Alchemist

The alchemist specializes in making and modifying potions. The alchemist is an ability class, and there has two ability and one weapon. Alchemist costs 130  unlock.

## Ability and weapons

The two alchemist abilities are alchemist staff and embiggen. The alchemist staff deals damage to the current monster, while also providing a lesser potion. This works well with the second ability embiggen, which will make the potion most left in your inventory bigger. This allows alchemist to obtain potions that no other class can obtain. Alchemist only has a single melee weapon being the basic sword.

The way to combine these to abilities is to first use the alchemist staff to get a potion, and afterwards use the embiggen ability to make the potion bigger. In most cases, this will ensure that you get more value, since the bigger potion is usually better than the lesser potion. The player should aim to only embiggen the potion that gives them the most value. In the early game, health and EXP might be the best potions to make bigger, since these are the stats that you need the most early on. Later in the game other potions might be better, like strong poison. if you have a few points of wisdom, using embiggen on the mana potion is always worth it, since it will deal damage to the monster you are fighting, without effecting the total amount of mana lost.

## Skills

The 3 alchemist skills are replicate, love potion and death liquor. Replicate gives alchemist staff a 50% chance to make to potions instead of one, making the ability significantly better. Love potion will make the current monster deal -1 damage, while the last ability will combine 2 lesser potions to create a death liquor. These skills are al centered around potions, and are critical to unlock to have a successful run.

## Strategy

Since alchemist excels in making potions, the overall strategy generally revolves around this. This means, utilizing the potions to get the exact potions that you need in the specific situation is the key to victory.

### Overall gameplan

In the early game, getting health potion and experience potion is essential to first of all level up, as well as to stay healthy. Potions such as energy potion and gold potion are less relevant in the early game, and the player should therefore prioritize upgrading the health and experience potions, instead of the gold and energy potions. In the later game, the death liquor skill becomes very relevant, since it helps you defeat tough monsters in the hard areas by using the potions you do not need anyways.

Against the final boss, you should aim to accumulate enough mana to deal significant damage to the boss only using abilities and potions, and the rest of the damage should be done by hand, using your melee weapon. After leaving the last shop, you should at least keep 2 item slots open when fighting the final boss, since it will give you space for potions after using the alchemist staff, after upgrading it with replicate.

### Items

The best items for alchemist is primary the secret ingredient and components of the ruby and sapphire. Items that makes using abilities better are in general very good, which is items as book of wonders.