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Alchemy Leveling Guide

Posted April 30th, 2007 by Xerin

Ten Ton Hammer's Alchemy Guide

Alchemy 1 - 375 Leveling Guide

Alchemy is one of the cheaper and easiest to level up professions out there. Most potions good for leveling only require two herbs and a vial and herbs are generally very easy to obtain. You can get to 300 without the need of many drop recipes and can generally keep your costs down all the way to 375.

This guide details step by step the fastest and cheapest way to get Alchemy to a skill level of 375. Unlike other guides, we’re not going to list a shopping list, since you won’t always gain a skill gain on a yellow. However, if you’re looking for shopping for a particular item go ahead and guess how many you’ll need to make (say 10) then add 5 more for failures then times that by what’s required to create it. So for instance, a 60 Minor Healing Potions would need 65 Silverleaf, 65 Peacebloom, and 60 Empty Vials to get you to a skill level of sixty.

If speed is a primary concern then you may want to buy your materials off the Auction House. Be warned though, it’s very expensive and it is much better to just get the herbs yourself. However, if you’ve got the money to spare then it shouldn’t be a problem.

Return to our Alchemy Guide for more Alchemy information!

Table of Contents

Apprentice
Journeyman
Expert
Artisan
Master

Skill	Item Name	Reasoning
Apprentice Alchemist [Return to Top]
1-60	Minor Healing Potion 1x Silverleaf 1x Peacebloom 1x Empty Vial	The cheapest possible potion to make with the easiest/cheapest to obtain items. There is no reason not to take advantage of this. Important, SAVE all of these. Seriously! You'll be using them again shortly.
60-75	Lesser Healing Potion 1x Minor Healing Potion 1x Briarthorn 1x Empty Vial	Create fifteen of these then train for Journeyman Alchemy.
Journeyman Alchemist [Return to Top]
75-105	Lesser Healing Potion 1x Minor Healing Potion 1x Briarthorn 1x Empty Vial	After you train to become a Journeyman Alchemist you need to continue making these as you already have the Minor Healing Potion from before, so it's pretty efficent. You may want to put them on the Auction House, lowbies in the BGs like them for their cheapness.
105-110	Elixir of Wisdom 1x Mageroyal 2x Briarthorn 1x Empty Vial	You may not need to do this, you may get lucky with your Lesser Healing Potions and not need to use this. Don't try to force it though, these should be Orange and give you a point on each creation.
110-150	Healing Potion 1x Briarthorn 1x Bruiseweed 1x Leaded Vial	This will take you all the way to expert and these also sell kind of well on the Auction House for lowbies in the bg. When finished, train to become an Expert Alchemist.
Expert Alchemist [Return to Top]
150-155	Strong Troll's Blood 2x Briarthron 2x Bruiseweed 1x Leaded Vial	Not that cost effective, but patches you up until 155 when you can make Greater Healing Potions.
155-195	Greater Healing Potion 1x Kingsblood 1x Liferoot 1x Leaded Vial	Once again healing potions reign supreme.
195-225	Elixir of Greater Defense 1x Wild Steelbloom 1x Goldthorn 1x Leaded Vial	When you reach 225 you'll need to train to become an Artisan Alchemist. You'll keep making these after a little while. Their need of only two herbs, like healing potions, make it a supreme choice.
Artisan Alchemist [Return to Top]
225-235	Elixir of Greater Defense 1x Wild Steelbloom 1x Goldthorn 1x Leaded Vial	Continued from earlier.
235-265	Elixier of Detect Undead 1x Arthas' Tears 1x Crystal Vial	Sadly, these don't sell that well unlike healing potions. However, it only requires ONE herb! One! Arthas' Tears aren't that rare either, bonus.
265-285	Superior Mana Potion 2x Sungrass 2x Blindweed 1x Crystal Vial	These kinda sell, but mana potions have never been that big. Anyway, pretty decent cost for the amount of points you get.
290-300	Major Healing Potions 2x Golden Sansam 1x Mountain Silversage 1x Crystal Vial	Cheap for the 10 points you need. Both this and the previous Major Mana Potion come from recipes or can just be bought from the trainer in Outland. At 300 head to Outland.
Master Alchemist [Return to Top]
300-305	Major Mana Potion 3x Dreamfoil 2x Icecap 1x Crystal Vail	Expensive, but useful for our purposes.
The Burning Crusade
305-315	Elixir of Major Strength 1x Mountain Silversage 1x Felweed 1x Imbued Vial	You just need to get to 315, or Volatile Healing Potions. Golden Sansam is GENERALLY cheaper then Mountain Silversage due to how common Golden Sansam is.
315-330	Volatile Healing Potion 1x Felweed 1x Golden Sansam 1x Imbued Vial	Super cheap and will get you 15 points.
330-340	Super Healing Potion 2x Dreaming Glory 1x Felweed 1x Imbued Vial	The last cheap potion you'll find off your trainer. Enjoy these ten points as it'll be the last of the cost effective leveling.
340-355	Super Mana Potion 2x Netherbloom 1x Felweed 1x Imbued Vial	This recipe is on three vendors that have a slow respawn time. One vendor is in Blade's Edge Mountains and the other two are in the Horde/Alliance Zangarmarsh towns. If you can get it, pretty cheap points. Honestly, if you get the recipe, I'd take it all the way to 370 when it turns grey.
350-375	Transmutes	The cheapest way to get 375 is just transmute your way there. At 364 the Alchemist's Stone is still Orange, so there is a free point there. Since transmutes do you have a HIGH recool time you can make other potions, like at 360 the Fel Mana Potion but it's a drop. Really, most good recipes past 350 are just drops or cooldown vendors. I suggest taking Super Mana Potions as far as possible then transmuting the last five points. However, when you reach 360 you can make all of the Major x Protection Potions and therefore have completed Alchemy. At 365 you get two more potions, but that's it. So your main goal would be to get to 365 (the last two droped recipes) and then just let whatever you make/transmute take you to 375.
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