Elixir grinding questionFollow

1. My understanding of Discoveries is that any Outland potion, elixir, flask or transmute has a chance to result in a Discovery. Everything I've seen on this forum suggests that it's an entirely random occurrence.

2. A good rule of thumb for all tradeskills is that the easier something is for you to do, the harder it is for you to profit from it. For example, if you spend a session mass-producing Adept's Elixir (or any other) and one other person on your server decides to do the same that night, then I'm going to be able to buy up a bunch of Adept's for <2g each that week (which'll make me rather happy, so I won't call this wrong at all!).

We're serious when we keep repeating "You have to know your own server economy if you want to make a profit from your profession." You have to look not only at the going market price but have some idea what the market volume is as well, for the mats as well as the craftable. For example, what is your plan if you crank out 200 pots/elixirs and sell them at a not-too-discounted price, but you log on the next day to try grinding again only to find the price of Felweed has doubled thanks to your mass consumption of raw mats? These things happen.

I wish you luck in however you choose to proceed, but keep in mind the basic WoW principle that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

I'm an elixer master and I've discovered three flasks to date and every one of them was via grinding super mana pots.

I've also discovered 4-5 xmutes and all of them were doing earth to water each day (albeit, that's about the only xmute I ever do).

I'm not aware of any elixers or pots that can only be found due to doing combines - I think its only flasks?

I grind mana pots due to how easy the mats are to farm and the fact that they've got a rather nice sell price on my server (around 15g for a stack of 5).