Alchemy 45-50, what's the easiest or cheapest way to grind out the last five levels?

[Krisan]

I'm out of leves at the moment, and staring at my crafting log makes me cringe.. Most of the stuff I can make isn't really all that useful - which is depressing enough for its own reasons - but worse still, even the weirder and more useless of the items I can make all look to be expensive as all hell to craft.. Now expensive crafting is fine if I saw a profit, or even expected to break even, but I sort of doubt that's going to happen..

So! I'm asking pretty bluntly, how bad am I going to need to hurt my purse strings to get these last five levels? What's generally accepted to be the better of the items to grind off of? I'm taking a little break to work on Botany and some other things for a bit, but I'd like to knock these levels out before too long.. so I'd like to plan ahead based on the experiences other have had with the craft.

[Dixevil]

Just do those 6 allowances per day by turning HQ items.

[LethalE]

i did "A Patch-up Place" level 40 courier leve turning in HQ mega potions for 129Kxp. takes sometime to do the leg work but took me from 44-50 in about 1.5hrs

[Krisan]

Just do those 6 allowances per day by turning HQ items.

Honestly, that's what I've been doing. But eh.. Was looking for something more specific.

i did "A Patch-up Place" level 40 courier leve turning in HQ mega potions for 129Kxp. takes sometime to do the leg work but took me from 44-50 in about 1.5hrs

Now this sounds promising.. I'll look into this, thanks!

[GunnarWolfram]

Lanolin or Smelling Salts, the mats are not hard to find on the market and are fairly cheap.

[Skies]

Please make Mega-Potions, they are INCREDIBLY useful. An HQ set one is 400~ HP or so, whenever i'm running my DDs and even my tank I roll around with those (i'm an ALC right now) and use them often.

[Nix]

I just got my alch to cap last night, here's how I did it:

Botanist is really useful for this, if you don't have it, try to sweet-talk a gathering friend.

You want to gather: Mugwort and Mistletoe (The mistletoe from Whitebrim, Coerthas).

Grind Mega Ethers with the NQ mugwort and mistletoe, use the HQ mugwort/mistletoe to make HQ mega potions.

Sell your ethers, keep them or throw them at mages (I hear they love it!)
For the mega potions; pick up the lv40 alch leve in Ul'dah "Patch up place". Turning in HQ Mega potions will net you around 120k xp, I strongly suggest you ONLY turn in HQ potions here, since it's a bit of a chore to get to ul'dah > port to dragonhead > run to whitebrim, rinse/repeat.

This goes without saying, but try to squeeze out as much quality in your grinding recipes as possible, a 3% quality increase can mean an extra 2k+ xp. And if you gather all of your mats and sell it, you'll make a tidy profit. (Atm on Hyperion, Mega potions are going for around 7k/stack, and you get 3 per synth so it really adds up.)

I hope this helps

[Dixevil]

well my advise would be to do triple turn in leves as you can turn items 3 times for one allowance it's triple exp! for example level 40 leve asking to turn 5 Smelling Salts allows you to repeat that turn in 2 more times.