Bonus for Archers: canis root, and juniper berries make a Fortify Marksmen potion. aside from growing both ingredients in mass quantity at home, juniper trees can be found all over the region near marcarth, usually along roads.
this is actually some splendid information, add onto this using weakness to poison coupled with lingering damage potions to your arrows and you can normally deal some pretty substantial damage without ever getting close to the enemy.
I know someone has to have mentioned this, but my go-to for the simplest, easiest early health potion is Blue Mountain Flower + Wheat. Gives you restore health plus fortify health, and both ingredients are really common. []
Also, yellow butterfly and rock warbler egg. Yellow butterflies are as common as wheat. I'd argue blue mountain flower is technically more rare, since it doesn't seem to regenerate (And I've used almost all the blue flowers up 5 days into the game, lol)
Same as with you Fallout guides, these are clear, concise and practical, making them the best ones I know of. Excellently done Will, keep up the awesome work.
One of the best potions I have found which can be good for multiple builds is Fly Amanita+Mora Tapinella+Dragon's Tongue. It gives stamina regen, two handed damage increased, Illusion spells stronger and fire resistance.
Why the hell are you watching a vid exclusively about alchemy and crafting potions then?? Maybe you’re trying to learn but it kinda sounds like you’re just trashing it
Nick Hoover Shopkeeper: "Well just sample it" eats deathbell. Dragonborn: "That seems like a huge health hazard" Shopkeeper: "No its perfectly - * coughs blood onto dragonborn*" Dragonborn: "Wha- what the fuck" Shopkeeper: "Hhnnngg- safe"
i played as a pyromancer recently and i used a lot these 3 recipes: 1) Regenerate Magicka + Restore Magicka + Fortify Magicka (3 all at once) = Jazbay Grapes + Red Mountain Flower + Taproot (or Moonsugar) 2) Weakness to poison + Weakness to fire = Bleeding crown + Juniper Berries + Deathbell (Very usefull when you want to amplify the damage you are dealing. The first strike with that poison will make your ennemy weak to poison and then after the strike and so dose of poison is going to be more effective because the ennemy had already his poison resistance weakened. 3) Fortify Destruction = Glowing Mushrooms + Nightshade (A must have to actual damage with a mage in skyrim while playing in higher difficulties.) I'm trying to find a second effect to add ... but i struggle to find the great ingredient. A nice addictionnal effect would be Magic resistance for example but no ingredients matches together unfortunatly. Even if you're not using these potions, it can be sold for a good price. For an assassin used: 1) Dmg life on hit + Dot life + Paralyse = Human flesh + Imp stool + Carnivorous Fish scales For a berzerker i used this: 1) Fortify 2 handed-weapons + Régénerate Stamina = Dragon's tongue + Fly Aminita + Mora Topinella. Can someone tell to me recipe that does this: Restore life + Fortify life + Regenarate Life ( the 3 at once) i'm stuck with blue mountain flowers and wheat atm. Anyway i hope that is going to help somebody :) and good game.
And just so you know, there is also a very good place to farm some chaurus eggs, which is the lighthouse where a whole family got murdered by chaurus ( I forgot the actual name ). You can easily get out of this spot with more then 200 of those precious blue balls.
Get 5 in alchemist 2 or 3 items with fortify alchemy and go for fortify restoration if you know what that potion does afterwards you can get crazy good potions and poisons.
Remember, folks: Dragons suffer only damage from potions, and undead (this includes Vampires!) are completely immune. I'd recommend having one or two damage poisons and a paralysis poison handy, as well as a fire/frost/shock resist potion and a +onehanded/archery potion. Health, Stamina and Magicka potions are best just bought from vendors. Or two-handed if you swing that way.
not gonna lie i'm surprised you didnt add in the potion of waterbreathing in this. its a difficult potion to get all the materials for but it GREATLY increases your skill in alchemy. alchemy(assuming people dont already know) is leveled up by the value of the potion being made, by using nordic barnacle cluster, salmon roe, and garlic you make a potion of waterbreathing that with no perks is worth around 2000 right off the bat and gives amazing stats. i think i had one perk in the first alchemy slot and it had something along the lines of able to breath underwater for 330 seconds, along with other effects. at max level and all perks acquired it can make a potion worth around 12000. using this potion can also level up speechcraft as well since speechcraft experience is gained by the value of the item sold, whether or not you get the exact gold amount. if you sell an item for 150,000 gold you will get that in experience even if the seller only had 5000 to give you. another easy potion to make that will level alchemy pretty quickly is a potion made from mora tapinella, creep cluster, and scaly pholiota. i cant remember what potion they make but the reason its a good way to level up alchemy is because of the fact that all three are growable with the hearthfire addon. you can easily gain massive amounts in a very short time frame leading to more potions made and more xp.
It's worth mentioning that Garlic becomes a very useful component later on. Garlic has both regen health and regen magic, so you can combo it with salt and another regen health item (forgot what I commonly use, though)for 5 minutes of jacked up regeneration per potion.
This is true. I have a small list of helpful Alchemy recipes, and Garlic + Salt Pile + Vampire Dust is one of the things on my list for this very reason. (That being said, Vampire Dust can be tricky to obtain if you aren't buying it from an alchemist, so new players beware: you're pretty much guaranteed to get the Dust off of... well, vampires.) Another Regen Health potion combination I'm quite fond of is Luna Moth Wing and Vampire Dust. Combining the two gives you not just a Regen Health Potion, but they both have Invisibility effects, as well. I've found it useful for getting out of a pinch when my health is low and I'm, for whatever reason, out of normal Restore Health Potions. Really works great if you're a stealth class, too; dropping into stealth after drinking it means they start looking for you again, and if you wait long enough, you can get the stealth bonus damage again.
I took my time to harvest every single egg sack and dead Chaurus. I got 411 eggs. I don't pick them up anymore, it's been 2 IRL months and I'm still halfway through them. (Same thing with mountain flowers. I have over 350 of each).
Holy shit the production value on these guides is off the charts! I know almost everything there is to know about Skyrim after 1100 hours, but these guides are still very entertaining. Good job dude. Bravo.
there's a slight problem with that. the only way you are aloud to go to the garden is to follow the collage quests. before you get the key for the room, it is considered steeling. after you get the key you may use it all you want but the respond time is a bit different due to it being considered a bedroom.
ZEO900 It's still note worthy. It has a bunch if ingredients you can use. And not to mention if you're going to do s mage character, you're probably going to start the Winterhold quests as soon as you find Whiterun stables.
Blue Butterfly Wing + Blue Mountain Flower + Giant's Toe = Fast alchemy leveling potion and speech booster (due to the extremely high value of the potion without purity). Really useful if you have any form of merchant mod that increases the amount of ingredients they carry or a mod that allows you to harvest more toes from giants, as Giant's Toe is hard to find. But do know that you shouldn't have the purity perk for this potion. The awesome price comes from all of the effects in the potion being boosted by the Giant's Toe, bloating the price.
Blue butterfly + Blue mountain flower + wheat is also a good combo too as the first two are easy to find and Arcadia always sells loads of wheat. If you play on pc you can simply get merchants to restock by saving your game after you've bought all their stock, quitting to desktop and restarting.
Purchase Windstad Manor : the advantages is has the only fish hatchery for Abecean Longfin, and Cyrodilic Spadetail, it also draws Orange Dartwings and Blue Dartwings . Create a garden for harvesting wheat, creepy clusters, blistertwort. Add non garden items, giant toe, sabre cat tooth, Chaurus Eggs, Spriggan Sap, Salt Pile, Glowing Mushroom just to start. Everyone knows the process to mix your ingredients, remove aromor, drink potion, put on your armor and mix your ingredients again. It helps if your armor ( gauntlet, helmet, ring, and necklace are enchanted to 25%) . I usually start with Wheat, Giant Toe, and Creepy Cluster alot of it ... with Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, and Salt Pile about 50 of each to be safe. Mix the first 3 your alchemy begins to build ... use the next 3 and you will start leveling up, use your percks . I only use 3 Alchemist, Physician, and Benefactor. Mixing Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, and Salt Pile fortifies restoration ... if you have a double enchantment on your ring such as carry weight ... I try to get up to 1mill ... or a little less ... too much could effect you shout cool down or not allow you to use your shout because the cool down is too large. I suggest to keep the ring as a part of your main armor ... this will allow you to mix additional restoration potions is you choose to change your armor, it also enhances any armor or weapon. For example I mix both dragonflies ... which allow me to sneak at 400,000% which means I'm invisible to everything. You can play some of you have some great ideas ...Blisterwort and Wheat is good for health ... you might not need it if your enchant your armor for health after you mix the above.
Luna moths are guaranteed to spawn just in front of the orphanage in Riften and will do so after being harvested, bug spawns aren't time dependent and will come back just from walking far enough away, and it doesn't decrease your maximum magicka to make invisibility with chaurus eggs and luna moth wings it does damage to your magicka, ie it reduces the current (not maximum) value similar to having cast a spell.
I know I’m four years to late but if you combine red mountain flower, jazzbay grapes and fire salts to get the ultimate magicka potion. Fire salts can easily be made at the atronach forge in the midden with regular salt, a ruby and a filled soul gem (any size). There are also two fire salts sitting on the table beside the forge.
the fortify restoration pot is actually "fortify enchant effects" for some reason, and I've seen instances of exploiting it using a feedback loop between the enchants and multiple fortify restoration pots, and once you get past 100% strength, the potions you subsequently create would exponentially increase in strength. Using those and then creating a different potion would buff that potion tremendously. Using this knowledge to grant yourself unlimited power is very possible, and in fact, easy. For example, another set of gear being enchanted with an insanely buffed enchanting potion and fortify alchemy, would effectively make the ability to create these forbidden potions at any time, permanently, and enchanting gear under its influence with other effects like health, mana, stamina, or smithing just breaks the game.
Be aware that exploiting the resto loop will make the game kinda broke, affter a few loops you get superpowered and can 1 hit kill anything wich for me isnt nice. Instead just making a good set of 5 pieces fortify alchemy will already make strong potions that can fortify smithing and enchanting and making gear with near armor rating caps at early game ish. IM a lvl 50 with 80ish alchemy and can already make potions that worth more than 1k gold each...
I like to combine blue montain flowers and wheat because it both restores your health and fortifies it, which almost doubles it's health restoring effect
Nirnroot can also be found in large quantities along the northern shores of haafingar (solitude hold). They're a bit spread out along the many different little islands, but if you go at night just look for the plants glow.
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Hey Will, since you're getting back into Skyrim, any chance you can revive that series you did a while back where you read some of the books you can find in the game? It'd be really nice you hear you read 'The Argonian Account', as it's my favorite story in the game(s).
Thanks man, im a total noob at this game, i used to watch my older siblings play when i was really young, so i decided to finally give it a try and there was just so much stuff i couldnt make sense of any of it lmao
Bleeding crown is the primary fungi found in Redoran's Retreat. Just fyi. Also...resist fire, frost...maybe also shock...snow berries. Dragon's tongue for fire. Thistles for frost. Dunno about shock... didn't make a habit of making them. Blisterwort and glowing mushrooms for blacksmith pots. Canis root and swamp fungal pod for paralysis pots.
My main character is a mage. I’ve got really high skill in all schools of magic, and I’ve travelled everywhere to find tomes and other mages to learn from. Including solstheim where I worked for that Telvanni mage (forgot his name). Now That I’ve mastered my magic skills I’m going to move on to learning alchemy, and how to brew useful potions and draughts
Alchemy is one of the most useful skills in the game due to the fact that you can use it in so many different ways. Including the restoration loop. You can also use it do get speech 100 by selling 1 potion. ( Power leveling) this also occurs by doing the restoration loop. Also you can get smithing 100 by upgrading a dagger once by just drinking 1 potion. (resto loop). Vice versa with enchanting. Alchemy is literally the gateway to every important perk tree in the game. Sidenote: You can do the resto loop starting at Alchemy level 40 you just gotta have the first 3 perks, then benefactor then the one to the left of it. Making it OP.
Both this guide and the one for poisons helped me a lot with my D&D Blood Hunter Order of the Mutant inspired character lol Now I have a ton of useful poisons and potions to hunt down all sorts of monsters and evil doers in Skyrim 😄👍
For a great start on a new playthrough: 1. Go to Riften, loot all barrels. You will get around 100 salt piles 2. Go to Morthal, gather a shitload of Deathbells from the swamp around it 3. Go to Solitude, from catacombs you will get around 70 hanging moss 4. Pick up all blue mountain flowers as you travel, they are everywhere Both Deathbell+Salt and BMF+Hanging Moss produce very valuable potions, yielding 1000's of gold right from the beginning.
Wow, great video and great series. This has better production quality than most crap you see on TV or paid services. Well done and I'll be sure to watch more, since I'm getting into Skyrim Special Edition now that the script extender is released.
You can bypass the waiting for Plants to Respawn. Just go to a merchant. Buy what you need. Then Save-Hit-Reload Method. Save the Game. Hit or kill the Merchant. Then ”Load” the saved game. Merchant will Restock. All merchants will work. You can Duplicate items to save Money. Need a Flat or use your house. Drop the items you want to duplicate. Make sure it’s 1 at a time. Get a Follower to pick them up. Tell them to do something for you. Then just click on items to pick up. Leave the house and Fast Travel to a really Distant area. Then Fast Travel back. Go back to your House. Tell Follower to pick items back up. 100 items is good enough. To end the Duplicate, just pick it up yourself. Put items you don’t need in storage. You can duplicate Ingots, Grand Soul gems, ingredients ect..... ***Always Save often.. Good luck. Cheers.
Snowberries + Blue Butterfly Wing = Fortify Enchanting Nightshade + Deathbell = Damage Health (Add thistle branch for ravage stamina or giant lichen for weakness to poison) Mora Tapinella, Imp Stool and Deathbell will make a potion of Lingering AND Instant damage health, killing opponents now AND later. Don't forget, potions of damage health with deathbell or river betty in them are more powerful than normal. Also, dragonflies can most often be found hovering over water, and anywhere that you see a dragonfly, there will be a school of alchemical fish (like histcarp and river betty) in the water just underneath them, every time.
The most consistent place that I've found Luna Moth is right outside my Lakeview Manor Home. I get 1, 2, even 3 outside over the animal pen EVERY night. The torchbugs are even more common there around half dozen per day. It's my favorite player home on Skyrim. The free player home in Raven Rock is also a favorite. While it has no garden, it does have Alchemy, Enchanting AND full service smithing stations including a smelter! And it's free! It's very close to Tel Mythrin which has one of the better Alchemy shops in the game.
So snowberries, hawk beak, and anything that has the resist fire effect can be used to create a potion that makes you resistant to fire, frost, and shock damage not to mention it is not hard to get these effects to over 80% meaning using these potions to max out your elemental resistances is a viable option if you can get enough hawk beaks which is the real issue with using these potions
Torchbugs, or at least 1 or 2 can be found near the entrance of Solitude. It's more so closer to Radiant Raiment. Wheat can also be found at Katla's Farm in Solitude.
Sarethi farm has such an interesting story It wad the first quest that made me start to read more ingame books, the quest being the one everyone knows: crimson root
Using this guide to impress my wife. She thinks I’ve never played before and I’m pretending idk shit about the game as I smash every quest and develop the most fire potions. 😂💀
Oh come on Will. you mention all these mushrooms but leave out blisterwart? blisterwort can be used in making restore health potions. Also like the other shrooms on his list they can be found at chillwind depths.
Alchemy is the most fun skill in the game in my opinion. And it's useful for any character. Also, it is more efficient than healing with restoration or using other magic to buff yourself as it works without changing out weapons for magic.
Luna moth wings, vampire dust and hawk feathers makes a potion of : Invisibility, fortify light armor, regenerate health. If you are part way into Companions you get hawk feathers from downed silver hand. If you are part way through Dawnguard you get vampire dust from … yeah vampires.
Alchemy: The world's most tediously prepared nuke. Its so strong with all the perks but I cannot keep fast traveling around for ingredients. Rip Alchemy Archer, taken out before she even reached Lv25.
Am loving these videos as the one skill I've never really explored is Alchemy. Plus I love your other Skyrim videos, so please keep them coming! Merry Xmas and a Happy NYE :) x
so i know how crazy this sounds.. but im JUST now playing Skyrim after being too intimidated by it for years.. its amazing.. im kicking myself for not getting in to it sooner but also glad im getting my first taste AFTER it has had so long to be updated and patched a billion times.. it looks so good still!
There’s a lighthouse in the north with a cave system underneath where you can find a tonne of chaurus eggs. I forgot the exact name and location but the place’s occupants are dead and you can sleep and cook there to prep for the journey underground if you need to. There are a couple of falmer I think as well as a bunch of chaurus and a boss chaurus if you delve deep enough too but yeah. Loads of eggs down there.
It should be noted that combining ingredients with negative effects isn't always a bad thing. Potions with bad effects have a higher value (because skyrim logic), as well increasing your alchemy skill more quickly.
The best potion to make for how easy and high value is blue mountain flower and blue butterfly wing. Make lots of them to boost alchemy. You can experiment with a 3rd ingredient to see if it works.
Just a few sidetracks from a veteran player. The passive schools in Skyrim (that being Smithing, Alchemy, and Enchanting) are completely fine on their own and highly potent on most if not all builds, but completely broken if you combine Alchemy with any of the other two. Henceforth you could say that Alchemy is a broken school except when it‘s used solely. That is due to the game‘s rather poorly balanced mechanics of Fortify X Magic School and its effect on the Enchanting mechanic, as fortifying x Magic School will make potions in the related Magic School more potent. Restoration buffs Fortify Enchanting potions, which can lead into an infinite loop of buffing up your Fortify Enchanting potions and Fortify Enchanting gear, which leads to either an infinite amount of Fortify Smithing (1 000 000+ damage per hit), or Fortify Enchanting (1 000 000+ magic damage/health drain, etc.), if not both if you desire. This is the well known „Fortify Restoration exploit“. It‘s not a glitch. It‘s not a bug. It‘s just poor game design. I rarely integrate Alchemy into my builds because of that exact situation, it‘s simply broken. However, that shouldn‘t hold you off from selecting alchemic ingredients altogether, as the school is easy to power-level, granting you with easy additional level ups and skill points, enhancing any build. Potions like Giant‘s Toe + Wheat + Creep Cluster, Chaurus Egg + Lunar Moth Wing + Namira‘s Rot, and another potion involving Salmon Roe and a few other ingredients I can‘t remember because Salmon Roe is rather hard to find casually and I find myself hardpressed to use that formula, are all incredibly valuable potions, leveling up Alchemy fast while making you a ton of gold by selling them.
