All Alchemist Features

The Alchemist is an NPC in Diablo 4 (Diablo IV) that allows players to craft Uber Unique Items, upgrade their health potions, craft powerful elixirs and incenses, and refine surplus resources. Read on to learn more about the Alchemist and its features including how to unlock the Alchemist during your playthrough!

Season 4 Update 1.4.0 Patch Notes
・Individual Herbs like Gallowvine and Biteberry are no longer ingredients for potions ・Main herb ingredient is now changed to Bundled Herbs. These can still be found in the over world. ・Changes on cost of crafting potions for have been updated. ・Refining materials is no longer a feature.

All Alchemist Features

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Health Potion Upgrading	Elixir Crafting
Transmutation	Incense Crafting

Health Potion Upgrading

One of the Alchemist's most important features is health potion upgrading as it allows you to improve the potency of your character's health potion. Spend Crafting Materials and Gold to upgrade your health potion after hitting certain level milestones during your playthrough.

List of All Potions
Tiny Healing Potion	Minor Healing Potion	Light Healing Potion
Moderate Healing Potion	Strong Healing Potion	Greater Healing Potion
Major Healing Potion	Superior Healing Potion

How to Upgrade the Healing Potion

Elixir Crafting

The Alchemist also allows players to craft Elixirs that can boost different stats and increase your characters survivability during combat. Additionally, most Elixirs featured offer increased experience gain, perfect for power-leveling and quickly reaching endgame.

List of All Elixirs
Elixir of Advantage	Elixir of Advantage II	Elixir of Cold Resistance
Elixir of Cold Resistance II	Elixir of Destruction	Elixir of Destruction II
Elixir of Fire Resistance	Elixir of Fire Resistance II	Elixir of Fortitude
Elixir of Fortitude II	Elixir of Iron Barbs	Elixir of Iron Barbs II
Elixir of Lightning Resistance	Elixir of Lightning Resistance II	Elixir of Poison Resistance
Elixir of Poison Resistance II	Elixir of Precision	Elixir of Precision II
Elixir of Resourcefulness	Elixir of Resourcefulness II	Elixir of Shadow Resistance
Elixir of Shadow Resistance II

Transmutation

Summoning Item

You can craft summoning items needed for Echo of Varshan in the Alchemist. This would require you to exchange other Varshan summoning materials and convert them into any of the other materials, except for Malignant Hearts.

Transmute Sparks

With the release of patch 1.4.0, a new feature has been added where you can get an Uber Unique Item of your choice by spending a certain amount of Resplendent Sparks.

There are numerous ways to get Resplendent Sparks, such as defeating Uber Bosses and salvaging Uber Uniques.

List of Uber Uniques

Crafting Materials

You can now also craft caches obtaining Obducite and Ingolith, which obtained from challenging The Pit. This allows you to convert the higher-grade materials, such as Ingolith and Neathiron, if you need to upgrade lower ranks in the Masterwork System.

Masterworking Guide and How to Unlock

Incense Crafting

Incense can be used to apply a certain buff to the user and all nearby players. Only one Incense can be active at any given time and all Incense will only be active for 20 minutes.

Additionally, as of the Season 2 update, incenses provide a bonus to experience gains and their effects persist after death.

List of All Incense
Chorus of War	Song of the Mountain	Ancient Times
Sage's Whisper	Queen's Supreme	Blessed Guide
Storm of the Wilds	Desert Escape	Reddamine Buzz
Spiral Morning	Scents of the Desert Afternoon	Soothing Spices
Spirit Dance

List of All Consumables

How to Unlock the Alchemist

Complete the Prologue and Arrive at Kyovashad

To unlock the Alchemist, players will simply need to complete the main story Prologue of Diablo 4. This will unlock Kyovashad and the Alchemist NPC available inside the city.

Where is Kyovashad?

Reach Level 10 to Unlock the Alchemist Priority Quest

To unlock the priority quest Health Potion Upgrading, you will first need to reach Level 10. After doing so, the quest will automatically unlock, setting a waypoint to an Alchemist that will walk you through the steps of upgrading your Health Potion for the first time.

Diablo 4 Related Guides

List of All NPCs

All NPC Vendors

All NPC Vendors
Blacksmith	Alchemist	Occultist
Jeweler	Purveyor of Curiosities	Stable Master
All PvP NPC Vendors
Cursed Scroll Vendor	Odd and Ends	Unconventional Mount Armor
Unsavory Oddities