Does anyone really do/ enjoy doing this quest?

I completed it at least once, possibly twice. I never really ran around looking for it but when I spotted some I'd pick it up and eventually I'd have everything I needed.

If you're using the OOO mod, it's a great boost to health and will help a lot at lower levels.

The vanilla game skunks you a bit with the quantity of potions you get and what they do. The OOO mod changes this, and due to other things it changes in the game (such as altering what regular restore health potions can do) makes this quest far more valuable, imo.

Buffy has completed this quest. It takes 100 samples to complete it. There are over 300 in game.

She has never spent a moment looking for Nirnroot, simply grabbing it whenever she comes across it. In her almost 600 hours of exploration, she has found 162 samples of Nirnroot.

She quite likes Sinderion, and found it a pleasure to help his research. Between you and me though, she has no use for his potions of exploration however.

I do enjoy the quest. My Dark Elf considers himself a collector of rare antiquities, and has a lot of respect for Sinderion.
However, he also gets sidetracked and always forgets to go back for the sample he has made. 24 hours tends to stretch into many weeks....
It will be a looong time before I complete that quest. :blush:

nope. never completed it. i found the whole quest quite pointless.

I enjoy it thoroughly. I incorporate it into my bi-weekly excursions for alchemical ingredients.

Start it? Yes. Finish it? Sometimes. It helps a lot with fast-travel in the mid-stages of the game, but it's not something that I will generally go out of my way to complete. Like one of the earlier posters, I'll pick it up if I come across it. Eventually I collect enough to complete one of the stages and will turn it in if I happen to be in Skingrad *and* remember that I have enough.

To me, it is a quest that I remember to finish once in a blue moon. I usually pick it up and then forget about it and sometimes when I'm going to Skingrad I remember to check the quest and see if I have the necessary amount of nirnroot.

But it also depends on the character. My Altmer mage gave it a great importance, while my Nord warrior could care less about these weird plants.

I got about 3/4 the way through it, i never looked for nirnroot, it just kinda pops up near rivers

My current character picks every nirnroot she sees. And when she has a spare moment, she mixes them with Dwemer filings (from the Common Oblivion mod) to make a Drain Health poison. Sinderion? Who cares what he wants.

No, i did not enjoy it. Nor did i enjoy when you had to pick up flowers in Morrowind quite borringly. <_<

Completed it once, only not to bother with it anymore. The reward you get for the amount of time you spend doing the quest is not worth it in my opinion. I don't use alchemy, but I hear Nirnroot is good for making potions?

Since its effects are rather unique in the game, you will find it difficult to find another ingredient with similar effects. A Master Alchemist, though, will be able to create poisons just with the first effect - drain health.

I guess I don't understand why somebody wouldn't bother picking nirnroot, when they're walking right by it anyway. It's not like you have to go out and look for it, or anything.

You could be a Bosmer.

I usually turn in the first one or two parts, but I always end up using them for poisons (with mod added ingredients). Plus I use a mod that makes them regrow. If I happen to be in Skingrad and have enough to turn in a segment, then sure.

And while the Elixir of Exploration may be better than vanilla with OOO (I run FCOM), they're still pretty craptacular.

On the other hand, Sinderion is a pretty good source for rarer ingredients, especially the toxic kind, so he's not a waste of space or anything.

When I saw this, I was wondering if it meant "collected ALL the Nirnroot". I.e. all 300 plants, not just the 100 needed for the top-level Elixir. A few of my characters have passed the 100 level, but none have actively hunted for them.

The game needs a few more of these unending miscellaneous things to do as you work on the other quests. Collecting things that you'll come across in normal adventuring is a good background quest meme.

But I suppose there are players who won't do anything unless there's a Major Reward at the end of it.

Fallout 3 was really good with this, you'd find different small tasks that you could do for the rest of the game, always giving you something to do (getting scrap metal to Walter or Winthrop, holotags to a Brotherhood Scribe, sugar bombs to Murphy etc.)

Unrefined Greenmote. At master level in alchemy, I combine Nirnroot with the aforementioned, for an amazingly powerful poison. So powerful, the only thing I think it's not a waste to use on, would be Jyggalag.

Hate it. Only have eight, and NO desire to look for more.

I generally use this quest as an excuse for finding lots of new locations on the map. Kinda fun to strike out in a single direction after some running along the riverbanks to see what I come across. The potions earned from finding Nirnroot aren't much worth it to me, but Sinderion is a good source for alchemy ingredients, which works out for me and my penchance for relying on custom-made potions in battle.

Sure. Pretty much all of my characters do it, and easily and early.

I like to open up the map as much as possible - expore as many places as possible instead of just sticking to the roads. Probably the most basic thing I do to that end is to follow shorelines. My characters all make a lap of City Isle sooner or later, and once they've followed a particular road at least once, they'll follow the shoreline nearest it instead. so eventually they've walked the entire shore of Lake Rumare and both sides of the Niben. That, plus exploring around each city plus picking up the occasional nirnroots around ponds and smaller streams and such (lots of them in Blackwood), is enough to finish the quest pretty easily.

However, I never use the potions. They don't give me anything I can't get any other way and I don't like lugging around potions when I can get the same effect with a spell or an enchantment, so I just drop off nirnroots and pick up potions whenever I'm passing through Skingrad, store the potions in my Miscellaneous Junk chest and ignore them.

If the nirnroots weren't there, I wouldn't miss them, but since they're there and I'm finding them anyway just by walking the shoreline, which I'd do anyway, I pick them up.

This goes for Lothran as well. He has helped him in his research and keeps the bottles at his home in Bruma. Even though he has no use for them he considers them alchemical art and treasures them

Am I the only one who has thought that if these plants are so rare, wouldn't it be best not to pick them?

I still collect them though and sometimes even actively hunt for them near water. It's one of those "high score" things.