Lacking the intelligence God gave this inanimate steel cauldron, I cannot on my own figure out which recipes are considered "tough" for me. I looked, friends, I truly did. I experimented, and wasted, and cursed, and wept. I also once had this all written down and lost it after I stared at my desk and foolishly declared, "Time to clean this mess up! 'Train trink alch?' What in blazes is this even for?"

If anyone of you super genius obsessive compulsive types would be kind enough to spell this out for me, preferably using as few and small words as possible, I will surely lift a glass of wine in your good name.

Here's my laughable info:

You are a member of the Wizard Guild.
You currently have 56 ranks out of a possible 372 for your training.

You have 27 ranks in the General Alchemy skill.

You have 14 ranks in the Alchemic Potions skill.

You have 18 ranks in the Alchemic Trinkets skill.

For General Alchemy and Potions what "TOUGH" recipe is best for BOIL? What about SIMMER? What about CHANT?

I THOUGHT I had been making tinctures of woth, but these either no longer work for me, or simply do not work for boil (of which I am currently assigned for both General and Potion). Silvery potions also no longer do the trick.

For trinkets, making iridescent opal wands blessedly still works for chant, boil, and simmer. Any advice on which trinket I should turn to when those stop being "TOUGH"?

As always, many, many thanks in advance.

>>>Woth should be working for you according to that chart, though, so I dunno. Maybe something's wonky.<<<

Yeah, that's what is driving me crazy. I'll shoot you an AIM next time I want to bang my head into the wall and call it alchemy.

Status report: Rimalon was...right. Via AIM he surmised that having two BOIL tasks at once was making the screwy system go kaflooey.

Dropped both tasks, asked for new work in potions, was given cleaning crux and then polishing assemblies, which evened me out because of the two trades. Given a cauldron assignment for boil next, uh oh...but BEHOLD! WOTH is now working for me again. It seems Rimalon's theory that having two BOIL assignments mucks up the system was correct-a-mondo.

Uh, GMs? Should I bug report? Seems like a really unfriendly glitch. Doubt I'll get a couple ranks for all those WOTHs I made that were supposed to work but didn't, all my supplies back, the time, the effort, color in the now gray and thinning hair, the wife, the kids...

Wait, some of that isn't alchemy's fault.