I agree alchemy could be easier to use and level up, however I don't mind the current state of it. I mean I am at G5 and rarely being in the top 5 on rankings. There are many people above my level. How do you think we've got there? I won't tell you how to progress but just let you know it's not very hard. Definitely not as easy as cooking but it's a nice challenge.
I do my poits myself, have zero problems with fruits and anything like this, spend like ~1h gathering per week and another one for crafting it. workers bring enough traces.
There is no problems beside you don't know what inflation means, why would i spend hours doing low paid labor if i can "1bil/h spot" and buy what i need with those money, oh wait...................
ur missing the whole point and one hour per week? thatss so sh** bro who cares about inflation my gathering or anyone gathering has noting to do with the mats u use on a daily base let alone be able to sustain ur self how many items use fruit of nature do u know? there u go if u dont know https://bdocodex.com/us/item/5205/
heres another amount of items u need https://bdocodex.com/us/item/6603/ theres no way in hell to sustain that from fruit of nautre alone if u use it mult reason
idc at all, never use those buffs, I only run stuff that is easy to get,
krog buff, church, tent, cron, just less chains on me.