Sunday, December 12, 2010

[Fishing] Volatile Fire in Hyjal

This amazing new fishing location was shown to me by one of my guildies, and it is an excellent place to farm Volatile Fire. The location is Sulfuron Spire in Mount Hyjal. You will be fishing from Pools of Fire that spawn in any of the lava pools in this area. This area is beginning to be competetive on my realm at least, so farm there while you can!

While you are waiting for the pools to respawn, kill all the level 81 Elites in the area because they also drop greys, greens, and Volatile Fire. They only have 110k hitpoints and are easily killable at level 85.

Finally, if you can't be bothered to kill mobs while you are fishing, by simply fishing into the lava where it is deep enough, you will still find Volatile Fire at a slightly lower drop-rate. 

Happy farming!

::Xalted

Saturday, December 11, 2010

[Alchemy] Transmute: Living Elements

Transmute: Living Elements
4 sec cast1 sec cooldown
Tools: Reagents: Transforms the essence of life into another element.  The exact result is not known ahead of time.

Blizzard has recently changed this Transmute so that you will know what you are getting, depending on which zone you are in. This is an extremely profitable gold making method for Transmute Alchemists because not only will you get 15 of another element, it will proc you additional Volatiles of an unknown element.

The zone Transmutes are as follows:
Mount Hyjal: Volatile Fire
Vashj'ir: Volatile Water
Deepholm: Volatile Earth
Uldum: Volatile Air

Currently the best way to make gold is simply farming and unloading anything you get onto the Auction House, but if you want to start leveling up professions check the prices of all Volatiles, and you will most likely be able to use Transmute: Living Elements to save yourself a lot of gold!