Cjmate

Welcome to the grind.

Well to be fair, it makes sense alchemy would be that way. Alchemical reagents in real life are typically made from fairly difficult to make or isolate. Aqua vitae, that's pure ethanol. Sometimes real life alchemists needed a specific plant, in specific geographical conditions, and at the right point of the year so that the humors in it were balanced or something. Alchemy is, never was, and never should be, easy. And while it might be harder to get the ingredients than, say, enchanting, you can fill up to three bottles at a time with an alchemy stand, while with enchanting you can only make one at a time, and it takes a long time to make the enchant books and then enchant the gear.

My gripe is the huge reliance on other professions, not the easiness of it. It is more of an inconvenience thing.