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Alchemy confusions - and a request for a Crafting section on these Forums.
alemap000
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 9 Arc User
So I'm playing on Beholder and chat is full of Alchemy questions.
"Why can't I level up past 2?"
"Why am I not getting any XP?"
"It's asking for an ingredient but I can't find it anywhere?"
"Do we really have to use Zen to buy what we need to level up?"
Can we please have an official alchemy guide published? It should be automatically handled when you release a new crafting profession.
In related news, can we please have a crafting section on these forums and an area on the main site for crafting under The Game menu? Finding info is more than hit and miss at this point. I'd be happy to phone interview whoever handles crafting and write a crafting section for you if that is what it takes to get the info verified and all in one spot.
Alchemy is exciting. I would really love to learn more about how it actually works, roll up my sleeves, and start brewing potions!
"Why can't I level up past 2?"
"Why am I not getting any XP?"
"It's asking for an ingredient but I can't find it anywhere?"
"Do we really have to use Zen to buy what we need to level up?"
Can we please have an official alchemy guide published? It should be automatically handled when you release a new crafting profession.
In related news, can we please have a crafting section on these forums and an area on the main site for crafting under The Game menu? Finding info is more than hit and miss at this point. I'd be happy to phone interview whoever handles crafting and write a crafting section for you if that is what it takes to get the info verified and all in one spot.
Alchemy is exciting. I would really love to learn more about how it actually works, roll up my sleeves, and start brewing potions!
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Yes, this. What with needing to farm & process lots of materials at 10min each, I was anticipating having the Gateway open while I do other things. Whoops.
Just keep doing experimentations. You don't get alchemical knowledge 100% of the time.
That's what I was doing, the problem I seem to be having is that before, the Alchemical Knowledge was showing as a possible result, but now it doesn't. I guess i'll keep at it, hopefully it's just a bug in the possible results view.
Alchemy is different from the other professions in that your recipes typically do not reward XP. You also don't get access to recipes automatically, except for the Profession Asset recipes and Experimentation.
Each level of Alchemy opens up a new Experimentation task. Experimentation's results seem unpredictable (as you might expect from the name), but possible results include recipes for different potions, Alchemical Knowledge scrolls, and Unstable Potions. You should get an Unstable Potion every time you do Experimentation; the scrolls have a chance to drop.
Once you collect the proper number of Alchemical Knowledge scrolls, you can do the Alchemical Research task, which rewards XP.
Experimentation sometimes rewards new recipes, which allow you to create more typical potions to buff stats, heal, etc.
edit: I should note that, no matter how many alchemists you have available, you can only run one Experimentation task at a time.
Doing the experimentation can unlock different potion craft recipes.
And also... many of the recipes are plain wrong:
Minor potion of healing (quite worthless right?) = 3 green and 3 blue vitrol and 25 minutes!!!!!
While fort/force potion needs just 15 min and 3x green or 3x blue - 2x less materials and less time for more valuable potions.
They need to balance this up.
does being a superrich crafter also help you bend time? just the The alchemical Research tasks total about 200hrs of craft time, half that if you had 4 x Grandmaster Alchemists the entire time. That's still over 4 straight days, almost 100 hours, not counting gathering non-AH-able materials. As the profession has only been active since thursday, it seems a little far-fetched that you could have maxed it in the 60ish hours since the game and Alchemy went live....
It literally does. "Finish Now."
You can use AD to autofinish any task. I was able to level up alchemy to 20 in less than a day on the preview server since I could get unlimited AD there. It however is not a task I would repeat on the live servers. So yes, if you have enough AD you can bend time.
Wonder how many cats he owns/sold?
Could have done it all legit... spend $100 on zen -> AD the first day of early start. Powerlevel a couple craftings to lv20. Now sell all the top crafted stuff that's "rare" because you're the only guy with them, to other founders, for big AD. Spend that AD to keep "ahead of the curve" so you always are making a profit on things before others. (like, say, with alchemy now)
..this would be that "it costs money to make money" thing.
Accept of course that there is no (legitimate) way to convert Zen/AD back to real world money. So you may end up with a load on in game currency but you're still $100 (or more likely $100s down).