PaxsMickey

ALchemist is one of the more complicated spellcasters due to the want to cycle through the different alchemist reaction stances.

First Life, straight forward solo friendly DPS paladin. Of note: I included Vistani Knife Fighter for the use of the Haste boost, but if you don't have access to it, 5 points in sacred defender (+2 CON or CHA) and the 5th core for +10% sacred HP, 3 points in knight of the Chalice melee power action boost if you wont have a different action boost, and the last 4 AP in either the Holy and Adept combatant in KotC, or in the first 3 Dragonborn cores for +2 fort and +1 STR.

First Life Dwarf Dark Hunter. Realistically, by the time you reach level 20 you will have earned at least (1) +2 stat tome from favor, but I left all tomes off. This build uses the Horizon Walker enhancement tree, but if you dont have that you can use harper agent for the INT trance instead, or completely forgo a trance. We use tempest for the primary tree, which gives us a +1 competence bonus to crit multiplier. I always found I was too tight on AP to take a +1 crit multiplier AND the DEX trance from horizon walker, but with the recent changes to Dwarf having a crit multiplier in their racial tree for warhammers (or dwarven axes/Heavy Picks), I figured this could be a fun alternative. The alternative is to take the 18 AP in dwarf, and 5 AP in dark hunter to put 24 AP in Deepwood stalker for 3 ranks in killer, and 1 in the core 4 for the crit multiplier. Going dwarf instead locks you into warhammers (or dwarven waraxes, but hammers have a better crit profile with knights training and are more plentiful), but also offers a +5% quality HP bonus (the alternative is trying to get that from falconry, which isn't freely available to new players, and we are too tight on AP anyways).