The cheapest route from 1 to 100 Midnight Alchemy: vendor potions to 20, cauldron unlocks and first crafts to 50, then three priced options to the cap. Full material list, trainer and cauldron locations, and what the Moxie unlocks cost.
Unlock the cauldron recipes early, then craft in first-craft order.
Alchemy's middle is a shopping trip, not a recipe: at skill 20 spend Moxie at Camberon's Cauldron to unlock the Philosopher's Stone and the Lightfused Mana Potion, because the transmute first-craft needs the stone to exist first.
Every recipe gives one Midnight Alchemy Knowledge point the first time you craft it, and that is the only Knowledge source with no weekly cap. The run to 50 costs about 300 Tranquility Bloom and 260 vendor vials - the blooms are the only real money.
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Everything the route needs, and who sells what the trainer does not.
Alchemy trainer
Silvermoon City
Teaches Midnight Alchemy. Everything in the 1-50 route below is learned here.
Alchemy supplies
Silvermoon City, right next to Camberon
Sunglass Vials, Oil of Heartwood, and other supplies. Do the vendor run before you start: 260 vials is not a mid-route errand.
Discovery object
Silvermoon City, right next to the trainer
Spend Artisan Alchemist's Moxie to unlock recipes you pick yourself - the Philosopher's Stone and Lightfused Mana Potion at 20, Light's Potential and the flasks later. It is not random.
Summed from the route below rather than quoted, so it cannot drift from the steps it is meant to pay for. The list stops at 50 because past that the cost depends on which recipes you own, and any single number would be invented.
Refreshing Serum appears in the list because the Philosopher's Stone consumes five of them - you craft those yourself in the 20-27 step, so buy nothing for that line. Oil of Heartwood is a floor, not a count: the source does not state the oil per Recycle Potions cast.
| Material | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Tranquility Bloom | 300 |
| Sunglass Vial | 260 |
| Sanguithorn | 15 |
| Mote of Light | 12 |
| Oil of Heartwood | 10 |
| Refreshing Serum | 5 |
| Argentleaf | 4 |
| Mote of Primal Energy | 4 |
| Mote of Wild Magic | 4 |
| Mana Lily | 3 |
| Stabilized Derivate | 3 |
Rows marked First craft are in the route for the Knowledge point, so craft those before you repeat anything. Quantities are already multiplied out. 9 first crafts in total.
Six Silvermoon Health Potions. The recipe is on the trainer, the Sunglass Vials are on Melaris right next to him, and you will come back to this same recipe at 32.
Recycle Potions is cast on the health potions, not crafted from herbs. It is the only step in the route that consumes a finished product instead of a material.
The source does not state the oil per cast, so this assumes one; buy a full stack from Melaris rather than exactly ten. Ten recycles against six potions is unexplained on the source - a potion may recycle more than once.
Interact with Camberon's Cauldron next to the trainer and spend Moxie to unlock the Primal Philosopher's Stone and the Lightfused Mana Potion - you pick them, it is not random. Then learn the new trainer recipes and craft each once for the Knowledge.
Craft five: the first gives the Knowledge point and all five are consumed by the Philosopher's Stone below.
Cauldron unlock. Spend the Moxie before you start crafting this step.
Consumes the five serums above. Required for transmutes - make it before the transmute, not after. A Philosopher's Stone from a previous expansion also works. The source never says where Stabilized Derivate comes from; check Melaris first.
Needs the Philosopher's Stone equipped. The transmute's mote yield is unstated on the source; Composite Flora below needs four.
Entropic Extract is three blooms and five vials a craft. Eight of them carry the range the source marks as approximate - the number is an estimate, not a promise.
Thirty more Silvermoon Health Potions. The recipe is yellow by now, so it may stall before 50 - the source says that does not matter unless a recipe or specialisation unlock needs exactly 50.
Above 50 there is no single route, because the cost depends on your specialisation and your realm's prices. Potions give one point a craft and stay orange to 80; flasks give two a craft to 90 but need the flask specialisation and 50 Moxie per recipe; the material-returning recipes cost whatever the Auction House says today.
Orange to 80Camberon's Cauldron: 50 Artisan Alchemist's Moxie
1x Mote of Light, 8x Tranquility Bloom, 3x Azeroot, 3x Argentleaf, 5x Sunglass Vial
| Recipe | Materials | Recipe from | Orange to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light's Potential | 1x Mote of Light, 8x Tranquility Bloom, 3x Azeroot, 3x Argentleaf, 5x Sunglass Vial | Camberon's Cauldron: 50 Artisan Alchemist's Moxie | 80 |
Orange to 90Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by crafting Sin'dorei flasks 10 times. Needs the flask specialisation.
1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Pure Void, 8x Sanguithorn, 6x Mana Lily
Orange to 90Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by drinking a Flask of Thalassian Resistance. Needs the flask specialisation.
1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Wild Magic, 6x Sanguithorn, 8x Argentleaf
Orange to 90Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by crafting Sin'dorei flasks 10 times. Needs the flask specialisation.
1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Primal Energy, 8x Azeroot, 6x Argentleaf
| Recipe | Materials | Recipe from | Orange to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flask of the Magisters | 1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Pure Void, 8x Sanguithorn, 6x Mana Lily | Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by crafting Sin'dorei flasks 10 times. Needs the flask specialisation. | 90 |
| Flask of the Blood Knights | 1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Wild Magic, 6x Sanguithorn, 8x Argentleaf | Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by drinking a Flask of Thalassian Resistance. Needs the flask specialisation. | 90 |
| Flask of the Shattered Sun | 1x Nocturnal Lotus, 2x Mote of Primal Energy, 8x Azeroot, 6x Argentleaf | Cauldron: 50 Moxie, unlocked by crafting Sin'dorei flasks 10 times. Needs the flask specialisation. | 90 |
Orange to 100Alchemy recipes
Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House
Orange to 100Alchemy recipes
Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House
Orange to 100Alchemy recipes
Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House
| Recipe | Materials | Recipe from | Orange to |
|---|---|---|---|
| School of Gems | Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House | Alchemy recipes | 100 |
| Bouquet of Herbs | Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House | Alchemy recipes | 100 |
| Box of Rocks | Materials are returned on craft - price it on the Auction House | Alchemy recipes | 100 |
Material quality does not matter for levelling. The cheapest listing of every herb and mote works exactly like the expensive one, so sort by price and stop reading there.
The Goblin racial is +5 Alchemy skill and the Kul Tiran racial is +2. Extra skill keeps recipes orange for longer, which means fewer crafts per point at the bottom of every range.
The Philosopher's Stone has to exist before the transmute first-craft, and the Light's Potential unlock costs 50 Moxie. Spend the Moxie at the cauldron at 20 instead of discovering the gap mid-route.
The flask route needs the flask specialisation, 50 Moxie per recipe, and unlock chores like drinking a Flask of Thalassian Resistance. If you are not going flasks, every Moxie goes to Light's Potential.
Recycle Potions: the Oil of Heartwood per cast is unstated on the source, and ten recycles against six crafted potions is unexplained. The data assumes one oil per cast; treat the oil line as a floor, not a count.
Transmute: Mote of Wild Magic: the transmute's mote yield is unstated, and Composite Flora needs four motes. If one transmute yields fewer than four, budget extra Mote of Light.
Stabilized Derivate's source is unstated on the page. The supply vendor is the obvious first check, but that is inference, not verification.
Skill points per craft, and the level each recipe stops being orange at, are the community guide's figures. Blizzard does not publish skill-up tables, so these cannot be verified anywhere except in the profession window.
The 50-100 counts are the source's estimates, and the flask unlock chores add crafts the estimates do not count. Yellow and green crafts mean a few extra of everything is normal.
Tranquility Bloom
Sunglass Vial
Sanguithorn
Mote of Light
Oil of Heartwood
Refreshing Serum
Argentleaf
Mote of Primal Energy
Mote of Wild Magic
Mana Lily
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