I've found this game has done alchemy right, and I'm just enjoying it immensely. It just feels very immersive; new reagent means eat it to find out what it does. Lots of reagents with other unknown effects must be tested and played with to discover the different effects.

Now, I'm not very far into alchemy at this point (haven't gotten it beyond level 34), and despite my tests, I've still not really discovered anything I keep an eye out for. Aside from my usual magicka potion (Red Mountain Flower and Creep Cluster), I really can't recall anything really unique and smart.

My questions are; what's your most unique alchemical recipe? What recipe do you find the most useful?

Share your best!

Mine - Ectoplasm, Glowdust and Briar Heart - "Crimson Cocktail" is the name I've given it, it Fortifies Destruction, Magicka, and restores Magicka.

My favorite is I believe the combination is Deathbell, Nightshade and Salt Pile it makes a killer poison. Right now at level 53 alchemy it does 28 poison damage and slows the target by 50% for 55 seconds.

You can name your potions? How?

Ingredients
Human Heart
Falmer Ear
Glow Dust

Effects
Damage Health, Damage Magicka, Damage Magicka Regen, Frenzy

Purpose
Shuts down mages, hurts them, takes a chunk of their mana, then turns them on their friends until they burn themselves out. Then you can come in and finish them off.


Back in oblivion, i had entire book filled with super potent, purpose oriented poisons like this. The new system, and the lack of a 4th ingredient, really impedes this. I cant make 6+ effect poisons any more.

Thanks for this and the post. I'm waiting for some super wiki giving out all alch recipes. Im a stealth archer and am mainly interested in health and poison potions. Maybe some other weird ones too.

That's what I am right now as well...Stealth Archer/Alchemist. I'm actually out hunting for ingredients now so I can work on a damage health/paralyze potion to use for crowd control.

Just my way of bringing some creativity (I'd always name my concoctions in previous Elder Scroll games). Don't believe you actually can name them in Skyrim though, which is a shame :swear:

I was looking around for something too, and found http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Potions_%28Skyrim%29

Blue Mountain Flowers and Butterfly Wings. They both have restore health as their first effect, and they're both all over the place.

Canis Root/Imp Stool/Red Mountain Flower = Easy to obtain Poison Of Paralysis/Damage Health

I found this, but I'm looking for something more in the lines of Deathbell + Nightshade + salt pie = Potion of Slow (which owns btw, thanks for posting a must have for any archer)

The wiki you pointed out is useful, but there is still trial and error involved and I can't waste my precious ingredients I've been hoarding


Side note, anyone know where I can buy Deathbell?

Keep me coming this is awesome!

Nice!

lunar moth + vampire dust +red mountain flower invisible+health regen + mana


If you don't use it its worth over 400g