"Alchemy" (Skyrim): potion recipes, pumping, effects of ingredients

Boil deadly poison, become invisible, create a healing potion - all this and much more will allow the skill "Alchemy". Skyrim includes many different skills, but you will obviously spend more than one hour with this entertainment. About how to pump this skill, and about all its capabilities we will tell in this review.

No potion anywhere

Any player urgently needs at least a standard set of elixirs that restore health or magic. Of course, such potions can be found in almost any location of the game. In addition, elixirs and poisons will be gladly sold to you by all merchants. But this is hardly enough, because you can find or buy potions in the wrong amount that you will need to complete, especially difficult missions and quests. Any strong enemy can kill you in a few minutes, if you do not restore health in time. So "Alchemy" is one of the most useful skills that are present in the game. And one should definitely study it, because there are many other reasons for this.

The main advantages of the skill

First of all, it is an opportunity to improve your health or the parameters of strength, endurance, shock, and the like. In addition, thanks to this skill, you can quickly earn a lot of money. And this is far from all the opportunities that the Alchemy player gives. Skyrim is a rather dangerous place, and without healing potions it will be difficult for the player. Also, thanks to this skill, you can create poison that will seriously increase the damage from your weapons. Having studied some of the properties of the ingredients, you can become invisible or learn how to breathe under water. List of main effects:

• Recovery, enhancement, and regeneration of health, magic, or stamina.
• Fire resistance.
• Rejection of electricity.
• Resistance to cold.
• Invisibility.
• Water breathing.
• Damage to health, stamina, or magic.
• Paralysis.
• Healing Diseases.
• Increased tolerated weight.

All this will be possible thanks to the science of Alchemy. The Skyrim game will also allow you to create potions that enhance all other skills: restoration, change, witchcraft, illusion, alchemy, enchantment, heavy and light armor, pickpocketing, destruction, and so on.

By mixing the ingredients together, you can create decoctions with several positive or negative properties, which significantly increases not only their strength, but also the cost. If you decide to thoroughly learn this skill, then before you start training, you will receive a bonus from the stone "Mage". You can find it near the town of Riverwood. Activating this guardian stone will increase the learning speed of the Alchemy skill by 20%. In addition, with this sign you will faster pump all other types of magic: enchantment, destruction, restoration, and so on.

What is needed for alchemical studies

In order to engage in "potions", first of all you need a laboratory created to work with such magical art as "Alchemy". Skyrim will provide you with a lot of similar equipment. You can find an alchemical table in every city, as well as in small settlements, in the shops of herbalists or magicians. In addition, such devices are found in quest locations, including dungeons and caves.

In order to create potions and poisons, in addition to the table, you will need ingredients, which include plants, butterfly wings, as well as parts of animals and monsters. You can find these components anywhere on the extensive map: herbs and flowers grow near roads and in glades, there are also a lot of animals and fish in these parts, however, like fabulous creatures. You can also find ingredients in chests or on the corpses of defeated enemies. But the easiest way is to buy from traders and herbalists, and you will always find such characters on the expanses of Skyrim. "Alchemy", "Enchantment" - these are the skills that should immediately begin to learn and pump a beginner. Indeed, thanks to them, you can earn not only experience, but also quite serious amounts. And they will never be redundant in the game Skyrim.

Alchemy: ingredients

The selection of such ingredients in the game really impresses. After all, to create potions there are about a hundred different parts of plants or animals. And sooner or later you will want to know all the effects of these elements. At first, only the simplest ones will be available in the game, because they are more expensive and rare and cost an order of magnitude more, and getting them is much more difficult. But even to study the first ingredients you will spend a lot of time.

Each component includes four main effects. And if the first one will be easy to find out - you just need to eat the item, then you will have to suffer with the rest. In this case, pumping the Experimenter perk will help. This skill makes it possible to discover more effects when eating elements. If you do not want to spend experience points on it, there are several more ways to find out about the properties of the ingredients of the Alchemy skill:

• Recipes
• Work at the alchemical table.

You can buy recipes from any herbalist or book seller. From these records, we can conclude about several effects of this or that ingredient. But it’s much more fun to conduct research behind laboratory equipment. After all, here you will need to combine two or three components with the same effect in order to get any potion. For example, a monarch’s wing and a blue minnow have the property of increasing health. By combining these two elements, you will not only discover their effects, but also create a potion that restores health.

Rare elements

Of course, spending ordinary flowers or parts of animals that can be easily and quickly found is not as scary as rare ingredients like saber-toothed fang. Such elements not only rarely fall out, but also are very expensive. So do not waste them. The following are especially rare elements and their effects in the game Skyrim. Alchemy table (rare ingredients):

With the release of new updates, several new ingredients have been added that you can find on the expanses of Skyrim. Mods, in which alchemy plays an important role, contain the following elements:

Here, perhaps, are all the rare ingredients that will be needed to study the skill "Alchemy". Potions recipes can be created by yourself, knowing these basic parameters.

We pump skill

There are several ways to upgrade this skill in Skyrim. How to pump "Alchemy"? First of all, you need to constantly deal with it, because the level of this skill grows from the creation of potions and poisons. Moreover, the more successful the experiment, the more experience you get for creating such a "decoction".

In addition, strong potions are more expensive, so you will earn a lot of gold on their sale, which is useful to you in passing the game Skyrim. How to pump "Alchemy" quickly? In some locations you can find books, the reading of which will add experience to this skill. List of Publications:

• "Game at dinner."
• "Song of the Alchemists."
• "Mannimarco, King of Hearts."
• "De Roerum Dirennis."
• "A guide to the plants of Skyrim."

You can find these books in any location of the game, including character houses, chests and hiding places in caves or bookshelves in castles. In general, do not be lazy to search the surroundings for these useful items. In addition, you can increase this skill by completing special Skyrim quests, “Otherworldly Alchemy” is one of them. During this task, the level of your skill in this skill will increase significantly.

Learning is light

Improving the skill "Alchemy" (Skyrim) is possible when purchasing knowledge from teachers. There are several of them:

• Lamy is a character living in Morphal.
• Arcadia is an alchemist from the city of Whiterun.
• Babette is a character in the Dark Brotherhood faction.

Such lessons are not cheap, but they quickly pay off. After all, the higher the skill, the potions are stronger and more expensive. In this case, you can always buy ingredients from a merchant, create a lot of potions and pay for the teachings with them. Further, you will learn how to use “potions” to get a lot of gold in the game Skyrim.

Opportunities of Alchemy

In order to make money on this skill, you need to create more valuable and expensive potions. It’s very good if by the time you decide to study it, the skill “Enchantment” will already be mastered. Indeed, thanks to him, you can impose effects on clothes that increase the power of created potions. It is also necessary to pump the Alchemist perk with each level increase, which adds power to the poisons and decoctions of your preparation. In addition, study the entire branch of skills, because it will be quite difficult to pump through all the effects, since you will have to spend experience points on other abilities in the Skyrim game. The skill "Alchemy" includes such perks:

• Healer - Increases the effects of health, stamina, and magic potions by 25%.
• Pharmacist - increase of positive effects by 25%.
• Poisoner - an increase in the strength of poisons by 25%.

So decide what exactly you want to make, and spend skill points on this perk.

Create Expensive Potions

Not all poisons and decoctions can be sold profitably, but some of them will bring considerable income, which you can count on when learning the skill "Alchemy" (Skyrim). Recipes are expensive:

• Paralysis.
• Slowdown.
• Damage to magic recovery speed.
• Invisibility.
• Weight increase.

It should be borne in mind that the more effects a decoction or poison contains, the more expensive it can be sold in Skyrim stores. An alchemy potion containing both negative and positive effects is cheaper, so keep this in mind when creating decoctions. In addition, to create an expensive potion, you will need a certain set of ingredients. After all, elements with the same effects affect the cost of a poison or a healing elixir in different ways. And it is not necessary that an expensive ingredient will increase the price of the potion, since there is an indirect connection.

The most expensive elixirs and poisons:

• Bear claws, bearded moss, giant's finger.
• Giant’s finger, blue mountainflower, wing of a blue butterfly.
• Creeping vine, wheat, giant's finger.
• Fierce mushroom, the human heart, the root of the scaffold.
• Luminous mushroom, giant's finger, juniper berries.
• Luminous dust, luminous mushroom, bearded moss.
• Flake, creeping vine, mora tapinella.
• Fire salt, snow berries, moon sugar.
• Lunar moth wing, vampire dust, hawk feathers.
• Sabretooth eye, bearded moss, bear claws.
• The ashes of a vampire, honeycombs, wing of a moon moth.
• Garlic, salt, poisonous bell.

How to increase profits from potion sales

First of all, you will need ingredients in order to earn on the skill "Alchemy". Skyrim - the game is huge, and of course you can find many elements necessary for potions. But it will take a lot of time, so it’s better to purchase ingredients from traders. In order for the transaction to be profitable and the purchase to quickly pay off, pump the skill "Merchant" from the branch of the skill "Speech". In this case, the cost of acquisitions will decrease significantly, and your potions will increase slightly in price. In addition, without pumping this perk in stores, it will be impossible to find some rare ingredients. For example, bear claws will become available only when taking this skill.

Elixirs that increase the skill of Eloquence will also help to earn a little, but they need not be sold, but drunk before the transaction. Then the prices will become much more profitable, and buying ingredients or getting lessons will not hit you much. An ideal place for sale would be a thief's hangout in Riften's “Wild Flask”, of course, if you went through the line of quests for this guild. Then a merchant will appear there, in whose pockets 4000 coins will be constantly present. In addition, the seller has a huge selection of ingredients, and next to it is an alchemical table. So you can easily and quickly convert his gold into your potions.

Cheats and Codes

It's no secret that there are teams in Skyrim that allow you to get everything at once. Of course, this way of pumping skills or extracting valuable resources is not considered particularly “honest”, and many players avoid using codes and cheats in their game. But if you want to quickly pump the skill "Alchemy", without bothering to create potions, then this method will be the best option for you. In order to use it, you first need to set the default English keyboard layout and open the console. This can be done using the “~” key. Next, in the line that opens, you need to register the following command: Player.SetAV Alchemy 100. This cheat will allow you to immediately learn the skill to the hundredth level, but will not activate all the perks - you have to do this yourself.