Maybe you could make some requirements for certain fields of Alchemy. Like requiring Spell Focusses or Skill Focusses. Not for basic alchemy but perhaps for odd/rare/specialised alchemy.
This would cause people to perhaps take on less common Spell Focusses and cause characters to be more unique and not everyone having the same build etc. And there being an actual need for certain characters to exist and they'd have their own role to play.
This would cause people to perhaps take on less common Spell Focusses and cause characters to be more unique and not everyone having the same build etc. And there being an actual need for certain characters to exist and they'd have their own role to play.