ceridus on 31/5/2002 at 15:04

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(Minor ingredient spoilers to follow)



Hi all. I seem to remember a thread around here somewhere about favorite potion recipes, but damned if I can find it!

Here are a few of my favorites. Most of these ingredients are cheap to purchase and easy to find. A couple of them have multiple effects with a minimal number of ingredients.

If anyone has any multi-effect recipes they find particularly useful, please post them here! :D


Double Effect Potions:

"Renew Mind and Body"
Wickwheat, saltrice, frost salts, comberry
Restore Health + Restore Magicka

"Double Espresso"
Saltrice, crab meat, comberry, frost salts.
Restore Fatigue + Restore Magicka

"Cherry Slurpee"
Black anther, willow anther, frost salts.
Resist fire + Frost Shield

"Smurf Juice"
Frost salts, comberry, stoneflower, saltrice
Fortify Magicka + Restore Magicka


Triple Effect Potions

"Red Bull"
Crab meat, wickwheat, saltrice, stoneflower
Restore Fatigue + Restore Health + Fortify Magicka

"Icebreaker"
Comberry, frost salts, willow anther, corkbulb root
Cure Paralysis + Restore Magicka + Frost Shield

"Ice Mirror"
Comberry, hound meat, frost salts, willow anther
Reflect + Restore Magicka + Frost Shield

"Swimmer's Edge"
Hacklo, scales, scrib jerky, luminous russala
Water Breathing + Swift Swim + Restore Fatigue


Quintuple Effect!

Don't know what to call this one...
Scrap metal, crab meat, emerald, saltrice
Lightning Shield + Resist Shock + Restore Fatigue + Restore Health + Fortify Magicka


Ok I admit that not all of them are extrememly useful. :D But I don't like lugging around a cartload of potions. This way if I just need a particular effect, the other effects are simply bonuses.

Also, adding additional effects to a recipe does not diminish the initial effect. So a simple Restore Fatigue potion, for example, might give me the effect of Restore Fatigue 12 points/90 seconds. But the same effect mixed in with additional effects would still yield the same magnitude and duration, only with more effects.

I made these potions with an Alchemy skill of around 60, Grandmaster's mortar & pestle, and Master retort, alembic, and calcinator.

Much of the potions I've made at this skill level yield an impressive duration and magnitude, with the exception of a couple. Reflect, for example, I only get about 9% magnitude.

Sorry if this has been a repeat... I searched for a favorite recipe thread to continue but didn't find one.

ceridus on 5/6/2002 at 03:04

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Cool, I like that last one you got. Here'a a good defensive one I've been using lately:

Frost salts, fire salts, large kwana egg, sload soap
Effect: Frost shield + fire shield + fortify agility

Surprisingly (for me at least) I'm enjoying alchemy much more than I am enchanting.

Scrap-metal on 8/9/2002 at 00:43

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:( i am on the thieves guild quest wherer you need 4 pieces of scrap metal... i cant find any! where do you get yuors...ive looked in 3 Ruins! NONE! HELP ME!:(

Forsythe on 8/9/2002 at 08:31

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Scrap-metal: It's pretty random; killing those centaurions should eventually get you some if searching in the Dwemer crates won't. If you're on a PC, try this via the console:
player->additem ingred_scrap_metal_01 4