Overview

• Custom HP and MP potions in four tiers - stronger than what the shop sells.
• Basic potions (Lesser, Normal) come from the Universal Shop.
• Higher tiers (Greater, Quick, Greater Quick, Divine Elixir) come from the Alchemist.
• Heal-over-time potions and instant potions have separate cooldowns.

Auto potions

Type .config (or .acp) in chat to open your Settings window and pick when to drink automatically.

• HP, CP and MP each have their own mark: Off, 30%, 50%, 70% or 90%. When the bar falls under it, any potion of that kind in your bag is used, retail or custom, one potion every 1.5 seconds at most.
• Checked once a second, potion cooldowns are respected, and it works in PvP.
• Paused while you sit, trade or run a store, in towns and other peace zones, in the Olympiad, and while Auto-farm is fighting for you (it has its own potion settings).
• Off by default and saved per character.

Potion tiers

• Greater - 798 HP or 399 MP over 14 seconds.
• Quick - 1000 HP or 500 MP instantly.
• Greater Quick - 2000 HP or 1000 MP instantly.
• Divine Elixir - 25% of max HP or MP instantly.

Getting materials

• Magic Dust - monsters level 40+, and spoil from monsters below level 52.
• Concentrated Magic Dust - monsters level 52+, and spoil at levels 52-67.
• Pure Alchemy Essence - monsters level 68+, and spoil at level 68+.
• Philosopher's Stone Fragments - raid bosses level 70+.
• Bounty Hunt turn-ins reward all four.
• Spare materials sell to any shop for adena, so a stack is never dead weight.

Alchemist NPC

Found in Giran, next to the Blacksmith and Quartermaster. Three services:

• Brew - trade materials plus adena for finished potions in packs of 10 (Divine Elixir in packs of 5). Nothing to learn, nothing to open.
• Refine - convert 4 materials of one tier into 1 of the next (a Fragment takes 10 Essence), or split 1 higher-tier material back into 2 of the lower tier (a Fragment into 5 Essence). A level 40 farmer can reach any tier with enough Magic Dust.
• Recipes and bottles - the cheaper bulk path for players who craft: a recipe scroll costs 150 materials of its tier (100 Essence for Greater Quick, 20 Fragments for Divine), an Empty Alchemy Bottle costs 200 adena, and each Common Craft makes 50 potions.

Crafting with recipes

1. Buy a recipe scroll from the Alchemist and use it to learn the recipe.
2. Open the Common Craft window (available to all classes).
3. Select the potion - each craft produces 50 potions and uses bottles + materials + MP.

Brew costs roughly 1.5 to 2.5 times the recipe path per potion for Greater, Quick and Greater Quick; for Divine Elixir the gap is several times wider, so the recipe pays off fastest there. Exact prices are shown in the Alchemist's windows in-game.