Ah, Alchemy. It was the profession I chose for my very first WoW character back in January 2005. I can still remember the frustration of trying to figure out how the heck to best level my alchemy skill. I wasted a lot of time and gold on it, but even back then I knew it was an awesome skill so I determined to figure out the easiest way to level it.
To begin with you’re going to need some herb, and I don’t mean the kind your brother-in-law sells in plastic baggies. You can either be an herbalist and farm it or you can buy it all from the auction house. Even farming, though, you will still need to spend gold on vials and training costs.
The amount of gold needed is approximately 40 to 50 gold if you farm all of the herbs. If you want to buy everything you need from the auction house expect to spend ALOT. And expect that the herbs you need will not always be there. Because of this I recommend taking the Herbalism skill if you want to be an alchemist.
These are the herbs you will need total to go from 0-300 skill points:
- Peacebloom - 60 (3 stacks)
- Silverleaf - 60 (3 stacks)
- Mageroyal - 20 (1 stacks)
- Briarthorn - 90 (5 stacks)
- Stranglekelp - 50 (3 stacks)
- Bruiseweed - 35 (2 stacks)
- Wild Steelbloom - 10 (1 stacks)
- Kingsblood - 40 (2 stacks)
- Liferoot - 40 (2 stacks)
- Goldthorn - 50 (2 stacks)
- Khadgar’s Whisker - 20 (1 stacks)
- Sungrass - 70 (4 stacks)
- Blindweed - 35 (2 stacks)
- Arthas’ Tears - 25 (2 stacks)
- Golden Sansam - 60 (3 stacks)
- Mountain Silversage - 30 (2 stacks)
Skill Points: 1 to 50
Make 60 minor healing potions. You need 55 skill points for the next step; don’t worry if the minor healing pots don’t get you to 60 skill. Make sure to keep the minor healing potions, however, as you will need them later.
Once you hit 50 talk to the appropriate trainer to become Journeyman Alchemist. You have to be level 10 to become Journeyman Alchemist.
Skill Points: 50 to 125
The minor healing potions made earlier are a component of lesser healing potions. You now want to use them to make lesser healing potions to get to 110 skill points. If you don’t reach 110, make elixirs of wisdom until you do.
At 110 train the healing potion recipe; make those until you hit 125 skill points. Then talk to the appropriate trainer to become Expert Alchemist. You have to be level 20 to become Expert Alchemist.
Skill Points: 125 to 200
Continue making healing potions until you reach 140 skill points. Then make lesser mana potions to get to 155, greater healing potions to get to 185 and elixirs of agility to get to 200.
Once you reach 200 skill points talk to the appropriate trainer to become Artisan Alchemist. You have to be level 35 to become Artisan Alchemist.
Skill Points: 200 to 265
Make some more elixirs of agility to get to 210. Make elixirs of greater defense until 215 and then make superior healing potions until 230. Make elixirs of detect undead to get to 250 and elixir of greater agility to get to 265.
Skill Points: 265 to 300
Although you can get to 300 using the elixir of detect demon recipe, the gromsblood needed is expensive when bought from the auction house. If you are an herbalist and are able to farm the gromsblood, price won’t matter and the elixir of demon detect may be the way to go. Otherwise you should use vendor-obtained recipe’s to get from 265 to 300 skill points.
The easiest recipes to use for training are superior mana potions to get to 285 skill points and major healing potions to get to 300. You can obtain the superior mana potion recipe from Ulthir in Darnassus or Algernon in Undercity and the major healing potion recipe from Evie Whirlbrew in Everlook.
For a complete listing of all Horde and Alliance Alchemy profession trainers, check this Allakhazam guide.
I also highly recommend using the Gatherer mod, which will allow you to track all the herb nodes you encounter and then display them on your map.
First Posted on: May 2nd, 2007 by Fortuente No Comments »
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