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Alchemical Catalyst

Item Level 100

"Catalyzes reactions that would otherwise take thousands of years, making it essential to the Alchemy of Draenor."
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Max Stack: 200

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Comment by mrdiablo

Click on the crates in front of the alchemy lab to receive the Alchemical Catalyst from the work orders on your garrison. I received 5 of them. Also got one Sorcerous Fire.

Comment by Tatahe

Why this only benefits Elixir Master & are totally uselees for potion & transmutation masters? Or does Elixir Master not working with WoD flasks/elixirs?

Comment by TriXaM

I can't help but think these should have been soulbound... My auction house is already flooded with them and it feels like the work orders for the Alchemy Lab are worthless at the moment. Even the Alchemist daily cooldown at lvl 100 which creates 10 of them is questionable. At the cost of 2 Frostweed and 1 Blackrock Ore per Alchemical Catalyst, the mat cost on my realm is around the 15g mark, yet the Alchemical Catalyst itself is selling for around 10-11g.

I'm considering scrapping my Alchemy Lab and just buying Alchemical Catalyst off the AH. Shame, can't help but feel Alchemists are hard done by when it comes to their special WoD resource. If there was concern about the volume of them needed for mass-producing flasks, then maybe remove the 'soulbound' attribute in a future patch, but not straight off the bat, imho.

Comment by ReddOrion

As of this moment, Alchemical Catalysts appear to be soulbound. Since the Alchemical Catalyst is the product of the Alchemy Building work order, this is bad news for anyone without the Alchemy profession. The Catalysts are only used for Greater Flasks and the WoD level Philosopher's Stone.

This will make the Greater Flasks more valuable both on the AH as well as in Guilds. Alchemists will be in greater demand once Raids open.

Comment by Photekz

So apparently at 700 skill we have 3 charges to craft this so you can earn up to 30 every day.

edit: disregard this, 1 charge every 24 hour up to a maximum of 3.

Comment by Velk1

As of 11/23/2014 it appears these are no longer Soulbound. I assume its a bug but will update if its intended

Comment by masteroftheforce

In WOD, the Alchemy profession should definitely be avoided in its current state. This Catalyst item is not even worth building the profession building. It only lets you create bigger flasks which are sold for no money on the AH. Not even a craftable/upgradable item is present for Alchemy. The Alchemy trinket should be upgraded just like the other crafting gear

Comment by SolidSnack

So I assume there are no chemists/chemical engineers here who question the fact catalysts gets consumed in the recipes (reactions)? Catalysts speed up reactions without being used up, scientifically speaking.
Though it could be like petroleum, where catalysts get dirty or clogged with byproducts and require cleaning, but they're still not consumed.

Comment by vardebedian

Looks like they just rebranded it as uncommon quality (green text) down from rare (blue). Presumably because it's easy to get tons of them.

Comment by Lupin3rd

am i wrong or now this is no more bop?

Comment by toggie

As of 6.1 patch, it will be used to transmute Savage Blood. Now it's worth building alchemist in our garrisons.

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