Alchemist, help please! stuck at 33

Hi guys, I was wondering if I missed something or how the hell do I get to 50 asap?

Anyway, I've completed all leves, crafted lots of stuff and even made many dyes.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I've been looking everywhere on google on how to level that class but sadly everything is either outdated or just nothing useful at all.

Could someone please help me to at least post a simple way to get out of 33 to say at least 40? I spent 220k gil and I'm almost out of gil now. Is there something wrong that I'm doing? Should I ever use "quick" feature? or just ignore it and try to hand level it for HQ items? The only decent way I found so far is Leves, however my allowance has ran out now.

I'm trying to get the book to start the relic quest. I don't have many alchemist on my servers and so far only 3 at 50 and they ask for insane prices so I thought to focus level it to 50 but It is very slow.

Any advice please? feel free to give me links/useful sites. I would appreciate it.

found some on other sites
try the
Level 25 Leve in Quarrymill,

and ALWAYS try and use HQ items when turn in a leve

to do it easy, if you have allowance, for quarrymill level, the one that ask you for hi-potion x5... give to the npc only HQ item that will give you 100k exp per level...

Hmmm where about in Quarrymill? because I am in quarrymill and there are no leves for alchemist here.

The leves are random aren't they?

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

The leves are random aren't they?

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The only leves I use are the ones in the city (Ul'dah). Not random at all, it just depends on the level thats all.

3 allowance every 11 hours sux :( I believe this is the only way to level alchemist, mats are overpriced as hell and if you ever try to make a HQ item then its more like 1/100 chance, of course unless you find HQ mats which is at moment next to impossible.

Seriously 3 days and still got to 34 using leves? either buff leves or nerf it and allow us to use normal crafting more effectively, I'm sick and tired of this already... you get stuck a lot is not even funny and I want to start my relic quest. Why the hell other classes get it so easy and my class gets to eat dirt and level a class to 50 (not even happening) to be able to start that quest. I don't enjoy leveling a profession and for me this is a huge pain and rather suffering every second of it.

To have lots of HQ mats you need to level gathering profession. To HQ a lot you need to get skills from other professions.

I don't have a problem with that at all, however aren't there lots of people (as I've seen when I went for some gathering)? sadly most of the materials are not listed on the market. Also HQ mats hardly excist, why ?

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Originally Posted by Sinbad

Also HQ mats hardly excist, why ?

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Probably because you have a maximum base chance of 15% to gather them if you don't proc your ability to increase HQ success or gather from a node that has a bonus to HQ item gathering rate.

Having gathering classes will greatly help leveling crafters when you don't have leves available. Unfortunately for alchemy they make use of both quite a few mining and botany items.

To maximize your XP gains, you're going to want to manually craft each item and pump out as much quality as possible. You can get up to 300% extra xp by increasing the quality of an item.

Just looking at the recipes available from 33-40, Lanolin requres the least amount of ingredients, but it requires you to farm Karakul skins from the Karakul in Coerthas. If you can find them cheap on the AH that's a bonus. Otherwise, depending on the market on your server, you may be able to pick up some of those gathered items rather cheaply, if they happen to be in high supply, for the various potions in that same level range

Thank you so much! You are great help, to be honest.... gather is not an option for me right now as my time is limited in playing the game and I'd like to get the item for the relic quest asap. I found Karakul cost about 130-400gil each which isn't bad and lots of them getting listed (managed to get 99 of them).

As for crafting... for quick feature it gives me about 1k exp per craft. However when I do it manually I gain about 3k-6k exp depending on the HQ luck.

I was talking to people in my FC and they had ago on me for leveling fast and taking things really quick. I ended up not saying a word after because no point arguing that at high levels its harder. They keep telling me its not (they are low levels) ah well what ever. Let them finding that out themselves.

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Any advice please? feel free to give me links/useful sites. I would appreciate it.

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Level fishing I took fishing to 42/43 and now have enough mats to level cooking and alchemy. Also don't buy what you dont have to spend the time and do some farming, 220k really? I am almost 25 and think I have spent maybe 10k on alchemy and 30k on cooking.

I am currently levelling ALC and here's the method I use:

Use the Ul'Dah leve npc to get my leves. At 33 I crafted Intelligence potions. It's a level 20 leve, but all HQ items gives you 200% EXP and gil bonus, giving you 43,000+ EXP per leve. All of the materials are at the Ul'Dah alchemist guild and are very cheap, you will make a bunch of gil off it. You MUST craft each one manually as you want to HQ potions, the NQ ones just toss or store. Keep all your gear leveled for maximum HQ rates.

Once you hit 35 you will want to swap to poisoning potions. Formic acid is cheap, quicksilver is a level 1 craft and the materials are at the guild for cheap. Morbol vines may be an issue, but barring that, you could always fall back on the previous method. Poisoning potions will give you 60K EXP per leve, if you can manage to HQ some, you will get 60K per trade in, for potentially 180K per leve. You won't HQ reliably until 41+, but once you do, you should be able to fly until 50.

So far I've found ALC is far and away the cheapest craft to level. I made 75K, maybe more, using only leves from 20 to 35. HQing potions is key though, so be prepared to dig in and grind it out, as reliable HQ rates mean you must craft each one manually. For maximum satisfaction I craft 99+ of whatever I'm trading, and just run from leve npc to turn in npc, as they are literally 15 second run apart in Ul'Dah.

Unless someone's found a better way, I believe this will give you the most EXP per leve, and make you some easy money to boot.

I went from 25 to 40 on hi-potions alone. The key is to only turn in HQs and since the materials are able to be gathered by botony it takes maybe 1 hour to get enough materials for quite some time. The other thing you could consider is just looking at what people are selling HQ hi-pots for and buy them.

Awesome, thank you so much all! perfect info.