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One thing my Mage does every day that I can get online is check cooldowns on the various transmutes I'm capable of doing:

• Can I Make [Shadowcloth]?
• Can I Make [Spellcloth]?
• How About [Primal Mooncloth]?
• What Alchemy Transmute Shall I Do Today?

As a Shadowcloth spec'd tailor, I get 2 Shadowcloth every 4 days, but only 1 of the Spellcloth and Mooncloth. I've pondered looking for a Spellcloth/Mooncloth spec'd tailor to tip in order to get 2 cloth for my mats, but I haven't yet run across anyone I could make an ongoing deal with and decided not to waste my time advertising on the Trade line since I don't hang out in cities very often.

Instead, I decided to use my cooldowns whenever they come up, whether I'm specialized or not. I then collect the cloths created and do occasional trades with guildmates who are gearing up, generally trading materials for cloth and thus stocking myself up for more transmutes over the following weeks.

Alchemy As A Route To Materials

I use my Alchemy Primal transmutes every day, generally changing Primal Water into Primal Air, or Primal Air into Primal Fire, keeping the Primal Fires stocked for the two different tailoring cloths I transmute every four days. Since I'm a Transmute Spec'd Alchemist, sometimes, on a rare occasion, I get extra Primals from my transmutes, but it's not very often.

In terms of extra transmutes thanks to my specialization, the best I've gotten was when one Primal Air turned into FIVE Primal Fire. I liked that one, but haven't seen a repeat that nice.

Transmutes For Primal Earth

Primal Earth, at least on my server, is one of the most low-value Primals around. Cheap cheap cheap to buy compared to other primals like Air, Water, and Fire.

But, in all of my Transmute discoveries, I haven't discovered any useful transmute for using up Primal Earth (and sorry, Earth to Life doesn't cut it), so I finally turned to WoWWiki and looked up their list of all the Transmutes available, and found this one:

[Recipe: Transmute Primal Earth to Water]

Niiice transmute! Primal Earth is very cheap on my server, whereas Primal Water is a decent mid-range primal. Sure, I'd love to have Earth to Fire, but that's just a dream...

At any rate, turns out it's a reputation reward for attaining Revered with the Sporeggar faction. When I looked at my reputation chart, I was barely into Friendly. Blarg. So, I headed to Zangarmarsh to grind on some Bog Lords.

Bog Lords, Friendly To Honored

I'm not much of a reputation-mob grinder, I get bored quickly, so it took me 3-4 sessions of clearing out the Bog Lords to get from Friendly to Honored, probably playing about 20 minutes each time over a day or two. I kept reminding myself that the [Bog Lord Tendril] and [Unidentified Plant Parts] were turn-ins I'd be able to use with up-and-coming toons for their own Sporeggar and Cenarion Expedition rep, but that would only hold me for so long.

Sanguine Hibiscus, Honored to Revered

After deciding I'd rather leverage my money than my time, I went to the Auction House and kept an eye out for Sanguine Hibiscus that were listed at a reasonable price (which looks to be around 1g each and below at this moment, but I didn't write it down at the time).

I lucked into a stack of 250 that was up for 300g and despite it being on the expensive side, the fact that I could turn them all in and get from Honored to Revered right away was worth it to me. I believe that buying out annoyance via small sales efforts every day (to keep the cash flowing) is well worth the cost when I do it.

And there we are, Revered with Sporeggar and after flitting around on my mount for a while in Zangarmarsh, I had the 25 [Glowcap] I needed in order to buy the Transmute recipe.

[Recipe: Transmute Primal Earth to Water] - what a great addition to my repertoire!

Related posts:

1. Discovery! Transmute Primal Earth to Life
2. Transmute Cooldown Reminder: Group Calendar
3. Northrend Alchemy Discoveries