I was playing heRO today and I was mining. I'm getting a bunch of stuff and I say to myself: "Lucky blacksmiths, they have all this resource to work with and Alchemists have nothing"
A light popped into my head. What if there was a resource spot for alchemists. Do a quest for a certain someone and they give you access to their wardrobe that was all sorts of neat alchemical junk (and regular junk too).
You'd have to do quest for that person and then you can buy one time use keys from them to use it on the wardrobe.
Nice suggestion, but I don't think we need a new system to get resources, however we have the Bee Wings coming eventually which will help everyone gather the resources they need.