Gunga wrote on Aug 26^th, 2020 at 11:47am:


Where is this guide you speak of? Kindly link for the slow ( or not in the know)

Justanotherlurker wrote on Aug 27^th, 2020 at 9:51am:



Ugh, not aware of that. Could someone kindly link? Much appreciated.

the_biggest_dog wrote on Aug 27^th, 2020 at 10:18am:

G is a good alchemist. I enjoy his streaming, too. He's also kinda cute.

My build is not the greatest. Still working through it, trying to put some tweaks on it. I went the Ice route. It feels pretty strong. I need to find a way to put more hit points on it, but Smoke Bomb is actually pretty amazing as a defensive tactic.

I found a pretty reasonable route to keep triggering.

Before entering a room:
Quicksilver Potion->Displacement Draught-> Throw the SLA Vial of Frost at the wall -> Smoke Bomb.

This will set you up as having yellow only, so your first Multivial/Elemental Combination throw you'll have the Surge for only 53 SP. Cheaper if you cut the quicksilver.

Here's the link to my current set up:
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/517339-Ice-Bomber-Alchemist

I switch the green reaction when I'm doing things like Baba where I'm throwing DC Non-Damage spells like Frog and Flash Freeze for CC.

Okay, I almost don't want to post this because every "Alchemist is actually good" post is that much more weight on the "let's nerf Alchemists" scale for when the next class is released. But I really appreciate the advice and insights in this thread, so I want to share my experience after my first run through Alchemist with some understanding of what makes the class work compared to the Alchemist life I ran when Alchemist first came out.

Holy shit. Alchemist is really good. It's more work, but it's also more fun than Sorcerer now that I understand it better. More than once I've gone into a quest on R2 to farm gear and thought, "Aw shit. I'm going to have to recall because I want in on Normal by accident."

I'm not l33t enough to run the build as linked because I need some more defensive choices to save my ass in quests (like the Int to Will saves, etc) and I'm not as geared up with all the LGS (just a little LGS), but hot damn is Alchemist strong.  Sharn force damage that doesn't get stopped by Shield/Nightshield still sucks, but when you can completely ignore most spell damage with Evasion, that force damage is a lot more manageable. 

Reactions are managed with the order you cast spells, so set up the spells on your hotbar in a way that automatically gives you the reactions you want when you need them.  Having Greater blah-mind imbue to cast a cheap red spell whenever you want is great and you have a ton of Blue buffs and cheap yellow spells to get you in whatever state you need before the fight starts. Learn to start a fight in the state that will get you your desired reaction and then don't stress about the reaction during the fight,

Self healing is fantastic. MRR isn't as bad as you'd think with the Orb bonus (still not great).

Every level has outstanding spells. I want more spell slots at every level except 6. Even 6 has great spells - just not as many of them.

The only downside is the cooldown on your nuking spells.