rank 1 items works best.

alchemy stats are gained due to a success. so if you get rank 2 or higher while using a lvl 1 item you will lvl it fast. After it gets to lvl 5 it slows then and you need double the items, and then lvl 7 you will need to do triple amount of things you compound. By lvl 9 its quadruple. and etc etc.. higher you lvl the more things you will need to compound.

but its best to stick with lvl 1 items. like wheat base, wood based, copper based or even coal based for example. because those items hardly have any rank 3's and you will mostly likely always jump to a +4.

You can buy laurn wood, to make wooden cogs and copper ores all from kelan shop.

here is a example
Level Required number of successful synthesis
1---0-------11--1697-----21--?
2--14-------12--2220-----22--?
3--35-------13--2844-----23--?
4--79-------14--3578-----24--?
5--152------15--4430-----25--?
6--263------16--5410-----26--?
7--422------17--6527-----27--?
8--635------18--7792-----28--?
9--913------19--9212-----29--?
10-1264----20--10799----30--?

this was taken from here: http://forum.wl.igg.com/viewthread.php?tid=3852

Feel free to go there and read more if you are confused.. his translation is not well but you get the idea of most things he is saying.

The best guide i say is experience you gain from your own knowledge. I know most of what i know from compounding myself. after you get used to it you will realize its not so hard. and you will think of way to create your own short cuts... or what a base, rank and jump means. like i did with the wheat based and coal based items due to their large jumps.

well good luck =3 if you ever have any more questions, please fee free to ask.

Last edited Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 5:44am by Kojika