Alchemist

Alchemists (also known as chemists) are potion masters who have chosen the path of alchemy as their profession. They take on the positions of vendors, trainers, apprentices, and masters. Alchemists use herbs to create strange, magical brews that heal, empower, and produce a variety of positive effects - invisibility, elemental resistance, mana restoration, and much more. They can also transmute mystic materials into rare and exotic new forms. With their power to create valuable consumables, alchemists are highly useful to adventurers. By creating rare materials, alchemists can make a great deal of money, enable the creation of powerful weapons and armor, and even influence the economy of Azeroth.http://us.battle.net/wow/en/profession/alchemy
Among the specialties they can dedicate themselves to, they can become masters of potions,Potion Master (quest) masters of elixirs,Elixir Master (quest) or masters of transmutation.Transmutation Master (quest)
==Characteristics==
Any alchemist will tell that matter is malleable, any substance can be transformed into another - but nothing is really created or destroyed.Master of Transmutation (2) As transmuters,Master of Transmutation (1) they use alchemist stones of various qualities,Hatchling's First Alchemy Stone and can learn to overcome all these limitations. In their work, they mix potions, elixirs, flasks, mana oils or wizard oils, and other alchemical substances into vials using herbs and other reagents. Their concoctions can restore health and mana, poison and paralyze, make invisible, enhance attributes, or provide any number of other useful effects. High level alchemists can also transmute essences and metals into other essences and metals. Their most numerous and prized requests concern the concoction of mana potions in times of conflict.Mana MarketsArathi Donations: Coastal Mana Potion
It is important for an alchemist to take great care in their trade.Elixirs for the Bladeleafs Patience and precision are important for an alchemist, as even slight alterations to a potion's ingredients can change it fundamentally.Sylvanna Forestmoon#Quotes They are used to gathering foul substances safely, and in time, are used to the smell.Decaying News One trained in alchemy is able to sense the magical potential from the resources they use.Strange Spherical Stone (quest) Illidan Stormrage has long practice in alchemy, which lets him identify individual components in alchemical mixtures.World of Warcraft: Illidan, pg. 151
Some alchemists can craft an extract that will induce a vision.The Best and Brightest For an alchemist, the creation of a truth serum is tricky business, demanding keen instincts, perfect timing, and improvisation at every step.Troll Patrol: The Alchemist's Apprentice Plants have properties that allow alchemists to re-energize and reinvigorate others through potions.Master of Potions (2) The Deathrose is a rare flower that grows only in the deepest, darkest swamps of Ashenvale, and in the hands of a master alchemist, the petals of the flower can be used to create some of the deadliest poisons known to exist in all Azeroth.
All alchemists have their own alchemy station, it's a personal workbench they take care of, and for which they spend years assembling the materials and components necessary to work on.Patricia Egan#Quotes Among their instruments, they notably use a burner or leyflame burner,A Dormant Burner corks,Eye of Azshara: Put a Cork in It a mixing flask,Flasking for a Favor volatile reagents,We Need More Powder! filters,Forlorn Filter a crucible,A Fragile Crucible a calibrated burette assembly,Going Underground and a decoction conduit.Channeling Our Efforts
Potion stains on their tabard and crushed herbs on their boots are one way to easily recognize an alchemist.Get Your Mix On All the stirring during their labors makes their arms strong.Alchemist Narett#Quotes
==Background==
Before the War of the Ancients, Beth'Amara was one of the Highborne's most influential alchemists, and she alone was said to have mastered transmuting metals among other things.Delivery to Magatha
The Dark Iron dwarf Urheld Darkstone, despite being an alchemist of great skill, was thought insane by his contemporaries and, hence, did not share his research.The Darkstone Tablet
Walleye Sprysprocket was a famed alchemist who lived long ago. After he studied Sandstone Drakes in great detail, he developed potions to mimic the drakes' physiology.Mount Journal entry for Vial of the Sands
===World of Warcraft===
The Royal Apothecary Society is a Forsaken alchemical society created by Sylvanas Windrunner in order to create a new undead plague to wipe out the Scourge.A New Plague They are constantly brewing up new plagues and poisons to unleash upon Sylvanas' enemies, and the other races of the Horde once believed they were working on a remedy to cure their "illness".Seeping Corruption (2)
===Wrath of the Lich King===
During the war against the Lich King, Professor Putricide's blight was one of the Scourge's most powerful weapons. Consequently, Alchemist Adrianna of the Argent Crusade sent adventurers to obtain pure samples of the toxins, in order for their researchers and alchemists to concoct an antidote that would save countless lives.Residue Rendezvous
During the War Against the Nightmare, Stormwindian alchemists brew a potion that would help individuals sleep and keep immune against the Emerald Nightmare, which King Varian Wrynn took to protect himself.Stormrage, chapter 10
===Cataclysm era===
Prior to the Cataclysm, Thrall sent several Horde alchemists to Ashenvale to assist the night elves in looking over the slaughter' site, where many tauren and night elves druids of the Cenarion Circle have been murdered by the Twilight's Hammer, and also to examine the blood and clothing of which the Horde was accused.The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm, chapter 7
In Gilneas, Krennan Aranas the Royal Chemist and Belysra Starbreeze collaborated to create a serum to help Genn Greymane keep his worgen affliction controlled and secret.Curse of the Worgen Issue 3 It was later used on bitten Gilneans to fight the Forsaken during the invasion of Gilneas.Curse of the Worgen Issue 5 At Raven Hill in Duskwood, Oliver Harris also worked on a way to restore the mind and sanity of the feral worgen, and through alchemy, he managed to cure Sven Yorgen from his madness.Cry For The Moon
When Ironforge fell under the control of the Dark Iron dwarves, a dwarven priestess and alchemist gave Prince Anduin Wrynn an invisibility potion to flee Queen-Regent Moira Thaurissan.The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm, chapter 31 At the request of Kurdran Wildhammer, alchemists later came to check the sickly state of Sky'ree and confirmed that she was old instead of ill.Fire and Iron
===Mists of Pandaria===
In order to fight the mantid, the Shado-Pan alchemists created gas bombs for their agents, sowing chaos and delaying their actions for days anywhere that they set them off.Fumigation
===Warlords of Draenor===
On , alchemists have been known to show an interest in digging up gronnling bones for research purposes.Powdered Gronnling
===Legion===
As potent alchemy can be used to prevent insects from infesting fields of farmlands, the drogbar used to trade bug sprayers to the Highmountain tauren of the Rivermane tribe.Ormgul the Pestilent (quest)
During the campaign on Argus, a few alchemists traveled to Krokul Hovel, carrying with them fel-tainted alchemist stones. Alchemist Funen later helped them to purify the stones and elevate the power within.Ascending Alchemy
===Dragonflight===
The Artisan's Consortium is a company that provides goods and services to crafters and gatherers in need across Azeroth.Grok Thickfoot#Quotes They have a vast network of artisans and gatherers of all professions, notably alchemists, that can craft and obtain the highest quality goods,Aisha#Quotes and their business connects those artisans and gatherers to the customers.Azley#Quotes
==Organizations==
*Crown Chemical Company
*EAAAES
*Royal Apothecary Society
*Shadra'Zan
*Alchemists' Union 
*Kabal 
==Known==
=== Alliance===
=== Horde===
=== Neutral===
=== Hostile===
===Types===
==Goblin alchemist==
Due to the influence of the kaja'mite, goblins became excelent alchemists.Liberate the Kaja'mite These maniacal and brilliant alchemists are masters of volatile chemicals, explosives, and strange mechanical devices.Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness manual, Orc Buildings, Goblin Alchemist Some of them were seen as allies of the Old Horde during the Second War, as well as allies of the New Horde in the aftermath of the Third War. In Kalimdor, the city of Gadgetzan and capital of the Steamwheedle Cartel is home to goblinhood's finest alchemists.Gadgetzan#Reputation
==Items==
==In the RPG==
thumb|A gnome alchemist in the Warcraft RPG.
Many are those who know how to create the simplest items in the alchemist's repertoire — small sticks with bits of alchemical gold that glow brighter than a torch when struck, vicious acids, and stones coated with a special dust that causes a loud explosion when struck against something solid. But these are only the basics of an elaborate and incredible art, easily as expansive as any form of spellcasting. Indeed, the simple alchemist's fire and thunderstones are to the heights of alchemy what little cantrips are to the greatest forms of magic.
Many alchemists — at least, many alchemists who are also spellcasters — often find themselves drawn away to the “superior” art of potion-brewing. However, not all alchemists have that option. More than one skilled alchemist can cast no spells whatsoever, and many are the warriors among both the Forsaken and night elves who supplement their deadly skills with the heights of alchemical knowledge.More Magic and Mayhem, pg. 28
Mechanical devices and steam technology are the latest attraction, leaving alchemy as "the old technology". Alchemists resent the disparaging tone that accompanies "old".Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, pg. 98
One can also become an arcane alchemist, consulting old books and performing lengthy mathematical calculations to achieve similar results than the troll witch doctors.Dark Factions, pg. 28 Potion docs work differently than basic alchemist, as they tool brewing and alchemy to a different level, operating in a different way than a basic alchemist or witch doctor, and combining science and magic in their unique art.Horde Player's Guide, pg. 54-58
==Notes==
*Noggle Ficklespragg makes a living gathering rare herbs for Cenarion Hold alchemists.Deadly Desert Venom
*The room of Huglar and Hugarin contained alchemic devices,The Last Guardian implying they were alchemists.
*According to Magister Garuhod cocktail mixing is alchemy, and as everyone knows, alchemy is magic.The Magister of Mixology
*According to Apprentice Pestlepot, there are no finer alchemists in all of Azeroth than the Pestlepots.
*It was originally said that goblin alchemists adhered plates of adamantine steel to Deathwing,Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal manual but that story was later changed.
==Gallery==
;Card games
File:Cloakscale Chemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Crazed Chemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Ghoulish Alchemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Darkshire Alchemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Kabal Chemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Kooky Chemist HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Myra Rotspring HS.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Plaguemaster Rancel.jpg| in Hearthstone.
File:Alchemist Finklestein TCG.jpg|Alchemist Finklestein in the Trading Card Game.
File:Ossandran, Crematorium Master TCG.jpg|Ossandran, Crematorium Master in the Trading Card Game.
File:Alchemist's Stone TCG.jpg|:Alchemist Stone in the Trading Card Game.
==See also==
*Alchemist's Satchel
*Master Alchemist
==References==
 
Category:Alchemy
Category:NPC occupations
Category:Prestige classes
Category:More Magic and Mayhem
Category:Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game