Glyph of Alchemy

Double-click to apply this to a gathering tool. Replaces gathering results with materials used in higher-level crafting recipes. Material types are determined by the type of node gathered from. Mithril ore, elder wood, and select cooking ingredients can be improved a limited number of times each day. — In-game description

Glyph of Alchemy

Type

Glyph

Rarity

ERare

Binding

Account Bound

Game link

API

90805

“

Double-click to apply this to a gathering tool. Replaces gathering results with materials used in higher-level crafting recipes. Material types are determined by the type of node gathered from. Mithril ore, elder wood, and select cooking ingredients can be improved a limited number of times each day.

— In-game description

Glyph of Alchemy is an upgrade component for gathering tools.

Acquisition

Contained in

•   Glyph of Alchemy (Unused) (guaranteed)
•   Black Lion Glyph Selection Container (choice)

Extracted from

• Skyscale Hatchling Mining Tool

Material conversions

• When gathering with this glyph equipped, materials gathered will be instantly converted into one tier above.
• However, this conversion does not apply to secondary items, e.g. gemstones from mining nodes, bonus wood logs from logging nodes, etc.
• This glyph has no effect on special resource nodes in Living World zones, such as Toxic Seedlings in Kessex Hills and Difluorite Crystals in Sandswept Isles.
• This glyph has no effect on Raw Candy Corn.

Mining

Mining Node	Regular drops	Converts to	Profit/Loss
Copper Ore	Copper Ore	Iron Ore Silver Ore	… …
Silver Ore	Silver Ore	Gold Ore	…
Iron Ore	Iron Ore	Gold Ore	…
Gold Ore	Gold Ore	Platinum Ore	…
Platinum Ore	Platinum Ore	Mithril Ore	…
Mithril Ore	Mithril Ore	Orichalcum Ore1	…
Orichalcum Ore	Orichalcum Ore	Orichalcum Ore	N/A

¹ Mithril Ores can be improved 150 times per day, per account. When reaching the cap, the following in-game notification will appear, "This glyph cannot convert any more mithril ore today."

Logging

Logging Node	Regular drops	Converts to	Profit/Loss
Aspen Sapling Ekku Sapling Kertch Sapling	Green Wood Log	Soft Wood Log	…
Gummo Sapling Mimosa Sapling Snow Cherry Sapling	Soft Wood Log	Seasoned Wood Log	…
Fir Sapling Tukawa Sapling	Seasoned Wood Log	Hard Wood Log	…
Banyan Sapling Inglewood Sapling Pine Sapling	Hard Wood Log	Elder Wood Log	…
Baoba Sapling Cypress Sapling Eerie Driftwood Mebahya Sapling Palm Sapling Red Oak Sapling	Elder Wood Log	Ancient Wood Log1	…
Ancient Sapling Orrian Sapling	Ancient Wood Log	Ancient Wood Log	N/A

¹ Elder Wood Logs can be improved 150 times per day, per account. When reaching the cap, the following in-game notification will appear, "This glyph cannot convert any more elder wood today."

Harvesting

¹ Coral nodes are not affected by the glyph, i.e. nodes that would give Coral Chunks will not give higher-level drops.

² Passion Flowers are still guaranteed drops from Blooming Passifloras

³ Passion Flowers can still drop from Passifloras

Trivia

• Limited-use Alchemist's gathering tools (Sickle, Axe, Pick) with the same effect were briefly available when the glyph was introduced, but they were removed again two days later with the June 13, 2019 game update.

---

Glyphs

• Alchemy
• Bounty
• Flight
• Industry
• Overload
• Reaping
• Virtue
• Volatility
• the Crucible
• the Forester
• the Herbalist
• the Leatherworker
• the Prospector
• the Scavenger
• the Tailor
• the Timekeeper
• the Unbound
• the Watchknight