What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?

8.8kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 62 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 8.8kg. 50% 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 17:54 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 · Khaz Algar Alchemy · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Alchemy leveling 1 → 200 · Khaz Algar Alchemy

8.8kg in reagents over about 62 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 8.8kg. 50% 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

Viridescent Spores×860

Total8,846

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 22

Orange→Yellow

Algari Healing Potion

first craft: +Knowledge

About 11 crafts.705

per skill point33

Gilded Vial×55

Mycobloom×66

Step 2 · Skill 22 → 27

Orange→Yellow

Algari Mana Potion

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 3 crafts.273

per skill point54

Gilded Vial×15

Mycobloom×18

Blessing Blossom×9

Step 3 · Skill 27 → 30

Orange

Slumbering Soul Serum

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 2 crafts.297

per skill point99

Step 4 · Skill 30 → 90

Orange→Yellow

Umbral Essentia

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 32 crafts.5,028

per skill point83

Step 5 · Skill 90 → 95

Yellow

Flask of Tempered Aggression

trainerfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 4 crafts.970

per skill point194

Step 6 · Skill 95 → 100

Green

Umbral Essentia

needs the recipe itemfirst craft: +Knowledge

About 10 crafts.1,571

per skill point314

Skill 100 → 200

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

Skill 200 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Umbral Essentia4270

4229

Flask of Tempered Aggression44

418

Algari Healing Potion1170

117

Algari Mana Potion382

Slumbering Soul Serum21

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

Back in your pocket8,786

What's worth crafting with Alchemy right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?: 8.8kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 62 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 8.8kg. 50% 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 17:54 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.