Alchemist/Guide

Alchemist is one of the first professions you unlock in Hopeport, with part of the tutorial teaching you how to create your first potion. The aim of this guide is to inform players as to the most efficient ways to level up, as well as alternate methods that are more profitable or less intensive. Alchemist is generally a profession that costs slightly more coins to train that the value you get from the potions you produce, however there are exceptions.

All Alchemist training takes place in the Apothecary

Baisc gameplay loop

The basic gameplay loop for training Alchemist to to obtain reagents, prepare them, brew them, and then keep or sell the potions:

1. Making potions requires Reagents, which may be obtained through training other professions or purchased from the Reagents shop. It is always much faster to purchase reagents from the shop, but of course it costs coins. A reasaonable estimate is that it takes 30 seconds to travel from the Apothecary to the Reagents shop, buy an inventory of 24 reagents, and then return to the Apothecary. Reagents can either be immediately used to train alchemy, or deposited into the Reagent Bank if you are stockpiling reagents to make a large batch of potions at once. Note that the reagent shop does not sell each reagents until the player has the Alchemist level to use it.
2. Reagents are turned into Preparations at the Reagent Preparation Station, requiring 2 specific reagents for each type of potion (except 10% Potion Healing, which only has 1). Each preparation takes 5 seconds to make, or 60 seconds for a full inventory of reagents.
3. Preparations are brewed into Potions at the Standard Potion Station, requiring one preparation per potion. Preparations cannot be banked, so brewing should happen immediately after preparing. Each standard potion takes 7.5 seconds to make, or 87 seconds for a full inventory of reagents.
4. Finally the potions that you have made can either be kept by storing them in the Potion Bank, or sold to The Apothecary Shop to recover some of the cost put into buying the reagents.

Combining the time for each step of this process, and adding 10 seconds for moving around the Apothecary, means that it is possible to make approximately 227 standard potions per hour. This number increases to 270 potions per hour if there are already reagents stored in the reagent bank.

Levels 0 - 20

After the tutorial, payers will have 355 Alchemist XP, 105 from making a 10% Potion Healing and 250 from the Album for making the first of that potion, so making each new type of potion is worthwhile to get the album bonus.

Training to level up to 20 takes approximately 1 hour regardless of the potions created, however the cheapest method costs 25  693  and takes 66 minutes:

• Make 5 inventories of 10% Potion Healing to reach level 12, and sell them back to the apothecary shop
  • Each inventory uses 24 Brown Kelp to make 24 potions
• Make 11 inventories of 3 Minute Potion Fear to reach level 19, and sell them back to the apothecary shop
  • Each inventory uses 12 Veined Globeplant and 12 Faded Dandelion to make 12 potions
• Buy one of each ingredients to make one of each other potion up to level 18
  • Brown Kelp
  • Creamy Wallplant
  • White Periwinkle
  • Horn Shell
  • Tangled Pond Weed
  • Mauve Bellplant
  • White Water Lily
  • Wrinkled Starfish
  • Green Hogberries
  • Common Limpet
  • Tad Apple
  • Bulged Haleberries
  • Dull Metallic Tooth
  • Crumbly Rock Scale
  • Plain White Pearl
  • Summerview Grapes
• Make one of each other potion up to level 18 for the album XP bonus, and sell them back to the apothecary shop
  • 20% Potion Healing
  • 5% Potion XP Hopeport
  • +40 Potion Strength Arborae
  • +40 Potion Strength Cryonae
  • +40 Potion Strength Tempestae
  • 5% Potion XP Hopeforest
  • 5% Potion XP Mine
  • 5% Potion XP Crenopolis

An alternative, time-optimised method that is slightly faster but significantly more eXPensive and complicated is:

This method makes full inventories of the highest potion available, but saves a small amount of time on the first inventory by only making 17 instead of 24 potions

Level 20+: Knowledge and Passive training

Upon reaching level 20, Knowledge and Passive training methods and unlocked.

Knowledge is a game mechanic that that build as you perform activities that award XP, and can be spent on a profession to gain experience that scales with the level of the profession. Knowledge can be gained by and skill and spent in any skill, however knowledge is not able to gained until at leat one profession is level 20, and it cannot be spent on a profession until that profession is level 20.

The amount of XP gained by spending knowledge is 25% of the amount needed to level up that profession, or 6.25% for professions above level 200. Making potions awards 1 knowledge point for every 72 potions made (6 inventories, or 3 inventories of 10% healing), so making 288 potions will give 4 points of knowledge for 1 level up of any profession. It can be spent on Alchemist to speed up training, or on another profession which is more annoying or slow to train.

Knowledge can also be spent to unlock passive training activities for Alchemist. These are significantly slower XP than actively making potions, but if a passive training method is started before logging out then the method will continue for up to 24 hours, or until the raw materials run out. It is recommended to always start a passive activity before logging out.

Passive Alchemist activites are of two types:

• Ebsworth Work that is performed at the Reagent Preparation Station, which uses no materials and awards XP and coins, and is therefore always profitable.
• Passive Potion that is performed at the Passive Potion Station, which does require reagents but awards both XP and passive potions in return.

The highest level Alchemist passive acitivity that a player has the Alchchemist level to access will give full experience, however any lower levelled passive activities will only award half experience, rounded down. This is true even for passive activites that have not yet been unlocked by spending knowledge. Therefore it is recommended to always unlock the highest level of passive activity for each profession that the player wishes to train passively.