What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?

1.5kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 217 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.5kg. 86% of the route is priced

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 22:27 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Shadowlands Alchemy · KR · prices as of 22:27 UTC

Alchemy leveling 1 → 203 · Shadowlands Alchemy

1.5kg in reagents over about 217 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1.5kg. 86% of the route is priced

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

First Flower×907

710

×90710

Ground Rising Glory×3341

Rune Etched Vial×4530

×4513

Total1,482

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 125

Orange→Green

Glory Burst

needs the recipe item

About 167 crafts.664

per skill point5

Ground Rising Glory×334

Step 2 · Skill 125 → 170

Orange

Cosmic Healing Potion

trainer

About 45 crafts.723

per skill point16

Rune Etched Vial×45

First Flower×90

Step 3 · Skill 170 → 175

Orange

Shaded Bag of Ore

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.94

per skill point18

Porous Stone×20

Shaded Stone×10

Skill 175 → 203

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 203 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Cosmic Healing Potion4520

459

Shaded Bag of Ore0/50

0/50

Glory Burst0/1670

0/1670

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket1,473

What's worth crafting with Alchemy right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?: 1.5kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 217 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.5kg. 86% of the route is priced
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 22:27 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.