Alchemy Overview Guide: Perks, Gold-Making, and Changes for MoP Classic
Learning Alchemy in Mists of Pandaria Classic
In MoP Classic, you can train Alchemy all the way to 600 in your faction’s main city—Stormwind City for Alliance, or Orgrimmar for Horde. You can also find a Zen Master Alchemist trainer in Paw-don Village, Jade Forest.
Level requirement: You must be at least level 80 to train as a Zen Master Alchemist.
Trainer recipes: Only two recipes are available directly from trainers at level 500; all other recipes are learned through discoveries.
Tip: There’s limited benefit to leveling Alchemy above 500 before the expansion launch, as crafting level 500 potions is required for discoveries, and these become green (less effective for skill-ups) by 525.
Alliance Trainer
Name: Lilyssia Nightbreeze
Location: Stormwind City
Horde Trainer
Name: Yelmak
Location: Orgrimmar
Why Choose Alchemy in MoP Classic?
Alchemy remains a highly valuable profession with excellent perks and useful craftables:
Alchemy Profession Perks
Mixology: Passively increases the effect of your Elixirs and Flasks, saving gold and providing flexibility by allowing easy swapping of flasks.
Alchemist’s Flask: A reusable flask unique to alchemists that increases your highest stat (Agility, Strength, or Intellect) by 320 for 2 hours and counts as both a Battle and Guardian elixir. Not consumed on use and works in arenas.
Zen Alchemist Stone: A powerful trinket that also acts as an Alchemist Stone for transmutes, giving +809 Mastery and boosting healing/mana potion effects by 40%. It has a proc chance to increase your primary stat by 4353 for 15 seconds. Requires level 85 and Alchemy 500.
Great Alchemy Craftables in MoP Classic
Potion of Luck: Lasts 20 minutes and grants a chance to find Plundered Treasure from monsters, boosting your farming and questing efficiency.
Flask of the Warm Sun: A highly sought-after flask for raid and PvP content.
Darkwater Potion: Combines Swiftness and Swim Speed potions into one, with a fun costume effect.
Recipe: Venerable Potion of Invisibility: New in MoP Classic, purchasable at 550 Alchemy from the Shado-Pan Quartermaster. It’s an updated version of the older invisibility potion.
Making Gold with Alchemy in MoP Classic
Alchemy is a lucrative profession, especially if you have multiple alts specializing in different areas.
Key Transmutation: Transmute: Living Steel requires 6 Trillium Bars and has a daily cooldown, making it a prime gold-making transmute.
Consumables: Potions, flasks, and other consumables are in high demand, especially early in the expansion and right after raid resets.
Specialize your alchemist in Potions, Transmutations, or Elixirs to maximize your gold-making potential.
Tip: Don’t forget materials have a time cost, so price your crafted goods accordingly.
Alchemy Specializations in MoP Classic
Specialization quests have been updated for MoP. If you already chose a specialization before, you won’t need to choose again.
Note: Specialization quests typically change with each expansion’s pre-patch, so respec before the MoP pre-patch if needed.
Potions Master
Increases potion crafting yield by about 20% (subject to RNG).
Quest requires crafting:
20 Master Healing Potions
20 Master Mana Potions
2 Potions of Luck
Transmutations Master
Increases transmute yield by about 20% (strong RNG impact due to daily cooldown).
Ideal for alt characters focusing on daily transmute cooldowns.
Quest requires:
4 Living Steel
Elixir Master
Increases yield for both elixirs and flasks by approximately 20%.
Quest requires:
2 Flask of Winter's Bite
2 Flask of the Earth
2 Flask of the Warm Sun
2 Flask of Spring Blossoms