Alchemy and you.

Alchemy brings out the mad scientist in us all.

Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite proffesions, one that makes me a ton of money and also saves me money too. Alchemy.

I LOVE Alchemy! It's brilliant! Why? Consumables, that's why. Almost everyone needs consumables these days. If I join a raid, I'm expected to have flasks on hand, it's become a requirement for raiding. And who makes the flasks? Alchemists do.

Alright, so let's look at how Alchemy saves me money first. When you buy flasks on the AH, typically you buy them for more than the mat cost, as people like myself will sell them for a profit. So if you were to buy, or god forbid, farm the mats yourself, you would be saving a fair amount of money. The same can be said for potions, though these days it's only really the hardcore raiders who will use potions. Then of course we have to take into account Mixology. This passive skill increases the effectiveness of an elixir/potion/flask as well as the time it lasts for. I can get away with only using 1 or 2 flasks a raid, whereas Mr Not An Alchemist over there has to use up to 4 or 5 which are no where near as good as mine.

Then of course there's transmutes. How we love them. I can take about 20g of mats and turn them into an epic gem worth 100g+ every day. I could, if I wanted to, get it cut and use it for my new gear I got the night before.

Alright, so, now we've looked at how Alchemy can save gold, how can it make gold? Well, like I've said, everyone needs flasks. Flasks sell like hotcakes. I love them. I sell about 50 flasks every evening. I could probably sell up to a 100 some nights if I could get ahold of the mats. I've found the best sellers to be Flask of Endless Rage and Flask of the Frost Wyrm, purely because they're the DPS flasks, and there are more DPS than there are Tanks or Healers. These can sell from 15g-20g each most nights. So let's do some maths.

15g * 50 = 750g = Minimum gold.
20g * 50 = 1000g = Maximum gold.

However that's just basic stuff, as we all know prices fluctuate and sometimes they can sell for even more. I remember one night seeing no flasks on the AH at all, I instantly put mine up for 50g each and the majority sold.

Now let's look at some other aspects of Alchemy, how about Transmutes?

Well first off of course there's the epic gem transmute. That's an easy 100g a day. I recommend you do this every day, it all adds up after all.

There's one more transmute that I've heard on some servers makes a lot of money, the saronite to titanium transmute. This takes 8 saronite bars and turns them into a titanium bar, best part is, there's no cooldown. On my server however I've found titanium prices to be slightly below the cost of 8 saronite bars, making this worthless for me, however if your server prices are better I can see this making a lot of gold.

One more transmute I'd like to mention is the Arcanite Bar transmute. You can pick up the recipe in Gadgetzan, or if you're lazy like me, on the AH. All you need is 1 thorium bar and 1 arcane crystal. I can pick these up for about 1-2g, the Arcanite Bars sell for around 20g. I don't know why they sell to be honest, they just do.

But what about specializations? Yep, that's right, Alchemy has three different specs to choose from. These are:

. Elixir
. Transmute
. Potion

Depending on the spec you choose, sometimes you can proc free items when you craft. So if I was making flasks, I might get twice as many flasks for the price of 1 lot of mats. It's like printing free gold.

Personally I'm Elixir specced myself, for flasks. But I hear Transmute is good for some people, and sometimes I hear about people having success with Potion spec. It's all up to you really.

Anyway, good luck and have fun raking in gold with Alchemy. :)