WoW Alchemy Guide

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Alchemy is a great skill to have but realistically it SLOWS your LEVELING because you have to run around collecting herbs with Herbalism. I still recommend doing Alchemy but if you want to level decently while doing it you are going to DEFINITELY WANT TO SEE THIS GUIDE first to make sure you’ll have enough GOLD to BUY as many HERBS as you can on the Auction House.

Alchemy is a very important part of high end PvP and raid content. Almost everyone has the pots that they want for any important confrontation with either a raid boss or a world PvP target. You can either be a supplier with lvl 375 alchemy, a beggar who dumps tons of gold on the Auction House to get their daily fix, or a guild leach who is always getting discount pots from the guild alchemist. If you're here, you've probably already decided to choose the former. So, in light of such independence, it is easier than it may seem to level alchemy to 375. I strong recommend leveling Herbalism as well, which I provide a detailed Herbalism guide with maps for levels 1-375.

Below is just one popular way to level quickly to 375 in alchemy. The materials are based on a best case, unrealistic scenario that you level on each craft. This won't happen, so make sure you are ready to buy extras of everything before you get started. Good luck!

* Save at least 60 Minor Healing Potions for crafting the Lesser Healing Potions

Apprentice & Journeyman Alchemy
Levels Craft Peacebloom Silverleaf Empty Vials Briathorn Bruiseweed Leaded Vials
1-55 60 Minor Healing Potions* 60 60 60      
55-110 60 Lesser Healing Potions       60    
110-140 30 Healing Potions       30 30 30
  Totals: 60 60 60 90 30 30
Expert Alchemy
Levels Craft Mageroyal Stranglekelp Empty Vials Liferoot Kingsblood Leaded Vials Goldthorn
140-155 15 Lesser Mana Potions 15 15 15        
155-185 30 Greater Healing Potions       30 30 30  
185-210 25 Elixers of Agility   25       25 25
  Totals: 15 40 15 30 30 55 25
Artisan Alchemy 210-265
Levels Craft Wild Steelbloom Goldthorn Leaded Vials Sungrass Khadgar's Whiskers Crystal Vials Arthas' Tears
210-215 5 Elixers of Greater Defense 5 5 5        
215-230 20 Super Healing Potions(turns green at 345) so you may need more       15 15 15  
230-250 20 Elixers of Detect Undead           20 20
250-265 15 Elixers of Greater Agility   15   15   15  
  Totals: 5 20 5 30 15 50 20

* Learn Superior Mana Potion from Algernon in the Undercity or Ulthir in Darnassus.

** Learn Major Healing Potion from Evie Whirlbrew in Everlook (Winterspring)

Artisan Alchemy 265-300
Levels Craft Sungrass Blindweed Crystal Vials Golden Sansam Mountain Silversage
265-280 15 Superior Mana Potions* 30 30 15    
280-300 20 Major Healing Potions**     20 40 20
  Totals: 30 30 35 40 20
Master Alchemy
Levels Craft Golden Sansam Felweed Imbued Vials Ragveil Dreaming Glory Netherbloom Nightmare Vine
300-315 15 Volatile Healing Potions 20 20 20        
315-330 20 Sneaking Potions   20 20 40      
330-350 20 Super Healing Potions   20 20     40  
350-375 25 Major Dreamless Sleep Potions     25   25   25
  Totals: 20 60 85 40 25 40 25

Hope this alchemy guide helped you!


great guide

great guide and probably the fastest and cheapest way to lvl alchemy
switched some because of unreasonable prices for some herbs but leveled alch from 0 to 375 in just a few days
without having to spend a lot of money :)

"Alchemy is a great skill to

"Alchemy is a great skill to have but realistically it SLOWS your LEVELING because you have to run around collecting herbs with Herbalism."

I dont' think this is true except maybe the mountain silversage part, which i just ended up buying some and making other pots to level.

Really great guide :) I

Really great guide :)

I levled herbalism in about 7 hours prior to taking this proff,
I think I spendt less then 50 gold for the herbs missing after leveling herbalism, other then that, the only thing I spendt gold on were at the trainer, and the vials!

SPOT ON! :)

Of course isn't EXACTLY,

Of course isn't EXACTLY, true. It's a sales pitch, and a rather shameless one at that. Notice the link to two gold selling sites underneath the comment.

That said, this happens to be an EXCELLENT guide to power levelling Alchemy, should you reach 70 and want to switch professions...

This guide is awesome i got

This guide is awesome i got from 0 to 375 in 1 day for around 600g :D Thanks alot !!

Too bad all the

Too bad all the advertisments trash a hard copy printout.

Now that is a shamless sales

Now that is a shamless sales pitch... telling people to look at the gold buying sites :P

The Major Healing Potion can

The Major Healing Potion can now be learned at most alchemy trainers

Psh...nice guide if you're

Psh...nice guide if you're looking to power-level alchemy....but it looks like this guide was written by someone who didn't intend to keep alchemy as a main profession throughout the game. I let the process be more organic, meaning I've made almost every potion and elixir in my recipe book at least once. Yeah, I spent a lot of money leveling my alchemy skill, and a lot of time running around the various zones "berry-picking" as it were, but I can happily say I've never needed to buy herbs at AH. (The nice thing about being an herbalist is that I inevitably have extra herbs I can sell off at the Auction House to people not willing to level herbalism in tandem with their alchemy profession.) All I can say is that it sucks to be them, but they keep me in gold so to each her own i guess :-)

I was hoping to find a discussion of higher level specialties (like post 300 alchemy) but I guess I'll keep trolling.

Dryadio- lvl 64 pyromancer/alchemist
Shandris

Dunno if it's just me, but

Dunno if it's just me, but 20 super healing potions got me from 330 to 344, not 350, made an extra 13 and still on 349.

All the mats costed me +/-

All the mats costed me +/- 400g... THATS IT... leveled in 2 hrs :)

tnx a lot mate

Good guide, but learn to

Good guide, but learn to spell "Elixir" not "Elixer".

The guide said these were

The guide said these were the minimums (aka assuming you leveled every time) You will almost definantly need more.

Awsome guide i am lvl 51

Awsome guide i am lvl 51 pally used it to get to 350 now going to transmute primal might till i stop lvling thanks

That's a bit harsh. Its not

That's a bit harsh. Its not like you don't know what he's on about, so really i don't see the point of you picking that out...

Nice guide, helped me a lot! =]

good guide...I was stuck in

good guide...I was stuck in my alchemy, having no red or yellow potions or elixirs to make...let me know where I was to go...All those Na-sayers need to remember its a GUIDE not fact

If you guys are just going

If you guys are just going to bitch instead of giving any feedback which is positive, go the F someplace else!
This entire site has been invaluable to me levelling to 70 and my work on professions/pvp strategy/etc -
my compliments and gratitude to the author/owner of the site & his/her team - thank you ! :)

yea check out the herbalism

yea check out the herbalism guide on this site too if you choose both herb/alch. It's awesome.

Like the bro said ^^^ when levelling herbs i ended up with twice as many mats needed, so even though the skill level was yellow I just used all the herbs up till i had no more left and the skill went gray. ended up like 20 points over what i needed lol.

Doing this saves using more expensive mats to get the next point.

awesome guide ty,

"SLOWS your LEVELING"

"SLOWS your LEVELING"

Please don't write 'guides' assuming people want to powerlevel. Just give us the hard facts please. I'd recommend this guide to others, but it has the usual BS ads for gold making, leveling, etc. So, sorry, cant do it.

dude QQ MOAR jesus, this

dude QQ MOAR jesus, this guide is amazing. Go flounder and slowly level Alchemy your way then momo.

i think it says , 330

i think it says , 330 onwards, make elixirs of detect undead x)

Powerleveling: Its a logical

Powerleveling: Its a logical assumption. Generally people reading guides are building their first toon. And from what I have seen, people are obsessed with leveling to 70 above all else, I have come across many people that hadnt even chosen professions until 70 (many). They made the statement is slows your levelling, which it does, simple as that. With regards to the ads, yes, we all hate them, but unless your all donating to the author to help them pay for their time and hosting etc, you will have to put up with them.

Great guide. Prices for

Great guide. Prices for Briarthorn were terrible on Dath'Remar (23g per stack >_<), so changed some of the early pots, but otherwise an excellent guide.

this sux! becouse of this

this sux! becouse of this #%!#$ i spended allmost 1k to lvl alch! dont belive this mofo for skills... they r orange/green