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Alchemy is a crafting discipline which converst herbs into potions.

Herbs

Herbs exist in different colors:

red (common)

Red herbs have healing powers and thus are the base for all potions which recover hit points.

yellow (common)

While having no powers on their own yellow herbs can be used to potentiate the powers of other herbs but also make them work over a longer period of time.

blue (uncommon)

Blue herbs suck up mana energy while growing. Potions brewed from them cause a sudden boost to spell recharge.

green (uncommon)

Green herbs have healing and purifying properties. They are the base for potions which remove or protect fro status effects.

black (rare)

Black herbs are cursed with demonic energy. They can be used to create very powerful potions but every potion brewed with them also has a negative side effect.

purple (rare)

Purple herbs cause very weird effects. They are usually for entertainment purpose. Their practical use is usually low.

Herbs of every color also come in different quality grades. The better the quality of the herbs the better the resulting potion. Herbs with low quality grades can be harvested from plants which grow in masses in easily accessible areas while plants which drop high quality herbs are rare and can only be found in remote and dangerous areas.

Quality grades from lowest to highest:

• dried
• withered
• fresh
• living
• magic

Formulas

All these potions also exist in different quality grades which are determinded by the quality of the used herbs. The higher the sum of the quality of the herbs and the rarer the herbs the harder are they to craft.

In addition to the herbs listed here each potion also requires an empty potion bottle (small bottle for one-herb potions, medium bottle for two-herb potions and large bottle for three-herb potions). In contrary to most other MMORPGs the empty bottles can be reused after drinking the potion (yes, we recycle).

Category	Formula	Name	Effect
HP Recovery		Healing tincture	Instantly recovers HP
		Healing drink	1.5 x as effective as a healing tincture.
		Recovery drink	3 x as effective as a healing tincture but does not recover instantly but over a short amount of time.
		Healing potion	2 x as effective as a healing tincture.
		Recovery potion	4 x as effective as a healing tincture but does not recover instantly but over a short amount of time.
		Cursed healing drink	4x as effective as a healing tincture but causes a loss of hp over time which will eventually take 6x the hp of a healing tincture.
		Cursed healing potion	6x as effective as a healing tincture but causes a loss of hp over time which will eventually take 12x the hp of a healing tincture.
Spell recharge		Magic tincture	Instant boost to the recovery state of all currently recharged spells (divided through the number of recharged spells)
		Magic drink	1.5 x as effective as a magic tincture.
		Flow drink	3 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time.
		Magic potion	2 x as effective as a magic tincture.
		Flow potion	4 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time
		Cursed magic drink	4x as effective as a magic tincture but completely stops magic recovery for a short amount of time.
		Cursed magic potion	6x as effective as a magic tincture but completely stops magic recovery for a long amount of time.
		Cursed flow potion	10 x as effective as a magic tincture but does not boost instantly but over a short amount of time. When this period is over all spells are instantly discharged and spell recovery is completely stopped for a short amount of time.
Effect recovery		Antidote	Chance to remove "poison" status effects.
		Medicine	Chance to remove "plague" status effects.
		Nerve tonic	Chance to remove "insanity" status effects.
		Holy water	Chance to remove "curse" status effects.
		Wonder Drug	Chance to remove any status effect but also lowers resistance against all status effects for a considerable amount of time.
Effect protection		Immunity Potion	Increases resistance against "poison" status effects.
		Vaccine	Increases resistance against "plague" status effects.
		Sanity Potion	Increases resistance against "insanity" status effects.
		Soul Potion	Increases resistance against "curse" status effects.
		Anti-Magic Potion	Increases resistance against all status effects, including positive ones.
Other		Hallucination potion	Causes hallucination status effect (the user sees monsters which don't exist)
		Polymorph Potion	Makes the user look like a monster for a moderate amount of time.
		Surprise Potion	Causes the effect of a random potion.
		Warp potion	Teleports the user to a random city.
		Anti-Depressant Potion	Makes the user spam emoticons and inserts random smilies in the users chat messages for a moderate amount of time.
		Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster	Very strong alcoholic beverage.