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Training Alchemist is to obtain reagents, prepare them and brew them. You then have the option of keeping the potions for future use, or selling them to lower cost of experience, or to look for profit.
# Making potions requires [[Reagents]], which may be obtained through training other [[professions]] or purchased from the [[Potion Reagents|Reagents shop]]
# It is always much faster to purchase reagents from the shop, with a higher cost than gathering them.
# 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.▼
# A reasonable 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 [[Potion Reagents 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.''
# Preparations are brewed into [[Potions]] at the [[Standard Potion Station]], requiring one preparation and one [[Bottle|bottle]] 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.▼
▲# Reagents are turned into [[
▲# Preparations are brewed into [[
# 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.
=== Potions Per Hour ===
[[File:Venture small icon.png|frameless|width=20x20]] For 2 [[Reagents|Reagent]] potions, it is faster to buy from the [[Potion Reagents]] shop every trip than it is to buy from the reagents and bank them before use. Banking all of your reagents can let you
* Making use of [[Ebsworth]] ([[Apothecary]] shop) for selling potions and the [[Potion Reagents]] shop for buying [[Reagents]], you can craft approx 224 potions per hour.
* Banking the crafted potions can net you 228 potions per hour, but you have to have the money for this as buying reagents is expensive.
== Levels 0 - 20 ==
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=== Points to consider ===
* There is a balance between saving time by banking less frequently and purchasing the required reagents for each potion from the [[Potion Reagents|Potion Reagents shop]] on the [[Town Square]] in [[Hopeport]]. For example, if making a potion would take one full inventory and 2 extra potions to reach the next level,
* The first time a potion is crafted, it will grant an experience bonus as the potion gets added to the [[album]].
* Time taken takes into account: Running to Potion Reagents, buying the reagents, running to make all the potions, selling them at Ebsworth and repeating if necessary.
* Time cost is based on; Running from [[Ebsworth]] to the [[Potion Reagents|Potion Reagents shop]], buying, running back to make potions, selling to [[Ebsworth]], which is slightly different for some potions (follow strategy below).
=== Fast strategy ===
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The fastest experience in Alchemist is always earned by making the highest level potion available to the player, however this often comes with a steep cost.
For each trip, the reagents are bought from the reagents shop, made into potions, and then either kept by depositing them in the Potions Bank or sold to
It takes 19 trips for this reach level 20.
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