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WoW Forever Alchemy, the Route to 300 and Every New Potion
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In WoW Forever, Alchemy lost something and gained a great deal more. The standard Healing Potion progression moved to First Aid, which sounds like a demotion until you look at what replaced it. The beta client holds 179 Alchemy recipes and 70 of them are new, including four complete potion families that did not exist in Classic and a long line of elixirs sold only for Merchant’s Favor.
It is also the cheapest of the crafting professions to level. The whole route to 225 needs 276 Empty Vials, a pile of low-level herbs and a lot of fish oil. No bars, no gems, no leather
Yes, Healing Potions really did move
Alchemists keep every elixir, flask, transmute and oil. What left is the Minor through Major Healing Potion line, which First Aid now crafts.
In its place Alchemy gets the Discolored Healing Potion family, which is new to Forever and runs the full skill range:
| Potion | Skill |
|---|---|
| Minor Discolored Healing Potion | 50 |
| Lesser Discolored Healing Potion | 70 |
| Discolored Healing Potion | 120 |
| Greater Discolored Healing Potion | 160 |
| Superior Discolored Healing Potion | 215 |
Every one uses an Eye of the Deep alongside a vial and a herb, so this is a line you can supply without touching the First Aid market
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The three new potion families
Beyond the Discolored line, Forever adds three complete ladders, each running six ranks from the low thirties to skill 290.
Mender’s Potions are the healing side. Minor at 30, Lesser at 80, Mender’s at 130, Greater at 170, Superior at 230 and Major at 280.
Spellblasting Potions run Minor at 35 through to Major at 285.
Frenzy Potions run Minor at 40 through to Major at 290.
The lower ranks of all three drop from specific mobs rather than trainers, which is a real change in how Alchemy recipes are collected. Minor Mender’s comes off Gnarlpine Mystics in Teldrassil, Minor Spellblasting off Kobold Geomancers in Elwynn, Minor Frenzy off Windfury Wind Witches in Mulgore and Bloodfeather Harpies in Teldrassil.
There are also five one-off additions worth knowing: Disorienting Smog Potion at 180, Dragonfire Potion at 245, Caustic Smog Potion at 265, Potion of Venomous Blood at 275 and Potion of Elemental Siphoning at 280
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Levelling Alchemy from 1 to 300
| Skill | Craft | Crafts | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 11 | Elixir of Minor Force | ~10 | Trainer |
| 11 to 23 | Mana Well | ~13 | Trainer |
| 23 to 25 | Minor Troll’s Blood Elixir | ~2 | Trainer |
| 25 to 40 | Minor Mana Potion | ~15 | Trainer |
| 40 to 56 | Elixir of Minor Defense | ~16 | Trainer |
| 56 to 60 | Minor Mana Potion | ~4 | Trainer |
| 60 to 90 | Rage Potion | ~30 | Xandar Goodbeard or Hagrus |
| 90 to 100 | Draught of Water Breathing | ~10 | Trainer |
| 100 to 140 | Swim Speed Potion | ~42 | Trainer |
| 140 to 150 | Elixir of Fire Power | ~10 | Trainer |
| 150 to 165 | Free Action Potion | ~15 | Ulthir or Kor’geld |
| 165 to 225 | Fire Protection Potion | ~64 | Nandar Branson or Jeeda |
| 225 to 268 | Gold Bar transmute | ~63 | Alchemist Pestlezugg, Tanaris |
| 268 to 279 | Potion of Demonslaying | ~14 | Nina Lightbrew or Rartar |
| 279 to 295 | Elixir of Greater Defense | ~20 | Soolie Berryfizz or Kor’geld |
| 295 to 300 | Major Mana Potion | ~5 | Magnus Frostwake |
The Mana Well step is not a detour. It is your camp object and a cheap skill-up at the same time, so those thirteen crafts pay for themselves twice.
Apprentice caps at 75. Journeyman opens at skill 50 and character level 10 and caps at 150. Expert opens at skill 125 and level 20 and caps at 225. Artisan opens at skill 200 and level 35 and runs to 300, straight from the trainer with no quest.
The beta caps every profession at 225, so everything past Fire Protection Potion waits for launch
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What it costs to reach 225
From a trade supplies vendor for coppers: 276 Empty Vial and 89 Leaded Vial.
The rest is gathered or bought:
- 184 Oily Blackmouth
- 84 Firefin Snapper
- 64 Small Flame Sac
- 50 Peacebloom
- 42 Swiftthistle
- 30 Sharp Claw
- 30 Briarthorn
- 26 Silverleaf
- 25 Stranglekelp
- 19 Mageroyal
- 10 Kingsblood
- 4 Earthroot
Note what dominates that list. 268 fish, not herbs. The cheapest route to 225 runs through Blackmouth Oil and Fire Oil, which the path crafts itself, so an Alchemist with Fishing cuts the single biggest line item to nothing.
For the stretch to 300 the notable entries are 63 Iron Bar for the Gold transmutes, 20 Stonescale Eel, 20 Sungrass, 15 Dreamfoil and 14 each of Gromsblood and Ghost Mushroom
The Merchant’s Favor elixirs
Supply crates found around the world get handed in at a trade camp for Merchant’s Favor, and the Alchemy quartermaster sells 29 recipes plus the Certification, starting at skill 65.
Alliance buy from Nina Surefire at the Azeroth Commerce Authority camp in Three Corners, Redridge Mountains, /way 10.8 72.4. Horde buy from Apothecary Durelle at Durotar Supply and Logistics outside the Crossroads in the Barrens, /way 49.8 29.4.
| Cost | Skill | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| 45 Favor | 65 to 140 | Lesser Mageblood Elixir, Lesser Cleric’s Elixir, Lesser Arcane Elixir |
| 120 Favor | 165 to 245 | Greater Mageblood Elixir, Greater Cleric’s Elixir, Elixir of Greater Fortitude |
| 180 Favor | 250 to 285 | Elixir of the Phalanx, Elixir of Sages, Elixir of Cunning, Elixir of Ferocity |
| 240 Favor | 290 to 300 | Elixir of the Grizzly |
That is a full second book of elixirs that no trainer teaches and no drop provides. If you intend to supply a raid roster, Favor is not optional
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How do you get the Alchemist title?
Buy the Alchemy Certification from the quartermaster at skill 300 for 1,000 Merchant’s Favor. The title applies account-wide.
Skill milestones pay on top. Reaching 150, 225 and 300 for the first time on the account each award 1 Legacy Point
What Alchemy brings to camp
| Tier | Object | Skill | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mana Well | 20 | 29 Mana every 5 seconds at level 60 to everyone sitting nearby |
| 2 | Fermenter | 140 | Creates certain reagents, keeps the Mana Well buff |
| 3 | Alchemy Laboratory | 300 | Required for the most advanced recipes, keeps the Mana Well buff |
The Mana Well does not stack with Blessing of Wisdom, so a group running a Paladin gets nothing from it. The Laboratory matters beyond the buff, because the top of the Alchemy book cannot be crafted without one
Is Alchemy worth it in WoW Forever?
Yes, and it is the best value of the crafting professions.
It is the cheapest to level, since the route runs on vendor vials, low-level herbs and fish rather than ore and gems. It sells into a market that resets every raid week, and with no WoW Token in Forever nobody can buy their way past needing consumables. The Merchant’s Favor book gives it a second progression track. And the Gold Bar transmute at 225 to 268 turns skill-ups into bars you can sell.
The counterargument is that losing Healing Potions removes the single most reliable seller in Classic Alchemy. What replaces it is broader but less certain, since four of the new potion recipes are still unfound in the beta
What to do first
- Pair it with Herbalism, or with Fishing if you want the 1 to 225 route for almost nothing
- Take Working Overtime before you craft anything. Up to 20% more skill-ups across every profession
- Craft the Mana Well at 11. It is a cheap skill-up and your camp object in one
- Start collecting supply crates early. Favor recipes open at skill 65 and the elixir book is the reason to bother
- Bank Oily Blackmouth and Firefin Snapper. 268 fish carry the middle of the route
- Take Performance Bonus if you commit to Favor. Up to a 15% chance of double Favor per crate, after a rank in Bountiful Harvest
Alchemy is cheap in gold and long in hours. KingBoost levels WoW Forever professions from launch day so the consumables are ready before the raids open on December 9
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