Professions

You now have all you need to get to work, so put your weapon where it won't hurt anyone, equip your alchemist's gloves and click on a cell where flowers grow, selecting the action 'Pick'. The resources you mine will be stored in your inventory.

When you start practicing your profession, you'll only be able to collect one type of resource: Flax Flowers. Once you get a little experience under your belt, you can move on to new resources. The list below tells you the different levels required for each resource you can collect:

• Flax Flower (level 1+)


• Hemp Flower (level 10)


• Five-leaf Clover (level 20)


• Wild Mint Leaf (level 30+)


• Freyish Orchid (level 40+)


• Edelweiss and Pandkin Seed (level 50+)

Have you collected enough flowers? You can try to sell them in the nearest marketplace if you like, or otherwise you might want to expand your skills and do more than simple harvesting. After all, you're trained in making potions too. To do this, go to the nearest alchemists' Workshop.

Do you have enough flowers to get married ten times over? You should think about using it to make potions. To test a recipe, click on a still and select the action 'Prepare a Potion'. Slide the ingredients into the slots available and indicate the number of units required. If the recipe is valid, an image will appear in the object slot. Finally, click on 'Combine' and Bob's your uncle!

When you've made a potion, you'll need something to put it in afterwards (Flasks, Tubes and Bowls). You can get these materials in the Alchemists' workshop in Amakna, from Uba Tesse (1,16).

Alchemists can make many potions with various effects:

• - Healing potions. Replenish Health Points, just like bread, meat and fish.


• - Energy potions. Replenish Energy Points which are lost when you die in combat.


• - - Teleportation potions. Teleport you through the World of Twelve (to cities, Zaaps, Guild Houses, Paddocks, etc.)


• - Smithmagic potions. Allow Smithmagi to modify the attack element of a weapon.


• - Profession unlearning potion. As their name suggests, these potions allow players to unlearn profession. Usually taken in order to learn a new profession.


• - Ingredient potions. Used by craftspeople as part of their recipes (dyes, raising agents, etc.).


• - You can also make forgetfulness potions for spells, which are used by guild perceptors. To find out more about these you can go to Pandala library and buy the Encyclopaedia of Alchemy (24,-34).

You'll gain experience with every potion you create like with the craft professions. Once you get a little experience under your belt, you can move on to more complex recipes with more ingredients and more slots. The complexity of a recipe depends on the number of slots required to make it, each slot holding only one ingredient.

• 2 slots (level 1+)


• 3 slots (level 10+)


• 4 slots (level 20+)


• 5 slots (level 40+)


• 6 slots (level 60+)


• 7 slots (level 80+)


• 8 slots (level 100+)

Like with the craft professions, the more complex a recipe is the more experience you'll gain if you manage to do it. But the lower your level is, the less likely you will be to succeed in using it… bear in mind that no recipe is a guaranteed success.