Alchemy Cap: revisited

[slappig]

I may be beating a dead horse, but the alchemy level cap needs to change with the times.
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As near as I can tell, Alchemy is the only tradeskill with a level cap. With my troll shaman, I can only 'raise' my tradeskill level about 5 points per level/level.
That means: at level 50, I can only raise my skill level to 130 (level-24 x5). Do I have this right? At level 64, I can achieve 200--bah! I'm already penalized xp-wise by being a troll. I was spending a long time at skill 60 working on an 82 combine with no movement, when the bulb of insight went off (I was level 36). Back to the boards here, and sure enough--capped!
<bonk> Madoc on the head repeatedly here! What's the sense in this? In every other tradeskill I can run a level 1 up to a GM I think.
/rant off
==>It's time to balance Alchemy with the other tradeskills. There's no logic or 'game balancing' in this archaic cap!

[Saleani]

The research skill and make poison skill have similar level caps. Alchemy is not alone in this.

[Fudapuda]

<bonk> Madoc on the head repeatedly here! What's the sense in this? In every other tradeskill I can run a level 1 up to a GM I think.

Not quite true: you have to be level 16 to level up at ALL in tinkering, though you get to start at lvl 50 (if I recall correctly) to compensate. But from then on it is open--I have a lvl 16 gnome rogue currently at 222 tinkering, and begging for more materials to skill up further!

Fudapuda
Bertox

[Jaradis Stormcaller]

No thanks. Leave it how it is. Its hard enough to sell anything using Alchemy, if you removed the cap everyone would have their own shaman mule to do alchemy. Alchemy is by far the easiest skill to raise short of JC since everything is store bought. The only thing keeping everyone from having an alchemy bot to do their combines is the level restriction.