WoW Alchemy Guide

In World of Warcraft most people who train alchemy will also have the herbalism profession as part of their character.  Having this will allow them to collect their own herbs required for use in Alchemy, however if you choose not to go this route you will need to purchase herbs from the auction house for a fee.  That’s your choice, but I recommend you have herbalism as well.

Learning the Alchemy trade will enable you to create potions of many different kinds, some which give buffs, some to heal and some are more fun rather than anything else.

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Now, first of all you will need to train the basics of alchemy so this can be done via a trainer which can be found in the big cities.  Just ask one of the town guards for directions to them and an icon will appear on your map and mini-map to show you their location.

There are no special items required to train the profession other than the herbs which are needed for the potion that you are creating.  You will just require a flask to put the potion in afterwards.  To begin creating potions you will need to find recipes, which can be found in a few places.  Either from monster loot, chests that you will stumble upon through questing or the easiest way is buying from another player, either by advertising in the town chat or at the auction houses.

Once you have potions created, you can either save them for your own adventures or create stacks of them and sell them for mass profit.  People are always on the look out for potions, the most popular ones that will sell are healing and mana potions.  For obvious reasons anyway!

When your skill level becomes higher you will be able to create a new type of potion called an Elixir.  These come in 2 different types, offensive (Battle) and defensive (Guardian).  A player can only consume and have in effect 1 type at a time. 

Once an Alchemist reaches level 345 they have the option of choosing to specialize in an area of alchemy.  They are Transmuting, Potions or Elixirs.  When you choose one of these, you have a chance each time you use your skill to create multiple of that particular item without using any extra herbs.  You can at any time decide to change your specialist skill to one of the other 3, but it will cost you every time you do it.

So to summarize my Wow Alchemy Guide, alchemists can be very popular among guilds as well for the help they provide for raids and battles.  Especially if they have an incredibly high level and can create the most powerful and effective potions!  Or you can just use it as a source of income, which can prove to by very profitable.  However, to make this the most profitable I highly recommend you train to be a Herbalist as well to save money on buying the resources.

I hope this WoW Alchemy Guide has helped you understand more about this profession and good luck.

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