Azure Guardian: Recent Alchemy Changes

The Azure Guardian soars over the misty plains of the internet. My loyal servant scans Blizzard’s Blue Posts and sends word of the ones my readers and I shouldn’t miss.

In case you missed it over on MMO-Champion, it was announced in a post by Nethaera that Blizz has increased the proc rate for transmutation masters but decreased what Blizz calls the spike, meaning the proc will produce less transmutes. They claim that this will even out so that you will be proccing just as many as you were before just on a more consistent basis. The full post here…

“I wanted to hop in and clarify and confirm there was in fact a change that was implemented with the patch that unfortunately did not make the patch notes.”

“The change actually adjusted the return on the transmutes so that you weren’t getting spikes in the amount of items you’d get from the transmute. Instead, if you transmute over a period of time, the amount of the transmute return should even out.”

“So basically if you transmute on a regular basis, you should see a more regular return on the transmute vs. a spike in large returns. Transmutation specialists will almost always get a PROC when transmuting living elements.” (source)

 

Though I am not a transmutation mater, even as an elixir master I always closely watch changes to alchemy. It seems to me that I am not proccing as many extra flasks as I had in Wrath and I would like to see this addressed. I have seen some QQ about this over on the profession forum. I am wondering if any of you feel the same way?

 

It is also rumored that Blizz has increased the spawn rate of herbs in all of the new Cataclysm zones. I have yet to find anything that confirms this. This is a welcome change especially with all the phasing herbs disappearing in front of my eyes as I move in to farm ’em up.

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