Noob question about alchemy...

Lord_Drakken · #1 November 1st, 2007, 02:24 PM

what bonus does an alchemist actually do? I see no ingame explanation for an alchemy bonus?

Shovah32 · #2 November 1st, 2007, 02:27 PM

I think it just increases the amount of gold you recieve when alchemising fire/earth gems into gold(the value being the percentage increase iirc).

llamabeast · #3 November 1st, 2007, 02:31 PM

Yep. No advantage to gem-gem alchemy sadly, only gem-gold alchemy.

NTJedi · #4 November 1st, 2007, 02:40 PM

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llamabeast said:
Yep. No advantage to gem-gem alchemy sadly, only gem-gold alchemy.

The alchemist also has a 300 gold cost which means an upkeep of 20gold per turn. So if you're buying an alchemist for his alchemy skill you'll want to alchemize at least 3 fire gems per turn to pay the upkeep.

Lord_Drakken · #5 November 1st, 2007, 02:42 PM

I don't know what the bonus of gem to gold is canyou tell me. Lastly if I have a alchemist pretender I don't pay any upkeep do I?

llamabeast · #6 November 1st, 2007, 02:50 PM

Can't you right-click on the alchemy icon to find out the bonus? Otherwise I don't know myself but I suspect it's a 50% bonus.

Ewierl · #7 November 1st, 2007, 03:07 PM

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Lord_Drakken said:
I don't know what the bonus of gem to gold is canyou tell me. Lastly if I have a alchemist pretender I don't pay any upkeep do I?

The confusion here is because there is a recruitable alchemist mage, in addition to the Master Alchemist pretender.

Also, it would be unfair to say that a recruited alchemist needs to do alchemy every turn or he isn't worth it. He's a mage, after all, and he also brings in value via research.