Potion event recipes and market news list for Genshin Impact

How to make the best potions for the ‘Alchemical Ascension’ event

“Alchemical Ascension” is the keystone event of Genshin Impact version 4.5, prompting you to mix herbs together to make potions that follow news trends.

Completing the event will also reward a plethora of goodies: furniture, Primogems, a Crown of Insight, and a special weapon that you can only get from this event. The weapon, “Dialogues of the Desert Sages,” is a polearm that benefits healers, like Mika and Yaoyao. Again, you can only get this weapon (and its refinement material) from this event, so make sure to grab it before it’s gone.

As usual with Genshin events, “Alchemical Ascension” is split into three parts that are time-gated. Phase one started on March 14, phase two started on March 16, and phase three started on March 18.

You may be worried about messing up your potions early on, but don’t fret too much. As the event progresses, you’ll eventually be able to keep making potions and spamming cycles infinitely, so you can just keep making potions and earning revenue with no worry.

Regardless, we explain how to become a potion expert, potion recipes, and how market news works below.

How to make potions in Genshin Impact’s ‘Alchemical Ascension’ event

As of the first part of the event, you have 10 cycles to make potions. You can only make one potion per cycle and you can end the cycle by talking to Lisa. Throughout different cycles, the market news will tell you what people are into, and thus what potions will sell better.

Each potion is made up of different ingredients. You unlock more as you level up and you can grow them in pots at the potion making area. Each ingredient correlates to a specific efficacy: strength, constitution, dexterity, charisma, wisdom, or balanced. They also each have a different characteristic: endurance, warm, steadying, fragrant, healing, strengthening, relaxing, perception, focus, or technique.

The goal is to place the ingredients, like a puzzle, on to the grid in a way that creates a potion with specific stats and characteristics, leaving as few gaps open as possible.

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As you place pieces, you can see how your potion will turn out on the left side of the screen. Hovering over the ingredient on the right side will also say what it adds to the potion. You’ll just need to keep adding the correlating plants until you get the desired result.

After selling the potions, you can buy upgrades (like a better cauldron or more planting pots) from a woman nearby. Your plants will also upgrade as they get used, unlocking more shapes to use during the puzzle portion of the event. You will also unlock the ability to combine ingredients to level them up, which we do recommend doing before you hit Sucrose’s expert exam, since this will let you craft better potions.

After cycle 10, you’ll be able to purchase bigger upgrades for your shop, like the ability to sell more potions at once. After you unlock enough slots, you ideally just want to stock your shop with high-level potions that cover all the different efficacies and characteristics. This way, you won’t really even have to pay attention to the market news to get rich.

You will eventually be able to buy out the shop’s upgrades completely, so after doing this, you can invest money into enhancing your potions at the cauldron.

Market news requirements, explained

Every couple of cycles, a new newspaper will get delivered to you, talking about the latest trends. As expected, we have to analyze these trends to make potions that suit whatever trend is occurring. However, the game doesn’t directly tell you which efficacy or characteristics are needed per trend — you kind of just have to guess. But you don’t actually, because we list out all the news and their related demands below, along with what cycle they appear in.

Note that in cycles eight through 10, you will get two random trends out of the four we list. From cycles 11 to 22, you’ll get a random group of two from the list every few cycles. From cycle 23 onward, the market news will be randomized from the marked entries below, and they will eventually begin to repeat.

There also appears to be some elements of RNG with what traits get associated per trend, according to both our experience and a few other guides. Each trend can have up to three traits, so if our table has more than three, you’ll have to guess and check. Have no fear, though, as the market news screen will confirm which efficacies and characteristics you got right. As mentioned above, though, you don’t have to stress about getting all the potions perfectly, as you’ll have an unlimited amount of cycles to play though in the end.

Special customers and orders

Starting in cycle eight, you’ll get some special orders from visiting NPCs. Some may have just straight up requests, whereas Sucrose may appear with more specific requirements to pass a potion-making exam. Everyone’s requests are the same across the board, so there’s no need to worry about an RNG element to get in your way. However, Sucrose’s potions may have different puzzle boards, with the blocking squares in different locations.

Beidou’s potion request

Beidou wants a constitution potion with relaxing characteristics. You can make this by using Calla Lilies and Dandelions. You can use mushrooms and berries to fill in any extra gaps to get those extra points, but don’t use too many. You don’t want their characteristics (endurance and warm, respectively) to overtake the relaxing characteristic.

Sucrose’s beginner alchemy exam

Sucrose wants an intermediate potion with a constitution efficacy. We used tons of Calla Lilies and Sweet Flowers to pass her test.

Diona’s potion request

Just like Beidou, Diona will eventually show up asking for a potion. She wants one with a wisdom efficacy or one that has steadying characteristics. You can use Qingxin or Windwheel Asters for the wisdom effect or Calla Lilies for the steadying effect.

Sucrose’s intermediate alchemy exam

The second time around, Sucrose will want an intermediate potion that has both strength and dexterity efficacies. We specifically used Jueyen Chilis and Horsetails to pass her test, but you can also use Flaming Flowers, Mist Flowers, and Dandelions.

Diluc’s potion request

Diluc wants a potion with both Constitution and Wisdom efficacy or one with Focus and Relaxing characteristics. You can use Calla Lillies, Sweet Flowers, Violetgrass, Qingxin, Windwheel Asters, or Lumidouce Bells if you’re focusing on the efficacies. If you’re focusing on the characteristics, you can use Berries, Zaytun Peaches, or Dandelions to help with that.

Sucrose’s advanced alchemy exam

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For your third exam, Sucrose will ask for an advanced potion that has Wisdom. This shouldn’t be too hard, but to complete the optional objectives (that reward coins), you’ll want to make sure that you fill in as many squares as possible, use five different ingredients, and make sure the potion has the Fragrant characteristic.

We used a mix of Lumidouce Bells, Windwheel Asters, and Qingxin for the Wisdom efficacy, and threw in three Sumeru Roses to give it the Fragrant characteristic. We also used Berries and Mushrooms to fill in the gaps.

Gorou’s potion request

Gorou just wants something that either has a Strength efficacy or an Endurance characteristic. By this point, you should have a ton of potions in your inventory that can probably fulfill his needs.

If you don’t, you can brew one by using Jueyen Chilis, Flaming Flowers, and Mist Flowers.

Sucrose’s expert alchemy exam

Sucrose’s final exam will require you to make an expert potion with a Charisma efficacy. You’ll also want to have Perception and Steadying characteristics to get that additional coin bonus.

We flooded our board with Sumeru Roses, Glaze Lilies, and Marcottes to get the Charisma stat. The Glaze Lilies added Perception, but we threw in some Calla Lilies for the Steadying stat.

Note that if you’re not getting an expert potion from using these ingredients, you may need to level up your ingredients more. Our main Charisma ingredients were all maxed level to make an expert potion.

Traveling merchant distribution strategies

Starting in the third phase of the event, you’ll unlock Atefeh, a traveling merchant who will sell your potions in Sumeru. You’ll need to give her potions that meet her required efficacies and also pick a specific distribution strategy. You can also unlock a Liyue merchant named Deyou by purchasing the “sales expansion contract” in the NPC shop for 600,000 coins.

Both of these merchants will request random efficacies, which you should be able to fulfill from what you just have in your inventory. However, both of the merchants have individual correct distribution strategies. For Atefeh, you want to use “Akademiya Certification” and “Celebrity Endorsement.” For Deyou, use “Free Sample Delivery” and “Hundred-Fold Guarantee.” Using these will net you the highest bonuses per sale.

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