Garrison: Alchemy Lab Guide (WoD 6.2)

Table of Contents

• 1. Main Perks
• 2. Description
• +3. Unlocking the Alchemy Lab
  • 3.1. Unlocking the Alchemy Lab, Level 1
  • 3.2. Unlocking the Alchemy Lab, Level 2
  • 3.3. Unlocking the Alchemy Lab, Level 3
• +4. Work Orders
  • 4.1. Unlocking Work Orders
  • 4.2. Increasing Yield
  • 4.3. Increasing Queue Size
  • 4.4. Cost Comparison Between Work Orders and Alchemy Recipe
• +5. Resident Alchemist
  • 5.1. For Alchemists
  • 5.2. For Non-Alchemists
• 6. Extra Perk from Follower
• 7. Changelog

The Alchemy Lab is a Small Garrison building that Alchemists and Non-Alchemists can use to craft Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes.

While we explain, in this article, how to unlock all levels of the Alchemy Lab, you may be interested in our guide to unlocking all the Garrison buildings. We also have a guide to leveling Alchemy in Draenor.

For Alchemists, the main perk of the Alchemy Lab is that it allows you to create a maximum of 12x Alchemical Catalysts per day, in addition to the 10x you can already craft with Alchemical Catalyst (less with an Alchemy skill lower than 700). These extra Catalysts are really useful, because they allow you to make more Draenor potions and flasks, which means you make more money off the Auction House. The Alchemy Lab is also where you buy your Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes.

For Non-Alchemists, the main perk of the Alchemy Lab is that the resident Alchemist of the lab can craft most of the Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes for you, with the exception of the Greater Flasks.

Level	Cost	Perks
Level 1	150x 50x 1 hour	Allows the production of Alchemy items and work orders.
Level 2	300x 100x 1 hour	Allows followers with the Alchemy trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 14 work orders at one time.
Level 3	500x 300x 1 hour	Allows up to 21 work orders at one time.

In this section, we are going to tell you how to unlock the Alchemy Lab, Level 1, 2, and 3.

The Alchemy Lab Level 1 is unlocked when you upgrade your Town Hall to Level 2.

Alchemists can build this building with a Town Hall Level 1, because they have a chance to loot Mysterious Flask (Alliance) and Mysterious Flask (Horde). This item drops from humanoid mobs around Draenor and starts a quest line that eventually rewards the plan to build the Alchemy Lab, Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 1, and A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor, which teaches basic Draenor recipes that can be used to level up the profession.

If you are an Alchemist and the quest item does not drop for you, then you can buy your A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor for 100 from the Alchemist at your Alchemy Lab, after upgrading your Town Hall to Level 2.

Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 2 is sold by the blueprint vendor at your Garrison once you reach level 96 or once you complete your Talador Outpost. You can buy it with 750 . You can also buy it from the blueprint vendor in Ashran without restrictions with an Outpost Building Assembly Notes, which can only be obtained twice, once when questing in Gorgrond and once when questing in the Spires of Arak. so the purpose of this Below, you will find the Alliance and Horde vendors.

Vendor	Faction	Location	Cost
Sparz Boltwist	Alliance	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Kinkade Jakobs	Alliance	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes
Rezlak	Horde	Garrison, next to Architect Table	750
Torgg Flexington	Horde	Ashran, next to Flightmaster	1x Outpost Building Assembly Notes

Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 3 is a reward from completing the Working More Orders achievement, which requires you to complete 250 Work Orders at your Garrison. This achievement is account-wide.

Once you complete the achievement, the blueprint is not directly handed over to you. You still need to buy it from Sparz Boltwist (Alliance) or Rezlak (Horde) for 1,000 .

Work Orders are unlocked with your Alchemy Lab Level 1 and allow you to create Alchemical Catalysts. A Work Order takes 4 hours to complete and transforms 5x Frostweed into 1x Alchemical Catalyst (2x with a level 100 follower assigned to the Alchemy Lab). This means that you can complete a maximum of 6 Work Orders per day for a total yield of 6 to 12 Alchemical Catalysts.

When you first build the Alchemy Lab on a character, the resident Alchemist at the lab gives you Your First Alchemy Work Order. To complete it, talk to the Alchemist's Assistant and give the required 5x Frostweed. The small box outside the Alchemy Lab should activate immediately and you can loot the Alchemy Work Order that you need to turn in to complete the quest. Doing so rewards you with 5x Alchemical Catalysts.

After upgrading the Alchemy Lab to Level 2, you can assign a follower with the Alchemy trait to work at the Alchemy Lab. The higher the level of your follower, the higher the chance that the Work Order will generate 2 Alchemical Catalysts instead of only 1. With a level 100 follower, you are guaranteed to get 2 Alchemical Catalysts.

While working at the Alchemy Lab, your follower receives experience for every Work Order completed.

You can queue up to a certain number of Work Orders, depending on your Alchemy Lab's level (7 at Level 1, 14 at Level 2, 21 at Level 3).

Having a Storehouse Level 3 increases the maximum number of Work Orders by 15, which means a maximum of 22 Work Orders at Level 1, 29 at Level 2, and 36 at Level 3.

Being able to queue more Work Orders does not increase your yield, but it does allow you to let more time pass before you have to go back to the Alchemy Lab to refill your queue of Work Orders.

Alchemical Catalyst costs 20x Frostweed and 10x Blackrock Ore and produces between 4 and 10 Alchemical Catalysts, depending on your Alchemy skill. Below level 600, you only produce 4. Between level 600 and 700 the yield slowly increases to reach 10 at level 700.

Work Orders cost 5x Frostweed and produce between 1 and 2 Alchemical Catalysts. With no follower or a level 90 follower, you produce only 1. The closer your follower is to 100, the higher the chance that the yield will be 2. With a follower level 100, you always produce 2.

Regardless of how you create an Alchemical Catalyst, the cost is more or less the same. This is due to the fact that having a Mine Level 1 and a Herb Garden Level 2, with a follower assigned to it, will provide you with more than the 50x Frostweed and 10x Blackrock Ore that you will need every day to craft Alchemical Catalyst and start 6 Work Orders at your Alchemy Lab.

The Alchemist at the Alchemy Lab interacts with you in one of two ways, depending on whether or not you have the Alchemy profession.

Buying the Draenor Alchemy recipes from the Alchemist in your Alchemy Lab is the only way to obtain them. Each recipe costs a number of Secrets of Draenor Alchemy. You can make one of these items every day using the Secrets of Draenor Alchemy Alchemy recipe, which costs 5x Frostweed. The table below lists all of the recipes you can buy and the amount of Secrets of Draenor Alchemy it costs to buy them (though some of them only require Gold).

Recipe	Cost
A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor	100
Recipe: Draenic Agility Potion	9
Recipe: Draenic Intellect Potion	9
Recipe: Draenic Channeled Mana Potion	9
Recipe: Draenic Strength Potion	9
Recipe: Draenic Armor Potion	9
Small Pouch of Coins	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Transmorphic Tincture	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Rejuvenation Potion	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Agility Flask	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Intellect Flask	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Stamina Flask	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Strength Flask	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Draenic Philosopher's Stone	1x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Greater Draenic Agility Flask	5x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Greater Draenic Intellect Flask	5x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Greater Draenic Stamina Flask	5x Secret of Draenor Alchemy
Recipe: Greater Draenic Strength Flask	5x Secret of Draenor Alchemy

Small Pouch of Coins is not a recipe, but an item that contains a bit of Gold (approximately 2 ). This is a way to spend your Secrets of Draenor Alchemy, once you have acquired all the recipes.

For Non-Alchemists, the Alchemist in your Alchemy Lab can craft most of the high-end Draenor Alchemy recipes, except for Draenic Rejuvenation Potion, Greater flasks, Draenic Philosopher's Stone, and Alchemical Catalyst (which can be obtained only through Work Orders). Crafting an item through your Alchemist costs exactly the same quantity of materials it does when a regular Alchemist crafts it. Some of the recipes are locked until you reach a certain level with the Alchemy Lab (see table below).

Recipe	Unlock Level
Crescent Oil	Level 1
Draenic Water Breathing Elixir	Level 1
Draenic Water Walking Elixir	Level 1
Draenic Mana Potion	Level 1
Draenic Invisibility Potion	Level 1
Draenic Living Action Potion	Level 1
Draenic Swiftness Potion	Level 1
Pure Rage Potion	Level 1
Draenic Agility Potion	Level 2
Draenic Armor Potion	Level 2
Draenic Channeled Mana Potion	Level 2
Draenic Intellect Potion	Level 2
Draenic Strength Potion	Level 2
Draenic Agility Flask	Level 3
Draenic Intellect Flask	Level 3
Draenic Stamina Flask	Level 3
Draenic Strength Flask	Level 3

In addition to increasing your yield of Alchemical Catalysts, your follower gives you the Alchemy Experiment every day. You can turn it in immediately and receive a number of soulbound Draenic potions of your choice.

• 24 Feb. 2015: Mentioned that followers working at the Alchemy Lab now gain experience for each completed Work Order. In addition, you can now choose which potions you get from the daily quest that your follower at the Alchemy Lab gives you, but these potions are now soulbound.
• 14 Nov. 2014: Clarified requirements for Level 2.
• 13 Nov. 2014: Mentioned that unlocking Level 1 requires a Town Hall Level 2, except for Alchemists who can build an Alchemy Lab Level 1 with a Town Hall Level 1. Also added A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor to the list of items sold by the Alchemist at the Alchemy Lab.

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