Which master of alchemy??

[Profvlc]

Hi

any thoughts on what the best choice for alchemy is: master of elixer or master of transmute.

I reckon that transmute might give the best opportunity to earn gold, however I make a lot of elixer for the guild, so that would be sweet too.....

pls help?

[xaoxen]

i am a transmuter and enjoy it. it forces you to make a might everyday if you ever want to make money from it. for the most part you will be making only 1 might, but about a 10% chance to proc an extra up to x5. So far I have transmuted mights between 60-70 times, and have made about 20 extra mights with a x3 and a x4 transmute. If you make a lot of elixirs for raiding and such, it might be a better way to go especially after you learn the best flasks. Once I learn all the flasks, I will be switching to elixir mastery.

[Banesidhe]

"Once I learn all the flasks, I will be switching to elixir mastery."
I'm a lvl 300 alchemist, lvl 39 Hunter (lots funner to max professions than grind). When you discover recipes, does it put the recipe in your alchemy list, or give you the recipe in your inventory?
I thought when you respecc your profession, you have to delete the profession, skill it back up, then read the Soothsayer book in Tanaris?

[Gorny]

I decided to go Potion instead, I brew lots of them and make cash on the AH

[xaoxen]

to change a mastery you go to trainer pay the fee. discoveries go directly into your spell book.

[rgirty]

to change a mastery you go to trainer pay the fee. discoveries go directly into your spell book.

So one can go from pots to xmutes just by paying some gold?

I knew this change was coming, is it really only 100g?

If it is, everyone should take pots master then re-spec for xmute as it would be much cheaper.

[DotComm]

It's 150g, and I'd imagine that's just to unlearn potions. I'll be very surprised if you don't have to do the transmute quest to become transmute master.

[dexterhall]

Changing tailoring specialization was 150g to unlearn and another 20g to learn a new one. No quest was needed. I imagine it's the same for alchemy.

[bhroam]

I suspect you'll have to redo the specialization quest. Tailoring doesn't have one to begin with... you walk up and say, "Hi, I'd like to be Bag Spec'd... err Primal Mooncloth spec'd". We have to go through some hassle and some cost to do a quest.

[Beruen]

I suspect you'll have to redo the specialization quest. Tailoring doesn't have one to begin with.

Not true. There are quests for the tailoring specializations, they're just trivial compared to the alchemy specializations. In the case of Mooncloth, it's "take these mats and make a sample mooncloth using the mooncloth well in the Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh".

[LucidSpirit]

i am a transmuter and enjoy it. it forces you to make a might everyday if you ever want to make money from it. for the most part you will be making only 1 might, but about a 10% chance to proc an extra up to x5. So far I have transmuted mights between 60-70 times, and have made about 20 extra mights with a x3 and a x4 transmute. If you make a lot of elixirs for raiding and such, it might be a better way to go especially after you learn the best flasks. Once I learn all the flasks, I will be switching to elixir mastery.

I thought you can't switch mastery. This is why you need to choose carefully in the first place. Am I wrong? :ponder:

[Aerath]

Been changed a while ago.

I switched from Tribal Leatherworking to Elemental a while ago - just cost me some cash.

[Leonavice]

Same for Alchemy.

They just give you a grand speech about it is hard and tedious to dump your mastery, you pay 150g, and viola you forgot the mastery.

Learning another mastery is even easier. Just go to appropriate trainer, click I want to learn xxx mastery and ding! instant mastery.

[Wasabee]

No doing the quest to "get" the proffesion?

[Aerath]

Nope. Apparently doing one tedious quest is enough for blizzard.

[bhroam]

Very interesting... now one can become any mastery at level 68... prior to this pots requires a trip into botanica (needs flying mount), and elixirs required black morass farming... something hard to do at level 68. Now you can spend large amounts of gold and you're good... 4 primal mights and some gold to switch =]

I personally don't like the black morass farming bit myself. Since the encounter doesn't have any downtime between waves, it's hard for a non-melee to make sure to get their essence before the bodies despawn.

[JoeMuggs]

If you drop one mastery do you 'unlearn' recipes you discovered?

[DotComm]

No Joe, discoveries aren't linked to masteries. You'd only lose them if you completely unlearned alchemy.

[Jammer Six]

Would you unlearn recipies you learned from anywhere?

Specifically, if you became a weaponsmith, learned some high level weapons, then became an armorsmith, would you unlearn the recipies you learned from the weapons master?

In other words, could you learn ALL recipies from ALL sources?

[swaldman]

Would you unlearn recipies you learned from anywhere?

Specifically, if you became a weaponsmith, learned some high level weapons, then became an armorsmith, would you unlearn the recipies you learned from the weapons master?

In other words, could you learn ALL recipies from ALL sources?

In the case of the blacksmith ones, to my knowledge the only things that are specialisation-specific now are the BoP items. Those items require that you have that specialisation to be able to equip them, so it wouldn't really help.

[Malevia]

Not true. There are quests for the tailoring specializations, they're just trivial compared to the alchemy specializations. In the case of Mooncloth, it's "take these mats and make a sample mooncloth using the mooncloth well in the Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh".

Agreed. The Shadowtailor mastry quest was a complete joke compared to my elixier mastery quest. I had to run Black Morass 3-4 times to complete my alchy mastery compalred to jsut traveling to the alter in shadowmoon and attuning a crystal for tailoring.

[Wasabee]

Okay which Alchy quest is the easiest? Or does not require a flying mount and can be completed at 68?

[Malevia]

Elexier mastery does not require a flying mount.

[Amitar]

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