Alchemist 1-30 (an ongoing compilation)

I worked this up to help some of my LS mates and such, I figured I'd put it up here for anyone who hasn't started Alchemist or for new players who would like some help. This is simply how I leveled Alchemist, and I hope it will be of help to someone. It also explains how leveling a few other gathering or crafting classes along with Alchemy will benefit you as well. I’ll continue to update it as I continue to level Alchemist, so this will turn into a Rank 1-50 Guide once I am done! :)

First off, Crafting Leves are a wonderful thing and I do all 8 of mine every Leve reset to help with my SP gain! Usually I focus on Alchemy leves first going with the ones closest to my Rank and higher… if I have any left then I put those into cooking to help that craft as well.

Alchemy:

(1)Distilled Water: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/distilled-water?id=20
You can find the Muddy Water at the NPC in the Sapphire Exchange named Tataroga.

(5)Beeswax: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/beeswax?id=2
I would like to make a note at this time… Botany is WONDERFUL to do with Alchemy as well; you can get a lot of your supplies from gathering. I got a lot of Bee Chips doing Botany up in the Grid area, if you don’t mind putting in this extra effort this craft can be very cheap for you to do!

The above should get you to about 10-12 but if you don’t like the SP and want to go a bit higher:

(13) Sunset Wheat Flour: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/sunset-wheat-flour?id=26
Once again this is where Botany comes in handy, and since this is also Culinary 5… as I said Alchemy and Culinary go well together! Also the extra supplies such as wood, cooking supplies etc can be easily sold either at a NPC or on a retainer which will also give you a nice flow in income. This should get you to about 13 if the other ones didn’t.

Now comes the fun grind:

About 14(ish) you should be able to start breaking crystals, and I think I did this until I was about Rank 24. I just told my LS that I was at that stage in Alchemy and if they needed crystals broken to shards to please let me know, they were VERY supportive! I wrote down what each person gave me, broke them and gave back the shards. I never had a problem with supply of crystals at all due to the support of my shell. All I had to buy was the fine sand, which the NPC up at the Alchemist Guild sells.

Here is the recipe for breaking crystals, all of them are the same you need fine sand and then just pick the crystal. http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/lightning-shard?id=11

(24) Horn Glue: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/horn-glue?id=1088 & http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/horn-glue?id=1089
I started making this about 22-ish, my shell is very supportive and gave me any horns they found so I only had to buy the Muddy Water… which I mentioned above where you can find the NPC for that in Uldah. The reason I was making this was because other crafters needed the glue, seeing we are a shell that supports one another fully, I made this to help them.

(25) Maple Syrup: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/maple-syrup?id=643
This is what I leveled off of from about 22 Alchemist and up, also if you do decide to take up Culinary as well you will want to hold onto some stacks of this because at about 12-13 Culinary you can turn Maple Syrup into Maple Sugar! This is also another good reason to have Botany, you can get a lot of Maple Sap off the trees up in Grid!

(30) Lanolin: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/lanolin?id=2164
Here is where Leatherworker would come in handy, and to be honest while I was leveling Alchemy and Culinary I just grabbed some leves and got Leatherworker up. I am only a 12 Leatherworker and I have no problem making these, even though it says 15 Leatherworker. Once again farming for the win, myself and some friends went and farmed all the skins and in all I think I got about 150-200 skins during this time. At 32 I am still getting about 350-400 SP a synth for the most part, which isn’t bad.
I also have a friend who is a fisher, so I mixed in these recipes as well for the times I didn’t have skins:

(30) Shark Oil: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/shark-oil?id=2680

(30) Lightning Crystal: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/lightning-crystal?id=2979
The Newt to Lightning Crystal is really good if you are thinking, or have a friend who is doing Weaving. Turns 1 Lightning Crystal and a Newt into 3 Lightning Crystals!

This is where I am at this time, and at the moment I am still doing Lanolin to finish off my sheepskins that I have left over, and I am also doing the following:

(34) Wing Glue: http://ffxiv.yg.com/item/wing-glue?id=10009316
Good SP and also very helpful, other crafts need this to make stuff especially Carpenter and arrows. So I make this for them, and I also get free arrows for helping supply the glue and since I’ve been doing Botany this whole time as well I’m also able to help them with the wood they need for the arrows as well. Free arrows if you like Archer = Win!

(35) Shark Oil: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/shark-oil?id=2612
Once again because I have a friend who does fishing and can help me get the supplies.

(36) Bee Spatha: http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/bee-spatha?id=2070
I’ve been able to make these for some people, and the SP was really nice so if you know someone who needs an upgrade to their sword!

I hope this helps you if you are thinking of taking up Alchemy, and if ya did find this helpful just leave a comment saying so and I’ll continue putting in the information all the way to 50! Thank you everyone, and enjoy your time in Eorzea! <3

awesome! I was wondering when it was safe to start busting up my crystals. Looks like I'm safe XD

There are quite a few modifications I would make to this list.

My personal guide to alchemy looks more like this

Leves from 1-10(only takes a few days if that to get there with them)

10-16 crystals
16-21 Box turtles to Lightning crystals
21-26 Maple Syrup
26-32 Bone crayfish(or newts i guess) to lightning crystals
32-36 Lanolin
36-41 Sole to lightning crystals
41+ Clusters, Or lac, Dart frogs, Boar Leather

Thanks for the awesome info and hope to utilize it in the near future. You rock! ^^

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There are quite a few modifications I would make to this list.

My personal guide to alchemy looks more like this

Leves from 1-10(only takes a few days if that to get there with them)

10-16 crystals
16-21 Box turtles to Lightning crystals
21-26 Maple Syrup
26-32 Bone crayfish(or newts i guess) to lightning crystals
32-36 Lanolin
36-41 Sole to lightning crystals
41+ Clusters, Or lac, Dart frogs, Boar Leather

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Yeah I agree that sounds good! Everyone has their own way of doing it, and it's always good to have multiple ways to level up a craft in case someone can't get the supplies needed that someone else mentioned. I know using my set up it took me 3 days to get from 1 to almost 23, and then kept going from there. Crafting is defiantly one of my favorite things to do and I am glad to see other people love it a lot too! :)

Thank you all for posting Alchemy guides! I was in need of a layout of how to rank up.

I found levelling alchemist incredibly cheap and easy to level up, gathering all of the materials you need to level up is indeed very possible on Alchemist.

1-10 Distilled Water.

10-20 Salt. Equip a fishing rod and a chocobo lure then fish at limsa docks for malm kelp. Create the secondary reagent with Culinarian.

20-23ish I did a mixture of Jellyfish Humours, Poison Powder & Maple Syrup.

23-36 Maple Syrup(This was a long road for me, but i wanted to do this as cheap as possible)

34+ Lanolin+Maple Syrup. Do Lanolin as much as you can, farm sheepskins if you need to.
You can also fish Hammerhead Sharks at the Ferry Docks on ul'dah side with a spoon lure around lv20 Fisher and then turn them into Water Crystals.

36//37~ Disabling Powder/Disabling Potions(Its a rough synth, but its fantastic sp, farm dart frogs near emerald moss from spearfishing nodes)

Still currently doing Disabling Potions/Powder recipe at 43 for 350-400+ SP (Fatigued).
Or you can move onto Heart Drops/Reviving Salts Recipe, it should take you all the way to 50, thats what im planning on anyway.

I personally did the
Brass Loach / Malm Kelp + 4 lightning shards = 12 lightning shards 1-13

It may just be me, but i am having a TON of trouble making Lanolin, even with the correct book and all up to date gear. Especially so when i can make arrows 9 ranks below with guild synth help and the correct books, and weave cloth / thread 8 below with no problems. For the people that have already gone past that stage, did you have to use more magic craftsmanship or drinks?

and im Not quite at that level but how does switching out the disabling powder for linen dyes work? is it another nasty synth like lanolin? At 42 conj im CONSTANTLY over near Broken water doing leves with LS mates who give me all their moss, i have a rather large stockpile and was hoping to use it A) to synth up alchemy B) to help up weaver as well >.>; i have this horrible obsession with making at least 60 of each colour cloth for my own personal stash when ranking up.

Actually >.>; i've been soloing the mitelings down in Mun-tuy cellars on pug as well >.>;

Just rough but this was my route.

1-10 Tiger Cod
10-20 Vongola Clam / Crystal breaks
20-30 Crystal breaks / Box Turtle
30-40 Nether Newt / Black Sole
40-50 Black Sole / leves / Or, leather, etc.

Aim for recipes 6 to 8 ranks higher than you: this strikes a decent balance between success rate and reward. As a general rule, I would move on after SP drops to below 300 now, unless the synth is profitable or useful to you.

At 30 (currently 33) I started doing Velveteen dyes (37), this alongside Linen dyes (39?) should supplement you for this rough stretch. Having a Botanist friend or being one yourself is a decent alternative to fishing, moreso if you do both. Plan on doing Dart Frogs to Disabling Powder at 39 (47 recipe. Other sites are reporting falsely since I'm told this can't be attempted until 37).

Thanks for the guide, seems I am still right in the middle of my crystal breaking :D

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You can also fish Hammerhead Sharks at the Ferry Docks on ul'dah side with a spoon lure around lv20 Fisher and then turn them into Water Crystals.

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Thanks for the tip!

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It may just be me, but i am having a TON of trouble making Lanolin, even with the correct book and all up to date gear. Especially so when i can make arrows 9 ranks below with guild synth help and the correct books, and weave cloth / thread 8 below with no problems. For the people that have already gone past that stage, did you have to use more magic craftsmanship or drinks?

and im Not quite at that level but how does switching out the disabling powder for linen dyes work? is it another nasty synth like lanolin? At 42 conj im CONSTANTLY over near Broken water doing leves with LS mates who give me all their moss, i have a rather large stockpile and was hoping to use it A) to synth up alchemy B) to help up weaver as well >.>; i have this horrible obsession with making at least 60 of each colour cloth for my own personal stash when ranking up.

Actually >.>; i've been soloing the mitelings down in Mun-tuy cellars on pug as well >.>;

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In my experience, the lanolin recipe seems to work best when using the off hand tool. Not sure if this is what you are doing, but try it and see if that changes things for you.

For the recipes to convert fish into shards/crystals and for breaking down of crystals to shards, do you use your main or offhand tool?

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For the recipes to convert fish into shards/crystals and for breaking down of crystals to shards, do you use your main or offhand tool?

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I use my main.

I'm just beginning to seriously rank up my alchemy for a sub to leather, so for now, need to get to at least R35 for the sub, but want Hand of the Gods as well, so to R36.

Having not used alchemy much at all, except for breaking down crystals, at R27 yesterday, I decided on grinding on bone crayfish at camp in between behests, and with T1 support, I found these to be particularly nasty, so I decided to wait and get T3 support in town. Even with top tier support, I found this recipe to be especially nasty. It was very common to get progress 2/3/4 and durability loss 19/20 even with the synth stable.

With the majority of my crafting experience in crp/wvr/lth/gs, is this common with alchemy, or is this something I can expect from the fish --> crystal recipes (or did I just have a bad day lol)?

Also, any recommendations in laying out the best road from R28 - R36? I plan on farming some sheep today and grind on lanolin for a few ranks.

Thanks.

After 30, velveteen dyes. Red dyer's moss from Iron Lake is somewhat reasonable to get even if you can only manage 1 swing per node.

I also don't personally believe synth support has any benefit if the recipe does not -need- it. It just gets rid of the penalty associated.