Skill gain: Alchemy

[Jay]

To create a potion and gain skills via the skill alchemy, you will need the following...

Minimum
- Mortar and Pestles (bought at any alchemist shop or made from the tinkering skill)
- Regs (Which ones depend on the potion you want to make... see table below)
- Bottles

Suggested
- Empty Kegs

The Basics
To make the potion simply have the required regs to make the potion (see chart below) and an empty bottle, double click the mortar & pestle and select the potion you wish to make. You will hear a grinding sound and then a pouring sound if successful and the potion will appear in your pack. To make the same potion again without having to select the potion you want each time hit "Make Last" found in the bottom right hand corner of the alchemy gump.
*Likely to change if the old gump is used*
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GMing alchemy

There are a couple of ways to GM alchemy, but they basically all involve the same method... Grinding loads and loads of potions, the different ways just depend on which way you want to go about it. For example you if you have the money and you want to GM in a hurry method A will be the way to go. You can sell some of the kegs you make getting to GM back to the public, but overall it is more expensive. If you have less money but more time to burn, OR you plan on making a poisoner method B will be your better option because you will basically end up with kegs full of poison that you can then use GMing poisoning.

Method A - Fast, expensive.

0 - 32 - Buy skill from the Alchemist vendor
32 - 40 - Poison
40 - 52 Strength
64 - 75 Greater Strength
75 - 87 Greater Poison/Heal (Greater Poison will be almost half the price to make but you can sell Greater Heal, choice is yours)
87 - 94 Greater Cure
94 - GM Deadly Poison

Method B - More time consuming but a lot cheaper (and great if you have a poisoner)

0 - 32 Buy skill
32 - 60 Poison
60 - GM Greater Poison

It's not a bad idea if you switch to deadly poison if you have a little bit of cash towards the high 90s if you are making a poisoner, you will gain faster and end up with some DPs.

So a few last things for the newer players. The best way to do this is to buy empty kegs from other players. Stock your bag up with 100 bottles and as many regs as you can hold and grind up. When you run out of bottles dump the 100 filled potions into a keg then stash it away in the bank. When you finish GMing alchemy, come back and sell off any usefull kegs (Greater anything) or use the poison kegs to GM your poisoning character.

(for a chart with all potions/skill level/resource/average cost per potion requirements see chart below)
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[luKrek]

Your attached pic doesnt seem to work.
Good stuff though!

[brontosaurus]

is your chart designed for the cast of "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" ?

[Kil'gu]

He just copied the wrong link. Removed the .th. in it and you're left with...
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[Judgement]

This should go in the wiki

[GunSixShot]

u dont have to make 100pots, then throw them into the keg. as long as u have a keg (with at least one potion in it to let the keg know what kind of potion keg its going to be), and one empty bottle, then it will auto pour the potion in the keg, and keep the bottle emptied. this way u dont have to worry bout emptying 100 pots every 20min or so.

[batch]

The methods mentioned are not the best ways to GM alchemy unless you want to dump a lot of money into it. Either you should make poisons and level up your poisoning skill at the same time or you should make potions which you can sell to other players.

50-60 Total refresh
60-70 Greater agility
70-80 Greater strength
80-90 Greater heal / Greater poison
90-100 Greater cure / Greater explotion

Sell price to break even:
(C*100/0.6) + K

C = reg cost of the potion
K = keg cost

By doing these potions and selling them according to the break even formula you can get GM alchemy without losing money in the process.

[Noxin]

The methods mentioned are not the best ways to GM alchemy unless you want to dump a lot of money into it. Either you should make poisons and level up your poisoning skill at the same time or you should make potions which you can sell to other players.

50-60 Total refresh
60-70 Greater agility
70-80 Greater strength
80-90 Greater heal / Greater poison
90-100 Greater cure / Greater explotion

Sell price to break even:
(C*100/0.6) + K

C = reg cost of the potion
K = keg cost

By doing these potions and selling them according to the break even formula you can get GM alchemy without losing money in the process.

But is it correct for leveling alchemy while leveling poisoning? Greater poison all the way from level 60??

[Jay]

Method B as I stated will level up your poisoning at the same time. Method A as I mentioned above is expensive but will level you to GM faster. If you want to try and make money along the way that's another story

[batch]

Method B as I stated will level up your poisoning at the same time. Method A as I mentioned above is expensive but will level you to GM faster. If you want to try and make money along the way that's another story

Exactly what do you mean with faster? Since we basicly are capped at a maximum skill gain per day, because of the exhausted state, it won't matter what method you choose to use. If you do want to reach the daily cap as fast as possible you should make whatever potion that is closest to 16.66% chance of success since that value gives you the biggest chance of a skill gain in RunUO. ^_^