What exactly does levelling up in a profession skill do?
I'm hoping to level up Alchemy and Herbalism, so I can make cheap potions. The Alchemy skill is at level one and aside from making potions, it says nothing about any easy means of levelling Alchemy (which is what I planned to do anyway). Also, it says to make a simple alchemy mana pot, I need like 50 empty pots, and three herb pots filled with Marigold flower. That's just over 5000g to craft a single pot. Do materials go down as you level up?
Or does it just raise those weird Empathy and other stats?