We have been closely monitoring feedback and the experience with Alchemy in The War Within and are working on a series of adjustments to improve the overall experience that we intend to push live within the next day or so. The below list includes most of our planned adjustments, but any additional bug fixes or improvements will be noted in the hotfix logs once the changes have been finalized and pushed to live. Since some of these changes may impact immediate decision making, we wanted to inform the community as soon as possible.
Algari Potion Cauldrons and Algari Flask Cauldrons will no longer cost Artisan’s Acuity as part of their recipe.
Algari Potion Cauldron charges will be increased to 80 (up from 40) and the cost increased to compensate.
Meticulous Experimentation will have its cost and cooldown increased, however it will guarantee a new recipe when crafted.
Wild Experimentation’s success and failure chances will be slightly adjusted.
The lockout on failed Wild Experimentations will be reduced to 10 minutes (down from 15).
While under the effects of Formulated Courage, Wild Experimentation will no longer cause explosions that interrupt your focus.
We hope you have been enjoying The War Within along with us. Thank you for your continued feedback!
Alchemy is still realy realy bad, of all professions it is the slowest to level. Wild experiment is so so bad, proc chance is so so low. I dont know what you guys like about RNG, but i realy hate it. I am a person with real bad luck ingame and would gladly invest time in a profession or any content. YOu dont give me a choice and thats the bad thing. Only depending on “luck” is not the way i wanna play this game. Its just sad.
I stopped using the repeated experiments as they just fail nonstop. I’m just using the one that is on a 24-hour cooldown and make a flask for the extra skill point and then wait the following day.
Right now, Alchemy is in a terrible spot. Again, another example as to what we can expect from the intern developers they have working there currently.
I just used the 20 hour cd and it gave me nothing (except a mana pot).
I thought discovery was supposed to be guaranteed now?
It said so in the patch notes?
Ive come to this conclusion as well. That action is just a resource sink at the momet since they know people want recipe’s. I am in no rush so dont need to waste any more herbs.
These things cost 20 herbs, one store bought mat and one user generated mat that also uses flasks that you “melt” down into another material. So after all that it is prolly 25 herbs at least per pop.
so, will you provide refund for those who has already spent their aa? at any point?
slightly? my last 20-25 attempt ended up with an explosion on the first try. “Slightly” is a bit annoying you know… slightly didn’t work. it still sucks. you are killing this profession since the beginning of DF.
I don’t understand, if it is a planned thing to kill Alchemy, that’s ok. Really, I would understand that but if it is something hasn’t been tested while developing or on beta, that’s just simply stupid.
I mean, 20-25 attempts and all without a discovery, all explosions… WTF dude?
I quit investing on experimentation too, it is so late for me to totally drop alchemy but if it is going to be like this sh*t, I will be dropping in the beginning of the next one.
Algari Alchemist Stone is completely broken in TWW. At iLVL 602 it provides 1,203 versatility and chance to proc 1,418 main stat for 15 sec (intellect)
My other trinket (Carved Blazikon Wax) is only iLVL 580 but has much higher stats.
It provides 2,082 intellect and chance to proc 2,264 versatility for 15 sec plus another 237 if I remain in the light
Has this change actually been inplemented.
I have failed my 20 hour cd experiment for two days in a row. I used the herbs required for the recipes that i dont have as well.
I am still missing between 50-60% of all the recipes you can learn from experiments.
I have also done about 35 wild experiments in a row without learning a single recipes and these cost about 400-600 gold a pop depending on the herb. I either blow up, or when i dont blow up, i dont actually learn a recipe.
I am not sure if things are just bugged atm or if i am doing something wrong. But i have spent over 100k on herbs and got 0 return.
