Can't Make Decent Potions?!

Post » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:43 pm

New here! My name is Tom and I have been playing Elder Scrolls 5 since it came out.

So, I have a few different files in the game on my 360, and there seems to be a serious problem with the one that I generally use the most.

I have glitched the game with the restoration potion loop in this file, and it has been working perfectly so far besides the usual little bugs here and there. However, suddenly I can't make potions anymore! I am level 100 in alchemy with all of the perks activated. When I make a potion, it is impossibly weak. With no enchanted items equipped for alchemy, for example a Damage Health poison made from one deathbell and one nightshade only does 3 damage! And has a value of 0!!! In my other file, when I do this same test, the potion comes out as 22 damage. I have tried EVERYTHING to fix this problem. All of my previously glitched items work, and I still have working (impossibly powerful) restoration potions, but no matter what every potion I mix is that weak. The only one that seems to work is damage magicka regeneration, which has a value of 100%. What can I do?! This is really annoying. Even if I had to stop glitching the game I'd be fine with that, but I can't even make powerful non-glitched potions. Is this particular file somehow just broken? Because that's what it seems like....none of my others are having this problem. Does anyone know a solution or have any suggestions? Please! :unsure: :wallbash: :swear: :swear: :swear: :shakehead:

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Post » Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:09 am

You might have gone past the limit and dropped into the Negatives. That happens when you drink too many potions with a high ass increase (I did it once)

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Fortify_Restoration

This link should explain what I'm talking about.

That might be the problem but, I could be wrong.

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Post » Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:31 pm

Thanks for the reply, and yes I have gone into the negatives lol. However, now I am just trying to make basic potions like you make when you first start out in the game, without any aid from enchantments at all. Even then, I still can't get any potion to improve past the most basic level (like a 3 damage poison). It is very frustrating and makes no sense! Could I have, by making some potions in the negatives, caused the game to freak out and stop my potion-making ability altogether? This wouldn't make sense either because as I mentioned, I do have other files and in those (as well as this file) I have made negative potions and negative enchantments many a time but this is the first time a problem this serious has occurred....

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