What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?

5kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 174 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 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 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 · Shadowlands Alchemy · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Alchemy leveling 1 → 203 · Shadowlands Alchemy

5kg in reagents over about 174 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 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

Total4,993

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 175

Orange

Shaded Bag of Ore

needs the recipe item

About 174 crafts.4,993

per skill point28

Porous Stone×696

Shaded Stone×348

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

Shaded Bag of Ore0/1740

0/1740

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

Back in your pocket4,993

What's worth crafting with Alchemy right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Alchemy right now?: 5kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 174 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 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 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.