Alchemist

The Alchemist is the Merchant's alternate class and, just like the Blacksmith, excels at crafting items instead of forging weapons. Its specialty is potion brewing, and it has a loyal homunculus to help it in battle. Besides brewing potions, the Alchemist can also protect allies' equipment from breaking. But don't be fooled: it can break your equipment if you're an enemy. General class reference guide. ReClassic applies its own rebalance to several skills, so some builds and skills may vary compared to classic Ragnarok.

Becoming an Alchemist

Requirements: being a Merchant, having at least class level 40 and having spent all your skill points. Note: Parmy Gianino also offers to become an Alchemist right away for 100,000z, with no test. But you lose the rewards: the 100,000z bonus, all the Crafting Manuals and the Platinum Skills. For an Alchemist the manuals are essential: it's not worth skipping. Your journey into alchemy starts in Al De Baran (`alde_alche`), at the Alchemist Guild.

Assigned Items (Step 2)

You need to bring one of the assigned items. The substitute items can be delivered instead of the item assigned to you:

Rasputin's Test

Raspuchin Gregory gives a math test. The questions are drawn from the three sets below. Each set has 10 or 11 questions, and you pass as long as you get no more than 5 wrong (you don't need to get them all right). Anyone at job level 50 skips this test.

Question Set 1

Question Set 2

Question Set 3

Darwin's Items (Step 5)

Darwin asks for the items below. Giving him a Illusion Flower lets you skip the rest of the test:

Mixture and Counteragent Quest

When Morgenstein offers to craft the item, choose according to the answer Van Helmont asked for:

1. Bring Detrimindexta, Karvodailnirol and Alcohol. Enter the portal shown on the map and go up to the second floor. Talk to Louitz, who's in the last room up there, near the bookshelf. He'll mention "Morgenstein".
2. Go to Geffen and talk to Aure Dupon, who's to the left of the east Kafra. He'll also mention Morgenstein.
3. Enter the Blacksmith Guild and go up the stairs. Enter the other portal and talk to Morgenstein. After talking to him twice, he'll offer to craft a Counteragent or a Mixture.

Bain and Bajin's Research

Nicholas Flamel's scrambled words test sends you to visit Bain and Bajin in Juno. The correct words are drawn from one of the sets below (answer key): You don't need to bring anything for this step: once you pass the test and talk to Nicholas Flamel again (with free inventory space), he'll give you the research items for free and send you to deliver them to Bain and Bajin in Juno: After delivering the items to Bain and Bajin in Juno, go back to Nicholas Flamel and he'll send you to talk to the Union Leader, on the 2nd floor, to finish the class change.

Rewards

It's well worth leveling up to job 50: the Vol. 8 (Condensed Potion) is only given in that case, and it's the most valuable manual of the set.

Abyssalite Compact Potions

The Compact White Potion and the Compact Blue Potion made with Abyssalite Fragment are ReClassic recipes and have nothing to do with the Vol. 8 Creation Guide. No manual is needed, nor do you need to have become an Alchemist at class level 50: you just need the Pharmacy skill and the materials in hand. The recipe only shows up in the Prepare Potion list once the materials are already in your inventory. Without the Fragment and the 20 herbs the line isn't even shown, which gives the impression that some requirement is missing. Each batch comes out as a lot of 35 to 120 potions and never fails. What your skill decides isn't success, but the lot size: it factors in your Pharmacy and Pharmacy levels, class level, INT, DEX, and LUK. On the Alchemist Ranking the whole lot counts as a single successful preparation. Careful with the name: the compact potions from the original Ragnarok, made with an Tubo de Ensaio, are a different thing. Those do depend on the Creation Manual Vol.8, given only to those who become an Alchemist at class level 50.

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