Am I the only one who had a hard time gathering health potions in earlier elder scrolls games? In earlier elder scrolls games (as far as I know) health potions are fairly hard to come across and shops have a limited number available and it takes way too long for shops to restock. Unless you have a high enough alchemy skill and all the right ingredients, you're pretty much going to have to wander across the cities of Cyrodil and Morrowind just to look for shops who have health potions.

In Oblivion I found myself burning through my supplies of health potions rather quickly especially whenever I enter those miserable oblivion gates so the short supply of decent Health potions is rather a crucial thing for me. Well anyway I hope that the ehalth potions are much more plentiful in Skyrim. Anyway what are you're thoughts? Do you agree with me on this one or am I just another whining punk?

I'm really surprised you found it hard to find health potions. Playing Oblivion that was all I ever seemed to find. I barely needed to use spells to heal myself at all because I had so many.

Alchemy let me have 100 very strong, custom made healing potions with me all the time. All i needed was ingredients, which I bought all around cyrodiil in the finest alchemy shops. Killing deer and boars also gave me a potion, as a master alchemist.

I remembered managing to hoard several dozens of health potions at many points in the game but I also recall spending hours looking for tehm after I burned through them after closing another random Oblivion gate

Same.

If you have trouble finding enough of them you could always try out alchemy, can't say i've ever had any problems with health potions in any TES.
I personally think it's fine, I don't want it to be as ridiculous as in diablo.

Man I'm such a weak gamer T_T I guess I'm the only one who had this problem then

They should be reduced in Skyrim, it was way too often they appeared. I started playing Oblivion with OOO installed and it's much more fun in the sense that potions are much rarer, Iv'e actually had to buy some and resort to other ways of healing now.

It probably depended alot on your playstyle.

If you played a high-mobility fighter who dodged everything and/or used Resto for healing (or a ranged spellcaster / archer, who never got hit), then you were most likely swimming in potions.

If you played a block-and-tank fighter (stand there behind your shield, waiting for a chance to swing, constantly getting spillover damage through your block) and didn't cast spells, then you probably used potions faster than you found them.

Me, I fell somewhere in between - I tended to play "block" fighters who took alot of damage every fight. But I also used healing spells. So I tended to build up potions over time.... until I ended up fighting something that even blocked, did much more damage than my heal spells could handle (like, say Trolls or Daedroth, staggering you every other hit; or groups of two-handed-weapon bandits). At which point I'd both cast spells and chug potions in bulk, since it was the only way to survive.

Haha, which class do you most often play? I could see old school warriors having some trouble since they generally don't use alchemy or restoration.

I dont really need very much of those.. usually i keep about 5-6 with me.. i always kill everyone with my bow while sneaking ..

I played them all but like I said I often went inside those oblivion gates so it didn't really matter if i was a ranged fighter fighting in those narrow corridors so it was inevitable that I get hit... a lot

I found there were too many health potions if anything and would like them to be more rare.

I made so much gold from selling them, and with the amount you could find it made healing spells redundent......... oops should have whispered that, restoration may get cut now for being 'reduntent'

They went from being almost non-existant as loot in MW to being very common in Oblivion
I think they should be less common than Oblivion, although it might make life harder for the "pure" warrior who won't learn any spells or alchemy

They better get good at blocking then. The same as an assassin stylled charater (what I will be) had better not get seen and therefore avoid being hurt in the first place

Health potions was very common among magic users, remember going after necromancers to get a lot I could give to the defenders of Bruma. If you used them a lot and avoided magic users you didn’t find many.

The self-made ones had other uses, they was a buff not an instant heal. Very nice to pop a restore health+ magic or health + fatigue before a fight.

Or maybe like the FG in MW gave you a load of free potions the Companions will hand them out to their members.

I was (and will be in Skyrim) a mad herbalist. I don't know why but I had an obsession with gathering as many plants as possible so I could brew some strange new elixir, fun times, so I never had many worries.