Before you make an alch, you should consider that potions won’t make much money for the time you spend. You have to farm the mats to make pots yourself, and crafting 10 potions at a time on a long 30s animation is really slow and boring. I also believe most of pots being sold in market are made by botters, meaning you’ll be competing with them when it comes to pricing (you’ll lose).
I’ve seen some people pay for awakening with shards too, but they are few and far between, so don’t be too attracted to this.
Gem shops don’t make any money either.
If you are looking to actually make silver through actively playing, choose a farming character not a merchant class (as counterintuitive as it is, merchant classes make very little silver). If you are looking to make an AFK shop, BlueFlewQueen is right, a squire or pardoner will be decent.
I know you have a SR already for farming, but you could also consider Linker/Thaum/FF for farming higher level maps with low drop rate items that sell for a lot. Demand for DPK drops is high, so this build can make money much easier than an alch imo (though it’s kinda painful having to sit and farm the mats).
If even after all of that, you’re still attracted to alchemist, I don’t recommend cryokino at all. Cryokino excels at bursting a single target, while alchemists need to kill a lot of trash mobs to make their money. CD’s for cryokino are too high, and everything other than the ice wall + PP combo is relatively weak.
I’d recommend this build for an active money making alchemist build:
https://tos.neet.tv/skill-planner#21227a555.153545.1a21374a5171.3545.15243541.11253a415f667285
Joint Penalty + HK will allow you to use swell body on up to 5 monsters at a time, and double your drops. It will also allow you to kill most things with alchemistic missile or fireball/flare, even when swelled (so long as your gear is decent for an alt, and the monsters you fight aren’t out of your league).
The real money with alchemist imo is through magnum opus. You will be able to transmute cheap, easy to farm objects into much rarer and expensive items to sell in the market (or to make gear to sell in market or use yourself). One example of this is farming blue tini horns to make brown tini horns. At the time of me writing this post, brown tini horns are in market for 600k silver, and you need only 6 blue tini horns to make one (they are fairly common drops, and thaum + linker combo will help you farm as much as you can as an Alch).
There is an addon to see what items you can transmute with magnum opus, including the recipe and puzzle to make things easier. You’ll have to search for it yourself, though I think it shouldn’t be too hard to just use the forum’s search function and find the link.
Other popular builds for Alchemist are Pyro/Linker/Alch3 and Wiz3/Ele2/Alch3.
