Alchemy Guide 1-450

Welcome to Warcraft Tavern’s Alchemy guide! In this guide, we’ll provide everything you need to max out your Alchemy skill, from the materials required to level up your profession to the best recipes to follow.

Alchemy is a super useful economy profession because the consumable potions it produces are used by every raider, regardless of role. With the Mixology passive ability, Alchemists gain greater benefits and duration from flasks, like Flask of Endless Rage or Flask of Stoneblood, and they also can craft Flask of the North, which isn’t consumed on use. Alchemists can also craft decent pre-raid trinkets like Indestructible Alchemist Stone and Mercurial Alchemist Stone. Perhaps most important are the Alchemist’s transmutations. Powerful gems like King’s Amber and Eye of Zul can be crafted on a cooldown (keep in mind these aren’t available until Ulduar releases). While their consumables will be in demand because there is little PvE and PvP benefit to this profession, it’s pretty far down the BiS ranking.

Alchemy relies entirely on herbs, and for that reason, Herbalism is the gathering profession partnered with this craft. At later levels, Alchemists can also make use of metal bars and gems for use in their transmutations.

Required Materials

Below you can find the materials you’ll need to level from 1-450, as well as a few tips and things to keep in mind.

• Sometimes we will have to craft yellow recipes that don’t guarantee a level up on every craft, therefore the materials required are estimates, rather than exact figures.
• Specific recipes will require items you have previously crafted, so check the lists before getting rid of crafts!
• Some recipes aren’t taught by trainers, but instead are acquired from drops or vendors.

All of these things are accounted for in the materials listed below. Listed separately from the material list are those recipes not acquired from a trainer, but rather from a vendor or world drop.

Alchemy Trainers

You can click on a Trainer’s name from the lists below to see its exact location. If you use TomTom, you can copy-paste the location and coordinates provided (after the name) to track down the trainer you need more easily. For example:

/way Orgrimmar 75.8 24.6

Training Route

Certain crafts need to be used later to further level up the profession. Other times, the materials can be bought from a vendor instead of the Auction House, or the crafting recipe is not acquired from a trainer. Some recipes turn yellow and as such do not have a 100% chance to level up your profession with every craft; this means some randomness enters the equation when it comes to materials. We indicate all of these situations with the following icons:

	Keep crafted items for later crafts.
	Buy material from the vendor.
	Bought Recipe.
	Craft amount depends on variance.

• Classic (1-300)
• Master (300-375)
• Grand Master (375-450)

Apprentice (1-110)

Materials

• 65 Peacebloom
• 65 Silverleaf
• 65 Briarthorn
• 65 Empty Vial

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
1 🠖 65	65 Minor Healing Potion	65 Peacebloom 65 Silverleaf 65 Empty Vial
65 🠖 110	65 Lesser Healing Potion	65 Minor Healing Potion 65 Briarthorn

Journeyman (110-155)

Materials

• 45 Bruiseweed
• 25 Briarthorn
• 20 Fire Oil
• 20 Empty Vial
• 25 Leaded Vial

Crafting

110🠖135	25 Healing Potion	25 Bruiseweed 25 Briarthorn 25 Leaded Vial
135🠖155	20 Elixir of Minor Accuracy	20 Fire Oil 20 Bruiseweed 20 Empty Vial

Expert (155-230)

Materials

• 10 Liferoot
• 10 Kingsblood
• 10 Fadeleaf
• 50 Wild Steelbloom
• 45 Goldthorn
• 15 Khadgar’s Whisker
• 10 Sungrass
• 65 Leaded Vial
• 10 Crystal Vial

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
155🠖165	10 Greater Healing Potion	10 Liferoot 10 Kingsblood 10 Leaded Vial
165🠖175	10 Lesser Invisibility Potion	10 Fadeleaf 10 Wild Steelbloom 10 Leaded Vial
175🠖195	20 Elixir of Fortitude	20 Wild Steelbloom 20 Goldthorn 20 Leaded Vial
195🠖215	20 Elixir of Greater Defense	20 Wild Steelbloom 20 Goldthorn 20 Leaded Vial
215🠖220	5 Greater Mana Potion	5 Khadgar’s Whisker 5 Goldthorn 5 Leaded Vial
220🠖230	10 Superior Healing Potion	10 Sungrass 10 Khadgar’s Whisker 10 Crystal Vial

Artisan (230-300)

Materials

• 15 Purple Lotus
• 75 Blindweed
• 15 Khadgar’s Whisker
• 75 Sungrass
• 15 Goldthorn
• 45 Dreamfoil
• 15 Mountain Silversage
• 80 Crystal Vial

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
230🠖235	5 Dreamless Sleep Potion	15 Purple Lotus 5 Crystal Vial
235🠖250	15 Elixir of Greater Intellect	15 Blindweed 15 Khadgar’s Whisker 15 Crystal Vial
250🠖260	15 Elixir of Greater Agility	15 Sungrass 15 Goldthorn 15 Crystal Vial
260🠖285	30 Superior Mana Potion	60 Sungrass 60 Blindweed 30 Crystal Vial
285🠖300	15 Greater Arcane Elixir	45 Dreamfoil 15 Mountain Silversage 15 Crystal Vial

Materials

Recipes

• 15 Mountain Silversage
• 50 Felweed
• 20 Terocone
• 10 Netherbloom
• 20 Dreaming Glory
• 50 Imbued Vial

• Recipe: Super Mana Potion
  • Sold by:
    • (H) Daga Ramba – Blade’s Edge Mountains 51.0, 57.8
    • (A) Haalrun – Zangarmarsh 67.8, 48.0

Crafting

• Keep 5 Super Healing Potion if you plan on going Potion Master.
• Keep 5 Super Mana Potion if you plan on going Potion Master.
• Keep 5 Elixir of Mastery if you plan on going Elixir Master.

Level	Amount	Materials
300🠖315	15 Onslaught Elixir	15 Mountain Silversage 15 Felweed 15 Imbued Vial
315🠖330	15 Elixir of Mastery	15 Terocone 15 Felweed 15 Imbued Vial
330🠖335	5 Elixir of Draenic Wisdom	5 Terocone 5 Felweed 5 Imbued Vial
335🠖340	5 Super Healing Potion	10 Netherbloom 5 Felweed 5 Imbued Vial
340🠖350	10 Super Mana Potion	20 Dreaming Glory 10 Felweed 10 Imbued Vial

Materials

• 95 Goldclover
• 32 Talandra’s Rose
• 20 Tiger Lily
• 10 Glassfin Minnow
• 26 Deadnettle
• 10 Adder’s Tongue
• 60 Icethorn
• 70 Frost Lotus
• 70 Lichbloom
• 83 Imbued Vial
• 29 Enchanted Vial

Crafting

Level	Amount	Materials
350🠖360	10 Resurgent Healing Potion	20 Goldclover 10 Imbued Vial
360🠖365	5 Icy Mana Potion	5 Talandra’s Rose 5 Imbued Vial
365🠖375	10 Spellpower Elixir	10 Goldclover 10 Tiger Lily 10 Imbued Vial
375🠖380	5 Ethereal Oil	10 Glassfin Minnow
380🠖385	5 Potion of Nightmares	5 Goldclover 10 Talandra’s Rose 5 Imbued Vial
385🠖390	Elixir of Mighty Strength	10 Tiger Lily 5 Imbued Vial
390🠖395	5 Elixir of Mighty Fortitude	20 Goldclover 5 Imbued Vial
395🠖400	5 Elixir of Mighty Thoughts	10 Deadnettle 5 Talandra’s Rose 5 Imbued Vial
400🠖401	1 Northrend Alchemy Research	10 Goldclover 4 Talandra’s Rose 10 Adder’s Tongue 4 Enchanted Vial
401-405	8 Elixir of Mighty Thoughts	16 Deadnettle 8 Talandra’s Rose 8 Imbued Vial
405🠖425	30 Indestructible Potion	60 Icethorn 30 Imbued Vial
425🠖440	15 Flask of the North	60 Frost Lotus 15 Enchanted Vial
440🠖450	10 Flask of Endless Rage	70 Lichbloom 30 Goldclover 10 Frost Lotus 10 Enchanted Vial

Congrats on reaching 450 Alchemy skill! Continue reading to discover the different Alchemy specializations and their requirements and benefits.

Alchemy Specialization Quests

In The Burning Crusade, Blizzard added specializations to several primary professions in order to bring them in line with the specializations they had made available for others (like Armor, Axe, or Hammersmithing for Blacksmithing) in Vanilla WoW. This included Alchemy, and once players hit level 68 and reach 325 skill in Alchemy, they are able to choose.

The three options are Elixir Master, Potion Master, and Transmutation Master. You may only pick one at the outset, but they are unlearnable — switching will cost 125g. Each mastery will give you the chance to create 1 – 4 additional elixirs, potions, or transmuted items (called procs or procing) when creating them. The popular estimate for proc chance is ~15%, but the official number has not been released.

Which Alchemy Spec to Choose

• Raiders and frequent PvPers might find being an Elixir Master most useful for the potential procs on flasks.
• Someone who often levels twinks or alts could become a Potion Master to create more items to send to other characters.
• If you’re most interested in turning a profit from your Alchemy, becoming a Transmutation Master might suit you most, given the potential to maximize on the long cooldowns transmutation shares.

Overall, though, each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Read on for more details on what each specialization offers.