Diablo 4 Guide: All Alchemist Abilities and How To Craft Elixirs and Incense

The Alchemist is a Diablo 4 vendor that supplies players with upgraded health potions, elixirs, and incense. Additionally, the Alchemist can alchemically transform quantities of certain crafting materials into other materials for a cost in gold.

How To Unlock The Alchemist

The Alchemist is even more critical than the Blacksmith in the early game, and this is because they can improve your health potion, helping to keep you alive for as long as possible. Once you reach level 10, the priority quest called Health Potion Upgrading will automatically be unlocked and leading you to the Alchemist’s location.

How To Upgrade The Health Potion

Each upgraded Health Potion has its potency enhanced, granting you a larger instant bonus, in addition to the Maximum Life percentage amount over time.

Tiny Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 10

Heals 48 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

Crafting Materials required:

• 2x Gallowvine

Minor Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 20

Heals 80 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

400 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 15x Gallowvine
• 5x Biteberry

Light Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 30

Heals 141 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

470 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 20x Gallowvine
• 10x Biteberry
• 5x Crushed Beast Bones

Moderate Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 45

Heals 255 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

900 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 20x Gallowvine
• 12x Howler Moss
• 5x Demon’s Heart

Strong Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 60

Heals 378 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

1700 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 27x Gallowvine
• 15x Reddamine
• 5x Paletongue

Greater Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 70

Heals 559 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

2500 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 36x Blightshade
• 18x Lifesbane
• 5x Grave Dust

Major Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 80

Heals 827 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

5000 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 5x Fiend Rose
• 27x Howler Moss
• 27x Biteberry
• Reddamine
• 27x Blightshade
• 27x Lifesbane

Superior Healing Potion

Unlocks at Level 90

Heals 1,274 Life instantly and 35% of your Maximum Life over 3 seconds.

12500 Gold

Crafting Materials required:

• 10x Fiend Rose
• 36x Howler Moss
• 36x Blightshade
• 20x Demon’s Heart
• 20x Grave Dust
• 10x Forgotten Soul

How To Craft Elixirs

Elixirs are consumable buffs that will enhance stats and experience gained for a certain amount of time. A player can only have the effects of one elixir active at any given time. They are crafted in exchange for a variety of materials as well as a sum of gold. Elixirs come in varying quality levels which significantly impact the number and type of crafting materials required to concoct them.

Elemental Resistance Elixirs

• Weak Elixir of Cold Resistance

Increases Cold Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Elixir of Fire Resistance

Increases Fire Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Elixir of Lightning Resistance

Increases Lightning Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Elixir of Poison Resistance

Increases Poison Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Elixir of Shadow Resistance

Increases Shadow Resist by 15% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

Attribute Buff Elixirs

• Weak Iron Barb Elixir

Increases Armor by 50, Thorns by 25, and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Third Eye Elixir

Increases Dodge by 4% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Assault Elixir

Increases Attack Speed by 7% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Crushing Elixir

Increases Overpower damage by 20% and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Precision Elixir

Increases Critical Strike Chance by 2%, Critical Strike Damage by 15%, and Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Weak Acrobatics Elixir

Reduces the cooldown of your Evade by 8% and increases Experience by 5% for 30 minutes.

Anti-Monster Elixirs

• Elixir of Beast-Slaying

Increases damage against Spiders, Wildlife, Maggots, Snakes, and Werewolves by 20% and Experience gained by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Elixir of Demon-Slaying

Increases damage against Goatmen, Fallen, Flies, and Demons by 20% and Experience gained by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Elixir of Man-Slaying

Increases damage against Cannibals, Bandits, Knights Penitent, and Cultists by 20% and Experience gained by 5% for 30 minutes.

• Elixir of Undead-Slaying

Increases damage against Vampires, Skeletons, Zombies, Ghosts, and Drowned by 20% and Experience gained by 5% for 30 minutes.

Elixirs unlock at different levels, as do quality upgrades for each.

Four Stage Elixirs

• Weak Elixir unlocked at level 15
• Elixir unlocked at level 45
• Strong Elixir unlocked at level 60
• Potent Elixir unlocked at level 75

Five Stage Elixirs

• Weak Elixir unlocked at level 15
• Elixir unlocked at level 35
• Strong Elixir unlocked at level 50
• Potent Elixir unlocked at level 65
• Heady Elixir unlocked at level 80

How To Craft Incense

Incense can be used to apply buffs to both the player and the larger group of allies accompanying them. Only one Incense can be active per player at any given time.

Song of the Mountain

Increases armor by 200 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Ancient Times

Increases Strength by 25 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Sage’s Whisper

Increases Intelligence by 25 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Queen’s Supreme

Increases Dexterity by 25 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Blessed Guide

Increases Willpower by 25 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Storm of the Wilds

Increases Lightning, Cold and Poison Resistances by 12% for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Desert Escape

Increases Fire and Shadow Resistances by 7.5% and armor by 75 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Reddamine Buzz

Increases Maximum Life by 500 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Spiral Morning

Increases all stats by 15 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Scents of the Desert Afternoon

Increases Thorns by 250 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Soothing Spices

Increases all resistances by 10% and armor by 150 for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

Spirit Dance

Increases chance to dodge by 5% for every nearby player. Lasts 20 minutes.

How To Refine Resources

The Alchemist can help refine one resource into another, if you are having difficulty acquiring them in the open world for an additional cost in gold.

Biteberry

• 5x Gallowvine
• 200 Gold

Blightshade

• 5x Gallowvine
• 200 Gold

Gallowvine

• 1x either Biteberry or Blightshade or Howler Moss or Lifesbane or Reddamine
• 200 Gold

Howler Moss

• 5x Gallowvine
• 200 Gold

Lifesbane

• 5x Gallowvine
• 200 Gold

Reddamine

• 5x Gallowvine
• 200 Gold

Silver Ore

• 10x Iron Chunk
• 200 Gold

Superior Leather

• 5x Rawhide
• 200 Gold

That is every service the Alchemist offers players in Diablo 4.

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