The Alchemist can be a tricky class to master inSpellForce: Conquest Of Eo, but their endless supply of potions and other consumables makes them easily the most versatile mage in combat. From healing and buffs to damage and disruption, Alchemy truly lets you do it all with enough preparation.
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With fifty crafting recipes to discover, Alchemy has a lot of options. This guide will show you how to craft every possible consumable, as well as provide you with tips for using your potion-powered potency to earn your place among the Circle.
What Are Catalysts?
Every Alchemy reciperequires a single Catalystas a base material. Most simply provide a little bit of Essence to start you off, but rare and valuable Catalysts can improve the recipe’s yield.
The Catalyst is combined with one or more Ingredients, and the recipe’s product is determined by thetotal Essence of all the components. As long as the Essence requirements for the item you’re trying to craft are met, the exact Catalyst that you use doesn’t matter.
Most Catalysts are found byharvesting plants on the world map.Most plants will yield some of the basic Catalysts as a side product.
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All Alchemy Recipes
Alchemical recipes are divided by thenumber of Essence thresholds required to craft them.Lower-tier items are generally weaker, but can be produced in greater quantities due to their higher yields and lower requirements.
Tier-one recipes yieldtwo copies of the itemby default. Building an Enchanted Cauldron in your Alchemy Labincreases this yield by onefor the rest of the game.
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Tier-two recipes yieldtwo copies of the itemby default. These are some of the items that will see the most use in an Alchemist campaign, so be sure to craft lots of them!
Tier-three items are best saved forclutch situations where they will turn a battle around.The exception is the Philosophers' Stone, which is an incredibly useful crafting material.
The Philosophers' Stone is also used to unlock the Alembic Chamber for your Tower, which allows you touse a fourth Ingredient in your crafting recipes for the rest of the game.
Tier-four items require a heavy investment of ingredients, but are among the most powerful weapons in an Alchemist’s arsenal.
Alchemist Strategy Tips
Offensive items like Potions of Firebreathing or Sacred Water make the Alchemist a fearsome combatant. Having a large supply of them lets yousupplant your units' basic attacks entirely.This is especially true of units and heroes that inflict status effects with their attacks.
For example, a unit with Serrated Blades has a chance to inflict Bleeding with all their attacks.This includes item attacks. Hence, a unit with Serrated Blades that throws a vial of Sacred Water into a horde of Undead not only damages them, but also inflicts Bleeding on them all at once!
Summoning Elementals is a great way to even the odds in a battle where you’re outnumbered. Units summoned this wayalways disappear after the battle, so don’t be afraid to sacrifice them during the fight!
By default, Alchemists specialize in Nature Magic. It’s a good idea to keep Nature as your Primary School, since it provides easy ways to fill the Alchemy Page in your Grimoire. You can alsoharvest Primordial Foreststhat you grow with spells to get useful Ingredients!
