A Guide to the New Alchemy Lab (v30, 2020-06-17)

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My opinion on this is that HA is the new AL, and of marginal use (I will eventually build for level 9, as yellow and purple mana troops elude me).

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I had to read that twice and check the name because I didnā€™t remember posting that.

But pretty sure I said it in game today!

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I combine 9 times .
7 after update.
2 after AL reopen .

And only 1 tonic appear ( last one after reopen).

My rate of 4* ascension mat is about 10%.

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Thanks for starting this Guide @TheEyesā€¦ I have updated the table with the remaining levels and also corrected the Food cost for 1b as per your update in the OP.

If anyone sees an error, please let me know and will correct it. When I get time, I will try to add another table for all the ā€˜Aā€™ levels for Alchemy Lab if they are useful to anyone.

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Those are the levels I plan to run, including 1B while supplies of the ingredients last; i.e. 1B or 4B, together with 6B and 10A.

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Please what is meant by 1B?

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You can find the 20 recipes in this post: :test_tube: Early Information on ā€œIMPROVEDā€ Alchemy Lab [Part of The Beta Beat v30]

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Thank you for responding

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Thinking of sustainability, isnā€™t 1A is a viable option?

  • It consumes only 3 materials per hour (4 consumed, 1 produced) vs. 12 materials per hour of 1B.
    • I currently have 20K 1* herbs, although I play for less than a year. This amount should sustain for about 9 month (while other are produced).
  • I am always short of material for small mana potions, this step will produce 2 of them at a nice amount.
  • Food costs a bit high (4K per hour = 96K a day) - but not something I am not able to spare.
  • First upgrade, Easy access for starters.

I am not saying 1A is ā€œthe optionā€, but I donā€™t fully understand why nobody mention it as ā€œan optionā€?
Can anyone clarify?

I.e. the production is useful to me, not just the alkashardsā€¦

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33

Iā€™m planing to use 1A to craft large bones and leather strips (for small mana potions) using as input clean cloth, crude iron and common herbs. For me 1A is a nice option

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It is not bad level to be honest, and frankly I suggest to look at the AL from your personal needs perspective. If you are short mats for small mana pots then by any means 1A is the way to go to produce them. Herbs are just useless and overstock.

I think currently lab is pretty balanced when it comes to production costs and alkashard gains, and I donā€™t think chasing optimal alkashard farming should be the way to look at it. Whatever you have surplus and lack of, use AL to support exchange. Some lack nuggets, others bones, others mana pots or backpacks. Whatever it is, itā€™s craftable. Itā€™s quite slow and still costly in resources but alkashards are nice addition to get that extra roll every now and then for mats or emblems to cheer up the grinding.

I have currently queued 2A, 3A and 9A for the 2 weeks. Should give me about 1.5 rolls per week, or 6-7 rolls per month.

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I wonder why lvl 3a is missing in your list. Itā€™s one of the levels I am using permanently. Gives me 8 backpacks a day and 56 shards. I am always in need of backpacks. So regardless of the shards, itā€™s one of the most useful levels to me.

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Thanks for mentioning ā€¦ am working on the other levels (bit pressed for time), so 3a and the others will be up there shortlyā€¦

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Maybe a max of 8 backpacks per day. Transmuting 4 battle manuals in 3A may result also to the production of swords and rugged clothes, which are still useful IMHO.

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I personally donā€™t mind to put 1 sword, 1 rug, 2 manuals to guarantee backpack. With the food demands, I made my peace with the fact that Iā€™ll never be able to burn those directly.

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Ok, have updated the original table now with all the recipes for comparison. If there are any errors, let me know and will update.

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Any easy way you could also add to that table how many alkashards will be created in a week time, except just production per hour?

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Yes, can do that. Will update that tomorrow (getting a bit late here in my part of the world)ā€¦

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Have now updated the table with shards per week and also fixed some errors:
Alchemy Lab Table showing how long ingredient supplies may last.

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@Thanks for this awesome post @Druid @zephyr1
Iā€™ve done my maths. I donā€™t calculate my item farming capacity (would have been better) but take a look at my inventory.

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2 emblems per day is the result without real counterpart.

Donā€™t know the best way to share with you. Will try a screenshot. Sorry, itā€™s not translate fully in english but i think youā€™ll understand mostly.

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