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The Alchemy Lab is a Small Garrison building that Alchemists and Non-Alchemists can use to craft Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes.

While we explain, in this article, how to unlock all levels of the Alchemy Lab, you may be interested in our guide to unlocking all the Garrison buildings. We also have a guide to leveling Alchemy in Draenor.

For Alchemists, the main perk of the Alchemy Lab is that it allows you to create a maximum of 12x Alchemical Catalysts per day, in addition to the 10x you can already craft with Alchemical Catalyst (less with an Alchemy skill lower than 700). These extra Catalysts are really useful, because they allow you to make more Draenor potions and flasks, which means you make more money off the Auction House. The Alchemy Lab is also where you buy your Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes.

For Non-Alchemists, the main perk of the Alchemy Lab is that the resident Alchemist of the lab can craft most of the Draenor-specific Alchemy recipes for you, with the exception of the Greater Flasks.

In this section, we are going to tell you how to unlock the Alchemy Lab, Level 1, 2, and 3.

The Alchemy Lab Level 1 is unlocked when you upgrade your Town Hall to Level 2.

Alchemists can build this building with a Town Hall Level 1, because they have a chance to loot Mysterious Flask (Alliance) and Mysterious Flask (Horde). This item drops from humanoid mobs around Draenor and starts a quest line that eventually rewards the plan to build the Alchemy Lab, Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 1, and A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor, which teaches basic Draenor recipes that can be used to level up the profession.

If you are an Alchemist and the quest item does not drop for you, then you can buy your A Treatise on the Alchemy of Draenor for 100 from the Alchemist at your Alchemy Lab, after upgrading your Town Hall to Level 2.

Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 2 is sold by the blueprint vendor at your Garrison once you reach level 96 or once you complete your Talador Outpost. You can buy it with 750 . You can also buy it from the blueprint vendor in Ashran without restrictions with an Outpost Building Assembly Notes, which can only be obtained twice, once when questing in Gorgrond and once when questing in the Spires of Arak. so the purpose of this Below, you will find the Alliance and Horde vendors.

Garrison Blueprint: Alchemy Lab, Level 3 is a reward from completing the Working More Orders achievement, which requires you to complete 250 Work Orders at your Garrison. This achievement is account-wide.

Once you complete the achievement, the blueprint is not directly handed over to you. You still need to buy it from Sparz Boltwist (Alliance) or Rezlak (Horde) for 1,000 .

Work Orders are unlocked with your Alchemy Lab Level 1 and allow you to create Alchemical Catalysts. A Work Order takes 4 hours to complete and transforms 5x Frostweed into 1x Alchemical Catalyst (2x with a level 100 follower assigned to the Alchemy Lab). This means that you can complete a maximum of 6 Work Orders per day for a total yield of 6 to 12 Alchemical Catalysts.

When you first build the Alchemy Lab on a character, the resident Alchemist at the lab gives you Your First Alchemy Work Order. To complete it, talk to the Alchemist's Assistant and give the required 5x Frostweed. The small box outside the Alchemy Lab should activate immediately and you can loot the Alchemy Work Order that you need to turn in to complete the quest. Doing so rewards you with 5x Alchemical Catalysts.

After upgrading the Alchemy Lab to Level 2, you can assign a follower with the Alchemy trait to work at the Alchemy Lab. The higher the level of your follower, the higher the chance that the Work Order will generate 2 Alchemical Catalysts instead of only 1. With a level 100 follower, you are guaranteed to get 2 Alchemical Catalysts.

While working at the Alchemy Lab, your follower receives experience for every Work Order completed.

You can queue up to a certain number of Work Orders, depending on your Alchemy Lab's level (7 at Level 1, 14 at Level 2, 21 at Level 3).

Having a Storehouse Level 3 increases the maximum number of Work Orders by 15, which means a maximum of 22 Work Orders at Level 1, 29 at Level 2, and 36 at Level 3.

Being able to queue more Work Orders does not increase your yield, but it does allow you to let more time pass before you have to go back to the Alchemy Lab to refill your queue of Work Orders.

Alchemical Catalyst costs 20x Frostweed and 10x Blackrock Ore and produces between 4 and 10 Alchemical Catalysts, depending on your Alchemy skill. Below level 600, you only produce 4. Between level 600 and 700 the yield slowly increases to reach 10 at level 700.

Work Orders cost 5x Frostweed and produce between 1 and 2 Alchemical Catalysts. With no follower or a level 90 follower, you produce only 1. The closer your follower is to 100, the higher the chance that the yield will be 2. With a follower level 100, you always produce 2.

Regardless of how you create an Alchemical Catalyst, the cost is more or less the same. This is due to the fact that having a Mine Level 1 and a Herb Garden Level 2, with a follower assigned to it, will provide you with more than the 50x Frostweed and 10x Blackrock Ore that you will need every day to craft Alchemical Catalyst and start 6 Work Orders at your Alchemy Lab.

The Alchemist at the Alchemy Lab interacts with you in one of two ways, depending on whether or not you have the Alchemy profession.

Buying the Draenor Alchemy recipes from the Alchemist in your Alchemy Lab is the only way to obtain them. Each recipe costs a number of Secrets of Draenor Alchemy. You can make one of these items every day using the Secrets of Draenor Alchemy Alchemy recipe, which costs 5x Frostweed. The table below lists all of the recipes you can buy and the amount of Secrets of Draenor Alchemy it costs to buy them (though some of them only require Gold).