Alchemy Epic Gem Xmutes

#0 - Oct. 18, 2010, 11:58 a.m.
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Hello all,

I have had a ticket open regarding my epic gem xmute cooldown in lieu of 4.0.1, for about 4 days now. It seems that the transmute is on a random CD, and I was surprised to log into the general forums tonight and find a topic about it.

Someone stated that the CD resets at midnight server time, and after some thought, this seems to make sense regarding what I am experiencing. However, when I went to verify this via blue post, I cannot find anything.

I am also wondering, is this intentional? If so, this means that the CD actually went up by 4 hours. I read a post on MMO champion that said the CD had been removed on the Beta realms, and that the change was expected to happen with 4.0.1, but once again I can't find any blue posts regarding this.

Is what has been happening a bug? Is the CD being removed? I would patiently wait for an answer via in game ticket, but mine says 'this ticket has been escalated' for a few days, and I fear that I won't get a response any time soon.

I would like an answer, simply because I spent some time prior to 4.0.1 farming up mats to produce epic gems for 4.0.1 release, hoping to make a little more profit than usual with epic gem sales. However, this has been ultimately deterred thus far, and I am getting less from epic gem xmutes than I was prior to 4.0.1, and with cata approaching, I am losing opportunity to make gold via this profession.
#2 - Oct. 18, 2010, noon
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A standard reset time is exactly what happened, so depending on when you do your transmute, your cooldown time is going to vary based on length of time till the reset.

And yes, this was intended, although it was inadvertently left out of the patch notes, we got confirmation on this just last week.