If you don't have to do the appropriate quest, would it be cheaper to do the potion mastery quest, then pay 100g to swap to transmute instead of having to dump 4 mights?

Thats what I've heard yeah 2.1 Alchemy

That is, you can do this on the PTR, I haven't seen any confirmation that this is going live. I'd be very surprised if they made it that cheap and simple.

As for my transmutes, I've done ten and I've seen one proc (2x).

Y'know, it occurs to me that there's another way to make a little money off of Mights. If people really are taking Mights they already have and trading them for the mats rather than doing the transmute, then you don't even need to be an alchemist to profit it from it. If Mights sell for less than the constituent mats, just buy a Might, trade it for 5 primals, and sell those.

The market should eventually correct for this, and it won't work on every server economy, but hey it's worth a shot.

Per xmute, Water>air is more profitable. But you get most of the profit from water > air without xmute spec. A proc is worth ~35g on my server. A Might proc is worth 100g on my server. Of course, the base xmute of might currently loses money anyway.

Thus, I just sell my xmute for free or really cheap. If someone spams "selling primal might xmute, 5g" I just spam it for 1g. I get 3 to 5 tells sometimes, and -- trade mights for the more valuable primals without xmuting. Profit!

Xmute water-> air.

Buy mights on the open market rather than transmuting them.

Trade the purchased mights for the (more valuable) primals.

Profit coming *and* going.

My alchemy alt isn't yet high enough to specialize, alas. Even so, prices for Might is 3-4g above the price of the components.

Arcanite bars, however, are solidly 10-15g above the buyout price of the thorium and crystal, so until I finish grinding Sporeggar rep, that's where I'll be spending my cooldown on.

Now that I think about it, damn, I've got two alts not doing anything who are level 35-37. Off to pickup alchemy (and an extra 20-30g/day)