Alchemy Cooldowns and 3.3.3

[mercutiouk]

Reading the patch notes at the minute from the front page and there's now no mention of the removal of cooldowns on Alchemy transmutes? Is this still going live or something the reverted on the test realms?

I don't tend to make posts about stupid topics, I would usually just go do some hunting for info and read. In this case I seem to find little info that's current but if I missed it a relavent link and wise ass comment about reading/searching would be quite useful.

[Daginni]

If it does, Alchemy will be a profitless profession, along with it already being a useless one. :-\

[thunderdragon]

i think they will be removing the eternal transmutes and not the gem ones its not quite clear since u could trade frozen orbs in for eternals it would be stupid to keep them

[Mercadi]

If it does, Alchemy will be a profitless profession, along with it already being a useless one. :-\

How is that useless? It has same bonuses as most other professions (+/-1 stat, if it matters), and double duration on flasks in addition. No other profession can save you so much money if you raid.

[riflemancho]

How is that useless? It has same bonuses as most other professions (+/-1 stat, if it matters), and double duration on flasks in addition. No other profession can save you so much money if you raid.

Profession is called hunter ;P

[thunderdragon]

If it does, Alchemy will be a profitless profession, along with it already being a useless one. :-\

i supose u can say the samething about engineering as it costs SO MUCT to lvl up

cost GREATLY outweighs any proffit from engineering

[conscript]

What cooldown removal was ever mentioned? The only one I can think of that happened recently was Titanium but that was never a money maker. Removing the gem or eternal transmute cooldowns would literally break the market.

i think they will be removing the eternal transmutes and not the gem ones its not quite clear since u could trade frozen orbs in for eternals it would be stupid to keep them

Imagine if you are a transmute mastery alchemist:
Buy one Eternal Shadow for 9g
Transmute in one Eternal life plus procs
Transmute those and procs to Shadows for that number plus procs.

in about 5 minutes after the patch went live there would literally be an infinite number of Eternals on the server driving the price down to, well there wouldn't be a price.

[Azharok]

you'd be goldcapped just by vendoring it

[Auro]

I dont think I made any money from engineering until tonight selling those pets

but that wont last...

My alch can sell potions/flasks/gems if you have the wherewithal to farm ALL the mats yourself

Even having my own Enchanter/JC/Miner/Herber/Engineer/BS/Aclhemy/Tailor.... I make surprisingly little from them anymore. I can make everything in house from gathering to production, but at this point on my server, its better gold/hour to just do the dailies 90% of the time...

and obviously xmute a gem every time its up (and jc version) - but with all my toons I cant viably sell them because I use them myself lol.

And they didnt remove any Alch CD. I did my normal gem xmute and got a primal life to something xmute.... and the CD was up from the gem. So I can confirm no CD's were removed for Alchemy. (It really peevs me that those primal transmutes are on the same CD as gems.

[Geckomayhem]

Even having my own Enchanter/JC/Miner/Herber/Engineer/BS/Aclhemy/Tailor.... I make surprisingly little from them anymore. I can make everything in house from gathering to production, but at this point on my server, its better gold/hour to just do the dailies 90% of the time...

I have the exact same "problem". I don't seem to be able to make money from my professions, as the majority of high-demand and useful items are up on the AH in abundance and at or close to reagent cost. They are mostly there for the sake of having every profession, and to benefit the toons that have them -- if even minutely.

As for cooldowns, as people have said, the alchemy gem transmute cooldown was not removed. I thought it was going to be, but I must have just got the cloth transmute cooldown removal mixed up.