EverQuest 2 Alchemy Guide
6. Making Money as an Alchemist
Alchemists have several options for making money, some better than others, but they all serve a different purpose and all have their place, and you’ll probably end up doing them all at one time or another.
6.1. Vendoring
With the way crafting works as of Live Update 24, you’ll find yourself ending up with a glut of finished products, as all your crafting experience will come from making these (since refines and interims no longer exist). Vendoring is unfortunately the best way of getting rid of these items. However, you’ll likely be able to sell items on the broker albeit at a fairly slow pace. Once the market stabilizes it will become slightly easier to sell your finished products.
Because of the changes that came with Live Update 24, vendoring is probably be the only way to get rid of most of the handcrafted items that you make while leveling. Removing subcombines from the game means you’re only making finished products to level so you’ll end up making far more than you’ll be able to sell to other players. Unfortunately, vendor buy-back prices were also changed and now NPC vendors only buy items back for the
cost of the fuel that was used to make them. This means that when you vendor items you lose whatever it cost to buy the resources.
6.2. Tasks and Writs
Status writs and workshop tasks have been temporarily removed from the game C watch this space for updates when the system is revamped.
6.3. Selling to Other Players
Selling finished products to other players is one of the most fun parts of tradeskilling for me. It is great to know that there are people out there in Norrath using things that I’ve made! If you’re smart and figure out what people want to buy there is a lot of money to be made, too.