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This is part two of the guide in making money out of alchemy. On the first part I’ve discussed about how to burn those unwanted caches and making a profit out of them. This part talks about Productivity. More clicks yeah.

This supplements the utility part since it also involves burning unwanted caches further and enforcing profit gains.

The psychology behind of this guide is, people are lazy when they got the gold. Alchemists who use gold generators often lose their respect for hard work and therefore underestimate it. Complex formulas wherein other formulas are used before making them are often being bought instead of actually making them because it saves time which has something good in them by nature but the side effect is that things inflate when less people make them.

Take a look at the marketplace often and see complex formulas you can craft which are in demand. Beware of formulas where there are expensive dead ends like succubus kiss and candy mountain, they have less routes to go further that are profitable because their end formulas are coupled with rare and expensive items like alruna’s rose for succubus kiss. They are useless to craft in my opinion and even if there are people buying them, there won’t be much or a fast sale so to speak.

Pick a formula that you can further develop into a complex one like the red mercury to uranium biscuits to quantum particle and lastly dark matter. If you got some ambition, go for philosopher’s stone while you’re at it.

Reaching level ten is more fruitful when you take advantage of your level and initiative. I was never wrong when I first thought that alchemy would get me millions. After reaching level six and up it became awesome. Angel Blood was a fast seller and there are a lot of people who want wings but have no clue on how things can come easy with research because they got no interest in alchemy.

For majority of the guild members who have more than seven digits of gold on their account right now, earning less than ten million isn’t much. But remember, when you got tons of caches you’re willing to burn for some profit it all adds up to hundreds of millions if you’re good at business and strategizing.

Look at the marketplace and see how ridiculous prices can be for complex components. You can make them yes, but your target customers are lazy people who have gold.

The best way to earn fast is to sell your complex formulas lower than average marketplace price. Why? Because it’s cheaper and people like things cheap, stop thinking about losing profits when you’re actually gaining them even if you lower your price slightly.

On the first place, those components are already inflated even on average price and you can lessen your expenses by making them yourself. But your buyer may or may not know that and sometimes both ways work in your favor.

Use the profit to buy more caches. I will use angel blood as the most concrete profitable component, it is solid. Annoying to make but always in demand and prone for inflation. It used to run about 5 million but now it’s way beyond that. I price the thing 6-7million but to me its actual price is just 5 million but your buyers don’t realize that? At least most anyway. And the average price is running like 7.9M with respect to the time this was posted. You contributed to lessening inflation, got rid of some caches, earned something more for its actual price and made someone feel good because they got the item cheaper than marketplace price.

With that example, you got enough gold to buy yourself 100 caches again and restock angel blood to sustain yourself further and plan for other ambitious complex formulas that people don’t want to take the time to craft. Because Angel blood only needs 1 gold cache and the rest of the caches are cheap if you knew where to look. The chance of getting gold caches for every 100 caches is 4%-6%, the range is 1-11 gold caches per 100 unopened caches.

Any component that is gets you more than 5 million profit is a good component to sell. Just my opinion. Ethically speaking not all of what I say is right, like taking advantage of numbers to fool people about its worth on marketplace. But if this means I’m sinking some gold from gold generator users and deflating the item then why not? I’m dumping it on gold shops for alchemy anyway. The average market price is just an illusion. The real value of an item is worth how much someone is willing to pay for it.

Productivity part is all about earning while getting rid of caches, deflating and sustaining your alchemy expenses. If you’re done leveling up, then you could still repeat the process and fund your quests because there aren’t many who are level ten and have the will to waffle their way.