Skyrim Anniversary Edition: A Guide to Alchemy in Skyrim!
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
- Its hard to understate just how valuable alchemy is within Skyrim, a strong alchemy tree unlocks so many other doors within the game, whether it be making your overall character stronger, allowing you to challenge yourself on harder difficulties, or even just a way of making the experience more immersive, its an incredibly rich skill that every player should explore. So I wanted to pull this guide together to hopefully give newer players some guidance as to why you should brush up on your potion making. And if you’re a veteran of the game, you may still learn something new. Welcome to my alchemy guide to Skyrim!
0:00 Introduction
1:17 What is Alchemy?
1:53 The Foraging Process
2:26 Learning Ingredient Effects
4:21 The Alchemy Library
5:38 How Alchemy Skill Affects Potion Creation
6:47 The Alchemy Skill Tree & Perks
9:38 Alchemy Trainers
10:52 Alchemy Skill Books
12:28 Other Ways to Level Alchemy
12:55 Races with Higher Starting Alchemy
13:10 Three Ingredient Potions
14:29 Basic Alchemy Recipes
17:32 Potion Value and the Impact on Levelling
18:40 Ingredient Farming and Speed Levelling
20:01 Alchemy & Enchanting
21:30 Seeker of Shadows
21:53 Sinderion's Serendipity
22:55 Advanced Alchemy Recipes
26:21 Rare Curios Ingredients
28:44 Ingredient Effect Glossary
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Garlic, salmon roe and nordic barnical. Potion of waterbreathing and most valuable in game. Also use flames spell on salmon jumping in waterfalls and the drop roe and the salmon has one on it giving you 2 roe for 1 fish
on Anniversary, Salmon become invincible. followed the vid, but did not duplicate at Whiterun, now i cannot kill salmon with flame. I have just put 1 point on destruction, and will retests this. Salmon roe can be found in a bucket when you build a Piece of land, aka - A Jarl's Home, where the fish tanks are...
Very nice alchemy overview, Mike! I'm sure youll get a ton of recipe suggestions in the comments-here are two of my mainstay recipes, both for their potency and ease of gathering ingredients. (The first is close to one you had in the video)
Wizard's Brew: red mountain flower+jazbay grapes+moon sugar: three effect potion (fortify magicka, restore magicka, increase magicka regeneration). Both the red mountain flowers and jazbay grapes are fairly common and can be grown.
My favorite poison is Canis Root+Imp Stool+Scathecraw. If you wait until you have the 'green thumb' perk, you can gather an absurd amount of scathecraw without having to leave Raven Rock, with canis root and imp stool both being able to be grown.
Lichor and Steel Blue Entoloma are two of the RC ingredients great for magicka-related potions (you can grow Entoloma, unlike most of the Rare Curios ingredients), and Chokeberry (RC) can make some very nasty poisons.
Cheers!
That's awesome thanks for the tips! Will have to check out the one with scathecraw as you're right that grows absolutely everywhere around Raven Rock
I'm sure it took a long time to make, but it's the most comprehensive guide on Alchemy I've ever seen on youtube. Thank you very much for making this!!
No problem at all, glad you are finding it useful 😁👍🏻
As much as I appreciate all of the other in-depth guides on alchemy, this is the first and only one that I’ve found so far that actually explains it from the ground up. Alchemy’s a skill that I never really explored in Skyrim and this video makes me finally want to try it since I now have a grasp on the foundations
That's awesome, I'm glad you found my guide helpful 😁🙌🏼
One of the more comprehensive potions guides I have watched. And I have roughly 8 billion hours in this game and TIL the bit at the 5:38 mark. Another banger Mike!
Thank you 😁. Yeah I thought as I was doing it it's probably not that useful for people who've been playing for a looong time, but I get a lot of newcomers to the channel which inspired me to do it. Glad it was still enjoyable though 🙌🏼😁
@@mike-thegamingdad The other night I found a place I had never seen in all my hours and hours across PC and Xbox above Iron Bind Barrow. This game still amazes all these years on
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This is the most well-explained tutorial on potions that I've seen, and I've watched a lot. Thanks for the video.
@packdog70 thanks very much that means a lot 😁👍🏻
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
While I'm no stranger to utilising growing specific ingredients since the Hearthfire DLC, I've recently explored more than just making the potions for Smithing, Enchanting and the classic growable combination of Creep Cluster, Mora Tap. and Scaly Phil.
Finding the combinations that have more beneficial effects is a pain. This guide is the perfect bridge to turn any viewer into an expert.
Thank you.
No problem at all. I'm glad you found it useful 😁
Before the creation club made farming so easy, my go-to money potion was Blue flower+Lavender+Hanging Moss. For every new character, I'd run from Whiterun to Gjukar's Monument picking the blue flower and lavender. In Solitude I'd get the hanging moss in the catacombs. This would give me the money needed to skill training and unlock fast travel to the final location for the Mara quest.
Nice thats awesome! Yeah I remember farming being a really grind using a hearthfire garden 🤣. And before hearthfire it was even worse haha. I can't remember where I used to do it before then. I stopped playing in 2013 until 2015/6 when Special Edition came out as my original save from 2011/2 encountered a major bug and Corrupted so I lost it all.
What a great guide! I've never dabbled with Alchemy before while playing since levelled potion drops for most needs (restore health, magicka, fortify weapon skills, etc) are fairly common in game, but some of those multi-effect potions look enticing - perhaps I'll give Skyrim another go with this new found knowledge.
Thank you! Yeah its definitely a rabbit hole skill, I barely scratched the surface with it for years and years but it's incredibly useful 😁🙌🏼
Great guide 🎉 I use alchemy but definitely not to it's potential... having a go at that this run so timing was perfect for this breakdown 👌
No problem at all yeah! It's a bit of a rabbit hole alchemy, thousands of combinations you can do that do all different things 😁
One of my favorite early game things to do is gather everything in the area you come out of Helgen, head to the river by Riverwood and fish for awhile. Eventually I'll have enough ingredients to start traveling town to town buying and selling from the local alchemists. I've spent months just building up wealth by being a traveling alchemist. :)
Nice thats awesome 😁
This is similar to playing Oblivion. Walk around the city taking ingredients from barrels and sacks, and alchemist stores
Great work, Mike. Alchemy is one of the most overlooked aspects of Skyrim, but it's so useful I never make a build without using and abusing it.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I quite like a mix of positive and negative effects, because it's free money from traders. You don't have that "should I keep it" dilemma.
By the way, it's a very easy mistake to make, but "curios" has the same pronunciation as "Cheerios" at the end of the word.
Thank you! Yeah I was firmly in that camp of overlooking it initially. Barely dipped my toe in the water on my PS3 version. When SE came to PS4 I dabbled a bit more then, but its only really the last few years on AE that I use it to the fullest now. It's been helped by the new homes I think and survival mode. It's a lot easier to grow than it used to be, and survival sort of pushes you down the hunter gatherer route anyway.
Thanks for the tip about the pronunciation I didn't know that!
@@mike-thegamingdad It's one of those words that you usually only read. Like me and "chitin" - took me 35 years to work out that it's said as "kite inn"
@Liam14658 ha I didn't know that one as well, always said it with a ch. To be honest I check how to pronounce thaumaturgist in this video. Can't say that's a word I've ever said out loud before 😅
Idk if you’ve done this yet but I think you should do a video on the Sigil stone and samples of crafted combos made at the altar. So far I have enjoyed the depth of detail you put into your videos. And I think you would do a great job explaining it. This is one of the best laid out guides on alchemy and shows how much this game was designed to reward players for utilizing a skill tree to enhance almost every aspect of gameplay.
Yeah thats something I'm not that clued up on myself, I've used it a few times to make specific items for builds (it's really useful for getting powerful staffs early) but there's a ton of stuff I've never made using it. I'll add it to the list 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I haven’t used it in years but I think you can make spell tomes and scrolls with it also, obviously daedric armor but that takes some Time to acquire but most players should be able to grab some or craft some by the time they can access the sigil stone.
@SkyBloopers yeah that is correct, you can also make fire salts with it too, which if you play on survival mode is very useful 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I thought you could make salts but I couldn’t remember. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for this clear guide. I'm relatively new to Skyrim, so this is very helpful.
🤣 I bet you've put more hours in than me 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad A Skyrim character once said 'On the cosmological scale all is nearby.'
That means I'm still near the first day I played Skyrim.
So, with my noob 3000+ hours in I'm relatively new to Skyrim. 😁
@Leto85 haha there is always a bigger fish right 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad On the cosmological scale all fishes are... ok, I'll stop. 🤭
Awesome video Mike the Gaming Dad 😀
In my first ever playthrough I was obsessed with alchemy. I would pick up every ingredient and buy most every ingredient I came by. I had THOUSANDS of ingredients, literally, by level 60. Any quest requiring ingredients was always a breeze. I could make any potion in the game whenever. Took me a long time but I enjoyed it so much. I also had the Hearthfire DLC my first playthough so you know I made a whole Alchemy Garden inside.
I didnt know you level up more based on the value of the potion so I enjoyed learning that.
I miss my first playthrough. She is lost forever :(
🙏 I will always miss Zina the Argonian
No other playthrough will hit the same
Thank you 😁. That's awesome, it's a skill I definitely underutilised early on. I barely used it at all in my very first playthrough on the PS3 back in 2012. When Special Edition came out a few years later I did more with it as that was when Hearthfire was introduced and I was the same I made an alchemy garden 🤣. Its got a lot easier now with Goldenhills
Ha my very first playthrough was an Argonian as well. I can't remember his name though, it definitely wasn't an Argonian name though 😂
@@mike-thegamingdad I'm going to guess the name was Bob
@katie-by8zr I think it was more of am Imperial sounding name. I remember thinking the imperials look and sound like ancient Romans and then I gave my character a roman sounding name, completely disregarding he was actually a lizard 🤣🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad I'll make a Bob character then bc I'm already emotionally invested .
And theres an old guy Bob that works at the BP where I get my beer
I'm going to cook dinner for the first time for family members. I hope it goes well. Prayers for success.
Good luck 😁🙌🏼
Thank you sooo much, this is freakin awesome! I’ll definitely be making more potion now 😁👍🏻🎮.
No problem at all glad you enjoyed 🙌🏼😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I was taking screen shots of all the potion recipes and then you had them all together at the end lol 😁😏. That was super cool of you to do that.
@rachels.2610 yeah its no bother, I had the idea to categorise them all as I was pulling the video together so I looked everything up online. It took a couple of hours to type it all out, but it means if anyone wants to screenshot it they can do 😁👍🏻
Falmer Helmet PLUS Circlet?! That’s insane!!! Now my min-max heart aches to make things more insane lol
@TheDevastator619 haha yeah, this game and it's weird quirks/glitches never ceases to amaze me 🤣
Hey man your content for Skyrim is great, keep it up!
Thank you I appreciate it 😁
When you eventually reach 100 in alchemy, enchanting, smithing and your chosen armor and weapon skill you will reach a ceiling. When playing lower difficulties your power ceiling will far exceed the level scaling in the world, however when on higher difficulties this will not be the case. If you intend to go the distance on legendary you may need to break through the designed power ceiling, this can ruin the fun of Skyrim if you go too far - so don’t do that. Assuming you can handle self imposed limitations then I suggest the fortify restoration potion loop. In effect you can raise your alchemy skill almost infinitely, the limitation being your game crashing because the game can’t handle potion or enchantment effects this powerful (specifically this powerful ‘2,147,483,647%’). There’s no reason to go so high beyond the novelty so like I said self imposed limitation is the key. There may come a point where you use the rare curios to buff smithing and you still end up only doing chip damage. That’s the point where you pursue fortify restoration potion looping. I won’t explain the step-by-step there’s a ton of info out there. I think everyone should one-hit Alduin with a wooden sword at least once for the novelty, or some other example of absurdity.
Good video too, I didn’t know about some of those combinations and I’ve played this game a silly amount. I enjoy the fortify destruction potions the most. Magic damage falls off late game so I’d be lost as a mage without glowing mushroom and nightshade. You can grow them all with ease at the various Hearthfire homes which makes those ingredients stupidly valuable in my eyes. I also love that swamp fungal pods and canis root produce paralysis because they are also super easy to grow at home. Those blue butterfly wings tend to be a bottleneck for me I do tons of enchanting.
Yeah its a shame how quickly magicka damage falls off, makes mage play a real challenge unless you keep yourself topped up with Fortify Destruction potions
Your videos are great! 👍
Thank you I appreciate it 😁
Just the simple fact that this was uploaded 10 days ago deserves a like (and sub if you aren't). Keep supporting new Skyrim content.
Thank you I appreciate it 😁
Alchemy is one of my favorite skills. I prefer soft power of sharp power.
Have just finished the Dragon born main quest. To be honest was a little disappointed in the final battle, and now I feel a bit empty. Have lots of side quests to do, but doesn't feel the same, as of now. Hopefully be a short term thing☺☺
Ah thats a shame 😥
Dawngaurd quest is so much fun, and has tons of side quests to it too. Mike has a great 4 part Let's Play on it. But he grinds through it for enjoyment for the viewer, but you can go in depth and spend hours doing everything
@@Katie.JesusIsKing yeah thanks Katie..still yet to play the 2 dlc quests. Don't get me wrong, I loved the main dragon born quest line, just that last fight. And there are plenty of quests still to do. Yeah Mike has made some really good videos😊
@@tattyman4191 definitely save Solstheim for higher levels lol
Especially if you meet Miraak too early and back out, he will steal your dragon souls until you finish a certain part of the questline
(BOO MIRAAK!)
What an incredible video. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome 😁👍🏻
Something i really would like is a potion and recipy list for only growable ingredients
So if you master pickpocket and Alchemy you can basically level any skill to level 95 easy by pickpocketing a paralsis potion and then taking the gold from said master level trainer then using the books but personally I'd have a companion pick the books up and read them from lv 95 on ward. Specifically Archery is easy to level with Alea being a free trainer to 75. Then just train with a master pickpocket him(theives guild is a good remorse free place) then use the skill books and go to this one lady that used to live in helgan she can train you from 95 to 100.
Yeah that is true i believe, the Alchemy/Pickpocket cycle isn't something I've done before but I've seen a couple of comments detailing similar processes 😁
Omg. That guide was awesome. Thanks heaps
No problem at all 😁👍🏻
Your Experience is very good. Well done video.
@@patrick11736 thank you 😁
woo - hoo another Mike the Gaming Dad vid... haven't even watched it yet 😂
I hope you enjoyed 😁😅
10:32 Surely Arcadia can train you to level 75, being an expert (not 70)?
Yeah that is correct my mistake I wrote 70 in my notes and then just narrated it 🤣🤣
Quick question, can those third and fourth effects only be discovered by mixing three different ingredients together? Or would simply mixing two as normal allow you to discover all the effects of one ingredient?
The discovery of effects is achieved by mixing ingredients which share the same effects. So you can do this by mixing 2 ingredients yes and discover all 4 effects of a particular ingredient eventually. Using 3 ingredients at a time you are just more likely to discover a match, as you have 12 possible effects vs 8. And you are more likely to create potions that have multiple effects that way as well as the chances of finding 2 or more matches at once is higher than if you only use 2 ingredients
@@mike-thegamingdad ah, thanks for clearing it up :)
before i bought Anniversary 4 xb0ne, i had both PC and 360 versions. Both frequently crashed, pal & ntsf or resolution, controller issues etc, across all platforms. The 4th reagent removal? was that the 'fix' for Restoloop? pointless Capping, A.C. odyssey or development mistake (level & movement speed, E.Scrolls or combined controls that override each other on similar vehicle types, Far Cry 5). my level 141 E.S.5 stolen? G.G. 5057 knows or flagged by non compliance, or 'old' flag? Mike, have you had 4 options/reagents in alchemy?
Apologies not sure if I'm following, do you mean by reagent have I had four effects on a single potion? If so only a handleful of potions do that I thought. I only know of a couple, there may be more now with the rare curious add on.
And there has been no fix for restoloop, if the numbers go beyond the limits of Skyrim into negative, it can have dire consequences for a save. I try and not use restoloop due to how unstable its always been
What are the ingredients for a pickpocketing potion?
@sarahstanley1261 hey in the video description I've timestamped each chapter, there is a timestamp right at the end called 'ingredient glossary', within that list is everything that has 'fortify pickpocket' 😁👍🏻
Nice, thanks. but your 'master' level is expert? 3 reagent combining. master should have 4 reagents. or 2 reagents & 2 optional (Frida pure mixture ring quest & Lami's book.) The restoloop glitch is self regulatory as was the book Ogma. Overcook crash?, reload and recombine saved restoration potions from earlier, at lower levels; 18000 to 37000 coin potions, more is pointless as buying shop has a limit approx 38000 septims.
The East Empire Expansion mod synergies well with alchemy I've found as you can give potions for them to sell on your behalf for a cut of the profits. I handed out one batch of potions of waterbreathing across the many East Empire vendors recently across Skyrim in that mod, 1 potion had a value of about 75-80k, and I was a millionaire within a few in game days. Not sure why it would be needed, that much gold, but it was fun to mess around with the mechanics.
@@mike-thegamingdad cheers, will be looking into that. You did'nt say if you had the 4 reagents pre restoloop? Lol. I've spent 6 lifetimes on skyrim & 3 on morrowind, Nwn & spellforce. Just seen jetpack 4 xb? I gamed & machine tested that on a pair of spectrums, 16 & 48 versions, in 82/3 or 84/5.
@Bob-oe4hc apologies what do you mean the 4 reagents pre restoloop?
dude, b4 they killed it (restloop) u could get 4 reagents for potions, that's ingredient,ingredient,Option(1) & Option(2). By completing Dawnstar's Frida (Freda) & sub quests (Lami book of alchemist was 1) returning the pure mixture ring at lev 68/69 Alchemy, she gave 2 boosts (gets u to 70 Alk) and the 2nd option. Also the Oghma Infinituum book was repeatable. They fixed restoloop so it only goes 4x, because it interfered with newer cc content. I u check my screen saves from b4 I got Series X (was on a 0ne) I have 4 ingrediants not 3. The dictator is dead, Long live the Dictator.... lol.
@@Bob-oe4hc ah I see got you!
Make some alchemy gear
Yo mike :)
Hi Kev how's it going?
@@mike-thegamingdad not too bad just making a new characterfor 1000th time 🤣
@@kevlyon haha standard new day new save 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad yea :) making a sneak illusion / conjuration build
@@kevlyon nice looking forward to hearing about the end result!
Just get online and get an alchemy calculator
Or you can buy them too..
I thought a decade decade decade was every 25 years now 13years and 50 the golden years 75 the silver years and the Platinum years 💯 than again you was not born in the middle of 1692 either
Ah, but know ye how to create Purest Green ⛰️ my Lord? 😁👍
I remember how I scorned alchemy when I first started playing many years ago. “I’m not collecting/eating all this stuff!” LOL! Oh boy, did I have an eye opening experience when I gave it a go. Really did make my gameplay so much better and a lot more fun.
Yeah I was the same, a massively under utilised skill for years. Even when SE came out I still wasn't doing a lot with it, only in the last few years that I've made entire builds centered around it 😁