In Black Desert Online (BDO), Alchemy is a versatile life skill that allows players to create a wide variety of useful items through the use of an Alchemy Tool placed in a residence. This life skill involves combining various ingredients to produce potions, elixirs, and other products that can provide buffs, heal, or be used in other crafting processes.
Benefits of Alchemy:
- Profit: Alchemy products can be sold on the market for profit. The profit is not the best, but it still can be profitable if you gather your materials.
- Buffs: Provides essential buffs for combat and life skills.
- Crafting: Contributes to other crafting professions, such as Cooking and Processing.
How to Gain Experience:
- Crafting Items: Each successful craft gives experience points. The amount of experience gained depends on the recipe’s level and the rarity of the ingredients.
- Higher-Level Recipes: More advanced recipes give you more experience. As you level up your alchemy life skill, you will unlock additional recipes you can make. The goal is to reach GURU 1.
Tips to Power Level
1. Use Experience Boosts:
- Alchemy Stone: Use a Life Alchemy Stone to increase your alchemy experience gain.
- Alchemy Clothes: Equip Alchemist’s Clothes that provide experience boosts and reduce crafting time.
- Elixirs and Food Buffs: Consume items like the Elixir of Time or Seafood Cron Meal for experience boosts.
- Pets: Certain pets provide life-skill experience buffs.
- Guild Buffs: Join a guild with life-skill experience buffs.
- Tent buff: Use the life skill tent buff.
2. Focus on High-Experience Recipes:
- Advanced Recipes: Craft more advanced and complex recipes as they yield more experience.
- Special Elixirs: Focus on crafting elixirs that are in high demand and use rare ingredients.
3. Gather and Store Ingredients:
- Stockpile Materials: Gather and store many alchemy ingredients to minimize downtime.
- Rare Ingredients: Focus on collecting rare and high-value ingredients for higher-level recipes.
- Processing: Process raw materials into intermediate ingredients to use for alchemy recipes.
4. Utilize Daily and Weekly Quests:
- Daily Alchemy Quests: Complete daily quests that offer alchemy experience and materials. Talk to Liana.
- Imperial Crafting Delivery: Complete Imperial Crafting Delivery to exchange crafted items for experience and rewards.
5. Use the Right Alchemy Tools Your Residence:
- Top Alchemy Tools: Use alchemy tools that have high durability and reduce crafting time.
6. Stay Updated with Market Trends:
- Market Demand: Craft items that are in high demand on the market for better profits and consistent crafting.
- Price Monitoring: Regularly check the marketplace for ingredient prices and availability.
7. Invest in Mastery Gear:
- Alchemy Mastery Gear: Invest in and upgrade your Alchemy Mastery gear for higher levels of mastery to increase rare procs gains.
Now that we have the basics, let’s look at one of the best elixirs to consistently make to power up your alchemy level.
Best Elixit for Power Leveling
Why the Grim Reaper Elixir? The elixir that we will be covering today is the Grim Reaper Elixir. In my opinion, this is one of the best elixirs that you can make to earn massive amounts of XP for Alchemy. While there are other elixirs, like the Spirit Perfume Elixir, the materials for those recipes take much longer to gather. The key here is to produce more significant amounts of elixirs that give high XP rates and sell them straight to the central market to reclaim some of the silver spent on materials.
Requirements: Before we start, it is essential to know that you must be at least at the Alchemy level of Skilled 1 before you can make this elixir.
Ingredients Needed: There are five ingredients required to make the Grim Reaper’s Elixir:
- Sky Mushroom
- Monk’s Branch
- Trace of Nature
- Pure Powder Reagent
- Oil of Fortitude
Ingredient Breakdown:
Sky Mushroom:
- Worker Node: Elric Shrine node in Mediah next to Helms Post (4 contribution points)
- Central Market: Around 33,000 silver for the special Sky Mushroom
Monk’s Branch:
- Worker Nodes: Forest of Seclusion (3 CP), Serendia Shrine (2 CP), Oze Pass (2 CP)
- Central Market: Around 4,800 silver
Trace of Nature:
- Finding Nodes:
- Open your map and click the global icon to switch to the production nodes view.
- Filter by node type and select Excavation.
- Recommended Node: Lynch Farm Ruins (2 CP) near Heidel
- Central Market: Around 50,000 silver
Pure Powder Reagent:
- Ingredients Needed:
- Sugar (from cooking vendor)
- Silver Azalea (Northern Plain of Serendia node, 2 CP; Lynch Farm Ruins, 2 CP)
- Wild Grass/Weeds (gathered or bought from the central market for around 7,700 silver)
- Purified Water (process bottled water from Heidel or buy from general goods managers in Sand Grain Bazaar, Muiquun, or Arehaza)
Oil of Fortitude:
- Ingredients Needed:
- Clown’s Blood (combine Spirit’s Leaf, Powder of Darkness, Clear Liquid Reagent, and wolf or rhino Blood)
- Monk’s Branch (as detailed above)
- Fruit of Nature (farmed, gathered, or bought from the central market for around 185,000 silver)
- Powder of Flame (mining nodes, suggested node: Imp Cave, 2-3 CP)
Crafting Process:
- Gathering Ingredients:
- Use worker nodes and gathering to collect Sky Mushroom, Monk’s Branch, and Trace of Nature.
- Make Pure Powder Reagent and Oil of Fortitude using the ingredients listed.
- Crafting the Grim Reaper Elixir:
- Combine all gathered and crafted ingredients using an alchemy tool at home.
Final Tips:
- Gathering materials yourself will maximize profit when selling the elixirs.
- Use nodes and the central market to gather ingredients efficiently.
We have all the materials needed to make the Grim Reaper’s Elixir. Follow these steps, and you can power-level your Alchemy skill quickly.
By following this guide, you’ll be well on your way to mastering Alchemy in Black Desert Online! Happy crafting!