Alchemy

Alchemy deals with the manipulation of various materials to create arcane potions and medications.

Ranking up in each guild requires that the player acquire, or synth, a test item which is then traded to the guild master.

Notes before getting started

Alchemy kit's from 5-50 are available from Odoba in the Alchemist's Guild if you wish to do that instead of following the guide. Sometimes it is cheaper, other times it's not. Pre-warning, even though these have a HQ animation, they do not give the HQ item.

The Way of the Alchemist KI costs 20,000 CP and is available at Alchemy 98. It is required to level 100-110. In order for it to count, you need to buy the HQ crystal from !shop 2 when you make the Saida Ring.

Caldera Alchemy Guide

Skill caps for recipes are shown using ( ).

Items available from the Caldera custom guild shops are shown using [ ].

Items available from the original guild shops are shown using { }.

Guild Test Items are shown in bold.

Skill Cap	Recipe	Crystal	Ingredients	Obtained From
(7)	Animal Glue	Fire Crystal	Bone Chip x2 Rabbit Hide Distilled Water	[Bonecraft] [Leathercraft] Various NPCs
(14)	Movalpolos Water	Wind Crystal	Carbon Dioxide Distilled Water x4	[Alchemy] Various NPCs
(18)	Poison Potion	Water Crystal	Mercury Poison Dust	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(24)	Silent Oil x4	Water Crystal	Beeswax x2 Slime Oil	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(29)	White Textile Dye x12	Water Crystal	Baking Soda	[Alchemy]
(34)	Artificial Lens	Fire Crystal	Glass Fiber x2	[Alchemy]
(40)	Firesand	Earth Crystal	Bomb Ash x2 Sulfur	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(42)	Firesand	Earth Crystal	Djinn Ash Sulfur	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(47)	Carbon Fiber	Lightning Crystal	Djinn Ash	[Alchemy]
(53)	Carbon Fishing Rod	Fire Crystal	Carbon Fiber x4 Glass Fiber	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(60)	Cerment Chunk	Fire Crystal	Doll Shard x2	[Alchemy]
(63)	Ebonite	Lightning Crystal	Flan Meat x2 Sulfur	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(68)	Venom Potion	Water Crystal	Mercury Venom Dust	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(73)	High Ebonite	Lightning Crystal	Flan Meat x3 Sulfur	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(78)	Paralyze Potion	Water Crystal	Mercury Paralysis Dust	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(83)	Polyflan	Lightning Crystal	Chimera Blood Flan Meat	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(88)	Viper Potion	Water Crystal	Mercury Viper Dust	[Alchemy] [Alchemy]
(93)	Icarus Wing	Wind Crystal	Beeswax x2 Giant Bird Feather x6	[Alchemy] [Woodworking]
(100)	Pro-Ether	Water Crystal	Ahriman Wing x2 Treant Bulb Dried Marjoram x3 Wyvern Wing Distilled Water	[Alchemy] [Alchemy] [Cooking] [Leathercraft] Various NPCs

Guild Skill Up Items

Rank Up Skill	Skill Up Item	Crystal	Ingredients	Obtained From
8-10	Animal Glue	Fire Crystal	Bone Chip x2 Rabbit Hide Distilled Water	Ronana Windurst Woods (H-13) Orechiniel Southern Sandoria (D-8) Various NPCs
18-20	Poison Potion	Water Crystal	Mercury Poison Dust	Azima Azima
28-30	Blinding Potion	Water Crystal	Crying Mustard Poison Flour Sleepshroom	Jacodaut Windurst Waters (D-9) Azima Kipo-Opo Windurst Waters (D-9)
38-40	Firesand	Earth Crystal	Bomb Ash x2 Sulfer	Sieglinde Azima
48-50	Fire Sword	Earth Crystal	Firesand Iron Sword Slime Oil	Sieglinde Purchase from your local Spark NPC Azima
58-60	Hi-Potion	Water Crystal	Distilled Water Malboro Vine Sage x2	Various NPCs Azima Maymunah
68-70	Acid Kukri	Water Crystal	Animal Glue Mythril Kurkri Vitriol	Sieglinde Purchase from your local Spark NPC Odoba
78-80	X-Potion	Water Crystal	Sage x2 Hecteyes Eye Distilled Water Reishi Mushroom	Maymunah Sieglinde Various NPCs Hakeem Windurst Waters (D-9)
88-90	Bloody Sword	Dark Crystal	Bastard Sword Beastman Blood Revival Tree Root	Crafted Level 77 Smithing Drops from Thread Leeches in Pashhow Marshlands Azima
98-100	Saida Ring	Aurora Crystal	Way of the Alchemist Holy Water x2 Hallowed Water Orichalcum Ring	Key Item from Guild Points Crafted Level 51 Alchemy Crafted Level 51 Alchemy Crafted Level 93 Goldsmithing

Alchemy Leveling Guide - by Vorpel

This is perhaps the cheapest/fastest way to level alchemy here, most items are available at the vendors in the guild. Remember to get Alchemy support off the NPC Titus.

• 1 to 5 Beeswax, get the distilled water from any NPC. Be sure to buy some 8 to 10 stacks as you will use them a lot.
• 5 to 10 Deodorizer, Chamomile and Olive can be bought at windurst waters # 4 at the cooking guild.
• 10 to 15 Alchemy kit 15, it's cheaper than making mercury off the jellyfish.
• 15 to 20 Echo drops, since you are here already, go ahead and make like 5 stacks, you will use them and AH is very expensive.
• 20 to 24 Vermilion Lacquer.
• 24 to 29 Silent Oil.
• 29 to 31 Artificial Lens.
• 31 to 36 Polyflan paper.
• 36 to 40 Firesand.
• 40 to 45 Carbon Fiber, either kit or from bomb ash. Save, you will use later.
• 45 to 51 Holy Water.
• 51 to 53 Carbon Fishing Rod, use your carbon fiber.
• 53 to 56 Cermet chunk, from magic pot shards.
• 56 to 60 Hi-potion.
• 60 to 65 Chocotonic, the Gysahl greens can be bought right there in the mines at the chocobo stables.
• 65 to 69 Hi-Ether, the Dried Marjoram can be bought at the cooking guild.
• 69 to 72 Paralysis Dust. With puffball. For your next recipe too.
• 72 to 78 Paralyze potion.
• 78 to 83 Polyflan.
• 83 to 88 Viper Potion.
• 88 to 93 if you have cooking at 43 at least, antacid, else, mind potion to 92, casablanca can be bought in upper jeuno and honey at cooking guild.
• 92 to 95 Marksman's oil, Goblin grease most people have leftovers from currency farming, ask in chat or get from AH. Else Platinum Bullets.
• 95 to 100 Pro-Ether, Wyvern wings can be bought in South Sandy at the LW guild.
• or 95 to 100 Divine Bullet, custom Caldera Recipe.

Custom Recipes

Skill	Crystal	Materials	Result
100	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Byakko x1	NQ: Byakko Scrap x4 HQ1: Byakko Scrap x6 HQ2: Byakko Scrap x8 HQ3: Byakko Scrap x12
100	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Genbu x1	NQ: Genbu Scrap x4 HQ1: Genbu Scrap x6 HQ2: Genbu Scrap x8 HQ3: Genbu Scrap x12
100	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Seiryu x1	NQ: Seiryu Scrap x4 HQ1: Seiryu Scrap x6 HQ2: Seiryu Scrap x8 HQ3: Seiryu Scrap x12
100	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Suzaku x1	NQ: Suzaku Scrap x4 HQ1: Suzaku Scrap x6 HQ2: Suzaku Scrap x8 HQ3: Suzaku Scrap x12