Alchemy leveling guide This is a general guide to some of the cost - efficient strategies for leveling your alchemy . 1 - 55 . Getting from 1 to 55 is easy enough . You need to collect 60 Peacebloom , 60 Silverleaf , and 60 Empty Vial s to make 60 Minor Healing Potion s . Make all of them up and this should get you to skill 60 . Keep the Minor Healing Potion s , you will use them as ingredients in the next step . Talk to the appropriate trainer to become a Journeyman Alchemist and train the Lesser Healing Potion . You have to be level 10 to become a Journeyman Alchemist . 55 - 125 . Use the minor healing potions made earlier to make Lesser Healing Potion s to get to 110 . If you didn ' t reach 110 , make Elixir of Wisdom until you do . You require 50 Minor Healing Potion s , and 50 Briarthorn to make 50 Lesser Healing Potion s ; 5 Mageroyal , 10 Briarthorn , and 5 Empty Vial s to make 5 Elixir of Wisdom . At 110 you can learn the healing potion recipe . Make some Healing Potion s ( 15 Bruiseweed , 15 Briarthorn , and 15 Leaded Vial s to make 15 Healing Potion s ) . Once you hit 125 talk to the appropriate trainer to become an Expert Alchemist . You have to be level 20 to become an Expert Alchemist . 125 - 200 . Make some more healing potions to get to skill 140 . At 130 Fire Oil ( 2x ) becomes available , can level to 165 , or make 15 lesser mana potions ( 15 Mageroyal , 15 Stranglekelp , and 15 Empty Vials ) to get to 155 . Then get the training for greater healing potions ( 30 Liferoot , 30 Kingsblood , and 30 Leaded Vial s ) to make 30 Greater Healing Potion to get to 185 . Make 15 Elixirs of Agility ( 15 Stranglekelp , 15 Goldthorn , and 15 Leaded Vial s ) to get to 200 . Once you hit 200 , talk to the appropriate trainer to become an Artisan Alchemist . As of patch 2 . 4 the capital city trainers will train you all the way up to 300 . You will still have to be level 35 to become an Artisan Alchemist . 200 - 265 . Make some more Elixirs of Agility to get to 210 . Make five Elixirs of Greater Defense until 215 ( 5 Wild Steelbloom , 5 Goldthorn , 5 Leaded Vial ) and then make 15 Superior Healing Potion s until 230 ( 15 Sungrass , 15 Khadgar ' s Whisker , 15 Crystal Vial ) . Make 20 Elixirs of Detect Undead to get to 250 ( 20 Arthas ' Tears , 20 Crystal Vial ) and 15 Elixirs of Greater Agility to get to 265 ( 15 Sungrass , 15 Goldthorn , 15 Crystal Vial ) . 265 - 300 . Learn the Superior Mana Potion and the Major Healing Potion recipes from Master Alchemists . Alternatively , both potions can be trained at Lorokeem , the Master Alchemy Trainer in Shattrath Lower City , or from the Master Alchemy trainer in Stonard . Make 20 Superior Mana Potion s to get to skill 285 , ( 40 Sungrass , 40 Blindweed , 20 Crystal Vial ) and 15 Major Healing Potion s to get to 300 , ( 30 Golden Sansam , 15 Mountain Silversage , 15 Crystal Vial ) . Congratulations , you now have a skill of 300 in alchemy . 300 - 325 . Leveling from 300 to 325 is easy . Visit the alchemy trainer in Outland ( Alchemist Gribble for Alliance , Apothecary Antonivich for Horde ) . Learn Master Alchemy . He can teach you a number of recipes that require Felweed ( the basic Outland herb ) , Imbued Vials , and one of the top - level Old World herbs : Dreamfoil , Mountain Silversage , or Golden Sansam . Since Golden Sansam is usually the cheapest of all , it is most economical to make Volatile Healing Potion s . You can get almost to 320 alchemy with just one stack of Felweed and one stack of Golden Sansam . You must be Level 50 or higher in order to learn Alchemy past 300 . 325 - 350 . The highest potion you can learn from the trainer , the Super Healing Potion , requires 325 alchemy . This is the potion you ' ll be making till approximately 340 . If you reach Honored with Honor Hold ( alliance ) or Thrallmar ( horde ) , you can buy the and learn it at 330 . Most other potions in this level range are rather useless , very hard to get , or require rare herbs . At 340 - 345 you can buy some new recipes from vendors . For alliance , visit Haalrun in Telredor ( Zangarmarsh ) and Leeli Longhaggle in Allerian Stronghold ( Terokkar Forest ) . For horde , visit Daga Ramba in Thunderlord Stronghold ( Blade ' s Edge ) . When choosing between Aldor and Scryer , keep in mind that Aldor has no alchemy recipes and Scryer has one ( , which requires 345 alchemy ) . 350 - 375 . At 350 you can learn transmutation recipes . The only transmutation that you can easily learn creates Primal Might ; it is sold by Skreah in northern Shattrath City . Two other transmutations that you can get on your own in a reasonable amount of time are those to transmute Earth to Water ( revered with Sporeggar ) and Fire to Earth ( revered with Kurenai / Mag ' har ) . Burning Crusade . If you don ' t have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion , things will get slow past 360 because , unless you do a lot of reputation grinding , all of the recipes that you know ( except transmutations ) will turn green or gray . You ' ll have a choice of three recipes : In addition , Fel Lotus will be useful for making discoveries of Burning Crusade recipes . These herbs are fairly cheap since the release of WotLK and stacks can usually be bought for around 5 - 7g each . Alternatively you can farm them yourself . Wrath of the Lich King . " See also : Alchemy grand master recipe " Training Alchemy past skill 350 gets easier in WotLK as the Grand Master profession trainers have new recipes that can be learned from 350 onwards . These new recipes have easy - to - find ingredients and will begin at orange skill , so your chances of getting skill levels from them will be far higher than if you continue training with the Burning Crusade level recipes . Grand Master Alchemy profession trainers can be found in Warsong Hold , Valiance Keep , Vengeance Landing , Valgarde , and Dalaran . 375 - 400 . You must be at least level 65 to become a grand master alchemist and raise the alchemy skill cap beyond level 375 . Useful trainer recipes : 400 - 425 . Useful trainer recipes : From 422 to 425 , there are three options : 425 - 450 . Useful trainer recipes :