03-20-2007, 11:56 PM
From my experiance, it does not matter if you transmute primals or might/diamonds. I don't have exact numbers to back it up.
Anybody considering this I strongly recommend elixers. On most servers (and mine for sure) the cost of primals exceed the cost of a might. Unless you get lucky, you are losing money on the transaction. There are a horde of alchemists begging to give away their timer for free. Assuming a nonprocing transmute is worth 0g (it's probably worth less) and the might is worth ~100, and you average 20% extra from specializations, your daily transmute has a value of 20g... minus the time to acquire all those primals (when I did it, it took about 10min a day... Primal fire is high, I'll buy motes this time, Air is cheap I'll buy 3, etc.) and a 10g AH cut. In addition, the market for mights will probably start to subside in the next month or two as people finish their crafted epics/riding crops.
On my server, earth is about 5g and water 25g. Sporegarr is easy to rep up, so even without a specialization you can get as much doing that, if your server is like mine. Since earth is cheaper, its easy to buy a large stack of them and just keep it in your bags until your timer is up. Your spec has an expected value of 5g/day.... so it will take 100 days to pay off your initial investment.
The transmute circle is irrelevent since transmutes share a timer - you would just do the most profitable step over and over again.
What happens if you are the guy in your guild who discovers restoration or fortification? You will really wish you had elixer spec then. If flasks are (conservatively) 50g, it only take a couple to make way more money then you ever could with transmute. And all the extra elixers you are making for your foolish guildies who went transmute (I send an elixer master anything more expensive then major agility) will probably get you the shadow -> water transmute faster then them, ironically.
Anybody considering this I strongly recommend elixers. On most servers (and mine for sure) the cost of primals exceed the cost of a might. Unless you get lucky, you are losing money on the transaction. There are a horde of alchemists begging to give away their timer for free. Assuming a nonprocing transmute is worth 0g (it's probably worth less) and the might is worth ~100, and you average 20% extra from specializations, your daily transmute has a value of 20g... minus the time to acquire all those primals (when I did it, it took about 10min a day... Primal fire is high, I'll buy motes this time, Air is cheap I'll buy 3, etc.) and a 10g AH cut. In addition, the market for mights will probably start to subside in the next month or two as people finish their crafted epics/riding crops.
On my server, earth is about 5g and water 25g. Sporegarr is easy to rep up, so even without a specialization you can get as much doing that, if your server is like mine. Since earth is cheaper, its easy to buy a large stack of them and just keep it in your bags until your timer is up. Your spec has an expected value of 5g/day.... so it will take 100 days to pay off your initial investment.
The transmute circle is irrelevent since transmutes share a timer - you would just do the most profitable step over and over again.
What happens if you are the guy in your guild who discovers restoration or fortification? You will really wish you had elixer spec then. If flasks are (conservatively) 50g, it only take a couple to make way more money then you ever could with transmute. And all the extra elixers you are making for your foolish guildies who went transmute (I send an elixer master anything more expensive then major agility) will probably get you the shadow -> water transmute faster then them, ironically.