Alchemists are not the common types of support. They will rarely be seen healing their allies for health or for conditions. Instead, they concoct strange, gaseous and volatile mixtures right in the battlefield, and use them in even stranger ways. This idea came mostly from witnessing the usual complaints that it's never fun to play support. The Alchemist would be very quirky and fun, and their greatest strength is presence.

The way the Alchemist would work, is they would use slightly long-casting skills in relation to most classes. These skills would be a bit faster than Binding Rituals, but slower than most other non-spell skills. All potions will take long to concoct, with few exceptions. Because Alchemists would become only the second support class to use non-spell skills (Paragon is the other one), it would force new strategies to shut them down, and they would be unable to be shut down in the same way as a Monk or Ritualist.

After a potion is concocted, it is thrown at the target. The catch here is that the vast majority of potions will only be able to be thrown at the feet of allies, not enemies.

For instance, consider in the Instability attribute, the Alchemist is able to use a skill called Flash Gas Potion. It would look something like this.

That's a straightforward potion. Let's look at what a more complex one may look like. Let's switch to our Toxins attribute and say, for instance, we have a skill called Fever Toxin.

Since we've looked at the other two attributes, I'd like to throw my idea out for the Curing attribute. It'd work differently than you may imagine, but is in fact a mirror of how the "offensive" Alchemist support skills function. This is to say that all potion skills that affect allies positively would instead be thrown at the feet of an enemy and affect allies near where that potion shattered. I believe this would add a very interesting (In a good way!) twist. For example, let's say we have a Curing skill called Potion of Cool Breeze.