Alchemy can be incredibly useful. Potions can give you the added boost you may need to get through a long grueling dungeon, and you cannot raise the dead without the right concoction.
You need three things to make a potion:
1. High alchemy skill. When a character tries to make a potion, his/her alchemy skill must be above a certain level. The higher above that level, the better the chance for success.
2. The right ingredient. Ingredients are usually found at special encounters outdoors, and regenerate themselves after a time. Generally, the person who teaches a recipe tells you what plant it needs.
3. The recipe. These are usually bought in towns. You only need to buy each recipe once for the entire party.
When you have all these things, go into a town and click on the blue bottle button. Pick the PC with the highest alchemy skill to make the potion. Hope.
Here is a list of the alchemical concoctions, with min. skill to make: |Weak Curing | Min. Skill - 1 |Need holly. Cures poison somewhat.
Strong Healing Potion | Min. Skill - 12 |Need graymold and comfrey root. Provides excellent healing.
Killer Poison | Min. Skill - 12 |Need mandrake root. The strongest poison.
Resurrection Balm | Min. Skill - 9 |Need ember flowers. Necessary to cast Raise Dead or Resurrection.
Medium Power Potion | Min. Skill - 14 |Need mandrake root and asptongue mold. Restores a fair amount of spell points.
Knowledge Brew | Min. Skill - 19 |This most powerful of potions requires Mandrake and Ember Flowers for its creation.
Strength Potion | Min. Skill - 10 |This brew is a great aid in combat. Making it requires ember flowers and graymold.
Bliss | Min. Skill - 16 |Combining the best elements of healing and strength potions, bliss potions contain asptongue mold and graymold.
Strong Energy Potion | Min. Skill - 20 |This is the hardest potion to make, and require ember flowers and mandrake. The energy boost it provides, however, can’t be matched.
One of the most useful things you can make with alchemy is poison, a powerful weapon in the magic-poor world of Exile.
Many monsters are immune to magic and fire. However, not many are poison-resistant. This makes poison an excellent mage-killer.
To poison a weapon, use it during combat. Your hand-to-hand weapon (the first one, if two are equipped) or arrows will become poisoned. Each time you attack, the level of poison decreases.
Don't poison a weapon too long before combat. It's effectiveness decreases with time. Also, switching weapons makes the poison disappear.
Poisoning an already poisoned weapon doesn't do much good. The weapon gets the maximum poison level of the poison being added or the poison already there, no more.
