How useful do you all imagine alchemy will be now that we are back in classic?

I think getting skill high enough for SoW potions is a no-brainer but after that the gate/port potions are expensive and difficult. The blistering flesh potions aren't great. Really, alchemy was altered to become a lot better.

And yet, I will definitely be an alchemist, if for no other reason than because I am a shaman and it's an awesome idea, hah.

SoW potions were a gods send back in the day. I remember paying 50pp per 5 shot potion. That was an automatic item before I went out doing what ever I needed to be doing that day/night.

initially in vanilla EQ alchemy was useless and broken, here the original receipe list

http://web.archive.org/web/200006190558 ... lchemy.htm

then with the patch http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000217a.html shortly before kunark, alchemy was revamped and the first real useful potions like SoW and gate potion (1000p for melee each if i remember) were created http://web.archive.org/web/200006190558 ... tility.htm

Just how expensive was alchemy? A lot of those ingredients I have no clue where to get so they must be vendor bought or dropped from something strange.

Best as I remember (and it could well be faulty ) the components for alchemy were dropped and some purchased from a vendor at your shaman guild. I think the herbal bought components were fairly expensive for classic.

that is interesting, is that with alchemy only or all mixing skills?

On my monk I remember always having SoW and Invis potions. Other than that I don't think I used any, maybe a gate once or twice.

I think you are missing some of the potions. I know before Luclin there were other potions like Lesser and Greater Rejuvenation etc.

Check out http://web.archive.org/web/200008312347 ... index.html (archived from July 11, 2000). I hope alchemy is useful and includes all the potions up and through Velious