Ok up to now I've been struggling my butt off just to get my Junior to level 10.Because I was just randomly compounding stuff together,I know this is common knowledge to most of you but if it saves 1 poor fool from doing what i did I'm happy .So yesterday I read some post I accidentally came across while was looking for something completely different.Then I did some experimenting and this is what I came up with:

Alchemy levels from every SUCCESSFUL compound you do:

-A successful compound is any compound where the item you get back Is 1(or more)rank/s higher than the lowest ranking item in your compound

~so if you compound a rank2 + rank2 and get a rank 3 or higher it was a
success. If you get a rank 2 or lower its a fail~

-But evin if your compound is a success your proficiency will not rise
every time, It simply means your 1 compound closer to it raising.

Getting a successful compound:
-1st of all if you compound randomly your just wasting your time because
half of your compounds or more will be fails will be fails.

-If you compound a rank 2 item with a rank 2 item most of the time you
will get a rank 2 item back,this means your skill won't raise if you
compound a high ranked and low ranked item you are far more likely to get
a successful compound.and lastly if you compound 2 rank 1 items you will
ALWAYS get a rank 1 item back.

-and what I've been wasting your time leading up to If you compound a
rank 1 Item (like muck or clay) with any item of a higher rank you will
always get an item of rank 2 or more back, so every compound you do WILL
be a success

~so compound Clay[R1]+Apple[R4](or any other [R2+]Item and your
alchemy will go up~

As the title says this is what I know I might be missing things I might be wrong about things,I welcome any input But after doing this I got the last lvl of my junior and 8 lvls of superior in 1 day :) So I'd Say it works pretty darn well.

Last edited Tue, 08 Jan 2013, 11:09am by Tsuki