ALCHEMY -- Worst profession in the game

[Toddmounts69]

This profession needs some help from the devs. Ide like this class to actually be able to make some profits and be more useful as a whole. The only profits at the moment are leve items and the weapons. Profits tho arnt my real problem with this class because im a gsm and as you know , all gsm are rich (best money maker) The usefulness is nearly nil. We dont use potions for our coil group, we havnt even bothered thinking about it.

I could be wrong, i would like someone to prove me wrong and explain its benefits. Anything other than end game i dont see the potions being useful, even the health potions are too meager to bother with.

[FCrowles]

I imagine the potion market will increase with the launch of PvP.

[Toddmounts69]

I imagine the potion market will increase with the launch of PvP.

i could see that

[Xenobius]

How about they just return the most popular recipes?
I'm talking about breaking down and combining Shards, Crystals and Clusters.
I'm sick and tired of buying shards from "people" who farm them by the thousands, but there is simply NO other way - and no way in nine hells am I going to spend 5 hours mining 1k shards that will be gone in 2 hours of crafting.

[AlahnSiegrain]

ALC is the worst craft atm, that ironically offers the best skills xD

Maybe if they added P.Downs or some actual use for Gold Needle, reduced pot cds and increased buff duration, but I think they stated that they way they are now is balanced... YEAH RIGHT I d totally pay for a 20 sec buff on a game with 2,5s gcd >< .

[Eriane]

ALC is the worst craft atm, that ironically offers the best skills xD

TotT is an amazing skill. Comfort zone... meh. I use it of course, but if i could go back I don't know if i would have spent the time to get ALC to 50 over another craft. I even made myself a HQ 2 star alkawhatever its called which just got replaced by my relic. Potions are meh, there really isn't much reason to focus on ALC.

[Ramzi]

Oils usually sell for a nice profit because there's nowhere else to get them. Especially shark oil. Cooks need Natron for their meals, and Archanists want their HQ books. ALC is the only way...

Now Armorer on the other hand.... *puke* no good skills, and only good for supplying equips for 2 classes.

[Yukio]

The 2-star recipes for alchemy definitely need some fine tuning. Shard splitting would be nice or maybe turning one type of shard to another. Buff potions that last longer (and maybe through death) would be a nice option too.

[Reinheart]

If they separate the recast timers on healing HP/MP potions from buff potions the alchemy department should get better imo. They never said they will do this so not much hope here yet. Other than that 2.1 we'll have furnitures so I'm guessing some stuff will be coming from Alchemy.

[NyneAlexander]

they did this same mess in 1.0, and alch didn't get a buff until months later when they added things like "fish saw" and "oiled hatchet". Those types of items, in conjuncture with shard breaking, made alch a decent DoH.

and now its broken again.