THE War Within Alchemy Guide, Deep Dive With Build Suggestions and More!

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Leave your feedback and questions! Corrections and changed information will be pinned here: At 9:18, Weavercloth is listed twice. Bismuth is part of the Ominous family. Phials weren't given an explanation. They provide profession buffs only.

[@davidgreenberg8456]

What do the two nodes on the left of Thaumaturgy do? Something with Volatile transmutagen?

[@caboose8402]

This looks great. As you create these guides, would you put them in a playlist we can follow after launch please?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

One step ahead of ya kzbin.info/aero/PLZ4bxP0S_-HdMgaBKDNxU9-KFlCRyKjSp

[@Chris-kq7ir]

As a returning player, this is overwhelming and hard to understand. I can see the passion tho and still liked the video

[@johnwarner4178]

Thanks for confirming flask duration return I swapped almost everyone to alchemy for it

[@gustaferiksson1503]

The ability to “disenchant” mats for other things seems like a good idea to balance the auction house

[@UltimateGamerCC]

especially when mats lose value, they can then be turned into a profit or even better mats.

[@asierra86]

19 yrs of being a transmutation alchemist as my main BM hunter just because I was (and still am) a huge fullmetal alchemist fan back when I started playing. Do I care for potions and flasks? Nah let's transmute all the time baby!

[@surin9030]

Love this. I’d be grateful for as many of these profession overview videos you can justifiably put together. The upcoming changes are exciting, and as a returning player the pre exposure to the systems is genuinely valuable. A question I have involves the specialization mechanic that believe is coming with TWW. Would it make sense to have two toons that have the same professions but different specializations? (I.e both blacksmiths, but one specializes in weapons while the other armor.) Thank you as always. 🙏🏼

[@SoulSoBreezy]

It's plausible if you want to play that way. Personally I don't enjoy splitting my attention developing basically two blacksmiths to cover multiple work orders and have opted to have a main character who does work order related stuff while the others do auction house based work (reagents, consumables). I'll have a longer answer once I cover blacksmithing and the other armor professions.

[@surin9030]

@@SoulSoBreezy heard you. I plan on rotating between 3 tank classes for the coming World Soul Saga of Expansions. Right now, I’m theorycrafting on how best to delineate the possible professions. There’s just so much information & complexity to wade through. It’s headache inducing for sure, but I’m excited for your upcoming breakdowns. I’m not a AH watcher or a market player, I lean more towards the RP & self-efficiency that professions offer. I just want the dopest items possible without having to rely on others. No real point to be made here, just want to offer a perspective that varies from the gold-making infatuation. Thank you for your time, soul. Looking forward to future conversations. 💯

[@ginch6448]

Well explained, thank you.

[@digmod]

Question; the chart at 9:18 lists weavercloth twice, once in white and once in green. It is also missing Bismuth. I take it Bismuth is supposed to occupy the bottom middle spot? Just curious as the distribution between these mats is helping me evaluate which gathering might be more valuable.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Correct, bismuth is meant to take the place of Weavercloth.

[@adamadamadam83]

Great video!

[@turteschris3191]

Thank you so much! Great advice as always!

[@christopherdaffron8115]

WoW those Potion and Flask skill tree windows sure look sparce.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

The opposite of this would be bloated and I'd prefer this

[@UltimateGamerCC]

they were bloated in DF, so now there's less to worry about.

[@Jat8003]

Great video as always! A side related question since you need herbs for your alchemy. Is the main herb still super overweighted as in DF? Felt like you got 1000 main herb easier than 100 of the others.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Not an super accurate answer, but yes

[@Flampangaming]

I have an altarmy at around 20 Chars after remix ends. My playtime is limited so i like to mostly out that to pve progression in raids and m+ and was not planning on lvling more than 1 or 2 Chars to maxlvl. After watching your guides am i correct that lvl 70s will work as an idleing altarmy in the main city just doing weekly crafts and npc work orders for knowledge? Or do i need to lvl them, be in the open world etc? Planning on speccing one alchemist to potions and one for flasks. Rest just transmute I have all professions with racial bonuses and after that just tailoring and Alchemy.

[@kellego]

so will maxing out potions or flasks help with skill on making potion or flask cauldrons? the wording makes it seem like it wont.

[@kellego]

i know it says it gives skill points for making flasks and or potions on each spec but didnt know if that counted towards cauldrons ive unlocked both cauldrons but didnt want to waste more knowledge on bulk and spill over it until i could make sure i could make 3 star cauldrons first.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Going off memory here: The tree on the far left contributes to skill. Under the potion/flask tree, the base trait contributes to skill while the sub traits contribute towards multicraft for individual potions/flasks but not cauldrons, which can't multicraft.

[@enider5171]

It's been a little while since this was posted, and the expansion is fast approaching. I checked your channel but didn't see any general videos about profession knowledge, and I haven't been able to find a lick of information about it online. Do you happen to know what sources besides the NPC crafting orders we will have? Such as, will there be more treasures, more crafting masters to find? My strategy is going to need about 45 knowledge, specifically alchemy, and I don't want to think that I have to wait for crafting orders to do it just to find out I was wrong and fell behind. Moneymaking is absolutely explosive at the start of an expansion and falls off FAST.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Yeah, there're treasures around; your best bet really would be to have Handynotes installed right away and make sure it's updated. Even then I'm not so certain how long it'll take you to earn 45 KP. Treasures aside you'll be spending a lot of time blowing yourself up to do research and get past the debuff, and from observation the kinds of crafting orders available are random for everyone.

[@enider5171]

@@SoulSoBreezy Oh, right on! Sweet, will do. Thanks ^.^

[@shampea]

I failed to find any information on whether we need some catchup to do before TWW, as a player that haven't previously done profession, do I need to be prepared to be in advantage when expansion launches?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Not really, though I do advise picking up DF professions to at least get an idea of how they'll work in TWW

[@blacktooth90]

which tree gives you longer flasks? or is phials and flasks the same?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

They're the same

[@yzerk7935]

Probably is a silly question but how can i obtain a Pilosopher's Stone???

[@fishtacos007]

You can make one. Every expansion has one, they all work

[@bowmancollar3684]

Will alchemists get the ability to transmute elements again? Are the "primal elements" kind of reagents in TWW?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

No

[@Omnikristen]

This maybe a stupid question but i like to max everything out would i be able to spec into every skill?

[@blademast571]

Eventually yes

[@Omnikristen]

@@blademast571 Thank you

[@davidgreenberg8456]

What do the two nodes on the left of Thaumaturgy do? Something with Volatile transmutagen?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

They're ways to turn the transmutagen itself into more useful items. I'll never recommend using a transmute cooldown to do anything but what would help produce more gleaming transmutagen. Basically any of rare blue tranmutes will work, the example I made was the easiest to access.

[@unclvinny]

Alchemists can do work orders now!!?

[@christopherdaffron8115]

NPC work orders for sure at least.

[@freddycuevas5743]

That was always the case

[@ShadowsOfThePast]

Alchemists had work orders in DF too..

[@unhived]

Will Alchemy offer prolonged flask times and increased benefits to pots?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Same as DF, yes

[@unhived]

@@SoulSoBreezy Thanks so much! Only reason i roll Alch :D

[@Beeevaaa]

Where do we learn TWW versions of professions when the xpac launches?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Dornogal, you can't miss it

[@Beeevaaa]

@@SoulSoBreezy thanks!!

[@0ldfan480]

Is it really possible to make anything? I have been having trouble in dragonflight with the increase in supply after the region AH. Often times the mats are more then the potion/flask I make.

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Alchemy and other consumable professions in DF were heavily reliant on bulk crafting - dozens, hundreds of casts to make many goods. It made the efforts at gathering your own materials for 1-2 casts feel diminished. Can't say for sure that it'll repeat itself here in TWW.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Dragonflight was hard on Profs, the new system has gotten tweaks that fix it's greater flaws.

[@0ldfan480]

@@SoulSoBreezy Appreciate the response.

[@0ldfan480]

@@UltimateGamerCC I really hope so. I miss the mailbox of gold feeling.

[@Sourlife.]

did i understand it right, you will have synergies with Thaumarturgy and Jewelcrafting?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Yes

[@Sourlife.]

@@SoulSoBreezy which jewelcrafting specialisation has the biggest synergies with thaumarturgy in your opinion?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

That's a JC question to be answered more in depth later

[@ShadowsOfThePast]

​@@Sourlife.Probably the one that makes the gems using the blasphemite or the socket things.

[@Sourlife.]

@@ShadowsOfThePast yeah, but as you know, making mistakes while using knowledge points sucks hard :D that's why I need to know precisely. I never played JC maybe thats why i ask noob questions :D

[@EternalJunim]

Anyone can please tell me where i get the flask recipies?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

learned through research

[@jefffane1731]

Question about Concentration: is it 1000/1000 per Character or is it per Specialization?

[@SoulSoBreezy]

Per profession edit: and per character. concentration isn't shared or a warband thing

[@jefffane1731]

@@SoulSoBreezy Thx for the clarification Soul. I worded it poorly. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't shooting myself in the foot getting double crafting on an alt.

[@scramman]

So a character with 2 professions will have to share the concentration? ​@SoulSoBreezy

[@SoulSoBreezy]

No, there's no sharing of concentration of any sort.

[@galloviking4766]

Some funny guy has a bot sniping the multicraft alchemy rods and reselling them at an absurd price.

[@edmondprice6215]

So many items to memorize....

[@Th3R4junC4jun]

As someone who's leveling alchemy. It's good awful you can't just learn recipes you have to experiment and I'm not on a 12 failed experiment streak and you have a 10 minute debuff and cannot do another. It's absolutely TRASH.

[@glaucoalves1090]

hehe, Michaelbloom, hehe

[@bkstaxman]

Can anyone explain to me the reasoning behind (or a way to get around) failing an alchemy experimentation, exploding, and having to wait out the cooldown before you can do anything again? Why is this a mechanic that is in the game at all and why would Blizzard think it's a good thing to add? I have been an alchemy enjoyer on a ton of my alts, I used to like it as a profession, but this one mechanic has made me want to scrap it all and never take alchemy again in their convoluted post-DF systems. As far as I can tell there is not a single other profession that has to deal with this kind of roadblock. Gathering a ton of reagents, going back to the main expansion city, finding the alchemy crafting bench, just to explode 1 or 2 experiments in and be completely shut out of doing what you wanted to do in your crafting time? This completely ruins the profession's fun to me...ON TOP of having to "experiment" in the first place and hope for RNG to learn your recipes, instead of being able to learn recipes from a trainer like every other profession! It's needlessly frustrating, and I just want to know what they were thinking.

[@noteda6361]

The explosion blocks you only from further experimenting, not from crafting other stuff