Approximate Materials Required for 1-600:

Alchemy Leveling Guide 1 – 60

• 1-60
  59 x [Minor Healing
  Potions] – 59 Peacebloom, 59 Silverleaf

  You’ll need these in the next step of the Alchemy guide.

60 – 140

Learn Alchemy Journeyman.

• 60-105
  50 x [Lesser
  Healing Potion] – 50 Minor Healing Potion, 50 Briarthorn

• 105-110
  5 x [Elixir of
  Wisdom] – 5 Mageroyal, 10 Briarthorn

• 110-140
  33 x [Healing
  Potion] – 33 Bruiseweed, 33 Briarthorn

140 – 205

Learn Alchemy Expert.

• 140-155
  15 x [Lesser
  Mana Potion] – 15 Mageroyal, 15 Stranglekelp

  Make [Fire Oil] if you don’t have [Stranglekelp] or if [Firefin Snapper] is cheap. You could
  also make more [Healing
  Potion].

• 155-175
  20 x [Greater
  Healing Potion] – 20 Liferoot, 20 Kingsblood

  If you made [Fire Oil], you can use it to make [Elixir of Minor Accuracy]

• 175-185
  10 x [Mana
  Potion] – 10 Stranglekelp, 10 Kingsblood

  Make more [Greater Healing Potion] if you don’t
  have Stranglekelp.

• • 185-205
    20 x [Elixir of
    Agility] – 20 Stranglekelp, 20 Goldthorn

or

25 x [Elixir of Fortitude] – 25
Wild Steelbloom, 25 Goldthorn

If you don’t have that many Goldthorn, make [Mana Potion] or [Lesser
Invisibility Potion] up to around 195.
These recipes will be yellow.

If you don’t have any Goldthorn at all, you can make [Nature Protection Potion] between 190-215,
the recipe
is sold by these vendors.

205 – 285

Learn Alchemy Artisan.

• 205-215
  10 x [Elixir of
  Greater Defense] – 10 Wild Steelbloom, 10 Goldthorn

  Read the end of the previous section if you don’t
  have Goldthorn.

• • 215-239
    25 x [Superior
    Healing Potion] – 25 Sungrass, 25 Khadgar’s Whisker

You can make this one up to 250 if it’s easier for you to get Sungrass instead of Blindweed.

If you are at or above level 85 and you will level Alchemy past 500, you can skip the next step.

You will use [Zen
Alchemist Stone] for transmutes. You can get this trinket from your trainer when you reach Alchemy skill
500.

• 239-240
  1 x [Philosopher’s Stone] – 4 Iron Bar, 1 Black Vitriol, 4 Purple Lotus, 4 FirebloomRecipe Location

  You will need this for transmutes, keep it.

• 240-250
  10 x [Elixir of
  Greater Intellect] – 10 Khadgar’s Whisker, 10 Blindweed

• 250-270
  20 x [Elixir
  of Detect Demon] – 40 Gromsblood

  You can also make [Elixir of Greater Intellect] or [Superior Healing Potion]
  up to 265 and [Superior Mana Potion] for the last 5 points.

  Make [Stonescale Oil]
  between 250-255 if you can find Stonescale Eel at the Auction House then turn those into [Elixir of Superior Defense] when you
  reach 265. The recipe is sold by these
  NPCs.

• 270-285
  15 x [Elixir of the Sages] – 30 Sorrowmoss, 15
  Dreamfoil

285 – 350

• 285-300
  18 x [Major
  Healing Potion] – 36 Golden Sansam, 18 Mountain Silversage

• 300-315Make your [Alchemist’s
  Flask] now if you need it. You will get 5 skill points for making it.

  Choose one of the recipes below. You can switch to the next recipe at 310 if you want to.

  15 x [Volatile Healing
  Potion] – 15 Golden Sansam, 15 Felweed

  15 x [Adept’s Elixir] – 15
  Dreamfoil, 15 Felweed

  15 x [Onslaught Elixir] – 15 Mountain
  Silversage, 15 Felweed

• 315-325
  10 x [Elixir
  of Healing Power] – 10 Golden Sansam, 10 Dreaming Glory

• 325-335
  10 x [Elixir of Draenic
  Wisdom] 10 Terocone, 10 Felweed

  Make [Mad Alchemist’s Potion] if you have a lot of Ragveil.

• 335-340
  5 x [Super
  Healing Potion] – 10 Netherbloom, 5 Felweed

  Make the previous recipe 5 more times if you don’t have
  Netherbloom.

• 340-350
  10 x [Super
  Mana Potion] – 20 Dreaming Glory, 10 Felweed

  Recipe
  Location

350 – 425

• 350-360
  10 x [Resurgent Healing Potion] – 20 Goldclover

• 360-365
  5 x [Icy Mana
  Potion] – 10 Talandra’s Rose

• • 365-380
    17 x [Spellpower Elixir] – 17 Goldclover, 17 Tiger Lily

You can make [Pygmy Oil] up to
385 if you can find some cheap Pygmy Suckerfish.

• 380-385
  5 x [Potion of
  Nightmares] – 5 Goldclover, 10 Talandra’s Rose

• 385-395
  10 x [Elixir
  of Mighty Strength] – 20 Tiger Lily

  This recipe will be yellow for the last 5 points, you might need
  to make more than 10.

• 395-405When you reach 400, you can make a [Northrend Alchemy Research] and your Alchemy
  Trinket, so you will need to craft fewer potions.

  12 x [Elixir of Mighty
  Agility] – 24 Goldclover, 24 Adder’s Tongue

• 405-415
  10 x [Indestructible Potion] – 20 Icethorn

• 415-425This recipe turns green at 422, so you might need to make more than 20.

  20 x [Runic Mana Potion] –
  20 Goldclover, 40 Lichbloom

425 – 500

• 425-450
  27 x [Draught
  of War] – 27 Cinderbloom

• 450-455
  5 x [Ghost
  Elixir] -10 Cinderbloom

• 455-460
  5 x [Deathblood Venom] – 10 Stormvine

• 460-465
  5 x [Volcanic
  Potion] – 5 Cinderbloom, 5 Azshara’s Veil

• 465-475
  11 x [Elixir
  of the Cobra] – 11 Cinderbloom, 11 Azshara’s Veil

  You can also make [Deepstone Oil] between 470-475 and then turn the
  Deepstone Oils into [Mysterious Potion].
  You should reach around 477 with this method.

Once you reach an Alchemy skill of 475, you may begin a quest to learn one of three specializations: Potions, Elixirs or Transmutations. Being specialized gives you a
chance to create an extra 1 to 4 (for a total 5) items while crafting in the field you have selected. For example, a
Master of Potions may be able to craft more than one [Super Mana Potion] for the same material cost as one.

• 475-480
  5 x [Elixir of
  Deep Earth] – 10 Heartblossom

• • 480-490
    10 x [Elixir
    of Impossible Accuracy] – 10 Heartblossom, 10 Cinderbloom

Make [Mythical Mana Potion] if
Whiptail is cheaper than Heartblossom.

• 490-495
  5 x [Golemblood Potion] – 5 Heartblossom, 5 Volatile Life

• 495-500
  5 x [Mythical
  Healing Potion] – 5 Twilight Jasmine

500 – 600

Learn Zen Alchemy.

From this point there are some significant changes to the leveling process. The trainers will only teach you 2
Pandarian recipes at 500 skill. These two recipes are used to unlock additional recipes. As a result there is no set
progression in crafting for skill points.

• 500-530
  40 x [Alchemist’s Rejuvenation] or [Master Healing Potion] – 40 Green Tea Leaf

Make your trinket [Zen Alchemist Stone] if you need it.

At this point you probably discovered 5-8 new recipes. You should always prioritize potions that use Green Tea Leaf
because it can be found in every zone and most likely it is always the cheapest herb.

How to determine which potions to make:

[Green Tea Leaf] > [Silkweed] > [Rain Poppy] > [Snow Lily] > [Fool’s Cap]

You should save around 25 each of these herbs: Green Tea Leaf, Snow Lily and Fool’s Cap. You will need them to reach
600 from 575 when you discover the new Mana Potion recipe. It will be the only orange recipe that you can use.

• 530-545
  If you have loads of Green Tea Leaf, you could just make the previous potions until you
  keep discovering new recipes. Once you make a green potion around 8 times and there was no new discovery, you
  should stop making it and start making a higher level potion in the list below.

  I made a priority list of the
  recipes you probably discovered, Mantid Elixir is usually the best recipe you can get. This list is based on
  how hard is to get a particular herb, but obviously if you have 20 Green Tea Leaf and 150 Rain Poppy, you
  should make a potion that use 2 Rain Poppy.

  Choose only one.

  1. 15 x [Mantid Elixir] –
  30 Green Tea Leaf
  2. 15 x [Potion of the Jade Serpent] – 15 Green Tea Leaf, 15
  Silkweed
  3. 15 x [Elixir of Weaponry] – 30 Silkweed
  4. 15 x [Potion of the Mountains]
  – 15 Green Tea Leaf, 15 Rain Poppy
  5. 15 x [Mad Hozen Elixir]– 30 Rain Poppy

• 545-575Choose only one.

  35 x [Virmen’s Bite] – 35
  Snow Lily, 35 Green Tea Leaf
  35 x [Elixir of Perfection] 35 Snow Lily, 35
  Silkweed
  35 x [Elixir
  of the Rapids] 35 Snow Lily, 35 Rain Poppy

  There are 3 other potions that you can discover, they require Fool’s Cap instead of Snow lily, so if you have
  loads of Fool’s Cap, you can make those potions instead.

  Between 570-580, you will discover [Master Mana Potion]. When you discover the recipe,
  you should start making it if your skill is at around 575, but the maximum I would recommend to make the
  potions above is until you reach 577.

• 575-600
  If you didn’t discover this recipe yet because you were unlucky , you will have to make the
  previous recipes, or any other transmute recipe.

  25 x [Master Mana Potion] – 25 Green Tea Leaf, 25 Snow
  Lily, 25 Fool’s Cap