Alchemy illustrious recipes

This is a guide to all of the Alchemy recipes introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm at the Illustrious Grand Master level (450-525, generally).

There are 43 Cataclysm Alchemy recipes known so far: In Cataclysm, almost all Alchemy recipes that are needed to create potions, elixirs, flasks and to perform transmutes are learned through training at a trainer. This accounts for 40 of the recipes. Two more are earned from guild achievements, and the final recipe is acquired via an archaeology item. This contrasts from earlier levels of alchemy when recipes would sometimes be purchased from vendors, earned as reputation rewards, discovered randomly, dropped as Recipe loot items, or earned as quest rewards.

Of note, Transmute: Living Elements differs from previous expansions. Instead of a series of reversible transmutations, such as previously existed between Elemental Essences, Primals and Eternals, there is only this one-way transmute from Volatile Life to the other Volatiles. The Volatile Life is also a component common to all flasks at the illustrious level, replacing the requirement for a lotus such as Black Lotus or Fel Lotus that had existed in previous expansions for PvE raid flasks. Finally, with the introduction of Cataclysm, all recipes use the Crystal Vial. Increasingly difficult recipes do not require the purchase of more expensive variants of vials. This change was also made rectroactively to the recipes from previous levels as well.

Detailed Recipe List
The detailed version of the list includes information about reagents, the color at which recipes turn from orange to other colors, etc. It is presented in tabular form and takes up a lot of space. Users may wish to skip to the simplified recipe list below instead.

Simplified recipe list
The simplified version of the list omits many details such as reagents and the skill when recipes turn yellow, green and gray. Refer to the detailed version above for this extra information.

Trained
Forty recipes are learned from any Alchemy trainer:


 * Draught of War 425
 * Earthen Potion 450
 * Ghost Elixir 450
 * Deathblood Venom 455
 * Elixir of the Naga 455
 * Volcanic Potion 460
 * Potion of Illusion 460
 * Elixir of the Cobra 465
 * Potion of Concentration 465
 * Deepstone Oil 470
 * Mysterious Potion 470
 * Elixir of Deep Earth 475
 * Mighty Rejuvenation Potion 475
 * Elixir of Impossible Accuracy 480
 * Prismatic Elixir 480
 * Mythical Mana Potion 485
 * Potion of the Tol'vir 485
 * 485
 * Elixir of Mighty Speed 490
 * Golemblood Potion 490
 * Elixir of the Master 495
 * Mythical Healing Potion 495
 * Flask of Enhancement 500
 * Flask of Flowing Water 500
 * Flask of Steelskin 500
 * Lifebound Alchemist Stone 500
 * Flask of the Draconic Mind 505
 * Dream Emerald 505
 * Flask of the Winds 510
 * Flask of Titanic Strength 510
 * Ember Topaz 510
 * Demonseye 515
 * Ocean Sapphire 515
 * Amberjewel 520
 * Pyrium Bar 520
 * Big Cauldron of Battle 525
 * Cauldron of Battle 525
 * Potion of Deepholm 525
 * Potion of Treasure Finding 525
 * Inferno Ruby 525
 * Shadowspirit Diamond 525
 * Truegold 525

Guild achievement rewards
Cataclysm introduces Guild achievements, and there are two Alchemy recipes that can be learned:


 * Cauldron of Battle 525 -- reward from the Mix Master guild achievement, which requires a guild to make 1,000 Cataclysm flasks.
 * Big Cauldron of Battle 525 -- reward from the Better Leveling Through Chemistry guild achievement, which requires a guild to make 3,000 Cataclysm flasks.

Archaeology reward

 * Vial of the Sands 525 -- randomly discovered from opening the common-tier Canopic Jar project of Tol'Vir Archaeology.