Alchemy

Alchemy

Alchemy is one of the easier crafting professions to pick up and learn. If you want to be self-sufficient, pair Alchemy with Herbalism so that you can gather your own materials. The main components to Alchemy are herbs and vials. Other items are required for specific creations, but for the most part it’s herbs and vials.

Alchemists also learn how to transmute certain items into other items. This ability often involves changing element-based items (such as Primals and Eternals) but also covers meta gems and certain ores. A Philosopher’s Stone (a trinket created through Alchemy) is required for transmuting items. Transmuting an item sometimes leads to the discovery of a new recipe.

PRACTICING ALCHEMY

Alchemists don’t need to be in a special place or to have a speci­fic item in their inventory to do most of their work; they just need their herbs and purchasable vials. Good Alchemists carry spare vials around if they plan on making any new potions out in the field. More extensive creations (like elixirs and flasks) are better to do in town, where you can be certain to have what you need.

ALCHEMY SPECIALTIES

When you reach level 68 and have an Alchemy skill of at least 325, you are given the opportunity to complete a quest that allows you to select an Alchemy specialization. Your choices are Potion Mastery, Elixir Mastery, and Transmutation Mastery.

Potion Mastery and Elixir Mastery work the same way. When you create a potion or an elixir (depending on your specialty), there is a chance you will create additional potions or elixirs of the same type with the same number of reagents. Transmutation Mastery does the same for materials that are created by any recipe tagged as a Transmute.

When you transmute any item, there is a chance you will create an additional item at no additional reagent cost. If you wish to change your specialization at any time, speak with the NPC who granted you the ability, then speak with one of the other specialists. Keep in mind that there is a cost associated with dropping a specialization.

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MAKING MONEY AS AN ALCHEMIST

Healing and mana potions are constant points of sales because people go through them at a considerable pace. Later on, you start to see an expanding market for elixirs and their longer-term buffs. In the late game, flasks become important as well. These products are very expensive, but their effects are the strongest and they last through death (making them essential tools for raiders focusing on new content or very difficult dungeon runs).

DRAENOR ALCHEMY

Alchemy in Draenor works much differently than it does on Azeroth. Your primary ingredient for creating any flasks or potions is Alchemical Catalyst. This item can be created through a daily cooldown, but it can also be created via Work Orders processed at the Alchemy Lab. Thus, if you have both the Alchemy Lab, and Alchemy trained as a Profession, you’ll be able to craft recipes much faster—because you’ll be generating Alchemical Catalyst much more quickly.

Recipes learned in Draenor can be learned and created at skill level 1. However, there are also other methods of leveling Alchemy quickly while on Draenor. As you quest and complete content, you may find various Alchemy items that can be combined and turned in to your Garrison in exchange for Garrison Resources. These items will also grant you skill points when they are turned in.

Potion creation has been greatly simplified. All potions require Crescent Oil, created from a fish commonly found all over Draenor, as well as 1-3 various other Draenor resources, including ore, meat, and fish.

There are now two levels of flasks you can create. For basic flasks, you will need Alchemical Catalyst, as well as Draenor herbs. To create Greater flasks, you will need more Alchemical Catalyst, 5 of the basic level flasks, and a Sorcerous element. The Sorcerous elements, Fire, Water, Earth and Air, are magical byproducts of various professions. When you craft an item, you have a chance of also creating a Sorcerous element. Different professions create different elements.

Alchemy Trinket

Alchemy Flasks

Alchemy Potions

Alchemy Transmutes