Apothecary

Learn the Apothecary skill at the capital city of your realm. The "Apothecary" NPC will teach you the specialization. Pair this with the skills Cultivating or Butchering.

Apothecary Window In Game

The Apothecary skill will allow you to create potions. Visit the Cultivating page for a list of materials currently enabled in RoR.

It seems to be the case that some combination of Goldweed and Resin can often guarantee a potent lasting potion and often leads to increased liniment yields.

What You Need

To create a potion, you'll need a Container, a Main Ingredient, and then Supplemental Ingredients to stabilize and strengthen the potion.

• Start by opening your Apothecary window, then right click the container you'd like to use.
• Next, right click a Main Ingredient to add it, and then right click to add up to three supplemental ingredients.
• Finally, click Brew! to create your potion.

Containers

Containers are the vials you'll use to store your potions. Higher level containers will boost both the stability and the power of a potion you create. Expand the section below for a list of Containers.

You can buy most containers from the Craft Supply Merchant in either Altdorf or the Inevitable City.

Volatility

Volatility Meter In-game

Volatility is the primary hurdle you need to overcome when creating potions. To make them less volatile, you'll add Stabilizers, like Zoic Gore or Arboreal Resin.

The bar on the right of the Apothecary window will show you how Stable or Volatile a potion is. Make sure the bar has reached the green section near the top to ensure a successful potion!

Main Ingredients

Plants

When you harvest a seed with Cultivating, you get a plant according to the type/level of the seed.

Spores

When you harvest a seed with Cultivating, you get a plant according to the type/level of the seed.

Butchering

Butchering can also grant a number of main ingredients. Their strength is based on the level of the enemy mob killed.

Ingredients

Stabilizer

Stabilizers are needed for most potions, and reduce their volatility. Volatile Potions created without enough stabilizers may go wrong, and can grant negative effects.

Extender

Extenders are used to increase the time a potion is active. The maximum time a crafted potion can be active is 1 hour.

Multiplier

Multipliers are used to increase the amount of potions you gain from a single craft.

Fixer

Fixers are used in the creation of Dyes.

Stimulant

Stimulants increase the chance of a critical craft occurring. Critical crafts boost the strength of the potion(s) you make even further.

What You Get

Potions

Armor	Common Result	Critical Chance
Note: Potions shown in this table are using extenders.

Ballistic Skill	Common Result	Critical Chance

Invigoration/Energy	Common Result	Critical Chance
		(?)

Strength	Common Result	Critical Chance

Intelligence	Common Result	Critical Chance
	(?)	(?)

Corporeal Resistance	Common Result	Critical Chance
(?)	(?)	(?)
(?)	(?)	(?)
(?)	(?)	(?)

Spirit Resistance	Common Result	Critical Chance
(?)	(?)	(?)

Healing	Common Result	Critical Chance

Restoration	Common Result	Critical Chance
	(?)	(?)

Willpower	Common Result	Critical Chance
		(?)

Flame Breath	Common Result	Critical Chance

Pairing Cultivating or Butchering ?

Apothecary is a crafting skill that needs a gathering skill: Cultivating or Butchering. You can only learn one crafting skill and one gathering skill per character, so to best compliment, you'll have to choose between these two.

Cultivating

With Cultivating, you get plants and spores that you can brew to get :

• Restoration
• Intelligence
• Willpower
• Strength
• Flame Breath
• Molotov
• Invigoration/Energy
• Healing
• Ballistics
• Napalm
• Corporeal resistance
• Spirit resistance
• Stimulant
• Extender
• Multiplier
• Stabilizer

Butchering

If you enjoy chopping up dead things, you can also use Butchering to acquire ingredients for your potions. (Please see the Butchering page for a full list!)

NOTE: Ingredients like Extenders come exclusively from Cultivating, and certain main ingredients (like Scales for Armor Potions) come exclusively from Butchering. To create top-tier potions, you may need to mix ingredients from both gathering professions.

Liniments

Liniments are a special consumable usable at level 40, which lasts for 30 minutes. They require rank 200 Apothecary to craft.

Note: Players can combine effects from Offensive potions, like Liniments, alongside effects from defensive potions (like Armor Potions).

Liniment Name "Liniment of..."	Liniment Buff	Main Ingredient	Main Ingredient Source	Container
Boundless Sight	+60 Wounds +60 Initiative	Primal Vision	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Immutable Defiance	Chance to be Crit -10% +20 hp / 5s	Primal Strength	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Inexorable Aegis	+180 all resists	Primal Defense	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Inspirational Winds	+60 Willpower +50 Healing Power	Violetseal	Violetseal Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Peerless Defense	+60 Toughness Chance to be crit -5%	Primal Grace	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Quickened Blades	+60 Weaponskill +5% Armor Penetration	Primal Alacrity	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Swift Tergiversation	+60 Weaponskill Chance to be crit -5%	Primal Nature	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
The Eternal Hunt	+60 Ballistic Skill +5% Ranged Crit Chance	Nightshade	Nightshade Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
The Inevitable Tempest	+60 Strength +50 Melee Power	Crimson Monkshood	Crimson Monkshood Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
The Tolling Bell	+60 Intelligence +5% Magical Crit Chance	Azurethread	Azurethread Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Unfettered Zeal	+60 Strength +50 Healing Power	White Baneberry	White Baneberry Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
War: Fervor	+60 Wounds +5% Ranged Crit Chance	Primal Frenzy	Butchering	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
War: Genius	+60 Wounds +5% Magical Crit Chance	Black Serissa	Black Serissa Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
War: Hunger	+60 Wounds +60 Strength	Primal Hunger Golden Serissa	Butchering Golden Serissa Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
War: Mercy	+60 Wounds +50 Healing Power	Primal Afinity Pale Serissa	Butchering Pale Serissa Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
Savage Vigor	+60 Toughness +5% Melee Crit Hit	Black Hellebore	Black Hellebore Seed	Artisan's Glass Vial or lower
War: Blood	+60 Wounds +5% Melee Crit Hit	Violetseal	Violetseal Seed	Master Apothecary's Ampoule only
War: Demise	+60 Wounds +50 Melee Power	Crimson Monkshood	Crimson Monkshood Seed	Master Apothecary's Ampoule only

Credit: Gaiscioch

Leveling Tips

• 1. Make sure to use Main Ingredients as close to your level as possible. (After Level 25, use Level 25 Main ingredients. After hitting 50, use level 50 Main Ingredients, etc.)
• 2. If you're in guild above Rank 21, you can get special Containers and ingredients by talking to the Quartermaster in the Guild Hall in your capital city. (Order: Sigmar's Hammer, Southwest Altdorf. Destro: The Viper Pit, North Inevitable City)
• 3. If you're missing ingredients, you can purchase most from other players via the Auction House, or use another character to gather them and mail them over.