What I am saying is that the Alchemy recipe vendor doesn't sell combat potion recipe's and that you don't learn them automatically either.

[Gorsameth]

Update: Todays patch added the combat potions recipes back in on the Garrison vendor.

They cost gold instead of Secrets tho so I donno what Blizzards plan is.

[Deleted]

Any info about the fate of "increased duration when you drink any elixir or flask you are able to make." from Mixology perk?

[Gorsameth]

Any info about the fate of "increased duration when you drink any elixir or flask you are able to make." from Mixology perk?

The perk still shows up under Alchemy but I tried it with a level 100 premade and the flask only showed 60min duration.

I would expect it to be gone for WoD because otherwise Alchemy is the only profession with a usable perk.