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POTIONS, TONICS AND ELIXIRS
📌 OVERVIEW
Potions matter a lot for Ultra fights (like Ultra Darkon), and people
waste 40-60 million gold buying them. Brewing them yourself costs a
fraction of that.
✅ Only buy the non-alchemy potions, like Endurance Draught,
Felicitous Philtre and Vigor Potion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AQW/comments/vy0ggh/brewing_potions_101_mainly_offensive_potions/
🧪 HOW POTIONS WORK
at the same time.
→ Raises a base stat (Luck, Wisdom, etc.)
→ Lasts about 15-20 minutes
→ Has an Unstable version
→ Raises a secondary stat (Haste, Physical Damage, etc.)
→ Lasts about 15-20 minutes
→ Has an Unstable and a Potent version
→ A short boost, e.g. more damage for 35 seconds
→ Equip it for the fight; it may loop depending on your class
💡Drink your Tonic and Elixir first, then switch to your potions.
⚠️Potent and Unstable are stronger versions, but Unstable ones have
drawbacks. Unstable Fate Tonic lowers your Endurance (less HP),
so it's bad for Ultras.
🐉 DRAGON RUNESTONES
Dragon Runestones can be bought for gold, and they make brewing easy:
→ Skip the brewing mini-game
→ Give you the Potent version (mostly), some of which can't be bought
→ Give you ×8 potions (normally 6-10, depending on the potion)
Brewing it takes 1 Dragon Runestone (100k) + 2 reagents.
💡Brewing is a bit random, but you could brew 20 times before it
costs the same as buying, and you get other potions along the way.
⚗️ HOW BREWING WORKS
Each alchemy reagent has a higher chance of giving certain potions.
Mix 2 reagents and you can get potions from either reagent's pool.
⚠️The wiki lists which potions are possible, but isn't always accurate
about which reagents give the best chances. The tables below are
from u/Epicious's own testing.
🎯 BEST REAGENTS (DAMAGE POTIONS)
Mobs in Room 2 of
/join orecavernBuy from Swindle (10 = 300k Gold)
Buy from Swindle (10 = 300k Gold)
🧮 COST EXAMPLE (MAX STACKS)
💡Even if only ~50% are the ones you want (it's usually more), that's
200+ normal / Potent potions that will last you a long time.
🔬 OTHER REAGENTS (LESS TESTED)
/join cloister/join bloodtuskwar/join roc or /join mountainpath✅ TL;DR
Arashtite Ore + Dried Slime = Fate / Sage (
/join orecavern, Room 2)Doomatter = Battle / Malevolence (Swindle)
Chaoroot = Honor / Malice (Swindle)
✨ UNIQUE ELIXIR · DIVINE ELIXIR
→ Farm: /join poisonforest · Kill Xavier Lionfang
Level 40 · 4,920 HP
→ Brew: Chaoroot + Dragon Scale
Dragon Scale + Ice Vapor
Dragon Scale + Moglin Tears
→ Merge (Legend): Exchanging Mixtures (Gebo) at Alchemy Academy
Basic Wise Tonic ×3 / Wise Tonic ×2 / Life Potion ×2 + 1,500 Gold
💡Also needed for the "Hymn of Light" quest and to merge
5 - The Hierophant's Servitude and Academic Merit.