Hi.
Today after the “service” was completed, I decided to work on alchemy. I am at 55/100 via thaumaturgy, and decided it was time to learn some new recipes via wild experimentation.
I think I am bugged. I have failed 90% of the time (blown up), giving me a debuff that I have to wait out. After waiting it out, I immediately fail and blow up again. The two times I have “succeeded”, I did not learn a new recipe, nor did I gain a potion in my inventory that i did not already know how to make.
I decided to try using some of my precious acuity and try Meticulous Experimentation. It also failed, and I gained nothing.
This is after alchemy was “fixed” or “improved”?
Is there literally ANYTHING today’s maintenance didn’t break?
Update: I’m also getting the 15 minute debuff after each failure, which is contrary to the changes that were supposed to be live.
Also, since my OP I have done two more attempts at wild experimentation. The first “succeeded” in that I did not blow up… but I also did not learn anything and gained one low quality potion of a sort I already knew how to make. Today in approximately 17 attempts, I have learned zero new recipes, and blown up like 14 times. This can’t be intended.
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Since the “updates”… i have had zero successes at all.
This is far and away the worst design for a single profession in WoW history.
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This has a 90% or higher failure rate for me. This feels like sh*t. I cant, and havent learned a single recipe. meanwhile i have everything for engineering unlocked. Completely shut down by alchemy though. I have like 10 recipes learned total. Most, if not all, are from learning the profession from the trainer.
Edit: The 1 or two times experimentation hasnt resulted in a catastrophe, i didnt even learn a recipe.
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Yup. After several more failures today, I dropped alchemy and became a double-gatherer. Not worth my in-game time to sit there and fail and learn nothing when i can profit selling materials for the other professions for the same time i’d spent blown up.
my main has not had a successful wild experimentation in over a week – I’ve quit. My alt that just started seems to be having normal success… there’s a bug here with some characters. Most importantly --NEEDS Fixing. A generous amount of herbs and recipes for my wasted time would also be appropriate.
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Agreed! Wild Experiment is just a waste of materials.
Meticulous Experimentation seems to be working. >.<
EDIT: I just had my first non-Explosion (in more than a week) Wild Experiment. Nothing learned, but no boom.
have used wild experimentation over 40 times in a row failed every time tried different herbs and even rank 3 herbs did not matter whoever is in charge of this is doing an awful job, when i look at all of the professions problems it’s like they looked at dragon flight and said how can we make this much much worse