I know this topic was answered and I found useful info but I would like to know the best preference by many people. Please tell me your preference of all these methods:
1)small wooden gear + small wooden gear
2)barley + barley
3)ore + ore
4)seed + muck
Thank you for your help!

any wood base item + any base item which is same rank or lower rank.

I lvl up my alchemy with copper ore+copper ore

i prefer the wooden gear method,the wood is easy to gather,and its an instant build,plus u get a great quantity of gears to comp.and u will have a LOT of noob gear to sell :P,but i end up comping the gear i make.dont have infinite storage for all the junk this method creates

I make lv fast with aluminium ore+iron ore and i make hard aluminium plate

But u spend more time with getting aluminum ores o_o

i have 2 acc in cave for iron ores and i make very fast 5 stacks/day i take 8stacks/day is easy and the alchemy make lv fast and money too for hard

I lvl up alchemy using small wooden gear.
Since when your super.alch reach lvl 25+ you will need like 250+ compound to get 1 proficiency and will increase as the lvl increase.
well, i dont really remember how many times to compound tho actually.
So, you will need a lot of thing to increase ur super.alch lvl.
I can say so because i got full lvl superior.:p

Is it possible to make a sea loricae if I only have a lvl 15 sup alch or should I have a higher lvl?

totaly possible.i've been making rank 30 and higher eq wtih superior 10.go for it,dude!

yup. its all about luck some people with lvl 5 alchy usually are surprised and lucky enough to be able to make a lord gown. while you have some that lvl 17+ alchy and still fail blue boots or skeleton steel sword ;-; *cries*

*Sup lvl 12 fail on wizard suit twice fail at sacred wand its all about luck*
Im always use small wodden gear + small wodden gear :P
Why ? becuz easy make it lol )))

i train my alchemy by compounding junk i got from training =.=

Wow at lv 12 fail wow that ugly