alchemy guide? : FFXI General Discussions

Does anyone have any good alchemy guides?

My old LS site may have one.... I'll look for you

Yes, there was one.

PLEASE NOTE: I DID NOT WRITE ANY OF THIS. I DO NOT TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR THIS AT ALL. I FOUND THIS ON MY OLD LS'S WEBSITE AT AS FAR AS I KNOW, THIS WAS WRITTEN BY DRACON. (even though I don't play on Siren anymore...) IF HE TOOK IT FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE, I DO NOT KNOW. SO, PLEASE, DO NOT ACCUSE ME OF PLAGIARISM OR ANYTHING ELSE. I DID NOT STEAL THIS TO GET ANYTHING. [Link removed because I was told that they don't want anyone to go to it -_-]

Here it is:


Alchemy From 1-100

Skill 01-06:
Tsurara: (Crystal: Ice + Rock Salt + Distilled Water x2)
Vollbow Vender sells the Rock Salt, Taverns Sell the Water.

Skill 06-12:
Poison Dust: (Crystal: Lightning + Giant Stinger x2)
Fishing Product

Skill 12-16:
Mercury: (Crystal: Lightning + Cobalt Jellyfish x4)
Alchemist Guild, also a fishing product

Skill 16-18:
Poison Potion: (Crystal: Water + Poison Dust + Mercury)
Use materials that you made in the levels before.

Skill 18-20:
Echo Drops: (Crystal: Water + Sage + Distilled Water + Honey)
Honey from the AH, Sage from Aveline in S.Sandoria at F-7

Skill 20-24:
Silent Oil: (Crystal: Water + Slime Oil + Beeswax x2)
You can HQ small amounts of beeswax at this level, Slime Oil from AH.

Skill 24-27:
Blinding Potion: (Crystal: Lightning + Nebimonite + Mercury)
Nembonites are fishing products
ALT Formula: Blinding Potion: (Crystal: Water + Sleepshroom + Poison Flour + Crying Mustard)

Skill 27-29:
Silent Oil: (Crystal: Water + Olive Oil + Beeswax x2)
Olive Oil also from Aveline in SSandoria at F-7
ALT Formula: Silent Oil: (Crystal: Water + Slime Oil + Beeswax x2)
Olive Oil also from Aveline in SSandoria at F-7

Skill 29-31:
Artificial Lens: (Crystal: Fire + Glass Fiber x2)
Glass Fibers can be desynthed from Goblin Masks, but better if you just bougth the fibers

Skill 31-36:
Potion: (Crystal: Water + Sage + Lizard Tail + Distilled Water)
Sage once again from Aveline at S.Sandoria

Skill 36-43:
Vitriol: (Crystal: Water + Ingredients: Treant Bulb x2)
Treant Bulbs from AH
ALT Formula Vitriol: (Crystal: Water + Dhalmel Saliva)

Skill 43-45:
Acid Bolt Heads: (Crystal: Wind + Animal Glue + Bronze Ingot + Vitriol)
Use Vitriol to make the bolt heads, sell for profit

Skill 45-51:
Holy Water: (Crystal: Light + Distilled Water)
Easiest Recipe ever, Light crystal + Distilled Water

Skill 51-53:
Holy Bolt Heads: (Crystal: Wind + Bronze Ingot + Holy Water x2)
Use Holy Water to make these Bolt Heads

Skill 53-54:
Cerment Chunks: (Crystal: Fire + Magic Pot Shard x4)
You will use these for your guild items; it is always good to have a few stacks lying around.
ALT Formula: Cerment Chunks (59): (Crystal: Fire + Golem Shard x2)
ALT Formula: Cerment Chunks (60): (Crystal: Fire + Doll Shard x2)

Skill 54-57:
Hi Potion: (Crystal: Water + Sage x2 + Malboro Vine + Distilled Water)
Sell to NPC or AH

Skill 57-61:
Venom Dust (61): (Crystal: Lightning + Scorpion Claw x2)
Ogre Eels or Scorpion Claws. Do not sell, they will be used again.

Venom Dust (62): (Crystal: Lightning + Ogre Eel x2)
Ogre Eels or Scorpion Claws. Do not sell, they will be used again.
Venom Dust (62): (Crystal: Lightning + Monke-Onke)
Do not sell, they will be used again.

Skill 61-68:
Venom Potion: (Crystal: Water + Venom Dust + Mercury)
Use the Dust from the previous Synth.

Skill 68-71:
Spartan Bullets: (Crystal: Fire + Copper Ingot + Twinkle Powder + Bronze Ingot + Firesand)
Twinkle Powder- Upih Khachla H-9 Windurst Waters

Skill 71-72:
Paralysis Dust (71): (Crystal: Lightning + Puffball x2)
Harvesting Item, Best to buy materials at AH, will be used for many guild item synths.
Paralysis Dust (72): (Crystal: Lightning + Three-Eyed Fish)
Harvesting Item, Best to buy materials at AH, will be used for many guild item synths.

Skill 72-76:
Venom Bolt Heads: (Crystal: Wind + Animal Glue + Bronze Ingot + Venom Potion)
Use the Venom Potions to make these bolt heads.
ALT Formula: Venom Bolt Heads: (Crystal: Wind + Iron Ingot + Copper Ingot + Animal Glue + Poison Arrowheads)

Skill 76-77:
Paralyze Potion: (Crystal: Water + Paralysis Dust + Mercury)
Use the Paralysis Dust to make this Potion (which will be used later for guild items)

Skill 77-81:
Bloody Bolt Heads: (Crystal: Wind + Bronze Ingot + Beastman Blood + Revival Tree Root)
All materials obtained from the AH or self made.

Skill 81-85:
Ouka Ramnan:( Crystal: Earth + Firesand + Amaryllis + Bast Parchment x2)
Ouka Ramnan uses Woodworking 23. If not, fixing composites will be the best bet.

Skill 85-89:
Fixing Composite Rods (85) / 81-84: (Crystal: Light + Broken Composite Rod)
Make your own materials. It is hard to desynth goblin masks so I suggest buying glass fibers. You will HQ a lot of the carbon.
Fixing Composite Rods (89) / 81-84: (Crystal: Fire + Carbon Fiber x3 + Glass Fiber x2 + Cermet Chunk x2)
Ouka Ramnen. Ouka Ramnen uses Woodworking 23. If not, fixing composites will be the best bet.

Skill 89-93:
Icarus Wings: (Crystal: Wind + Giant Bird Feather x6 + Beeswax x2)
If you are in seraph, this is a pretty big loss/hit. But is the cheapest recipe available.

Skill 93-94:
Cannon Shells: (Crystal: Fire + Iron Ingot + Brass Ingot + Bomb Arm + Firesand x2)
For that one level, I leveled Smithing to level 30 and Goldsmithing to 15. Materials are hard to get from here to the end. Twinkle Powder is again gotten from Windurst Waters from Upih Khachla.

Skill 94-95:
Marksmanship Oil: (Crystal: Water + Goblin Grease + Slime Juice)
Dependant on Dynamis Drops. Will be about 20k per synth and a total loss if you can't find someone to sell it to. (Makes relic gun)

Skill 95-98:
1 Synth Panacea --> 1 Synth Platinum Nuggets
Do a 1 to 1 ratio until you cap Platinum Nuggets at 96. Then do Panacea until you cap out and convert them to Platinum Nuggets to mitigate your losses. (No one buys Panacea)
Panacea (98): (Crystal: Light + Philosopher's Stone + Mercury + Sulfur + Rock Salt)
Platinum Nuggets (96): (Crystal: Fire + Platinum Leaf + Panacea)

Skill 98-99:
Cantarella or the 99-100 synths.
Cantarella: (Crystal: Dark + Mercury + Venom Dust + Paralysis Dust + Fresh Orc Liver + Distilled Water)
Uses Fresh Orc Liver which is pretty hard to get.

Skill 99-100:
Sun Water: (Crystal: Light + Cactuar Root + Philosopher's Stone + Mercury + Beastman Blood)
Pro-Ether: (Crystal: Water + Ahriman Wing x2 + Treant Bulb + Dried Marjoram x3 + Distilled Water + Wyvern Wing)
Cactaur Root you must kill Cactrot Rapido or Cactaur Ballarina. Ahriman's Wings is from Castle Zvhal Baileys. Wyvren Wings are from the wyvrens in Kuftal, Gustav, and Ifrit's Cauldron.

Sometimes it just seems people look at the skill caps of things for a guide on Synthing, however from about 95 on anything over your skill can be decent. Basically with any high level synth, to try and cap you're going to be scrambling to find materials.

I'm at 94 and have been absorbing anything that comes on the AH to synth with. I found that on my server, making a few max potions can skill up well at my level and can sell for profit. Just desynth a dragon heart and turn those into max potions. Don't want to flood the market on them as not a huge amount sell.

Also keep an eye on when people buy things, ffxiah.com is a good place to check sales dates. Obviously the weekend is when you'll want to have your stuff up by. I like to synth higher selling things on thursday or friday to place on AH and keep things on it all through sunday. Weekdays the sales of things slows down, especially cursed gear, and you're almost wasting money putting it on AH, except for King Cursed gear.

Good luck in Alchemy .

Thanks.

np lol.... My old site probably has a guide for all the crafts except for fishing to 100

I would post the others if you guys want me to, but my friend doesn't want the LS site shown... It was supposed to be private or something like that. I'll have to ask him before I post anymore of their guides.... Sorry bout that...