Alchemists get Brew potion as default. Your archedtype looses that inf avour of the ability to put alchemical items on a weapon. You need to decide which you want more.
They are NOT all potions. They are all separate categories of things.
Brew potion is a core feat, take a look, it's one more thing an alchemist can do. And if you're a grenadier, nothing stops you from taking the feat, you just don't get it for free.
Brew Potion is a creation feat. Without it you can't brew potions. With it you can, its all in the magic item creation rules if you want to know about brewing potions. Its like a 50% discount on potions so long as you have time to make them.
Go blow some **** up!
Grenadier is great for blowing things up. Snag a weapon, load it with alchemical properties you made for cheap and let loose. Downside it doesn't scale at all becuase alchemical properties don't.
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Brew potion allows you to create potions for half the price it would cost to buy them. A useful thing because you can hold on to a potion forever and it does not lose its power and you can have as many as you can physically carry.
your extracts work like wizard spells except they only work for you until you take infusion. The difference is you have a certain number per day you can use just like spells for casters. But as long as know the extract/spell required to brew a potion you can make a potion, then have that potion avaible to you when you need it, and then you can prepare a different extract instead of having to use a extract slot for the spell in question.
That and alchemists can do it earlier than any other class that would otherwise have to be third level to take the feat.