Hi all.



I plan on trying out alchemy. I've never tried this before in the 5 years I've been playing Skyrim. Are there any helpful hints or mistakes that can set me back?


Are there any equivalents of Iron daggers and hide bracers for skill gain like in smithing?


Sorry for the questions, alchemy is something I have absolutely no knowledge of.

Not an expert but I've been buying cheap ingredients whenever in town. And focus on the types of potions you want to make like healing and experiment to find which ingredients heal.

I am going full out on alchemy and taking the perk that allows you to identify 2 then 3 then all 4 by tasting. Then I will get it to 100 and make it legendary and level it back up. But AFTER I identify what pretty much every ingredient does in game. I can't be bothered looking things up online. And this would be irrelevant if you are not playing to legendary levels. I am. I am going to try to do most of the content with one character.

Third thing that is a tip is that you can buy training at the vendor in some places. Then that vendor has a lot of money and you can sell them all of your expensive yet useless potions.

Fourth tip is that there is a perk that allows you to harvest double when you harvest flowers. Doesn't seem to work on all mushrooms and only in harvesting not vendor sales.

Iron dagger, bracer equivalent might be blue mountain flower + blue butterfly wing. Makes a health potion that, though is not of great value, its ingredients are abundant. Perk as quickly as possible and take advantage of as much fortify alchemy as you can to improve leveling.


A nice role play is to only mix ingredients with effects you have learned by eating, learning more effects as you level and take more perks. It keeps you out of the wiki and in the game learning to make potions. I'll keep at least one sample of every ingredient I've harvested so I know which ones I still need to learn the second, third, forth effects.


The 10 day wait will be your friend since you need to get harvested areas to respawn.