Dragonflight is the latest expansion of World of Warcraft, the popular MMORPG that takes place in the fantasy world of Azeroth. In Dragonflight, players can explore the mysterious and dangerous Dragon Isles, a new continent that is home to ancient secrets, powerful dragons, and new enemies.
One of the professions that players can learn and practice in Dragonflight is Alchemy, the art of creating potions and phials that can enhance your abilities, heal your wounds, or harm your foes. Alchemy is a versatile and useful profession that can benefit any class and role, whether you are a tank, a healer, a damage dealer, or a support.
In this guide, we will show you how to level up your Alchemy skill, how to discover new recipes, how to use the new Experimentation system, how to choose your Alchemy specialization, and how to craft the best potions and phials for your needs.
How to Level Up Your Alchemy Skill?
The first step to becoming a master alchemist is to level up your Alchemy skill, which determines what kind of potions and phials you can craft and how effective they are. You can level up your Alchemy skill by crafting potions and phials, by doing Experimentations, or by completing Alchemy quests.
The maximum Alchemy skill level in Dragonflight is 100, and you can track your progress by opening your profession window (press K by default).
To start learning Alchemy, you will need to find an Alchemy trainer, who can teach you the basics of the profession and give you some starter recipes. You can find Alchemy trainers in the following locations:
- Conflago in Valdrakken, the capital city of the Dragon Isles. He is located near the Alchemist’s Lab Bench, which is a crafting station that you will need to use for most Alchemy recipes.
- Srireth in Ohn’ahran Plains, a zone in the southern part of the Dragon Isles. She is located in a small camp near the river, where you can also find some herbs that you will need for Alchemy.
- Zherrak in The Waking Shores, a zone in the eastern part of the Dragon Isles. He is located in a cave near the coast, where you can also find some fish that you will need for Alchemy.
- An’timon in The Waking Shores, a zone in the eastern part of the Dragon Isles. He is located in a tower near the ruins, where you can also find some crystals that you will need for Alchemy.
Once you have learned Alchemy, you can start crafting potions and phials, which are the main products of the profession. Potions are consumable items that can give you various effects, such as healing, mana regeneration, stat boosts, or damage.
Phials are similar to potions, but they are not consumed when used. Instead, they have charges that can be replenished by using a Phial Refiller, which is a device that you can craft with Alchemy. Phials can also give you various effects, such as shields, buffs, or debuffs.
To craft potions and phials, you will need to gather some materials, such as herbs, fish, crystals, and vials. You can find these materials in the wild, by harvesting nodes, fishing, or mining. You can also buy them from vendors or the Auction House, or trade them with other players.
You will also need to use the Alchemist’s Lab Bench, which is a crafting station that you can find near the Alchemy trainers or in some other locations. To craft a potion or a phial, you will need to follow a recipe, which is a list of ingredients and instructions that you can learn from trainers, books, quests, or Experiments.
To level up your Alchemy skill, you will need to craft potions and phials that are appropriate for your current skill level. You can see the difficulty of each recipe by the colour of its name in your profession window. The colours are as follows:
- Orange: These recipes will always give you a skill point when you craft them. They are the best recipes to level up your Alchemy skill.
- Yellow: These recipes will sometimes give you a skill point when you craft them. They are good recipes to level up your Alchemy skill, but not as reliable as orange ones.
- Green: These recipes will rarely give you a skill point when you craft them. They are not very good recipes to level up your Alchemy skill, but they can be useful if you have no other options.
- Gray: These recipes will never give you a skill point when you craft them. They are useless recipes to level up your Alchemy skill, and you should avoid them.
To level up your Alchemy skill efficiently, you should always try to craft orange or yellow recipes, and avoid green or grey ones. You should also try to discover new recipes with higher difficulty, by doing Experimentations or completing quests. Here is a list of some of the best recipes to level up your Alchemy skill from 1 to 100:
- 1-10: Minor Healing Potion, Minor Mana Potion
- 10-20: Lesser Healing Potion, Lesser Mana Potion
- 20-30: Healing Potion, Mana Potion
- 30-40: Greater Healing Potion, Greater Mana Potion
- 40-50: Superior Healing Potion, Superior Mana Potion
- 50-60: Major Healing Potion, Major Mana Potion
- 60-70: Primal Healing Potion, Primal Mana Potion
- 70-80: Supreme Healing Potion, Supreme Mana Potion
- 80-90: Ultimate Healing Potion, Ultimate Mana Potion
- 90-100: Transcendent Healing Potion, Transcendent Mana Potion
How to Discover New Recipes?
As you level up your Alchemy skill, you will need to discover new recipes that can help you craft better potions and phials. There are two main ways to discover new recipes:
Experimentations and quests
Experimentations are a new feature of Alchemy in Dragonflight, that allows you to create new potions and phials by combining different ingredients and reagents. Experimentations can be done at the Alchemist’s Lab Bench, and they require some materials, such as herbs, fish, crystals, vials, and Dragon’s Alchemical Solution.
Dragon’s Alchemical Solution is a special reagent that can be obtained by destroying potions and phials with the Reclaim Concoctions spell, which is a skill that you can learn from the Alchemy trainers.
To do an Experimentation, you will need to choose a type of potion or phial that you want to create, such as Healing, Mana, Toxic, Shield, or Buff. Then, you will need to choose a base ingredient, such as an herb, a fish, or a crystal, that will determine the main effect of the potion or phial.
Finally, you will need to choose a modifier ingredient, such as a herb, a fish, or a crystal, that will determine the secondary effect of the potion or phial. You will also need to add some Dragon’s Alchemical Solution, which will determine the quality and quantity of the potion or phial.
Once you have chosen your ingredients, you can start the Experimentation, which will consume the materials and produce a random potion or phial. The potion or phial will have a name, a description, and a color, that will indicate its effect and quality. The colours are as follows:
- White: These potions and phials have the lowest quality and effect. They are not very useful, and you should destroy them with Reclaim Concoctions to get more Dragon’s Alchemical Solution.
- Green: These potions and phials have a low quality and effect. They are somewhat useful, but you can find better ones with more Experimentations.
- Blue: These potions and phials have a medium quality and effect. They are quite useful, and you should keep them for yourself or sell them to other players.
- Purple: These potions and phials have a high quality and effect. They are very useful, and you should keep them for yourself or sell them to other players for a high price.
- Orange: These potions and phials have the highest quality and effect. They are extremely useful, and you should keep them for yourself or sell them to other players for a very high price.
The Experimentation will also give you a chance to discover a new recipe, which will allow you to craft the same potion or phial with the same ingredients and reagents. The chance to discover a new recipe is not 100%, but you will usually get at least one from doing 10 Experimentations.
The discovered recipes will be added to your profession window, and you can craft them at the Alchemist’s Lab Bench. The discovered recipes will also have a difficulty color, which will indicate how much skill they will give you when you craft them.
Experimentations are a fun and creative way to discover new potions and phials, but they also have some drawbacks. First, they are expensive, as they require a lot of materials and Dragon’s Alchemical Solution, which can be hard to obtain.
Second, they are random, as you can never be sure what kind of potion or phial you will get, or if you will discover a new recipe. Third, they are risky, as you can get a debuff that will prevent you from doing more Experimentations for 4 hours. Therefore, you should do Experimentations wisely, and not rely on them too much.
Quests are another way to discover new recipes, that are more reliable and less costly than Experimentations. Quests are tasks that you can get from NPCs, such as Alchemy
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