This idea as presented in an earlier blue post sounded great, but I can’t believe how often they are rewarded. It seems there was never any QA or tuning around this.
Here’s an example, I just turned in some arbitrary kill quest. This unlocked 4 new quests from the quest hub where I turned in. EACH of those 4 new arbitrary quests rewards Northrend Adventuring Supplies.
Haven’t even left Howling Fjord and I have obtained 2 stacks of healing/mana pots, and tons and tons of other random elixirs.
Yet to see how its implemented in later zones.
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i loved that they killed the alchemy market while im over here making thousands of gold via mining. 
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And then the first mob I killed in the area it sent me dropped an item that started another quest that yet again, rewards Northrend Adventuring Supplies. Working as intended? Lol
Yeah look I agree they are over the top, the health potions would have been fine.
In saying that I hope they don’t change it until I’ve wrangled as many potions as possible
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I spent so much time leveling my toon in herb and alchemy to get ready for WOTLK so this is very annoying for me lol thank god I barely care about this game or it’d be a real shame
While we’re at it with this thread, can we also request for fun to be removed?
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apparently the heroic boxes drop random flasks! welp goodby alchemy.
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Yep. WAY overtuned is right. Using private server market data, each box on average gives 40g in consumable value. Heroic boxes give 72g in value with flasks.
Alchemy is dead and I’m not sure how this ever made it past the development team for approval. It’s actually kind of astounding that it did.
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I don’t find it surprising in the least. Gotta expect these kinds of screw ups from people who had nothing to do with the making of the game they are now in charge of.
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Agreed. These things make alchemy largely worthless. Just from doing Borean, Dragonblight and half of Gundrak im carrying around 30ish various elixirs and easily as many runic mana/healing pots.
Gotta tune these down a bit. Maybe replace the elixirs with crafting materials instead. Ores/herbs/skins/enchanting mats. A few eternals rolled at random. Stuff like that.
If this is changed elixir costs will rebound fairly quickly once raiding starts. But it does need changed.
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Personally I wouldn’t mind the frequency of these if it weren’t for the fact that they give so much just as OP said… If they wanted to keep the frequency of these, they should change what drops from them and reduce the quantity… Flasks and stuff are great and all but getting like 6 months worth of flasks just from Borean Tundra alone is destructive to Alchemist’s economy contributions…
Personally I think they should do one of these things:
Reduce the amount of items given by them
Change what they give entirely to stuff like raw crafting mats (i.e ore, leather, herbs, crystalized elements, etc)
Give TBC flasks instead of WotLK flasks (but still reduce the amount given)
Give BoE (or even auto-soulbound) greens and a small chance at a BoE/BoP blue
I dont even have an alchemist but for the sake of those who are, I really do hope they change these cause this is beyond destructive
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I um… i keep vendoring potions to make bag space
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You guys don’t want the supply box. It fills up your bags waaay too fast!
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I don’t even open them most of the time I just leave them closed then open them all at the same time.
If they had cobalt / saronite or other things in em OTHER than just potions then I would be ok with that.
Even having gold in them would be ok due to duel spec / cold weather flying.
Imagine if Netherstorm questing was giving out flasks of Blinding Light, Relentless Assault, Pure Death etc.
My guild bank is set to stock the entire raid for weeks at this point
lol me too. Just hit 71 in Borean, and I got like 40 different kinds of potions,elixirs,foods,drinks,etc…Questin with a guildie so givin her the mana stuff. I find it amusing, but also sucks for alchemists. I realize quests run out eventually, but this is the time of the expansion to make a lot of gold and that is ruined for them.
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Concerns were brought up on the beta. No response though.
I can’t believe there is no blue post on this…
The volume of potions and elixirs we get from this item is insane. And we can get Flasks too with heroic boxes…
Can blizzard gives POs to alchemists in order to change profession?
The amount dropped WAY off sometime this afternoon. Hotfix methinks?
LOL see whut you did there?