alche shouldn't be too long to make if you're making a homunc. Just go agi with any old dagger until you're an alche. Shouldn't be too hard/too long if you're not anal about J50. Pantie-undershirts are easy to obtain at an affordable price and really willows-spores-muka/wolves would get you to level 30 in under an hour if you burn your novie pots. Then you could stay with mukas (for cactus needles) or more wolves or saplings... 1-60 (~J44 maybe) would take < 4 hrs imho...
Then i hear people go to hidden temple and moscovia. Hidden temple yields various monsters and moscovia should still drop white herbs iirc...
then i hear some people goes to bathory with their homuncs for the witched starsands so i guess you could do that too, but you'll probably have to tele from the swords and jokers...
and i don't know if it's really doable or if anyone does it, but iirc creators will use mushroom spores and alcohol, so perhaps 3 maps south of payon for poison spores might not be a bad idea, just tele from the dragon tails...
whispers would get you fabrics, so either GH or sunken ship is a good option.
hydra cards are quite useful, so hydra pools in sunken, payon, or amatsu is doable i guess...
GL and HF!
-w-