Alchemy

The Reader Meetup details you've been waiting for

The convention starts this Friday, but the real party begins Thursday night. The BlizzCon 2011 WoW Insider Reader Meetup, cohosted by Wowhead and livecast by Gamebreaker.tv, starts at 5 p.m. Pacific at the Anabella Hotel patio. Yes, Dan, we know that,

"A True Warrior Forges His Own Axe"

Feels free fer ta skip this one. Is just me sortin' out where we stands and what be missin', specialies with all these young up-and-comin' team members. Plus, is gives me an excuse fer ta markup some HTML tablicicousness, what I enjoy 'cause

Alchemy Guide | Ten Ton Hammer

The ultimate World of Warcraft Alchemy Guide. Our ultimate World of Warcraft Alchemy Guide helps you become a Master of Potions and Brewing, giving you a run down of everything you'd need to know to make the most of your Alchemy Profession.

Meet the Bloggers: Basil "Euripides" Berntsen

About the Bloggers introduces you to the people behind WoW Insider. You can find articles on more WI staffers in earlier About the Bloggers entries. What do you do for WoW Insider? I write Gold Capped. I used to write Time is Money and Insider

Around Azeroth: I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay

Frequent screenshotter and rare female dwarf Arugadh of The Seekers of Truth on Farstriders (US-A) writes, "An unfortunate accident with a gnomish teleporter left me cowed. Another failed experiment in alchemy transformed my friend Ylspyth into

Gold Capped: How do I make money from alchemy?

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Fox Van Allen and Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the auction house. Email Fox with your questions, or complain to him via the twetbox @foxvanallen social

To celebrate the upcoming 4.2....

It's time for another round of "Help me pick which alt to level." I know you've all seen this before, but this is my first time asking! I have a weekend with my kids away at Grandma's house and with the exception of Al'Akir,

Breakfast Topic: Are you a confirmed craftaholic?

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider's pages. In my non-WoW life, I am the complete opposite of mechanically inclined. This caused my dad many problems as I was

Players should see content

But how much?For $15 a month you have access to all content in WoW. With a catch. There are barriers. These take three general forms: time, skill, and organization.TimeTime barriers mean needing more time for content than you have. These can take

4.1 Patch Notes

Blizzard's at it again. They just posted the 4.1 patch notes on Friday, and made changes yesterday. Now they've made some even more drastic changes as of this morning in maintenance. Good luck figuring these out, my friends.See updated patch

School is in Session!

Tonight's topic is everybody's favorite vile school for Necromancy, Scholomance!Had a lot of mindless stuff to do at work today, so my mind was free to wander. Started thinking about one of my characters (You know you play wow too much when

Cataclysm hotfixes for Feb. 14

Blizzard has released the newest hotfixes, already on servers now. Hope you all took advantage of Whiptail-a-palooza while you had the chance. Here are your hotfixes for February 14, 2011: General Players who are exalted with 40 factions are

Living Elements alchemy transmute proc changed

Patch 4.0.6 brought about an undocumented change to the way transmutation specialized alchemists receive their bonus from the Cataclysm Transmute: Living Elements. Previously, if you were successful with a proc, you would be granted another 13-16 of

Ink traders come to Stormwind, Orgrimmar in patch 4.0.6

Those of us who make Darkmoon decks will no longer have to park our scribes in Dalaran to access the ink trader there, because patch 4.0.6 will bring with it the addition of ink traders in Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Now, aside from changing an alchemist's

Miscellaneous 4.0.6 Patch Notes

I'm going to try to cut this one down a bit to just what I feel are the important parts. Again, I'll add my own commentary in italics, but the meat of this post is poached from the full notes that I nabbed from the Zam feed. If you want to

4.0.6 Review

MMO Champion is reporting that patch 4.0.6 will be released tomorrow. Since this patch was released piece by piece over a fairly long time I thought it might be a good idea to go through and remind everyone what is included. Both the gear list and the

Flash Heal: Alchemy & Tailoring Quick Tips

We’ve discussed many consumables and professions as they relate to healing and raiding, so here’s a few more. While I considered these non performance tips, they still come in handy and can help you reach your raiding goals. Leveling crafting

So I am procrastinating...

I like having all professions between all my alts on my main server but I have an issue, I really dislike playing my rogue and probably will not level her further, I may even end up xferring her off server to make room though not for ages if I do. 

The woes of an altoholic

Hey all,I just managed to get my 3rd character to 85 last night.  So far I have a 85 warrior (Gungrir on Elune server), 85 DK (Neversor on Elune), and now 85 hunter (Tentacleface on Elune).  Gungrir is my main, but

Gold Capped: Alchemy in Cataclysm

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make money on the auction house, and Insider Trader, which is all about professions. Email Basil (new address is basil@wowinsider.com;

Alchemy question

I just began doing more transmutes due to trying to gather all the mats for the Vial of Sands recipe. My question is: what's up with the random cooldown times? The other day I started and had a 4 hour cd, then 7 hours, then it went to 24 hours. After

The Daily Quest: Trinkets, yes!

WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Oh, trinkets. Over the course of Wrath of the Lich King, trinkets were the bane of my existence. They never seemed

Which paths to take in professions

So I'm levelling alchemy on my wonderful main hunter (with mats from my alts, because he's alch/engi) and although I'm not nearly high enough to pick a path, I'm confused about what I should do. Normally, I follow the profession guides

Life at 85, now what....

Its now been just slightly over a month since since reactivated my WoW account for Cataclysm. Since then have had to play ALLOT of catchup on class and talent changes of some of the lvl 80 classes I played back in WotLK and re-learn how to play those

Bank alt professions? And spiffy clothes!

Hello, ladies and gents. I come to you with an inquiry.I started leveling my bank alt, a Rogue, because she's kinda-sorta fun in the button-mashy way and because I'd like to be able to ride the sparklepony that's in her bank. Since she's

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