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.

Naria's original Alchemy guide, modified for Caldera

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
8-10	Animal Glue
18-20	Poison Potion
28-30	Blinding Potion
38-40	Firesand
48-50	Fire Sword
58-60	Hi-Potion
68-70	Acid Kukri
78-80	X-Potion
88-90	Bloody Sword
98-100	Saida Ring Way of the Alchemist (Key Item)

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
108	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Byakko x1	NQ: Byakko Scrap x4 HQ1: Byakko Scrap x6 HQ2: Byakko Scrap x8 HQ3: Byakko Scrap x12
108	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Genbu x1	NQ: Genbu Scrap x4 HQ1: Genbu Scrap x6 HQ2: Genbu Scrap x8 HQ3: Genbu Scrap x12
108	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Seiryu x1	NQ: Seiryu Scrap x4 HQ1: Seiryu Scrap x6 HQ2: Seiryu Scrap x8 HQ3: Seiryu Scrap x12
108	Lightning Crystal	Seal of Suzaku x1	NQ: Suzaku Scrap x4 HQ1: Suzaku Scrap x6 HQ2: Suzaku Scrap x8 HQ3: Suzaku Scrap x12