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Alchemy (Primary Profession)
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Alchemy is a useful tradeskill for providing healing potions and short-term effects. Because the products it creates are consumable, there is always a need for alchemists' products.

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What Alchemy Creates

Alchemy is used for creating four things:

  1. Potions with immediate effect. (Healing Potions, for example.)
  2. Elixirs are potions with a buff effect. A player can only use one offensive elixir and one defensive elixir at a time. (They are marked as Battle Elixir or Guardian Elixir.)
  3. Flasks are special extra-powerful effects that last for two hours, regardless of if the character dies, and count as both types of elixir.
  4. Certain special tradeskill materials can only be created through the alchemical process of Transmutation.

List of Alchemy products

What Alchemy Requires

Most alchemy recipes require a vial (vendor-bought) and herbs. Because of the high need for herbs to create potions from, it is highly recommended that an alchemist's second profession is Herbalism.

Is Alchemy For Me?

Alchemy is a very broad field that provides effects for anyone. Regardless of your class or playstyle, there will be something you can use from Alchemy. This can be good reason to be an alchemist yourself, or to befriend one in case you need a potion later on.

In terms of making money, alchemy is one of the production tradeskills that can actually be profitable, but the supply and demand of certain potions changes tremendously based on what high-level characters need most at that time. For example, Greater Fire Protection Potions and their ingredients were hot commodities while most raiding guildes were trying to kill Ragnaros. Once guilds moved on beyond Molten Core, GFPP's stopped being nearly as important and their price dropped tremendously. Still, some potions are always useful -- casters will always need Super Mana Potions...at least until a bigger mana potion enters the game!

The benefits of being your own alchemist include the use of the Alchemist's Stone trinket

Trainers

Proficiency Horde Alliance
Apprentice
(to 75)
Journeyman
(to 150)
Expert
(to 225)
Artisan
(to 300)
Master
(to 375)

Notes

  • There is also a friendly, neutral, level 36 Human named Henry Stern that is both an Alchemy and Cooking trainer. Henry is found in the Murder Pens of Razorfen Downs and he teaches the recipes for Mighty Troll's Blood Potion (Skill: Alchemy 180) and Goldthorn Tea (Skill: Cooking 175)
  • In Patch 2.3, Alchemy profession trainers were changed to train up to Artisan level (skill level 300), and any redundant trainers in capitals were changed into simple apprentices without practical function.

Specialization

At level 68, a high-level alchemist has the option of specializing in Potions, Elixirs, or Transmutation. They can only choose one, and a quest must be done for their area of focus.

When you choose your area of focus, there is a chance when producing items of that type that you will produce extras. So for example, if you were making five Super Healing Potions as a potion master, it's likely that one of those combines would produce 2-5 potions rather than just 1. Flasks are classified as Elixirs for masteries.

Alchemy Quests

This is by no means a complete list.

Quests that are just for alchemists: Elixir for the Bladeleafs (Teldrassil, level 8)

Quests that require products from an alchemist:

WoW-professions.com - 1-375 Alchemy Leveling Guide

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