travelingoz is completely right. Hento, please check the lvl 60 thread and see the screens:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...07&postcount=1
You will notice I got 1048 crystals which is pretty much enough to build up every spell in the game to lvl 3 without investing in alchemy at all. Now imagine you picked alchemy along with that. It reduces the number of crystals you need to level up a spell by 50%. how many crystals would you have left in your inventory? What would you do with them?
This is why I talked about efficiency. KBAP likes efficiency much more than KBTL.