No Alchemists Need alot of Freaking Help. the Rules for crafting are too broken ((in a bad way not a good way)) to be usable. to craft 4 alchemical fires a level 1 item as a level 1 character you need to spend 6 gold up front and work for bare minimium of 4 days then spend the other 6 gold or spend more days to make it cheaper. to get it at half price you have brew the same 4 alchemist fires for a total of 64 days to spend only 6 gold on them (the initial 6)
thats for 4 alchemist first that you will end up throwing in 4 rounds. the alchemist can spend resonance to make 2 alchemical fires durring daily prep but then what? you need resonance to use magic items too and potions and all the alchemist abilities generally require resonance to do. ok so you cant spend too much to make your alchemist fires ahead of tiem i can spend may 3 points to get 6 bombs for the day. if i need more quick alchemy lets me spend 1 resonance for 1 alchemical item.. that exchange rate. you cant do anything with the class but if you wanna brew them it takes 2 months and 4 days to get enough to throw in 4 rounds of combat. then on top of that if you go up in level you have to get to level 11 to be able to make those same 4 alchmical fires in just 2 days and because their is a time minimium of 1 day to get it at store price and a minimium of 1 more day to get it at half price thats 2 days for 4 rounds of combat throwing alchemical fires. and it never gets any better than 2 days.
and this supposed to be the alchmist's main thing his speciality